skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The majority" is not relevant, the right stats are:

1) the absolute number who might pay

2) how much they might pay

3) what sort of software will they pay for

4) how much competition is there to get that customer
Seems like a deficiency in web servers, not a deficiency in HTTP or URL encoding. But yeah, neat solution given the constraints.
Addendum: my reasoning here was wrong, and it turns out that Hertz actually probably is worse than the alternatives, though it's still not a large risk in absolute terms. See the rest of the comment thread below for details.
Ask HN: What does it take to be technically competent engineer?
Looking at this thread [0], one can notice how a competent engineer has skills both managing business and understanding technical issues. The post also discusses on why many juniors do not have enough experience on technical side.

Therefore, can you suggest/point out the ways one can be technically competent to that level degree?

From my experience, study alone doesn't suffice. Because one cannot remember all the technical details from textbook or paper! And if we do not implement new things, we are unlikely to understand things completely.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30574489
Seems to me over in Europe or India they don't have a place where there was a gold rush in the last 170 years, and with a century of capital appreciation built on that, spawned an outfit like HP 70 years ago with its incredible growth potential which attracted engineers from all over for decades. Then with proximity to more easy-come risk-capital like after Hollywood money shot through the roof.

And the foundation was all very well in place before the 21st century came around.
Imagine if Marin looked like the rest of the areas surrounding SF: endless, endless suburban sprawl.

They made the right choice to prioritize open space and minimal development.

You can ascribe whatever motives you like, but we know what the result would have looked like, and it was not a winning idea.
Episode 26: Matt Mullenweg on Ukraine, Community, and WordPress
Wizards have towers, Warlocks have mountains
So what would be the difference? Through the lab-leak discussion we have identified labs as a _potential_ threat that need tighter security measures. Even if this virus did not originate in a lab we are just waiting for one that actually does.
My Bosch dishwasher does it the right way. The app is optional, and WiFi can be disabled via the front panel settings so it doesn't scan for networks every time it powers on. Well done Bosch.

Not so well done is my "Beddi" alarm clock by Witti Design. Every time the snooze button is pressed, bluetooth is activated in an attempt to connect with the app. This happens even when bluetooth was deactivated before the alarm goes off, and even when only the internal buzzer is used as the alarm choice, with no smart features used. I asked them about this and they replied saying most people want the smart features of the clock, so they just decided to make bluetooth scanning non-optional. Interesting how they "know" what most people want.

Imagine being usage-tracked from literally the moment you wake up and perform your first action for the day - hitting the snooze button. I understand some people choose to have the clock connect with the app on pressing snooze, but the option to disable that and have it remain disabled should be available.
> This is absolutely horrible idea.

I've been booking rooms in a range of places in Ukraine and having conversations with hosts. The money has gone to good use. For example, one of the hosts said she was OK and she was going to donate the funds to a children's hospital in need.

Now, I know some are going to ask: How do you know they are not scammers?

Well, you do a little research. Beyond that, you can either assume people good or bad. I'd rather assume they are just like me and lend a helping hand when I can.
On film SLR cameras, mechanical parts (shutters, film motors, etc.) generally fail faster before electronic parts (e.g. auto focus, light meters) fail.
Gee, how was I able to do the same before Electron happened.
FAANG companies don't care about your educational background. While I agree that their standards for who is worth hiring are inconsistent and incoherent, the hazing ritual isn't entirely random.

In Europe specifically, I think there is some cultural impedance mismatch. US tech companies default to the culture of the US West Coast, which has norms that are quite different than Europe. The Europeans that I know that seemed to seamlessly integrate into the FAANG outposts are notable for being, as individuals, pretty far outside the median European culture in a way that is compatible with US West Coast culture. (Tech, even in the US, has a strongly West Coast cultural flavor, which globally is a relatively unique culture generally.)
> however as much as I would like to do this

Do it.

Don't condemn everyone just because you think some might game the system. More than likely, what you would be doing is deny someone much-needed help. Most people are good. Most people are just like you.
I’m sorry, but if we’re going to go along this line of “everyone who is a pro at something should have a pro machine targeted at them” then almost all computing devices become pro devices.

I was interested in these unexpected pro functionalities this guy was about to reveal but then it turned into a post about all of his opinions on what he’d like to be different about these computers.

Sounds like he’s been using his iMac since 2014 though. So something about these devices is making him stay, even though many of his problems as perfectly solvable with other solutions. Which is something a professional would probably go for…
Nice history! I ride by that powerhouse regularly. There are old train tracks peppered throughout lower Marin that speak to a different kind of place than it is today.
this shit was started by Apple. in 2010 I got an ipod. I opened the box and it would not work. it asked for itunes.
World is interconnected a lot right now by planes. For example, Novosibirsk is low populated area in the middle if nowhere, but it just 2 hours by plane to heavily populated China. BSL4 Lab Vector was created in relatively safe area, but now it is not safe anymore. The blast in Vector lab on Sep 16 2019 took immediate attention of scientific world, because blast is able to put virus particles into air from hidden surfaces, which cannot be cleaned properly. Scintists recommended to put Novosibirsk into carantine for 2 weeks at least, but Russians ignored that.
They ditched it. Probably was too useful, so decided allocate their resources to more useless projects. Go look at the Mozilla blog. They don't give a fuck about their browser.

I use Firefox, but the project is a sad train wreck.
I used it for 10 years myself. Also learned the hard way not to use esoteric features.

I did have to build my own solutions for things like priority queues, but it was much clearer and testable.
> But surely the wave function is smeared across both slits

That's the whole point of the experiment - you can't get an interference pattern if it does not.

> and the act of detecting which slit the photon could go through, if it were a particle

The whole point of the double slit experiment is that there is only one photon, and which slit it goes through is irrelevant.

Whether a photon is a wave-function is missing the point entirely - the point is how do you get an interference pattern if the photon/wave-function only goes through one slot?

The point of this experiment is to show that sometimes light behaves like a continuous wave, while other times it behaves like a particle of sorts.

And if you think QM has actually provided answers to any of this, you might want to read up...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...

In short, QM might have produced some nice mathematics models, but it's claims about objective reality are contested. Some people don't agree there is any paradox, and that the double-slit experiment correctly identifies light as a wave, and that claims that the photoeletric effect proves light is a "particle" are based on false inference (particularly that energy quantization implies packetization). Some people still seriously propose that consciousness affects basic particle physics (as if particle know when they are being measured).

Despite all that the cool smarty pants brigade who have read some 1st year QM books (while understanding only a fraction) come away all puffed up that QM actually provides deep insight and wide consensus as to the underlying interpretation of reality. The fact is, it's as paradoxical today as when the great physicists up to the last of them (Feynman) correctly identified it as such. Quite sad really.
>The only hope the pro-Trump faction had (and a slim hope at that) was to peacefully pressure Mike Pence into refusing to count the ballots from contested states.

Which would potentially or eventually lead to the team they supported (Team Trump) capturing control of the government.

If Pence refusing to count those ballots wouldn't potentially lead to them capturing control of the government, why would they do it?
> AFAICT, regular cameras with vastly bigger apertures, which should be able to take better photos, in fact are generally much worse until you get into huge bulky DSLRs. Why?

Are you sure about this?

The last point-and-shoot camera I owned I bought around 2010, and other than zoom, my smartphone gives much better results. But then I met someone with a new hobby-level Panasonic point-and-shoot camera and I was flabbergasted at the quality of the photos she gets out of it. I tried taking some pictures with it and compared to my smartphone they all looked they belonged in a magazine. Smartphones have a ton of processing power and sensor quality packed into a small package, but I think it's still hard to outperform a half-decent lens and good quality sensor that are much, much larger, and it seems like point-and-shoot cameras have gotten really good.
This is just the tip of the iceberg:

* https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-remo...

* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/pandora-papers-ukra...

* https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-r...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsh9V8UxenI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK93aawlLKg

I recommend you look into these authors/commentators/analysts:
* John Mearsheimer
* Noam Chomsky
* Vladimir Pozner
* Jeffrey Sachs
* Zbigniew Brezinski
* George Friedman
* Peter Zeihan
* Peter Hitchens
* Gonzalo Lira
* Tim Marshall
* Robert D Kaplan
* Jack F. Matlock Jr
* George Kennan
* Stephen Cohen
* Henry Kissinger

Indeed. NATO/EU expansion is essentially a slow-moving replay of Brest-Litovsk and Barbarossa from the Russian point-of-view. I'm an American but I totally understand why Russia just did what it did. Never forget that Lenin was sent to Russia BY GERMANY for the express purpose of destabilizing Russia during WW1. This is the type of destabilizing regime-change that Russia fears. Their fears are not unfounded if you pay close attention to what the US has done in Ukraine, which is something our media doesn't even cover.
Not only did they not deprecate them, Metal is actually written in a mix of Objective-C and C++.

Also at WWDC 2021 there were a few Objective-C talks.
Why write such a dismissive comment when that’s not the point at all?
The craziness in the iPhone design isn't exactly the number of elements, but their weird aspherical shapes. The traditional approaches for designing optics are have been developed for spherical lenses because they are much simpler to describe mathematically. Even then, optimizing them requires a lot of numerical computation. At first glance, optimizing these wavy, complex lens shapes seems to require much more involved methods.
This is the basis of nearly all of genetic technology
Ukraine imposed martial law prohibiting fighting age men from leaving. Without that, the demographics would probably look very different.
Doesn't Japan also require you to junk your car after two years or pay an arm and a leg for a yearly pollution inspection? If that's true, that's probably a much bigger stream of profitably exportable cars than theft.
It’s the age old question, and one of the hardest parts about running a service business.

I started off in the same position 10 years ago, I think what helped me the most was eventually finding a niche, and focusing on one type of client or problem (as “programming” is way too broad, that and getting initial referrals from friends and family members.

I feel like a gross sales guy linking to my blog, but I am in the process of fully documenting my journey from developer, to building, running, and ultimately selling my software agency - so there may be a few articles that are beneficial for you at https://www.devtoagency.com , specifically https://www.devtoagency.com/think-niche/ and https://www.devtoagency.com/referrals-from-friends-and-famil...

Good luck!
“You might have seen the lensmaker’s equation early as high school, and this is the essence of the performance of the lens.”

We’re either doing high school wrong or this person has seen their fair share of top schools in their lifetime.
May I ask about your use of a five digit year?
That would be very useful for all the times when you use a kitchen chisel.
This will really hurt Russians with 100M Mir cards in circulation accepted even by Aliexpress...

That's one way to shoot your own foot Visa/MC.

I, for one, welcome this, less dependence on Visa/MC, the better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(payment_system)
Denmark functions similar to this, i believe (i am danish).
Is there extension support in other Chromium based mobile browsers? If not, why not?
I think there are enough virologists in the world to trust that they don't all believe the same things or have the same bad/good practices.

Some things are too complex for non-experts. It would be like a front-end web developer writing articles about how cryptography is flawed. Who are you going to believe if all the cryptographers disagree?
But Obama got the Nobel before committing crimes against humanity. He got it before doing really anything as a president.
> The fact that viruses can cause so much damage is exactly why we need even more research into dangerous viruses, not less.

Isn't this line of thinking going to create a dangerous feedback loop?

Scientists experiment to create the deadliest virus yet, this virus leaks (because part of being very dangerous is being very contagious), killing many, shutting down our life as we know it for years.

And what did we learn from it? We need more research, we need to experiment and create even more dangerous viruses, because it can cause so much damage?

Then repeat?

That's not going to end well (but I'm afraid that will happen).
Zoom is an American company, with HQ in San Jose, California. Its stock trades on Nasdaq, an American stock exchange. Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, is an American citizen. They did (do?) have a development office in China, just like many other American companies. They have offices in many other countries as well, as shown on the map in this link (scroll down to "Zoom Spans the Globe" section):

https://explore.zoom.us/en/about/
Scroll down for the transcript. Oddly enough, he doesn't explicitly mention censorship at all, which seems to be the hot issue on other platforms at the moment.
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You can't adjust the noise cancellation.
I haven't look at the community at all, but I've used discord.py to make a few bots with no issues whatsoever. It was a fairly clean, complete and easy to use framework. Though my bots weren't very advanced, discord.py did everything I needed.

What's the issue with it?
That estimation seems pretty suspect though.

Firstly, once you've visited the site personally, the assets will be cached for you anyway. Assuming the site updates its CDN'd assets once a month, the shared cache might possibly save you the first hit each month if you've visited another site that uses the same exact assets beforehand. (But given that the asset has just been updated, this seems unlikely.) So we're not talking about two hits a day.

Secondly, the vast majority of the site will not be on shared CDNs, because it's specific to that site. Images are usually the biggest offender in terms of page load, and those are very unlikely to end up in a shared cache. In a busy marketplace like that of news media, brand identity is very important, so I would guess that most of the CSS is either custom or customised, and therefore not in a shared cache. I don't know how much JS the site uses, but I'll be generous to your argument and assume they use jQuery, which is hosted on a shared CDN. Custom JS is obviously not used on other sites, so won't be in the shared cache.

And thirdly, there's a reasonably high chance, even if the jQuery stuff is hosted on a shared CDN and you've visited another page that uses jQuery before, that either the CDN host is different, or the version of jQuery being downloaded is different. It's unlikely that everyone updates immediately when a new version is released, which leaves you with a long tail of different versions being spread out over different hosts.

A better estimate probably like like this:

* Assume only one hit per month - the rest would have been cached anyway after the first visit to the site.
* Assume only a minified version of jQuery is hosted via a shared CDN.
* Assume that half the time, the version of jQuery used on this particular site is so unique that it wouldn't have been found in the shared cache.

According to Bundlephobia, the gzipped, minified size of the latest jQuery package is about 30kB. Assuming we would have had to download it anyway on about 50% of requests, and given that every request after the first would is cached anyway, you're saving around 15kB a month on average.

Assuming 3GB data a month (based on your 1% figure), that's about 0.0005% of your data each morning getting a successful cache hit that it would not otherwise have got if the shared cache was not there.
if that is the case, he won't stop in the ukraine...
This doesn’t seem any more cowardly than YouTube’s decision to ban RT. Hard to claim to be on the side of free speech when American tech companies are censoring right and left.
I did back in 2016-17 when v1 web component support came to Chrome. Overall it's an approachable problem and takes quite a bit of time and attention to detail. The two significant problems I found are depth of familiarity with Web APIs and the nuance and attention to detail for complete problem solving. The time cost in doing this isn't trivial so it competes with delivering a product on short timelines--which means your MVP delivery might be slower and you might spend less time on design (I have a design background). The most significant secondary observation I've made is how entrenched the community is in these proprietary solutions, and the cost associated with their maintenance over time. The time cost of knowledge and productivity for React, Vue and Angular are similar so in the end the long life of native web api knowledge is the better investment. Since making the product (it automated antibody analysis for routine compatibility profiling in transplant medicine) Lit (LitElement, lit-html) became available and they're so lightweight I use these as often as the native web component mix. It's probably more accurate to say I use them equally because that's just how it works.
Air fryer is just marketing talk for a small convection oven. Useful for small studios or if portability is needed. I bake vegetables and chicken thighs in it because I can't fit a full sized oven into my kitchen. It was a toss up between this and a toaster oven. As I already have a toaster I went with the smaller airfryer.
Is there something like this for Samsung?
As a generalization, Europe still has a tendency to focus on quantity over quality. There is still a strong tendency to view engineering skill and culture as undifferentiated. Factory workers.

Few people working in West Coast tech believes that, and hires accordingly. In the traditional West Coast tech market, engineers are modeled more as elite athletes who are members of a sports team. You can't replace Lionel Messi with a bunch of scrubs from the local pub. Having elite talent in key roles can make or break your company/project. Anecdotally, this tends to be true in practice too. Ambitious companies will pay almost anything to have elite engineers in every position of their team if they can make it happen. Being cheap doesn't matter if you never win.
For PDF reading, at least, I always found Skim the best.
Xeon D is a niche part of the portfolio, it's not necessarily about providing the latest and greatest. The Xeon D family is meant for embedded, industrial, or communications use cases where you're expecting to run at 100% load for the life of the equipment (10 years). For context, "server" use condition CPUs like a Xeon Scalable processor is rated for 80% duty cycle for 5 years.

Also, Xeon D's have more tame clock speeds and overall TDP wattages as they are often used in rugged applications where cooling and wide ambient temps are huge considerations.
I never really join library communities. I wanted to make a quick bot a few months ago, had some very old experience with discord.py but indeed wanted slash commands. Simply used discord-py-slash-command [0] library and had a bot in less than an hour that did what I needed.

[0] https://discord-py-slash-command.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
That caught my attention too!
Sorry, what administration did Putin start a war with Ukraine under? Interesting that the one who was Putin’s supposed puppet, ended up being a better puppet master than the elder experienced statesman we supposedly have in office currently.

I repeat: I think Ukraine, and the world, could do well with some mean tweets and mean phone calls in place of what we have now!
>could be an effective role as world police.

There's war in Yemen right now, with one of the sides heavily backed by Saudi Arabia, where's the world police? Or does it only respond to calls when land changes hands?

>starting wars against neighboring countries.

1/3 countries admitted in 1999 have a border with Russia.

3/7 countries admitted in 1999 have a border with Russia.

0/4 of those admitted after that.

>Because Russia is a mafia state run by old KGB morons who are pillaging the country and, as you can see, starting wars against neighboring countries.

There's no denying it being a mafia state, but that may not necessarily be the only or even the dominant explanation.

Even Wikipedia (which Russia had repeatedly considered banning on its territory) cites quite different reasons: "By mid-1992, a consensus emerged within the administration that NATO enlargement was a wise realpolitik measure to strengthen American hegemony.[20][21] In the absence of NATO enlargement, Bush administration officials worried that the European Union might fill the security vacuum in Central Europe, and thus challenge American post-Cold War influence."

>Georgia

The situation with Georgia reads very similar to the current conflict, except Georgia had taken the Russian role in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%E2%80%93Abkhaz_confli...
The FBI, the guardian the we need to be guarded from.
It is not only a function of value being produced, but of supply and demand. If Google wants to hire a certain level of engineer in a certain location, they have to pay $750K, just because those engineers have other options that pay as much. Yes, at some point Google may think it’s not economically feasible to hire SWEs at that cost anymore, but given the huge profits of the tech industry it doesn’t seem like we are close to it yet.