skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Registry cleaners” have been irrelevant for 2 decades, and have been a sure sign of a scam for most of that time. Even in the '90s, the main thing they did was exporting the whole tree into one giant text file, then deleting/moving the old database and importing the dump into a fresh copy in DOS shell before system boot (reg.exe was/is a combined DOS+Windows executable). You could do the same manually. The size difference could be significant because file allocation scheme was not good enough, and slowly inflated it with use.

How program stored its own data made little difference. It could be a configuration file, it could be a designated place in registry — as long as nothing else touched it, everything was fine. The core problem was with the system configuration files. Each program, old and new, had to understand all kinds of entries that could be added there by each other, and that included would-be future versions. Given something like

[ZZZ386]

...

DRIVER=MSSTD.SYS,EXTRA.SYS

...

every programmer had to know that there could be more than one driver (not really obvious if all common machines around you worked with single standard one), that comma was a delimiter, that the order could be important (and therefore you couldn't always add your entry to the end). But they didn't expect any of it, so programs broke themselves, or silently broke other programs. Registry was introduced as a system-wide black box with a strict API. That allowed correctness and security checks (at least on NT), adding compatibility hooks for specific programs, and so on.

However, it was not a sandbox of any kind. Any change in system configuration that affects more than just your program would still require installer and uninstaller logic. You probably imagine something similar to external manifest files that would hold, say, program-related CLSIDs. Now imagine that enumerating CLSIDs requires enumerating all manifest files in the system… #8-0

I suspect it has been explained more thoroughly somewhere on the same linked blog.
I believe they maintain the whole thing only for very elderly customers who don't know how to switch to anything else.
Damn researchers being honest.
Sure, but when people talk about money, a G is usually a thousand (not talking about financial terms, just common usage)

aka "I just lost 3 G's on UST"
Unleash is an amazing open source feature management tool:

https://www.getunleash.io/

It would probably take some effort to hook it up to whatever billing platform you use, but it would make it easy to turn certain features on/off based on billing. Instead of checking if a customer has a specific plan, you instead have Unleash handle the features that are on/off and then check for those flags in the code.
I feel like I've seen TUI's from a completely different angle, including full use of modifier keys , full mouse support, etc.

Its amazing how one persons perspective can completely disagree with anothers.

What did you mean by the "OS task switcher becomes useless" ?
Why not just have lower pricing tailored for those more price sensitive markets? It doesn't even make any sense for me to use ads for more price sensitive markets, because surely if they're much less likely to buy the products/services being advertised, then there is way less ad revenue to be made?
So far this isn't a recession and isn't a tech recession.

There's 3.6% unemployment, 11.5 million job openings in March, up from 11.3 million in Feb, which is twice the number of job seekers. The US added 431,000 new jobs in April.

There was a blip in GDP but it can be explained by bullwhip effects still rippling through the economy from the pandemic, and china lockdowns.

And mostly the negative effects we're seeing here is hitting all the froth (unicorns, crypto, VC, overpriced tech stocks).

Unless there's contagion from something really large popping soon, this looks more like a correction.
I can't help being amused by this comment, which seems to to be arguing:

"This isn't a One-True-Scotsman fallacy, a true One-True-Scotsman fallacy would be <insert narrower definition>, your claim about this fallacy is fallacious"

I'm pretty sure Agile, Scrum and Retrospectives have multiple published definitions, both broad and narrow.
Audi and VW have been independently testing them.
You wouldn't be exclusively charging at those speeds, though.
> we were explicitly forbidden from looking at any software patents

I wonder if any companies suggest a filter to only look at expired patents. Such expired patents might more safely improve innovation -- eventually.
When you primarily charge at home, I'd imagine the need to charge somewhere else most likely to happen after a couple hours of driving, in which case a 15 minute break sounds like a good idea anyway.
and hopefully some additional QA

You’d hope so, but I wouldn’t be too confident. The Satechi USB-C hub that my wife got (reboxed Chinese design) claimed to support 4k@60Hz, except that it didn’t work. Afterwards we found that other people had the same issue. Satechi support provided some undocumented Realtek firmware updater for Windows that didn’t work.
Their track record is pretty terrible.

https://scorpioncapital.com/track-record

Entire port is negative. Not a single short position is turning profit.
We're going budget yo.
Do you really have power at that wallsocket? Check with a lamp or so.
They're much more concerned with unionization and wage increases further down the economic ladder. Tech worker RTO isn't their primary concern.
>"He decided to try and save money by buying an RV and live in one of the known Google shanty towns in an unused office parking lot. We all teased him that he would never find a girlfriend without real plumbing"

This whole passage had me in stitches. I'm glad I asked. I may never heard the phrase "known Google shanty towns" again but I will probably never forget it. Cheers.
Wouldn't changing the primary language of programming to one with fewer speakers make programming less accessible?
Or they read the SEC draft rules that were released on March 30th on the public internet.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-56

It's very disappointing how fact-free this discussion is.
A solid article, but it should have commented on single family home prices. If you use the 3x salary rule, a $120k a year techie couldn't afford the median home price in America ($374k). A software engineer in San Francisco would have to make $526k a year in cold hard cash to reasonably afford the median single family home ($1.58 million).

Talking about six figure salaries as if they are unquestionably upper-middle class should take housing prices into account.
This is the first time I’m reading something like this. I‘ll have to look that up since that would explain a lot of what‘s going on in my workspace.
Zapp is Salesforce. Not a programming language, but often used in places where a programming language would be better suited. Overconfident and underqualified.
Black Pepper: Healthy or Not?
There is a cooling system to manage heat. Also, apparently the real issue for most tesla batteries is going above 90% or below 20% ish
The bill is limited to companies which are both in the movie production and amusement park industries (Disney and Universal) which have over $150 billion in market capitalization (only Disney, as of May 2022, though NBCUniversal was over $150 billion in April).

However, only Disney has copyrights which would be expired by this law due to the retroactive termination of copyright periods and extensions.
It's weird because this is violating a fundamental principle that people generally associate with crypto: if you know the keys, you own the crypto. At least this is the case for Bitcoin.
Ha ha. Thanks. I've had a comment similar to that a few times. That was probably the most nervous I've ever been for a talk even though it was the shortest talk I've ever given.

Any links for your talks?
A number of the iPod models can be re-flashed with Rockbox, which sounds like what you want. There are lots of third party parts like batteries available. You can probably pick up a used one on eBay for $10 or so.
He writes opinion and analysis. You don't have to only report on primary sources for your work to be seen as journalism or for it to be useful. Your claim is pretty bizarre.
Maybe that's the point. It becomes law then promotly getscthrown out again. So nothing changes but the politician claims he tried to do something.
Free speech doesn't mean consequence free speech. Someone aspiring to public office should be penalised for deliberately misleading voters. The imbalance of power and exposure means that the many people who correctly point out the lies and manipulation are unheard, while the perpetrator of the lies and manipulation can freely continue to lie and manipulate.
I also searched Tiktok and my first result was a BBC News story called 'What is Tiktok' from 1991!

I suspect it's a typo in the publish date field.
Bringing religion into the gay cake thing is just gish galloping. No one should be forced to make any cake, no questions asked. (And no, WElL yUo CoulD jUST sTOp MaKInG ALL caKeS does not work, that's just force with a pretty bow on top.) But by bringing irrelevant religion into it, this gives the slavers - er, excuse me, the people who think it's okay to force other people to do things - the moral high ground of defending against a bunch of fundies. Just fucking stop trying to force other people to conform to your beliefs, even if those beliefs are as morally righteous as LGBT rights. Not making someone a cake is not violence.
Even though we use a tier that shouldn't get ads, I'm still debating whether Netflix is worth it any more. I've hardly used it in ages, there's only one or two series that I know on it that's left that I want to finish...

The only thing keeping me as a subscriber is that our immediate family shares it (parents and grown-up children, between four households). If they cracked down on password sharing, I think we'd unsubscribe and nobody would subscribe on their own. So they'd just lose money, because none of us would sign back up individually.
Agree, this was much more readable.
This would also be amazing for electric aircraft, as capacity to weight ratio is the main thing holding them back.
I work for a another big company and this sounds exactly like my job. Currently trying to get out and writing applications since it becomes unbearable for me.
> (Why do I get so much spam? Because I've been using the same email address, never hiding it at all even on Usenet, for 25 years.)

I've had my same email for about as long as you (maybe 1-2 years more), never hiding it at all including Usenet.

> I really really want to do this but am stuck on Gmail because of their spam filtering.

gmail spam filtering isn't very good. Lots of false positives which is far worse than the occasional false negative. I have a gmail-hosted account for work and it's very annoying.

I host my own email infrastructure and spam isn't a problem. With a bayesian filter trained on my content, I rarely see any spam. Maybe like 1-2 per month? I don't keep track, it's very rare. And no false positives ever.
Most people probably wouldn’t require every charge to be fast this though. Many slow charging options, which do not put as much strain on the batteries, exist for the home and the workplace.
OVH: The cloud should be open, reversible, interoperable
Sounds like employers must attribute remote workers to a physical site for WARN Act purposes. The DOL provides the following guidance in that regard:

> Workers who primarily travel, who are outstationed or whose duties involve work outside the employer's primary work sites are considered to be assigned to the single site of employment to which they are assigned in the employer's organizational structure, the home base from which work is assigned, or the home base to which workers report. (https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/eta/warn/glossary.asp?p=Single...)
The web design is really good, that was the first thing I noticed. I then found that it's built by one of the co-founders and is called Untitled UI: https://www.untitledui.com
Some statements are grey areas. Some are provably true or false. If a politician continually makes provably false statements, and they're supported by a large proportion of the media, then what recourse do voters currently have to prevent this from continuing?

Edit: What I'm suggesting is that free speech is protected against retribution from the government. The elected officials should be held to a higher standard. They are the government, and should not be protected against retribution from the voters. There should be serious penalties for any elected official who continues to make provably false statements after they've been pointed out.
The idea is to publish others as well at some point, probably Go will be the next one :) Which one would you like to see?
To beat cloud, datacenters must embrace automation, multiple vendors: Juniper VP
Reduce the zoom/font size and it works better.
FWIW last year's activist short presentation[0] dedicated a number of pages to VW, and it seemed that VW mostly wanted the publicity of them doing something sustainable under pressure from German stakeholders (although officially VW declined to comment, and all that info is said to come from employees).

[0] https://scorpioncapital.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/reports/Q...
I'm non-religious but many religions have a norm of charitable giving which I'm glad EA is trying to introduce for secular people.

I'm not a pure utilitarian and try and get a bit of feelgood consumption out of my charity.

I have an automatic monthly deduction to a cause I'm interested in, https://www.orangutan.org.au/ which buys up rainforests and protect orangutans in Borneo.

The reason I go for this instead of "antimalarial bednets" (ie optimal human life saving) is because I have visited Borneo a few times, and think protecting great apes is important to me personally.

I also kick in a few hundred bucks a year to sponsor friends doing various charity challenges.
Where does 3X salary rule come from?
Kubernetes CPU allocation and throttling demystified
Nice work, would be awesome if I could filter on country.
Same for the monthly mortgage payment, at least the part that goes towards the principal.
Yeah, six figures isn't what it used to be. Same thing with being a millionaire. Inflation has deflated the significance of accomplishing my dreams.
>the average tech worker’s salary [will] reach $104,566 in the U.S. — a 6.9% increase since 2020, the report found.

But inflation is over 11% since 2020. This isn't an increase. The average tech worker is making less than they were 2 years ago according to the Dice salary report.

Why do tech workers feel underpaid? Many companies posted record growth and profits over the pandemic, but still give out paltry 3-5% raises every year. The cost savings of work from home must have been enormous for these companies, yet none of that savings or record profits trickled down to the people writing code.

Meanwhile for those that have the time and willpower to grind leetcode, they know they can command a 20-40% raise every few years. It's not a secret that tech companies underpay their employees and bank on them being too complacent to go through the interview gauntlet yet again. Most devs will admit that they couldn't readily pass the interview at even their own company without many hours of studying and practicing algorithms.
> ncentive to stick with a question

how would I do that? I've been also entertaining the idea
very importantly, this mentions it's a "encouraging proof of concept", the original article made it seem as if this was going to hit the shelves next month.
Not for you, and not for anyone else engaged in such obvious sea lioning. Just Google it, or at least pretend to write a substantive comment before going, "Sauce? Sauce? Sauce?"

(And for anyone else doubtful of parent commenter's intentions: seriously, try googling it.)
Should We Actually Wealthtax Billionaires?
Is it weird that the SUSE mascot is an apocryphal Mormon symbol? If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they seem so contrived?
"The work life balance " is extremely confusing or misleading. He absolutely will get more work life balance at Google than at a startup. What he meant is that he got more excited because he could make more impact despite sacrificing work life balance. It is the opposite of what he claims. People should seriously stop redefining words to make themselves sound smart. And chances are he is gonna get pretty much nothing from the startup equity than from Google. (it is a bet with odds against him , statistically speaking)
As an academic post-doc, I still dream of even making a slightly higher five-figure salary.
Many websites abuse dates to try to display old stuff as recent, but I've never seen the opposite... after a few searches I see it's certainly a thing (less so in content other than in English).
But you don't need to encode or decode anything here? Tokens are just random strings?
Thanks, yes all credit for the design goes to Jordan (and Jack for the implementation) We rely heavily on Untitled's components and Tailwind CSS.
Unreal Engine 5 – etchū-daimon station – 越中大門駅
This is great! Having widely-deployed HTTP servers compete on performance is a nice win for the rest of us :)

I wonder whether they're also queueing for reads from the TCP connection? At least per their public comms, Facebook uses an interesting combination of CoDel and adaptive LIFO processing [0]: under load, they preferentially serve queued requests in last-in, first-out order to prioritize users who are likely still waiting for the response (vs those who gave up b/c the service is slow). It'd be amazing to have a widely-available webserver expose similar control knobs.

Anyhow, kudos to the .NET team!

[0]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2839461
There are also other reasons. High voltage components are expensive. Insulation is expensive. Reliability goes down.
European countries ration care. America does not. Until we're willing to, health care costs will remain astronomical.
The "Big Short" was negative until the market caught up.
This was an interesting glimpse into a world I can’t even imagine.

What do the costs for “real” luxury bags even go to? Some of them apparently cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s enough for two artisan workers to collaborate on making a single bag a year, then rest in a comfortable lodge in the Swiss alps until they make a single bag next year.

I can understand luxury car prices, to an extent. There’s engineering and material prices that surely can’t be cheap. I can’t understand a piece of cow hide going for the same price.
Apple actually did this on the iPhones once. It was a PR disaster when someone found out charging past 100% did something.
I wouldn't say no cost, but the benefits far outweigh the cost of having this kind of setup.

This is specifically true for "enterprise" B2B SaaS - not so much in the consumer space though.
They seem to use it as a way to lower the barriers to programming, now they can first focus on the logic without having to struggle with the English naming conventions of a regular programming language as well. I'm not convinced that this is more advantageous than just focusing on providing learning materials in Spanish, but you won't know until you try I guess!
I think there is something wrong with using your phone while your vehicle is moving. Taking your attention away from driving to mess with your phone is bad. I don't have a dashboard mount because I don't want my phone distracting me while I drive.
After 4 years of EV ownership this is exactly how it works for me and my friends, in the UK at least.
AMD Secure Processor for Confidential Computing Security Review [pdf]
He never claimed refterm was a fully working terminal ready to use. He said it was a renderer. The entire point of refterm was:

<casey> Windows Terminal is slow at rendering things
<microsoft> Yes, rendering is a hard problem worthy of a doctoral research project
<casey> No it's not, you literally just use a glyph atlas
<microsoft> You are naive
<casey> *writes refterm to demonstrate glyph atlas*

You keep complaining that it's not a fully working terminal. Casey, on the other hand, writes:

"These features are not designed to be comprehensive, since this is only meant to be a reference renderer, not a complete terminal."

— https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm#feature-support
They’re not better.
It’s awesome!

But, like every tool smoothening transactions, it reduces comparisons to number crushing and reduces the margins of profit both ways. And in HR, those margins are the human perks, like working with a team we like, or liking the functional aspect of what we produce, or liking the management. If we reduce every job to a stack and HR advantages, then motivations get relegated to second place.

Obviously, there is also the dark aspect that HR margins are also (and mostly) when some becomes dad and is stuck in his job, location and skills. Then, the company unduly profits.
Love the design and how easy it is to use. The site is also fast. Feels like job boards are a category of product that lends themselves to niche offerings (although arguably remote jobs is a pretty big niche). The biggest job board in Australia is seek.com.au and it still sucks, so more power to you guys.
It would be extremely useful to be able to filter per country, as not all remote opportunities are available in all countries, but I guess a feature like this would have to involve data submission from the companies themselves.
No, but imagine if they were.
"Race" is a social construct. The definition used here does not include white Hispanic, and does not include people who identify as white and another race.

It's only been about 50 years since Loving v. Virginia prohibited miscegenation laws across the US. As cultural restrictions on interracial parents fades, we of course should expect the the "one-drop" historical definition of "white" to be less meaningful.
If true, noting that just shy of 50% of tech folk feel underpaid seems surprising… for how low the number is, not how high. Everyone I know (judges, attorneys, law clerks, doctors, administrative staff, teachers, baristas…) thinks that they are underpaid. The fact that less-than-half of tech workers feel underpaid seems like a great sign to me for the industry.

I’d also be curious who the survey data was gathered from - the cited to studies are from a recruiting agency and have no source citations.

Edit, to add: here’s a survey of 26,000 people indicating that almost everyone feels underpaid - https://www.payscale.com/research-and-insights/pay-satisfact...
Source code at https://github.com/Unleash/unleash

Setup instructions and SDKs for a number of languages in the README.
jobs that didn't have any scheduled internal meetings

Does it even exist?

I've found workplaces without daily standups but inevitably after six months to a year either the founders or a new manager decides to implement them. I don't have anything against regular meetings but I found that having to report on my progress every day to be stressful the first 6 months in a new job.
Having used python as my primary programming language at work for the past decade I would say that the biggest use is within anything related to machine learning, scientific computing and data analysis. It is also huge within the GIS and Geodata space and everything connected to that.

On the web backend space its pretty good, but if there wasn't a secondary reason to choose python (ie my web app needs to do a thing python has a really good library for or I already have a bunch of python code I want to reuse), I would take a look at other languages as well before deciding. I might end up going with python, but only because I know python really well.

I've also worked on a large, complex desktop GUI application written mostly in python and not sure I would pick python for that use case again.

All that being said, I'm sticking with python as my go to language since it's the only language that I just know will have first class support for any problem domain I happen to stumble into.