skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed: the Wirecutter's emphasis on HEPA is not right for a purifier that sits in a room. Once you get to reasonably high removal efficacy (even 90%, let alone 99.5% vs 99.97%) flow rate matters far more than filter spec.

I also wish the Wirecutter would publish more detailed logs. They just check the particle density after half an hour, which is generally super low. Instead they could show the particle density curves, or the minute-over-minute decreases (ex: https://www.jefftk.com/p/testing-air-purifiers)
> What even is a "franchise board"? I would assume something like a Gewerbeamt (entity to register businesses with)? Why do they have bank account data of you? How can they repossess property without a court order?

Franchise board is the California tax agency. Yes, they have bank account tied to a person since that's where they deposit any refunds (or extract any payments they see fit if you don't pay by other mechanism). They'll certainly take money without any court order, they are the tax man and do whatever they want.

The story is very plausible, that's how they operate.
1. what's the functional programming story - immutable data structures, garbage collection?

2. WASM's best use seems to be to cross-compile C++ GUI apps in a browser (like Unity engine). Ok, but it's not platform native, so will this feel like weird Java desktop GUIs all over again? The best apps are native

3. Web apps are I/O bound. How does wasm help?
Reddit can be a hilarious example of the Dunning-Kruger effect writ large. I've had people argue with me about the exact working of various synthesizers in the synth subreddits, even when I've backed up my points with links to the extensive service documentation, circuit diagrams, and my own code disassembly of the firmware ;-) Like, yes, that's nice that you have an opinion, but here's the fat book I wrote on the topic, so let's see if we can work out who's right.
Here is something that doesn't feel right. The article says:

> The breach has so far cost US bank Capital One, one of the 30 institutions affected, more than $270m in compensation and regulatory fines.

The bank claims that it is hacker's fault.

But isn't it wrong? Bank was fined and sued not for having been a victim of a hack but for not storing data securily, not configuring the cloud accounts properly. For not following required procedures. Therefore, as I understand, the bank should have been fined even if there were no breach.

Or are they blaming the hacker for exposing the violations? Do they assume that it is ok to violate regulations as long as nobody knowns about it? That's ridiculous.
> have their own category

Like adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, or any other of many word categories?

They are normal words understood by everybody, if not used by everybody, unlike your medical jargon.
What's that unicorn that doesn't hurt society but still allows me to support my family?
Man, you're just spamming every thread. I've never seen an account post this much flame without mods intervening. Insane.
> mainstream just shrugs and pays what they're told to pay.

But mullvad isn't targeting mainstream!

It's mainstream compatible, as-in not too hard to use, but that's it.

Also mainstream only cares about VPNs because they believe it does magically things, like somehow better protecting all your privacy even if you are logged into Facebook or somehow making account hijacking or banking scams less likely :/

That's why they will go anyway with VPN providers which do a lot of ad advertisement to make them subconscious feel like it's doing all this magical things (even if they never explicitly claim it). Like NordVPN (you probably know what I mean if you use e.g. twitch in the EU ;=) ).

So no point in competing for this users without doing things like a ad powered free plan, free testing month, and tons of dark-ish patterns.

Instead mullvad has I think a good idea about what works with their customers.

I think it still will cost them money (who hasn't forgotten to cancel and abo) but also might save them money (not having to handle anything in support related to subscriptions going wrong). And maybe with things like people pre-paying for a year, but stop using it after a few month it will also not cost them anything. Really hard to say. I mean it was also guaranteed to end up on HN, so free advertisement to exactly the right audience. That's worth some money, too.
I am. I went to therapy for a few months to root cause why I'm like this, and with his help, I was able to talk to her to work out ways to incorporate it into our relationship. Things are much better for me now than in 2020 and 2021, but I still struggle with it.
European here. When I state my date of birth I state it as “7th of October 1990”.

When a date is within the current year I state it as for example “27th of June”.

If weekday matters, and specific date is still relevant I’ll say for example “Monday 27th of June”.

I might also simply say “Sunday last week”, “Monday next week”, “Monday at the end of next month”, etc.

Likewise I might say “a couple of weeks ago”, “last week”, “a few days ago”, “in under two weeks”, etc.

Depends on context.

When including a date in a file name I prefer YYYY-MM-DD for date.

When using dates in a directory hierarchy I’ll have years on the top level, with months within them and dates within those.

Sometimes I might use a format like YYYY-mm-ddTHHMMz_s in a file name. For example “something_2022-06-20T1722+0000_1655745728_more_text.tbz”
Hmm, just try to send an email to their support email. and found this:

>>SMTP Error (450): Failed to add recipient "support@33mail.com" (4.1.8 <xxx@xxx.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found).

Hmmm don't even know how to contact them.
NFS is more flexible in dynamic mapping of new users; sshfs will take a mapfile at startup but it cannot be changed unless the service is restarted.

NFS is also more tolerant to breaking and resuming the TCP connection; this is fatal to sshfs.

Encrypting NFS is a bit of a Rube-Goldberg machine, which I covered here:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/encrypting-nfsv4-stunne...
As a self-proclaimed full-stack person with some mastery in a lot of areas, the biggest hurdle I've had is actually the interview process which is very frustrating. I constantly get smug interviewers who ask questions a specialist in X, Y, or Z would know. In some cases I know the right answer, but because I have dealt with so many FE, BE, DevOps, and data technologies I have evolved to learning the art of learning, generalized good practices, the context around tech, and the architecture decisions needed to apply them, instead of the minute details of each technology. To make matters worse for my working memory, I have started learning knowledge about other industries outside of pure software. To the average interviewer, this makes me look inexperienced or untalented. If instead I am evaluated based on applied knowledge in the form of a take-home tech assessment I always pass with flying colors. It's very frustrating and is pushing the industry towards only being able to see the trees and not the forest which can't be good.
Unreal Engine games on the web soon as well :)

https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/12/wonder-interactives-the-i...
We’re not implementing in Rust but taking an existing piece of middleware (Bullet) and using it. Performance wise it’d be an apples to oranges comparison but our general understanding from benchmarks, our own personal experiments and blogs like the one you posted there is not to expect miracles but more consistency and less footguns (e.g. megamorphic behaviour).

This is another good summary:
https://ianjk.com/webassembly-vs-javascript/

I would say there is hope when SIMD is supported across major browsers if your workload will make use of it. Just waiting on Safari. And there might well be more performance to eek out of the JIT compilation.
> The air purifier industry is more about aesthetics than it is function

Well, sure, to a point.

I could make my own air purifier (like the one you link) but it looks awful. I would not want that in my home. So yeah, aesthetics do matter. Its not the only thing but it is a factor.
Looking at the commit history, I only see documentation changes.

What did I miss?
Why? Can you please go ahead and explain why monopolies and anti-competitive practices should be accepted by societies?
Fixing the ROI Rubric
Redfin Economist says land value tax will fix the economy
Stick it on S3 and then some local storage in addition to it.
It's a deliberate choice on Apple's behalf, too. iMessage could adopt RCS anytime without losing features and actually becoming more secure. Apple deliberately leaves iMessage as a terrible SMS fallback device to increase social pressure on competitors.
They're all statically linked into the kernel.

$ uname -sr

OpenBSD 7.1

$ du -sh /bsd

22.0M /bsd
That's a false dichotomy. There are many other alternatives other than toxic materials VS stone age.

Also we are way way beyond "probably harmful".
The Evolution of Media Roadtripping Gear
Been using protonmail on arch for years, you have to setup the configs a tad more manually and do some editing (I forget now); definitely doable and protonmail lets you download the configs (which work out of the box depending what you use).
or install https://wildduck.email or mail in the box type of server, just host it yourself. Wildduck web interface allows you to make unlimited alias already.
I don't know how it went, but I recall that improving ventilation and filtering in schools was pushed among the many Covid countermeasures.
Here, for your amusement, WASM modules as Kubernetes containers.

https://krustlet.dev/

As for your JavaScript remark, well SPAs are now rediscovering SSR, naturally with newer buzzwords like hydration.
It seems like you're trying to solve a totally different problem that doesn't exist. If you have a subscription, that means Mullvad must store information that ties your account to the subscription payment processor. That is the information they don't want to store anymore, because they want their users to be anonymous. Their system is already setup so that users can't be correlated with VPN activity.
I try and look at companies today as beasts trapped in the middle ages, trying to break free. I think that software literacy is a great lens to view the changes coming, but as well as that I think plain old democracy is a great way to view these things.

A company with 30,000 people may as well be seen as a (very small) country - and it may well benefit us from trying to run it in the same democratic manner.

A top down hierarchy is how most companies are run and most especially rewarded. The CTO is set up here to basically tell people how it is going to be and what to do. he can't - so try democracy:-)

Edit: I think the democracy argument matters because of the inherent near-socialopathic approach inherent in the CTOs position - "I as a C-level exec want to find people in the organisation who will work hard to transform it, but will not receive anything like the inherent rewards (I will), but without whom ..."

The solution to Kings and Tyranny is not highly trained Kings with great people skills.
I break into computers for a living, and stories like this are in the news all the time. I'd probably do much worse at, like, an embezzlement case.

I'm also probably (I hope) wrong about the 2b1.1 loss calculation here; I read the USSC primer on it and it's not super clear but leans me towards the idea that a penalty assessed on Capital One for doing a poor job securing their data can't be included in a loss assessment against Thompson, and I'm not clear that the damages for a settled lawsuit over same could apply either.

So total losses could be in the single-digit millions (as a general rule of thumb, you can't get convicted in federal court of hacking a real company and incur less than ~100k in damages, simply because of the cost of insurance-mandated forensics investigations --- here I don't really see any chance that the "actual damages" could have been less than 7 figures given the magnitude of what was stolen).

There is also, per the USSC document, a formula for computing damages "per access device", where "access device" is a term of art that includes account numbers, so that could also generate a nosebleed sentence.

For no reason whatsoever, just based on doing this exercise for every 18 USC 1030 case that's been in the news for the last decade or so, my wild-ass underinformed guess is that the sentence will end up under 10 years, but more than 5.
If you just want light-weight mirroring I recommend lsyncd. For example work if you want to work on code locally and have it mirrored on a remote host. It's more reliable because it just mirrors files rather than mounting file systems or block devices.

Lsyncd uses a filesystem event interface (inotify or fsevents) to watch for changes to local files and directories. Lsyncd collates these events for several seconds and then spawns one or more processes to synchronize the changes to a remote filesystem. The default synchronization method is rsync. Thus, Lsyncd is a light-weight live mirror solution. Lsyncd is comparatively easy to install and does not require new filesystems or block devices. Lysncd does not hamper local filesystem performance.

https://lsyncd.github.io/lsyncd/
Plus when they shutdown their app platform.
I agree with the sibling comment re: Okta, WorkOS, etc. I was going to mention that products like Auth0 (now part of Okta) have some great options for this. I'm a couple years out of the space now, but I'm sure new products in the same category are emerging.

Products like this focus on "Auth as a Service", and they handle the heavy lifting while providing simple integration points for your product.
Previously:

Oct 2020, 19 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24814029

Related recent quasi-dupeversation:

Using a catch-all domain is a mistake, 18 days ago, 296 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585463
"trollied" is nothing to do with "troll". It's slang for "drunk" in the UK (and was also a poor comedy show based in a supermarket).
This is not vacationing. It's living out of a bag.
You could run the same experiment with any fermented drink, presumably.
What are the vertices and edges of your hiring graph?

What are the conversions like for each edge? Candidate finds out about you ---> Candidate Contacts you ---> Step 0 ---> Step 1...

If there are not many viewing your offers, you may want to consider your channels.

If you have views but not applications, you may want to consider your copywriting.

If you're getting applications but they're not following through, contact them and ask why.

If you sent offers they did not accept, ask for more info on why they didn't accept.

Make a graph for transitions from each step to the other. Look at the percentages and numbers. Look for dropouts, etc.

View it like a conversion funnel, or more accurately a graph.
Daryl Fairweather is the chief economist at Redfin, a major housing and real estate company (competitor to Zillow). Seems she's pretty bullish on LVT.
Are you hiring a DevOps engineer, or a software engineer? While there's overlap, these are fundamentally different things.

Focus your job description on either:
1. A software engineer who can (and is willing) to do some DevOps work.
2. A DevOps engineer who can (and is willing ) do some software development.
> So basically she was pushing me pay thousands of dollars to have a serious surgery to avoid the risk of developing a cavity because I might not know how to brush teeth that I have had for 15 years and never had a cavity on

I went to the doctors once for a mild injury, one side of my palm was somewhat numb.

Despite informing me it wasn't very worrisome, they decided a I needed to be referred to a physical therapist, who then tried to put my hand in a cast and set up a dozen extra appointments for an injury that healed the week after the first. Since them I just haven't bothered seeing a doctor unless I feel like I'm immediate or near immediate danger.
> Cars are not nearly able to do this, and they only operate in two dimensions.

True but they depend on roads that are built all different from each other, full of irregular shapes and surprises, bumps, pedestrians, bicycles, absent, broken or different signs when traveling to other counties, etc.
I love the irony of using a two sentence opening paragraph to sing the praises of not using paragraphs.

Good advice though ;)
I have seen such pictures before, but I think the coolest one so far, is the one Trevor Mahlmann made [1]. He shot the ISS in front of the sun during the 2017 eclipse. Destin from SmarterEveryDay made a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepQoU4oek4

[1] https://twitter.com/smartereveryday/status/89974809416155955...
I'm completely fine with your right to dump those unsavory apps. If enough of us do, they may chose to, at least, hide to wherever they came out from.
Really? I don't think I've ever dated a man who cares more about the phone I use than the job I have or the clothes I'm wearing. I think if anyone pestered me about using a Thinkpad or an Android device, I'd walk out of the venue and foot them the bill.
When reading articles like these, I can't tell if they are very low semantic density, or if they are using terms of art that sound like noise but are actually communicating valuable information.

"accelerating mission/delivering innovative products/services at high speed" - what does this actually mean? This sounds like a jumble of positively-connoted words that I would throw together if I was trying to fill space in a powerpoint.

"The CTO’s job is to: create a common process, language and tools for innovation [and] make them permanent with a written innovation doctrine and policy". Is this not just "Draw the rest of the owl"?

"The CEO's job is to: make the company make lots of money."
Thanks to WebGL, all plugins are back, that is how WASM helps.

Have a look at Grain for a ML like language with GC runtime.
Someone at Microsoft please please buy/license/implement this for GitHub projects.
Sure, and I'm not saying there's no possible influence in any direction. At the same time, I suspect things are more separate than in 2014, and I don't see that claim on their pages from back then [0][1]. In fact they seemed to have independently reviewed the desks and only then asked about an affiliate program.

When they switched their recommendation to Fully, they apparently didn't have an affiliate relationship with them, either. NextDesk calls that "false" — but based on Wirecutter linking to Amazon to earn a commission. That's a bizarre conflation (although like you said it's not nothing) but it's what Wirecutter usually did regardless of the product, and they were up front about it at the time [1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150603092537/https://thewirecu...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150518125823/http://thewirecut...

(Wirecutter used the word "kickback" here, too, so if anything it seems like they were trying to be as uncharitable as possible about their own model.)
I did similar things for many years, but at the end of the day I found that I was just adding friction for myself and not getting any real benefit. Yeah, I can see who has sold (or inadvertently leaked) my information, but then what? Don't do business with them again? Fine, but it's too late. And so many companies have problems like this that if you refuse to do business with any of them, you're going to find yourself very limited.

In a broader sense, as I learned to grow out of my 1990s-era rage about spam, I've found that my online life has gotten a lot less stressful. No, I still do not like commercial email in my inbox. But constantly being angry about it and trying to fight it did not result in me getting any less of it. All it did was made me a bitter person. Something something accept the things I cannot change...
The Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge built during the big dig was designed by a Swiss. I recall reading that during construction the designers visited the site and noticed there being an issue (one of many at the big dig) where the rebar was incorrectly spaced and had to be completely redone or it would have collapsed before the opening.
But the undeniable experience of many many iPhone users is that you have probably seen the soft keyboard autocorrect to "duck" many times when you intended to write "fuck".

The soft keyboard is always using some heuristics to identify which characters you intended to type. In most cases it's quite accurate, but in this case it seems like it's over-counting the probability you would have typed "duck" or "ducking" by a fairly wide margin.
I was taught to use double spaces in highschool typing class (we used electric typewriters with the buffer off). In the ~35 years since I have only ever met a handful of people, all older than me, who did it in practice.

I continued through university while using a computer to type things up, I'm pretty sure my thesis had double spaces after periods, written in WP. Once I graduated I dropped it pretty quickly.

Was there an early version of Word's spell-check-on-the-fly that underlined double spaces, or am I miss-remembering?
I really don't remember anymore, but I know there was at least one version of UUCP on the old Oakland CP/M software archives. It was at least 1993 when I was doing this; CP/M was a hobby alongside my DOS machine.
“Benefits and salary are good” is subjective. Can you provide examples so we can verify?

What’s your hiring process like? What’s your company rep like? How are the interviews ram? Any steps taken to help interviewees feel comfortable? Etc etc
Apple has had PWA’s for years.

Tumblr is perfectly fine on the web, but they want people to download the app so they can use push notifications to juice engagement.
Here's the original Wirecutter review:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/ikea-fornuftig-air-p...

"Our pick among small-space purifiers, the Levoit Core 300, is not much more expensive, is a true-HEPA machine, and has a CADR of 135, which means it’s effective in rooms up to 200 square feet."

Non-affiliate direct link to the one Wirecutter recommends:

https://levoit.com/products/core300-true-hepa-air-purifier

Just linking for information in case anyone else was curious.
While this is an interesting piece overall, based on the title I'm struggling to find the "action plan" part. The "lesson's learned" section is just statements, not even suggestions.

* Large companies often have divisions and functions with innovation, incubation and technology scouting all operating independently with no common language or tools
* Innovation heroics as the sole source of deployment of new capabilities are a sign of a dysfunctional organization
* Innovation isn’t a single activity (incubators, accelerators, hackathons); it is a strategically organized end-to-end process from idea to deployment
* Somewhere three, four or five levels down the organization are the real centers of innovation – accelerating mission/delivering innovative products/services at high speed
* The CTO’s job is to:
* create a common process, language and tools for innovation make them permanent with a written innovation doctrine and policy
* And don’t ever tell anyone you’re a “short timer”

The only actual suggestion in there is "create a common process, language and tools for innovation make them permanent with a written innovation doctrine and policy" but it doesn't really say how to do this or go into detail about what this might look like.
GitHub CEO: I predict there will [soon] be no more code on your local computer
This article uses "aesthetic" as an adjective... am I the only one who finds this irritating?
Also changing the job description to software engineer, not web developer, may help. Quite a few colleagues wouldn't want to downgrade their title. :)