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Ask HN: Should I clone/use my dotfiles repo at my new job?
I just started work at a new big tech company and am in the process of setting up my world laptop. In my work agreement, everything I do on the company laptop is theirs, and everything I code outside of work hours is mine. Would this mean that just by cloning my dotfiles, I no longer actually own them and they now belong to my company? I have no intention of ever strictly monetizing them, but I can see myself wanting to make a blog post about it in the future or something of that nature.

Is this something I should be worried about? How do you handle this kind of thing for setting up (and continually synchronizing w/ personal computer) your work setup? Do I have to just give up and use VS Code?
> It is a disservice to mention global warming every time there is a major weather event.

It is a disservice to muddy the waters that way every time any weather event is discussed. Yes, there might have been worse floodings about 5000 years ago. Yes, one single event cannot be attributed to climate change and freak monsoons happen from time to time. But we are very confident about the magnitude and frequency of these events being a direct consequence of global warming. Climate change and these events overall are direct consequences of global warming. There is no “yeah but”.

We also know for a fact that global warning is directly responsible for the increase in melt water from receding glaciers, which was a contributor to the floods in Pakistan. It’s completely wrong to say that this would have happened without global warming.

It’s like the discussions about the heat wave in Europe. You’d think people would get the message when 8 of the warmest years on record happened in the last 10 years.
Cool project, but why mow it all in the first place? Do yourself and absolutely nature a favor and let it grow. We need every patch of natural land we can get, as biodiversity and insect populations are continually decreasing.

Mow some patches for the humans (because standing in a buggy tall field is just no bueno), but leave the rest for nature. Rent or borrow some goats or sheep if you really want it kept lower; at least you'll end up with richer soil that way.
It says why (because he feels it's counter-productive to achieving the goal of a more inclusive society), but I'd highly recommend just going and watching the full debate yourself.

I remember it, and it was basically a warning of all the things that have happened in America. Thankfully we're always a little behind America here in Europe.
Irrelevant note - it seems page is stuck at the top when using page down to scroll down.
Indeed. Just remember to keep your knee high - that’s where the power comes from.
Snoop Dogg, Eminem’s NFT Performance at VMAs Looks Like Bad Instagram Filter
I pointed out some changes that are addressed by HEN in a reply to another post, but here are some others that would help.

The funny thing is that HN doesn't even adhere to the basic UX practices that many around here constantly complain about in new design like knowing what is clickable.

Take a look at each story list item on the front page, what do you think is clickable? Everything in the subheading is formatted exactly the same, but not everything is clickable. Same goes for the headings of each comment in a thread. And I think HN's violation of this is especially egregious since the formatting of these things aren't just the same, but they are greyed out. That's a pretty universal sign that something is not clickable. This is 100% confusing to new users.

This one is a bit more difficult to implement without a lot of JS, but one thing that I have run into many times is reading through a comment thread, trying to reply, realizing I'm not logged in, logging in, losing context of where I was, scrolling through the thread trying to find where that comment was, giving up and not commenting.

In addition to that, not remembering which comment threads have been collapsed. Accidentally navigate away? Good look finding your place again, especially if there were many new comments added.

The mobile experience can be summed up as "very precise clicking"

I think the top menu items are also named in a weird manner. Why does comments take you to a list of random comments in chronological order? How is that useful? You would expect that link to take you to your profiles comments, but no, that's the "threads" link. There is a lot of that on HN where things are (imo, purposely) obscure. I get why they would do it, but let's not pretend it's a good experience.

HN caters to the most technically literate community on the internet. They will figure out how to use this site no matter if you had to navigate the site via the terminal (some would probably prefer that "NO JS!"). We've all gotten used to how the site works, we ignore all of its issues because we've adjusted our habits to work around those issues.

And I'm not saying HN has terrible UX (there are actually many things we can learn from it) but it's definitely not the site I reference when I need inspiration for a good experience.
Having worked with a lot of artists, they are seeing stable diffusion and other image generators as a way to generate lots of ideas. A base they would then ,usually starting from scratch, build their end product off of.

So even though to a casual glance, these images look amazing, if you look closely, you see all the flaws that come with them being generated. Weird artifacts, a lack of symmetry that humans usually add to their creations.

These flaws would not exist (to such a degree) when a professional artist paints the same scene.
Have you read the article? It points out a few huge blockers to productivity in the office.
Over-the-Horizon Drones Line Up but Privacy Is Not in Sight
TDP starting at 105W, i'll pass
It's a mix of generic terms like just "bad" or "stupid" or "sucks" and youtube/gamer talk like "cursed" or "fail".
> Fairly distinctly remember a million memes of like a car accident or something else tragic and a caption of "sorry to tell you mam, your son died of covid" or something to that ends.

Those weren't just memes. That really happened. https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/man-who-died-in-motorcycl...
Most folks define their title by what they are paid to do. It follows then that if you are not paid to do anything, then you don't have the title, right? Well, if that's not quite right, then you haven't really become anything but rather you are someone who is mucking about with systems and happen to be being paid for it.
* The monthly Hacker News "freelancers" posts

* Slack groups (geographical or programming language based)

* craigslist software section

My tips:

* Have a portfolio / resume handy

* Expected rate and weekly availability

- \* And your flexibility in both areas

* Citizenship

* Timezone

* Reason for looking

- Want to get experience in X

- I run a software consultancy

- Need a challenge

- Looking for experience

As someone who has looked for someone part-time multiple times, it's been a frustrating experience overall.

* Under-qualified

- I wish I did, as I love mentoring, but I don't have the time to take someone under my wing right now. Hence the need for a portfolio / resume / Github.

* Overqualified

- I can't afford you right now ;)

* People who already have 40 hour jobs and who _think_ they have enough time but they don't

- Not under the person's control all the time, I understand. Life gets in the way
No, architects also code. Google “lean architect”
> No longer true since Smalltalk-76

Not even

5 perform: #factorial

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Neat.

Some more info here: https://newatlas.com/energy/coaxial-vertical-floating-wind-t...
AMD said they are not expecting to be supply constrained.
Parent asked about Firefox for Android. This functionality you mention is only available in Firefox Nightly, and even then it requires setting up a curated list on Mozilla's service to use it.
I read 7 and just knew it would list every BSD instance possible except OS X, then GNU would just HAVE to be there.
I think this is giving way too much credit to Google. WebMD has existed in some form since 1996 and first went live as WebMD in 1999. They've been the web's most popular health information publisher from the beginning. This was before Google became the web's dominant search engine.

If Google has an issue here, it's that it tries to rank things based on a more or less mathematical look at its actual popularity at the time of indexing. It isn't aiming to promote sites based on quality in order to make them popular. If a site is where other sites are pointing and people are visiting, then Google is going to rank them highly (modulo whatever the hell other secret sauce goes into the algorithm - i.e. punishing slow load times), even if the information content is bad. WebMD was very much already the web's most popular source of health information well before they hit the top of any Google search.

This isn't even a problem specific to the web, let alone Google. Medical textbooks were available at the time Chicken Soup for the Soul was a best seller. Consumers quite often prefer shittier information to better.
Not saying it isn't ad-riddled. Saying you shouldn't, as power users, be surfing the ad-riddled parts / and/or not care about a sidebar or a few animated gifs halfway down a page. There are businesses there trying to make money and we haven't come up with a better way yet, not giving those sites traffic might start to change minds about the strategy.

Grandma can stay in safe zones as they already do, Facebook what? And we can influence them to surf less ridiculous riddled sites (recipe sites? Instead of 500 page ad recipe sites, use NYT Cooking for example, no ads).

Installing add-ons to browsers like it's 2003 is not necessary.
Ask HN: Is being a career photographer viable in 2022?
Photography is a side-hobby for me right now (I am a programmer during the day). I'm not making any money off of it but wondering how/if anyone does anymore. It seems like the only big profit niche anymore is weddings.

Interested to hear the experiences of working photographers and those that have tried and moved on.
How's this a donut and not a sphere?
Did you read the article? The description the OP gives does not sound like the situation you describe
Log4Shell legacy? Patching times plummet for most critical vulnerabilities
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Part of the reason for that - especially in tech - is we keep hiring people utterly unsuited to manage others. Pretty much every manager I've had is a software engineer in the past. But, only one manager was a true manager who helped me with the technical stuff, career and personal growth. The rest were all great people but totally inadequate as a manager.

In tech and pretty much every company I've worked at, you need to get into a managerial position to be able to have a say in what get built and how much you get paid. Programming fatigue and frustration with being told what to do also sets in after a while. The two together convinces people who are terrible with their people management skills to chase a manager-path career.

Essentially, you're diagnosing the symptom to be the cause.
Anyone that cares about the extra performance out of Go code that the decades old battle tested GCC backend is able to provide.
Source: myself.

I did all tests in half the required time, 100% success rate, had a bug during the interview with the screener, in the last of 5 overall I've done, I probably could've fixed it with 2 more minutes but no, I failed and was asked to practice leetcode puzzles and apply again one month later.

Yeah, I don't think I will.

The thing that bugs me the most is it was obvious the interviewer wasn't an engineer. There weren't able to tell how close I was to the solution. I dunno, that method might work in some cases, but I've been doing software engineering for 16 years. I guess I'm not good enough.

Also fuck having to solve puzzles with a timer with someone looking over your shoulder. I have done emergency "servers are on fire" maintenance in the middle of the night for big customers and it's less stressful than that.
From 168 hours that we all start with in a week, if someone wants to spend 20 of them making their and their family's lives better, why wouldn't we generally encourage that? I certainly wouldn't discourage it and I could be neutral on it, but if I think about, I'd rather they work on a side gig than watch Netflix, doom-scroll, or watch TikToks.
Social media must take much of the blame (and it's one of the reasons I don't use it).

Nevertheless, I believe there are deeper cultural reasons at its root. For many reasons, people today have less resilience than they did half century ago and even less than the prewar generation.

These reasons are many and diverse and it's hardly possible to detail them here in any comprehensive way but some are very obvious.

First, there's not the same emphasis on teaching manners and self-restraint as there was, say, five decades ago. Nor is the same level of emphasis placed on listening to others and making an effort to understand and accommodate their views as there once was.

Similarly, there's a righteous sense of self-entitlement that once wasn't there to the extent it is today.

And then there's the overprotection bubble that kids have been brought up in over the past forty or so years - for instance, kids being driven to school, and or not being allowed to discover the 'bad' world for themselves. This breeds timidity and an over sensitivity to worldly knocks and thus people now overreact at the slightest provocation - even when they experience the mildest indignation or upset.

Couple these issues with the ever-increasing number of groups of people who consider themselves disadvantaged in comparison to others and we've a recipe for trouble. Having to make 'allowances' and or special rules for so many subgroups of people - whether or not these groups have legitimate or reasonable claims - is wearying society. (Here, I'm not suggesting these groups don't have a legitimate cause, rather it's the effort that society has to expend in adjusting to and accommodating them that's a major source of problem.)

Then there's other factors such as inequality which is growing so fast that people haven't time to adjust. Same goes for racism, mix too many different ethnic groups too quickly and or that the population growth rises too quickly so people don't have time to adjust and the discontent manifests as resentment towards others.

Put all this together with a media that squawks loudly at the slightest provocation and you've conflict for sure.

It seems from the evidence that Fry does have a valid point, how relevant it is remains to be seen.

Incidentally, decades ago when I was growing up and copped abuse from others, I was taught to consider the old ditty 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me'.

From my experience, there's a modicum of truth in that saying.
Yes, I'm in the UK and will often include "NHS" in the search terms when reading up on health issues or advice.
Your Threadripper also has a lot more DRAM bandwidth than can be economically provided on a mainstream motherboard. 16 cores is a reasonable limit for AMD's mainstream platform, and going beyond that would require more expensive motherboards and a bigger, more power-hungry IO die—exactly the wrong direction for them to be moving with this product segment.
A DIY plate reverb, hacked out of IKEA parts for under $100
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The difference between robot and a machine is that robot perform useful work.
What is the market share of Chrome users who use ad blocking though? I don't know if its large enough to make a dent in the overall market share. And even then not sure everyone who has one installed would jump. I have it in my mom's browser but if it stopped working tomorrow she wouldn't know enough to make any changes.
Definitely! Happy to answer any other questions you have via email once you're ready to move forward. Email is in my profile, or just eric@ our company domain :)
Thank you. Had missed that
Sometimes Pharo is criticized for not displaying more prominently its Smalltalk roots on its site and promotional materials. IMHO, I think the Pharo team has good reason to do so. So far it is mostly compatible with Squeak, but breaking backward compatibility is left on the table as a possibility in the future. So they applied the lesson Perl folks had to learn the hard way, until they perceived it was better to recognize Perl6 as a new language and rename it to Raku. When developing new things, calling them by old names sets expectations and causes people to make lots of implicit assumptions.
Ideally it would be the human at each end doing the encrypting and decrypting. But humans can't be bothered, so we let some code that we know very little about do it for us. Obviously having that code run on the client device (the one in your hand) is preferable to having it run elsewhere (like some web server), but either way the human (the true end) is delegating the job to an entity that isn't quite at the end, it's ever so slightly toward the center.

Things like PGP help to maximize the endianness, since the human has a better sense that the crypto software is legitimate, and can read the code before executing it, although there's still plenty of points of compromise between that code and the human (compiler, Intel ME, etc.) so unless you're doing crypto with a pencil and paper, you're always putting your trust somewhere that isn't precisely the "end."
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Yes, especially because we now know that heart attacks, strokes, and other blood-clot-related issues are very common in the year after getting COVID. These could just as easily be 1-year-delayed COVID deaths.
What Is “Deep Inspection”?
Working on https://superhero.re/ - smarter tracking and management of equipment failures. What are you up to?
I wouldn't say that's a common practice.
10s of thousands of years of integrated ambition have helped ensure that we are not consistently living outdoors.
(opens blog posts on trumpexcel, since front page has zero ads) -- content is totally readable, so what if there's a few square ads between some of the paragraphs and sidebar. Like we're talking about a few animated GIFS here c'mon. The content value is all the same.
> Why would anyone leave money on the table and not do scummy / google / facebook ads

If ethical ads do a better job of reaching developers, you would be leaving money on the table by not using them.

Supply and demand applies, as usual. Companies selling dev services want more effective ad campaigns, ethical ads are less likely to be blocked/ignored by their target demographic, thus demand for ethical ads goes up. The supply of websites/apps running ethical ads is relatively low, so that means the payouts of those ads are higher.

So in the end, running ethical ads on your dev-oriented website could make more money than google/facebook ads, advertisers could get more return on their investment, and end-users benefit from ethical and less-intrusive advertising (although that might not last forever once the MBAs are brought in to chase growth)
I wish they had an 8 core option that maximized the performance-per-core possible. I don't have much use for a 16 core CPU.
>but why mow it all in the first place?

Because providing convenient habitat for grass dwelling rodents adjacent to your home will result in some fraction of them trying to move in.
Tesla unveils new virtual power plant in Japan
The great resignation isn’t about the pandemic
The fact that making work more efficient can be a problem highlights some fundamental flaws in our society.
I might give this a shot. I've used them on wells and they are great for sediment. I wasn't sure if it would work the same with the moss but if it works that would save me from using the tank pellets.
Very common after getting an MRNA vaccine, too.
Maybe instead of heavily punishing websites with ads, a search engine could instead punish heavily ad-driven websites. A lot of the SEO-exploiting blog mills are filled to the brim with ads where the goal is to get you to visit to view as many ads as possible, not provide good content that's funded by ads.
I use markdown, even when rendering isn't supported: "This field holds a list of `SomeCoolObject`s."
Man, I used Privoxy back in the day and it was amazing. Now, however, you need to set up custom certs so that you can MITM yourself, plus those things can only look at the initial HTML without running any JS. I don't know how less effective that would make filtering, but it can't help.

I'd love to be proven wrong though! Right now I run DNS-based filtering because, no, it's not perfect, but I really like having network-wide blocking.
Imagine if once a year, your boss sat you down and went "Hey, you did a terrible job this year. No promotion."

You might ask him why he didn't give you any feedback earlier so you could have fixed the issue. "Oh, well I only give feedback once a year since it is hard to do".

You need regular (weekly, biweekly) feedback on your diet.
I'm either 100% on your side or I'm in the same group as the KKK? Do you not see the parallel here of forcing people into binary categories of being male or female? If gender can be non-binary why can't political correctness be as well?

The biases of binary thinking pervades even those that believe themselves to be beyond it.
Tesla is operating a virtual power plant demonstration in Texas
The average person is not buying a 7950 so I have no idea what you are getting at.
That's what I observed as well. Finding that generic but valuable use-case is quite tough. Selling it is on a totally different level. The impact it can have should be well worth it though
A quick review of this blog's posts does not make me think this is an author to be taken very seriously.
So all the tests were done on an m1 mac. Is there any difference on x86_64?

I wouldn't expect there to be, but unless this program is only going to be running on new macs, this analysis isn't really complete.
If Apple wanted to enter this, they could make it _possible_ with something like a beefed up Apple TV.
My website has a number of self-services tools on it that are helpful but you have to have a decent idea of what you're doing to begin with to make use of them.

Under the tools I've got a link to my contact form for people who need more help.

I used to get quite a decent bit of work through this to the point I was turning people away. It's kind of dried up in the last couple years though.
Yes, using SOCK_RAW.
I'm confused. Why wouldn't the 7700X 8-core CPU work for what you're suggesting?
We never left those days on the enterprise space.
No. It refers to the fact that Russians are grobians.
It's built into "Mouse Properties" in the standard settings dialog on this Win11 box.
This has caused me heartache before!

I have a certain excel macro that creates several hundred graphs from a whole bunch of data on their own individual sheets, then copies each graph and pastes it onto a final sheet for presentation. Naturally this all goes through the clipboard, so I start the macro and just let it go in the background, resigned to not using copy/paste anywhere else for 5-10 minutes.

Except that sometimes my clipboard gets hijacked and either causes an error or it pastes gibberish. Very annoying.
AVX-512 was a bit of a flop initially, because of how Intel implemented it. AMD's solution doesn't provide quite as much peak throughput for highly-optimized code, but is a better way of providing the flexibility benefits of AVX-512 to the masses without the severe downclocking. There may still be plenty of situations where it would make sense to use 256-bit vectors with AVX-512 instructions, but on Zen 4 there won't be a strong reason to avoid 512-bit vectors where they are useful.