skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think for all the tech he's bored of, he's reading cynical media accounts instead experiencing them himself. And this is how you age into old man shouts at cloud.

Why his boring stuff is actually cool:

Block chain is cool, I agree that we haven't figured out what to do with it. In the papers you read about NFTs and using too much energy. But if you listen to interviews with Vitalik Buterin instead you can realize that there are smart people trying to figure out what to do with this cool new thing. (I hold no crypto btw).

I remember the first VR too. They've fixed a lot of the problems. I've had amazing artistic experiences just sitting in a little tiny apartment in Hong Kong. Beat Saber is fun, and different from other video games. Flight simulator is much better with it. I don't get the Meta/Zuckerberg media push, but if you avoid taking journalists seriously then it is a cool new thing. Also I'm more excited about AR than VR, will love to have the world annotated.

Self driving cars are amazing. After about 15 minutes using a Tesla on the Highway, you realize you don't have to monitor it. You get to relax and be a passenger. It works pretty well in towns too, but you have to monitor it. Again don't listen to journalists and it seems like a miracle.

I don't like voice assistants either, but it's cool that they kinda work. Five year old kids can play songs they like.

I don't understand 5G in phones either. But! It turns out that it's a great way to get internet service in your house. Now you have a competitor to your awful cable company. Even if you never use it, your price for high speed internet will go down. When sonic fiber optic came to my neighborhood in SF, I couldn't get it. But my cable internet bill came down $25 per month and they upgraded the speed.

Anyway stop reading dumb cynical journalists, experience things for yourself and you will age gracefully.
It does sound like there's something wrong with your CV and/or cover letter(s).

As others have said, "near 40" should not be putting you anywhere near age-discrimination issues, particularly at the CV-filtering stage.

Questions that occur to me: Are you applying to companies that are actively seeking? Are you applying to specific roles? If you are applying to specific roles is it obvious that your experience is applicable to those roles? Is your CV too long (over 4 sides, or less but a very small font) ? Is your CV too short (under a side) ?

Feel free to email me if you'd like me to give it a (confidential) once-over and provide any hot-takes on what the issue might be (am an ex-UK contractor with a few remote stints under my belt).

Edit: You could also ask a recruiter for feedback on your CV. They're experts (hopefully)) on selling candidates so it's worth asking.
This acquisition is anticompetitive and should be blocked by government.
Google Meet works great! Doesn't require anything installed either, just works in-browser. I wish my employer used it instead of Zoom. Google uses it internally for all meetings, so it's probably not going anywhere either.
The 2080Ti looks like the best bang for the buck according to that spreadsheet.

However here in Germany they still cost around 410-450€ used, not $350.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ryDOy3AosBw
Those types exist as both classes and primitive types. Eg, "double" (primitive) vs "Double" (class which inherits from Object).
I did industrial tech support in an automobile assembly plant. I would get calls to fix something, and I would tell them why it was someone else's responsibility, or I would try to explain something.

When I went out to plant floor, it was like my perceived IQ went up by 20 points. Suddenly the things I said made sense. I think most of this effect can be attributed to the fact that I cared enough to show up, and that it's easier to communicate in person. That's most of it, but I'm also a large-ish white male (6 feet tall, 250 pounds at that time) and that physical presence does seem to have an effect on some people.

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It's easy to think that I'm making a moral statement one way or another by what I've said here, but you don't have to think that.
It's not just browser extensions, but any popular software project that has no stable funding source. This extension has been maintained for years, and it requires a lot of effort to keep updated because it interacts with websites.

These developers are then offered funds for perhaps a new home, and they can hardly be faulted for taking the deal. This issue can only be solved by finding better ways to fund the development of popular software projects that serve the public good.

https://armin.dev/blog/2019/08/supporting-browser-extension-...
It's definitely getting less foggy in the summers. People in the east side of San Francisco are installing AC or wishing they had AC.
Not sure where you live, but it’s called LT in my region.
Taking a break is the best reset in my opinion. Coming back to it with a different perspective can help asses the interests in a better light.
Our Fortune 500 company uses the conferencing tool that I wrote up over a weekend, and when the exec asked me to auto-enable webcams, I immediately put my foot down and said no. I was considering disabling cameras altogether, but arguably that was too forward thinking for the company at the time.
Pretty sure Google Meet lets you share your whole screen if you want. But probably not just a slice of it.
I mean, if you want all your roundabouts to be demolished by semi trucks and other construction vehicles. And the price for the transportation of goods increased due to increased damage to trailers and the semi trucks themselves.

Personally, I love roundabouts. They're fun to drive around. But I have seen (and there's lots of reports about) semi tucks crawling over them at 5mph or less because they're all built too small to support a semi with a 50' trailer.

My vote is, once we eliminate the need for Semi trucks for deliveries in the city, sure. Roundabouts everywhere. But until then, let's keep infrastructure sane for all the users of it.
It's designed to handle nesting, so each register element can have depth starting from zero. But it's not finished yet. There are so many aspects to cover but nesting is not fully implemented. My priority right now is to enhance scrolling and migrate between scroll containers.

Edit: I'd like also to hear back from the community, I welcome any suggestions about the roadmap and what's necessary to be shipped soon.
The "No politics" at Coinbase refers to topics outside of the company's core mission. Regardless of what one thinks of lobbying, seeking beneficial regulation does not contradict the spirit of "no politics at work".
I would read Rodney Brooks for insight into this:
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~ccpalmer/teaching/cs55/Resourc...
What do you make of this

https://twitter.com/thwjanssen89/status/1570426961411067904?...

comment?
Another prominent library is SortableJS https://sortablejs.github.io/Sortable/
Higher interest rates reduces the supply of potential buyers. Less buyers means the asking price will drop.

price is not independent of interest rate, and no collusion is required. Only supply and demand.
Turned off is more profitable than running at a loss for miners that need to fund their opex by selling what they mine.

It looks like it's already happening. After the merge there were a number of coins that saw huge spikes in hash rate which drove them to absolutely unprofitable levels. A lot of that hash rate has since gone elsewhere (most likely offline) and it looks like many coins are settling at a level in the short term that is breakeven at $0.06-0.08 kWh which many (most?) miners can't be profitable at as that is below their electric rate.
The “public” doesn’t give a rats ass about how good the product is and are very short term focused. The minute the company goes public, you are then at the mercy of “activist investors” not interested in the core product.
But if you're trying to go up a mountain it can't be bleat.
Awesome stuff, Daniele!

For folks wanting to learn more, we'll have Daniele's session for cachegrand at P99 CONF next month (free, virtual event): https://www.p99conf.io/

[edit: just realized we'll also have Roman Gershman of DragonflyDB. So you can hear two different ways to tackle the issue.]
Exactly! I just wish the article got to the real issue, which is that sRGB isn't a linear color space (roughly quadratic) and your eyes perceive blue luminosity as ~10% of the brightness of green (red is ~%50).

That means that a half blue (00 00 7F) would be 22% as bright as full blue (00 00 FF) with an apparent luminosity (Lab) of 2.2% compared to full green (FF 00 00) or 1.6% of the luminosity of full white (FF FF FF). No wonder it's hard to see!
rhGH seems way better honestly.
I'd love to say that the most interesting thing here is Fly Machines (i am bias) but really it's SQLite, which, no matter what platform you're using, makes it architecturally simpler to scale up and down, since you don't have to scale a database server up and down with your workload; the database is embedded in the app, which already had the scaling logic.

People have been sleeping on SQLite and are starting to wake up and I'm kind of psyched to see what else they come up with (another very cool example of a software tool that really plays to SQLite's strengths is Datasette: https://datasette.io/).
Unix Interface Design Patterns (2003)
New York City, even Manhattan, is not terribly dense compared to other major world cities. You can see in this map[0] that vast swathes of Manhattan are occupied by buildings 10 stories or less.

[0]: https://mangomap.com/mango-chris/maps/11955/The-Buildings-of...
They may or may not be able to afford to sequester the carbon. Even if they do that (and I have never heard before that they do), in the long run would surely be out-competed by other miners who don't bother.
That's me deleting it
Yes, but the processes still need to share a memory namespace. In WAL mode, SQLite creates a shared memory file which gets mapped into any process trying to access it (that’s why WAL mode creates additional .shm files).

But that only works if all given processes run on the same physical machine, and not in containers/jails/VM.
Berlin has both. Must be something else. https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/berlin-region/berlin/restau...
> An NGO I consult for runs its entire business on Google. All its documents are on Google docs, all digital assets on google drive, using google play store for their mobile app, using firebase on the backend

Sounds like an egregious lack of contingency planning. This situation is the fault of the engineer who stood up their infra. Your argument wouldn't exist if there were a Plan B and Plan C in place.

Do you believe it's fair that your client's lack of preparation is somehow grounds for overreaching government regulation?
It comes down to whether the experience is desired or not.

When multiple people recognize and respond to you, it is a sign of fame and respect. People generally like to be well-known and respected, so this coordination is appreciated.

When a machine recognizes and responds to you, it is often not a sign of respect but a sign of exploitation. I think it's kinda useful when I see relevant ads on a website based on my recent browsing. But I might feel differently if I spent 8 hours a day driving wherever a computer told me to go or cooking whatever a computer told me to cook.
The main issue here is that, given it relies on whatever implementation of DBM you have installed, its performance will vary considerably from OS to OS.

I don't know how fast or slow the "dumb" implementation is, but I can bet it is way slower than gdbm. I can see someone using this module, considering it "fast enough" on GNU/Linux and then finding out that it's painfully slow on Windows and shipping binaries of another implementation is a massive PITA.
The "nothing to hide" line is diametrical to an American education, which typically provides access to the Bill of Rights. And it was talked about that communism was invasive of privacy and private property, which absolutely cannot exist in any way without privacy. Like if you own a farm, you have the deed. Where in the house is it? How do you enter the house? With a key. What does the key look like? Can't reveal that because then it can be forged and the door opened. OK what if you're locked out? Well then there's another way in nobody knows about it's underneath the flowerpot in the dirt--THAT'S PRIVACY. Private property is founded on privacy. The alternative is being the only man strong enough to lift a boulder blocking the entrance. And even then that's because that man has privacy within his nervous system, his muscles are not connecting to other people's nervous systems with wires. Privacy -> private property. Otherwise you have nothing.

Nothing to hide. Really it was the bitchvictim media saying people said this. It cannot be taken seriously, people don't say this, it's a bitchvictim media trope. They imposed it as a social expectation. Then people think people think that. Dude nothing to hide why wear clothing? They don't show their genitals upon request.

Only saints have nothing to hide. Even then, they typically stand up to torture before betraying information leading to eg the Christian Catacombs.

Nothing to hide, yeah.
>> I bought a house recently so I'm theoretically on the losing side of any drop in home prices resulting from this

There are situations where this doesn't matter. Obviously if you bought with a lot of borrowed money, and home prices drop significantly, and you try to sell while still owing money you may be in trouble.

But if you pay it off (or didn't borrow) you will own the home free and clear. When you own one home free and clear, the price is almost irrelevant. If you measure your net worth in houses as opposed to dollars, you have 1. If you move you'll sell one and buy one at whatever the going rate is - unless you're looking to upsize or downsize the price is not relevant.

What if I held off buying until prices drop?!?! Well, if you borrow nearly the full amount, it makes little difference. Housing as a percent of income has remained unchanged for 50 years (I saw something recently confirming this). In other words, your monthly payments are determined first and then the bank tells you how much house you can buy - which is exactly why prices vary inversely with interest rates.

In the situations above, the biggest problems stem from rate changes during the course of a low equity housing loan that is paid off early. IMHO we need to get back to 10-15 year terms as the norm.

Still, IMHO it is a bad time to buy. Also IMHO interest rates need to be a LOT higher to fix our economic problems, which would mean big drops in home prices still ahead.
That's a neat throwback. Great to see his dedication pay off in the world.
From a centralization perspective there isn't much difference between POS and POW. Miners are becoming corporations that can be bought and sold.
New (LTE) Rotary Cell Phone
China opens unofficial police stations in Britain to hunt down people for return
You're confused. In The Ethereum Ponzi, early token holders 'stake' their tokens and are paid by future transactors.

But here's the funny thing that no-one gets: all assets are a ponzi scheme (stocks are only worth something now because future rubes will buy them for more later), what makes bad ponzi schemes is when the underlying asset that everyone is speculating on doesn't do anything useful.
And Object, in this case (big O), is the name of a class.

Not everything is an object, as someone said, there are also primitives.

There are many other "things" in Java that are not objects (operators, statements, etc.).

Kotlin does set some of this straight. Everything inherits (indirectly) from the Any class. And primitives do not exist in Kotlin (as in Ruby or Smalltalk).
But they have less cells that could become cancerous?
Thank you for the response and sorry about that! I honestly didn't know.

The "Infinite DOM transformation instead of reconstructing the DOM tree with every interaction" bullet, with the "has its own scheduler and reconciler" sentence made it sound like you've purposely implemented your own "lifecycle" system, and I didn't see any mention of React on the readme so I wasn't sure how it'd work together. I don't know what a scheduler or reconciler is, so I wasn't sure what that meant in the context of frameworks. (And edit: And oh, wait, only on a close second reading do I see "compatible with any modern JS framework"... sorry, I ctrl-f'ed the first time).

I appreciate the response.
What happens when Twitter suppresses your tweets?
We've successfully subverted and revolutionized the global centralization of financial control by... concentrating wealth and power... Wait...
there surely are, I just don't think its a big deal for any competent employee
In biology almost nobody pays for software. A lot of it is really rough around the edges (I have to install and try to run some of it as part of my job).

It’s kinda interesting, most development is by grants and such, they don’t offer much in the way of support funding. A lot of development is fooling around taking output from a and making it work for b.
> Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions".

I noticed that too. I wonder what a more precise wording would be.
> > But I'm more interested in convenience.

> This is basically the "I have nothing to say, so I have no need for freedom of expression" argument transplanted into the privacy sphere.

Not at all. It's "I do not have infinite time and energy to spend in trying to protect myself against every remote possible negative outcome."
cough san fransi cough
The mortgage rate is basically set by whoever is buying the bonds they are packaged as. So it floats a certain points higher than treasuries, usually.
Heads up, if you haven't already, make sure you have your commercial drone license!

Anything past flying only for recreation requires a commercial license. The FAA says "if there's any doubt, get the commercial license".

Having gone through it myself for mapping my forest land, it's not too difficult. You'll want to study up beforehand, but it's not too challenging.
I have a 2.3% mortgage.

Do you think I'm going to refinance today? No. The bank is stuck with 2.3% from me for the next 15 years. Its a bad deal for them, and a great deal for me.

As long as interest rates go up, there's no refinancing to occur. Its financially the wrong move for the property owners.
In house innovation is certainly a problem on the product side. What new Adobe products have come out in the last decade? Every new product or service is from an acquisition.
Thanks DanG
It started as a joke not by Elon but by Eric Hansen.
I think on Linux is often GNU DBM, Berkeley DB is a different, better implementation by Oracle that requires a third party module.
I stand corrected. I got her not getting boosters for her boys as her not getting them vaccinated.
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Ok it is the multiple user editing that people liked so much about figma. Ok that makes sense. Ignore me.
A million times yes. If a codebase is magically adding _all_ of the boilerplate, it's almost always harder to understand what's actually happening.
Here Dijkstra weep with you:

https://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java/

But for going to Java from Haskell :)
"in the beginnings with CRT" almost certainly refers to monochrome "green screen" monitors. The monitors you got with Macs and most monitors that came out with Windows 3.1 were pretty different.
>higher energy costs are massively increasing the cost of ownership.

Why?
Although I agree with the point made in this case about the number input (provided "inputmode" is set so a mobile device presents the right kind of keyboard), this kind of thinking drives me nuts:

> As a programmer, you might find this acceptable, but there’s a good chance your designer and/or product manager will not.

I couldn't care less if a designer is unhappy with the native functionality my browser exposes, it's called a user agent for a reason. They probably aren't happy with my custom style sheet either and this idea that designers' whims can override user preferences needs to stop.
> Website have to receive informed and specific consent.

Websites only have to ask consent to track you if they track you in the first place. Sucks to suck.
Maybe it depends on country but Webflow has massive adoption around here. Every agency is becoming webflow agency because they can teach their designers to create small to medium sized websites without coding. You can't create custom unique branded websites without coding with any other tool. It got to a point where clients themselves require webflow because it means easy, cheap, fast visual changes.
Wix had to rush to create their Editor X which is direct Webflow competition.

Yes it won't replace big sites that require complex CMSes and publishing flows. But it certainly has a niche.

TBH i think it will be super interesting if somebody made some kind of more open webflow style html/css editor that could be integrated to current CMSes and workflows. Like sections of pages that are handcrafted like this. Or your header/footer and blog are CMS but landing page is this super visual html/cms editor.
As soon as you start scaling the app beyond 1 replica, you have to handle data replication again
I think the rates increases are putting pressure on the housing market, but what I'm curious about is how this affects housing prices in context. If rents are very high (as they are), and high interest rates cause builders to build fewer homes and/or only build higher margin homes (McMansions and such) at higher price points, what is going to happen? Are people just going to be trapped with high rent and never escape to buy a home? Or are interest rates going to rise but prices will also either stabilize or rise?
>Thank goodness interactive experiences now require a full developer team

Interactive experiences the kind Flash was used for, can now be done trivially without plugins AND be compatible with the rest of the page (e.g. history, copy paste, etc.). For some basic stuff Flash was used you can even do them in one line of CSS. You can even play video, sound, and trigger MIDI natively now, with just a few lines.

More advanced stuff, you can it do with just canvas and at most a wrapper lib for higher level methods - no "NPM packages" or anything else required.

For casual games or animation, there are tons of FOSS and even proprietary libs, with game-building templates and GUIs to do what Flash did, and even things Flash barely did, like 3D - and they all export to native web code running on all platforms - even mobile. And with lower resources that Flash did.

So, yeah, the crap Flash.
Adobe's stock is down 17% on the news. So, it's bad for consumers. Bad for Adobe. Probably only good for the ego of a few executives and investment bankers.
>Funnily enough, I left a comparable (to Boston, in incomes, house prices, political attitudes, etc.) metro for a smaller city in a stereotypical "red state", which the residents of my former city are fond of describing as a third-world country. My quality of life has increased in almost all the ways I care about.

I'm having anxiety about moving from downstate New York to Lexington, Kentucky. I've spent time there, I enjoy the city and the surrounding area, but I keep coming back to "If I don't like it I can always move back", instead of "The upsides far outweigh the downsides. You'll like it."

Thanks for this.
Possibly the opposite! The Euro drop in price has made it competitive for US companies to hire engineers in Europe. The only con is the difference in timezone. Central/South America still has that advantage.