skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you fail? If you got paid for the work, you didn't fail. You succeeded. We're all at this for money first. If you can enjoy the time spent making money, that's a bonus.
Here's a tl;dr for you on "why do I need a new browser" from the post:

* Better web tracking protections: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we.... This includes a bunch of protections not offered by most other browsers and extensions by default (e.g., embedded facebook content protection), or more robust versions of them (e.g., our HTTPS everywhere list is orders of magnitude bigger). More generally our web tracking protections are based on our open source crawler vs. community feedback, and we believe this approach is ultimately better and leads us to study and block new tracking techniques faster.

* New feature: Duck Player, a YouTube player that helps protect your privacy (no targeted ads, no influencing your recommendations, etc.)

* New feature: automatic cookie consent pop-up manager, which not only hides these but also makes sure to select the most private options before doing so (if you don't do that you can be subject to more tracking).

* New feature: Fire Button, one click data clearing for tabs, windows, sites, or everything.

* Our Email Protection integrated natively: https://spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo....

* A focus on Privacy, simplified, which means working continuously on not breaking websites while still protecting you as much as we can, and keeping the interface clean and sleek.
Meta forced by anti-trust regulators to sell Giphy
NS1 was already switched off for about a full month by the time the explosions happened, and NS2 was never put into production (and was unlikely to ever be put into production after Russia invaded Ukraine).

One of the theories I've seen espoused is that Russia is basically going "nice pipeline, shame if something happened to it" to the new Norway-Poland pipeline which was inaugurated about the time of the explosion.
Because if they were anything like me, and the boss unilaterally decided I'm going down a different career path, they would have eventually quit.
Why not take that responsibility on company time? What's the worst that happens? The nonsense you were asked to do was somehow tied to company profitability and the stock price tanks?
JS is the best language for web - and generally for high level systems design - and honestly I don't know why people don't want to see it. Good parts of JS are: first class functions and closures and prototypical inheritance. Find decently popular language with those things implemented well, good luck. Rest of JS features are a noise, improvements of developer work ergonomics (all those let/const, modules, async/await and what not etc) and unfortunately pile of bad decisions which cannot be undone because web has to work correctly and do not break constantly.

JavaScript really is a Scheme in disguise with a little bit of Smalltalk. Which really is good. If you don't like junk coming from {}+[] - don't use it, but I consider the lack of errors thrown to be a correct behaviour. Use TS or any other linter to control stuff.

As we can see, Clojure wasn't accepted widely despite the fact it also has first class functions and closures. In my opinion the answer is simple: people want to have syntax for stuff which we agreed is good. Using macros and ((())) is not what people want to do long term.
Quit your job!

Softskills.audio
It's all about derisking what you are selling (your labor and expertise).

It's been a few years, but here are a couple of tips:

* Start with a warm intro from someone you've worked with in the past. This lowers the risk for both parties. This is why I suggested reaching out to former co-workers; they know you and (hopefully) will vouch for you.

* Begin with a small project first. Again, this is about lowering risk. Is there a project you can do for a couple hundred bucks? Can you write a planning document, or do an analysis of the current infrastructure with a read-only account? Or a small enhancement/bugfix?

* Document your expertise in a way that others can find you. This could be code, gists, a blog (I have multiple :) ), articles in places like dzone or the stackoverflow blog, or podcasts. This is good for finding new clients, too.

* An entirely different option is to use a contracting company, where they find the work and take a cut (a large one, typically). This way the company has trust that you can leverage. It's been decades since I walked this path, so I don't know how available it is now.

One other thing: contracting is risky for both sides, not just for the client.

For the first project or two with a new client, don't ever bill more than you can afford to lose. I've never been stiffed 100%, but one time I had to pursue a client for months to get a 4 figure paycheck. Here's that story: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2650
I'm not sure I follow your example, because any telemetry event will always include the IP as it's required to establish a connection.
Obligatory link to https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets
You couldn’t be more wrong about what you are saying. Bitcoin has zero long term answers for what happens when the block reward isn’t enough to secure the blockchain in the future.

https://www.bis.org/publ/work765.pdf
> just trust feedback from user testing

One challenge I have run into is that certain kinds of accessibility accommodations may only be necessary for a tiny fraction of your user base who have a specific type of vision, motor, or auditory deficiency. Unless you specifically recruit and test with those users the issues may not be revealed by usability tests.
Fun read. I would love to read what if it's not text based, is it going to be different? Visual programming seems to suffer from composability and it's also bounded to be using human language as well, box with border is hard to comprehend, can get messy easily.

I mean, visual but text-like theme. It seems to be in sweat spot. Only fix some downside/limit of text.
It's a scam but sometimes it pays off.
Chinese missile went directly over the island near the capital of Taiwan:

- https://japan-forward.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JF-Grap...

Source:

- https://japan-forward.com/editorial-chinas-missile-tantrum-t...
Yes, we plan to open source as we come out of beta. It's similar to our iOS app/browser, which is already open source here: https://github.com/duckduckgo/ios
Presumably he means "the dominant strains become more virulent but less lethal, leaving them like colds and flu"
Around a decade ago, when Boston University was trying (successfully) to have its campus be the site of a BSL-4 lab, there were protests (articles, even outdoor demonstrations) -- over the risks of a lab leak of the world's nastiest pathogens, in an dense urban area.

In that dialogue, the public heard a lot about histories of safety incidents at other BSL-4 labs, which generally seemed due to negligence.

Today, given all the presumed awareness of lab leak risks, from the BU BSL-4 protests, and from the subsequent Covid pandemic-- I don't know why anyone at BU would risk modifying Covid without the utmost precautions, including at least using BSL-4 rather than BSL-3.
> Russia has the means to blow shit up.

With shells and missiles. Not with covert operations under NATO fleet's nose.
I have internal (happens just for me, in my head) bet that recent Postgres 15 won't be even benchmarked on FreeBSD by any meaningful vendor. By vendor here I refer to companies like Percona, 2ndQuadrant, EnterpriseDB, Greenplum and/or hosting vendors - like AWS/AZURE/GCP (like they may find out that on ARM servers FreeBSD + Postgres15 are a sweet couple) or some Postgres devs - not a random person on internet.

Lack of such benchmarking, will be indicator of "no one cares on that platform anymore".

Nginx can be other one "indicator" - Nginx started as FreeBSD focused product in company heavily focused on FreeBSD (I know couple of persons from there by that times), nowdays not even mentioning ARM64 in list of supported product

> FreeBSD 3 — 12 / i386; FreeBSD 5 — 12 / amd64; FreeBSD 11 / ppc; FreeBSD 12 / ppc64;

from [1] and [2]. Not a big deal for _now_ but, but - more and more ARM servers in major hostings, even Hetzner has 2 of them. Seems this train have been missed too.

Let's see will I win my bet or not.

[1] https://nginx.org/en/#tested_os_and_platforms
[2] https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/technical-specs/?_ga=2.23463900...
Both Russia and Ukraine.
Completely uneducated opinion, but probably not. By participating on Reddit's Herman Cain Award subreddit, one of the themes is that survivors from advanced infections don't die outright, but are left with lifetime illnesses. I can't help but think that these long haulers, who weren't in the best health to begin with, are going to survive over the next 5 years.
Hue is a surprisingly non-linear phenomenon.

The maximum saturation occurs at a different lightness value for each hue. Blue is most saturated when it is dark, and yellow is most saturated when it is light. It is for this reason that some people erroneously describe yellow as being a bright Colour.

To added even further perversity to the mix, there are fewer (perceivable) yellows than there are perceivable greens. Relative perceivable values of hues are readily apparent in the Munsell Colour space, shown here:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4b/43/84/4b438408b064533fc862...

Moral of the story? Colour is difficult.
> “‘Independent Voices’ are the voices of the past and present that create a better future,” said Keely Alexis. “I chose this [analogy] as my inspiration for the collaboration because it feels authentic to me but it also aligns with Firefox and the vision that we can make the world better, on the internet and beyond.”

Hooli is about people. Hooli is about innovative technology that makes a difference, transforming the world as we know it. Making the world a better place, through minimal message oriented transport layers.
How much do you want to bet the "general audience" does not care one bit about this and will not meaningfully move the (declining) DAU numbers?

Mozilla's problems are in its fundamentals, not its marketing.
the entire colorways branding reminds me so much of that Silicon Valley scene it's hilarious. That said the themes are pretty good though, in particular the matte versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtF_zpJc_w
Isn't this normal? I just tested it in Chrome appears like sessions are across private windows there as well.

So I guess its just an extra feature of Brave.
It's a dumb conspiracy theory about a rarely-used database that "went down" in September 2019 which was a smoking gun about how the Chinese knew about Covid. Except it turns out that it only came online in June 2019, it went down all the time from the view of the tracking website, was available into 2020, and has absolutely nothing useful to say about SarsCov2;

https://twitter.com/flodebarre/status/1577401140345507859

I'm certain that everyone who used this as a prominent 'datapoint' for the LL hypothesis will immediately reconsider and update their priors.
I couldn't explain it any better than this
Looks like you lack visibility on what's happening on a day-to-day basis. Try setting up a task tracking process, daily status meetings where everyone can look at the task board and report their progress. Set up a lightweight Kanban-like feature delivery process. This will give you tools to understand the development pace and some useful information for the release planning as well.
> Qutebrowser isnt independent if you care that google money is involved, it uses blink.

Did something change? Last I checked almost all funding for Firefox was from Google.
This I can very much understand. I agree that this would've been the way to at least partially settle this. But then people will say "What about all the hard work of the employees / teams at Microsoft/OpenAI? Should they not get a return on their investment of time & money?"

In that case, something like the capped profit model OpenAI has (but with less profits) could work. They decide "Okay after we've reached this amount of money for Copilot, we'll both profit and have enough money to sustain it as a service until the next technological breakthrough makes this obsolete"

Then just make it free for everyone forever.
Thanks for sharing.

Agree 100% btw.
To me the whole point of open source is selfless giving and sharing. You build something and release the source code in case it's useful for whatever purpose people might have: learning, understanding, contributing, forking, copying, etc. And companies might build on it, train models from it, use it internally, who knows. Great. Other companies can do the same and compete. So can other open source projects.

For some reason when a company benefits from your work instead of some other entity that's bad? Please explain.
Meta Forced to Sell Giphy After British Antitrust Order
It seems silly to measure short term success in an industry known for "notoriously cyclical" booms and busts. The size of the investment needed to create these manufacturing plants in the US, coupled with the complexity and time it takes to build them, combines perfectly for articles like this.

I can't think of a reason that on-shoring chip fabs would be a bad thing for the US - other than the vague threat of China retaliating. Cutting off foreign dependencies in high-tech industries would surely be beneficial in the long term.
Maybe later then :)
From the sound of it the OP really did go out of their way to try to talk this one through.
Of course communication is a two way street, but communication is basically the only job a manager really has at the end of the day. It is their primary responsibility and they should bear the brunt of the responsibility for any communication breakdowns. Sure devs can be hard to talk to. Managing people is fundamentally a hard job. That's why it pays well.
here you go: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/20200131183933/https://...

The original URL was https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/ . It seems the EC itself pulled this page, and the live page now redirects to the above page which seems to contain blog-style entries for every item, rather than just a list of hyperlinks to all articles.

But the original full list is still available via the wayback machine as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20160329163353/https://blogs.ec....

For three decades, the European Commission London Office’s ‘Euromyths’ initiative tried to shed light on the facts behind stories about the EU in the UK media [..] Those rebuttals are now digitalised and searchable on this archived site, alongside more recent material [..] We hope the site continues to be useful, at least as a historical record of how parts of the British media sometimes presented the EU and how the Commission responded.
> We'd probably share Occam's razor. There doesn't seem anything specifically human about any of these ideas.

Except the fact that humans are the only species that we know so far to have thought about them?
I don't get it, are you trying to imply that's not the case? Tacking inflation involves raising interest rates, which causes a pullback on the economy.
As long as it's FTPS and it works for the intents and purposes you use it for, what's wrong with using it?
I'm German too and at least here in Munich you still have to wear masks in lots of settings.

Public transport, doctors office, in my work office etc.

And the discussion around Oktoberfest was quite often in the media.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'no one cares about COVID anymore'.
> Xi['s] ... isolationist policies ... have killed China's economy.

The PRC's GDP was US$17.7 trillion nominal in 02021, the latest year for which we have numbers, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China. That makes it the world's second largest economy by nominal dollar value (after the US) and the largest by PPP. That's not just individual countries, either; it overtook the economy of the EU in nominal GDP in 02021 under Xi's leadership. The IMF's estimate for 02022 is US$20 trillion according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi....

This isn't just a matter of domestic numbers that can be fudged, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports says it exported US$3 trillion worth of goods in 02021, up from US$2.5 billion in 02020, making it the world's #1 exporter, with almost twice the exports of the US at #2, though by this measure the entire EU does still exceed PRC. (The EU is excluded from the list for not being a country.)

Nor is it just a question of adding together poverty-level earnings of 1.2 billion people. The PRC's per-capita GDP is US$20k PPP. Economically, the average Chinese person is doing fine, although they're experiencing a lot of unfortunate things outside the economic sphere.

China's economy is experiencing major difficulties (Evergrande, zero-COVID lockdowns) but it is far from being "killed" or a "return to Mao-style communism", by which I charitably assume you mean 01970s-style stagnation and not, for example, the largest famine in human history.

You should take a long hard look at where you're getting your information from and how you decide what information is trustworthy.
from your wording you are still supportive of caging people (just doing it better) so I'm not sure why you would paint my response as absurdly off base. you're like the people who say that crony capitalism is fixable you just need to solve the cronyism and return capitalism to some purer and equitable form that never existed
We (the HOA) tried to do this in a townhouse complex (where I own one unit) in Mountain View. The story went similarly, except the last step. Instead of telling us that we’ll need to relocate meters, the utility told us that they consider our neighborhood “complete” and they will not be running a thicker line to our buildings to allow for the now-code-required 125A panels. So thanks to their laziness, we can never ever do any electrical work in any unit, since getting permits requires upgrades to current code, and the electrical company won’t do their part no matter what, and without their part, compliance with current code is impossible.
> Software is an immature industry ... know that and make tough decisions on where you spend your time both on the job and outside the office.

Yeah no. It's unrealistic and unhealthy to expect programmers to be extremely passionate about their craft and have no interest in anything else outside of work. I know people like that, they do well and earn good salaries, but the rest of us 90% can happily work a 40 hour job and then do non-computer things in our free time.
I also started my career in web development, and also found it became very mechanical after a while.

Personally, I've found game engine and graphics programming to fill this void. It's somewhat tricky to learn, but if you're interested I'd check out Handmade Hero to start.

The job market for engine programmers isn't fantastic, especially if you want to work remotely, but there are definitely jobs out there, and very few people capable of filling the roles.
This is mostly true for IC roles. Politics of the company are learned and are increasingly important beyond that point. People generally need to learn how to influence and how to whip votes for certain objectives to become a priority or receive budget dollars. Being smart might help but isn’t always a solution but having a mentor in the process or having been coached through similar activities can be a big help. They also generally need to learn how to lead/grow/manage a team of IC's and eventually team of managers as part of their responsibilities. Even smart people are usually born without that ability. Some people have a head start if they have taken leadership roles elsewhere in their life. YMMV but this is applies to most corporate cultures that I have experienced over my career.
Also: Alpinism is for romantics; engineers seige-climb. Incrementalism is everything. Figure out how to break it down into smaller, safer parts. Big-banging that migration is the almost certain path to failure.
Exactly, for example Ebola has a mortality rate of around 50% but has only killed around 11 thousand people, SARS-CoV2 has less than 1% can has killed 20 million or more. Wild viruses like SARS1 and MERS are poorly adapted towards humans when the spillover happened making it possible to be contained. But SARS2 a which is a Sarbecovirus a family of gastrointestinal viruses some how was able to bind towards human airways with a binding affinity 20 times that for humans than for bats, all while leaving no traceable trail of mutations that researchers could trace back to the intermediate host.

For context with SARS1 and MERS researchers were able to find the spill over animal within a few months. But after 3+ years we have yet to find an intermediate animal host. Also before anyone says "It took years to find the source for SARS1", but that is for the original bat virus, the intermediate animal where the cross over to humans happened was found within months. Additionally SARS1 and MERS had a rapid period of mutations as it adapted towards humans which allowed researchers to trace back to the source.
Measurement just means some interaction. I find it impossible to believe that there are objects, somewhere, that are not interacting with some other object. Or that objects manifest physical properties only at the instant that they interact.
The identity crisis at The New York Times
This yields just a list of terms, not the relationships between them.
Your counterexample would need to be a positive instance, not “other bad things also happen” and that evidence would also need to be strong! Chemotherapy has many terrible side effects but it helps kill cancer! With high certainty!

You wouldn’t subject people to chemotherapy if you lacked any evidence that it was helpful.
Game theory could boost access to EV charging stations
Often, what is good for some is bad for others (and vice versa). Justice would be way too relative (subjective) outside law, so as to be devoid of any meaning, actually.
Whether natural or escaping from a lab, I fully expect a mass casualty disease in my lifetime. We saw what a shitshow covid was, and it wasn't even that bad.

Fast global travel is spreading the endemic ranges of many diseases and make it essentially impossible to stop many diseases depending on the traits of the disease.

A potential lab leak of many types of diseases is more of a threat and will likely kill more people than a limited nuclear deployment. At least with the nuclear issue someone has to push the button. With the lab leak it's almost a certainty that equipment will fail in some unprecedented way, or someone will absent-mindedly violate protocol. It's a lot harder to keep track of a microbe than a warhead.
I haven't ranked anything, so I'm not sure why you're responding with a ranking. I just said modded bikes and cars are bad, and that sirens in the UK are extremely loud and piercing.

The siren issue is real anywhere, at least in London. It affects me wherever I happen to be, which is not always where I live.
Because a company of Microsoft's magnitude will build a walled garden around their ecosystem over time? Haven't we seen this effect in play like a million times?
> large event venues like congress centers tend to be fully booked by then

Isn't that offset by university summer holidays, providing lots of idle lecture halls and student accommodation?