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Most probably you deeply don’t care about the company’s mission in general. You just enjoy some specific activities, being a professional.

The more fellow programmers i see, the more im convinced it’s not enough for such a demanding job.

You have to personally care to some degree about your users, about the general problem you’re solving, you need to feel meaning in what you do.

Then oncalls etc also start show some meaning and value to the bigger picture.

Without it — you ll face plenty of energy sinks in any discipline.
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> institutions are controlled by them
Citation very much needed. Have you actually looked at who occupies the high level executive positions at Ivy league tier universities? It's not predominantly WASPs.
I heard about the story from the Guy Kewney side of this. Apparently the BBC had two areas for visitors and the assistant went to the wrong one and asked for "Guy".

Sadly Guy passed a few years ago his blog https://hunkymouse.livejournal.com/ goes through his fight against cancer.

He was one of those folks who I'd bump into occasionally at London tech events and I still miss him.
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>the workers are functionally illiterate

This is a really bigoted comment that generalizes a whole state.
If it would be racist for any random country, eg. 'Mexico' or 'Nigeria', why is it ok for an American state?

(no, I'm not from Alabama).
Having just spent the better part of the last year building a service that deploys to multiple cloud providers, this choice makes sense (or at the very least, I can understand the root why). Beyond cost concerns, there's a staggering amount of complexity and low-quality UX/DX around this stuff that I don't see changing or improving any time soon (if ever).

Once I got into the thick of it, I actually started to have the thought "what would it look like to just run co-located boxes like the old days or do this on prem?" The answer was of course "waaaay simpler."

While I don't think we'll see an industry-wide shift back in this direction, I do see it happening on a non-trivial scale. Especially as things like economic instability and censorship wax and wane and wax in the coming decades.
Yup. I believe this is called "Front-Loading".

Hype the new tech, make an absurdly estimates on cost and time, and ensure as many congressional districts have sub-contracts as possible.

Preferably start production before testing is completed, so there will be more $$ to refit the old models.
> Firefox alone was vulnerable to the Web Workers form of the attack (a surprising finding given that Tor Browser uses the same Gecko engine).

Are Web Workers enabled by default in the Tor browser bundle, and if so, what about the 'safest' setting?
Right now, you are complaining about how nobody would complain.
Remember to encrypt your backups when uploading to the cloud.

Makes sharing files less convenient however.
You can't store Kanye West interview in your Gdrive for violation of hate speech
The keyboard's firmware is very flexible- you can remap all of the keys, and also do things like "mod tap" or "layer tap"- for example, when I tap the backspace key (one of the thumb buttons), it sends a backspace. If I hold the key down, it puts they keyboard into a layout where I can more easily access the symbols used commonly in programming. I have the delete key (which is next to it in the thumb cluster) act as an extra Ctrl key when held down.

https://zmk.dev/docs/behaviors/hold-tap
From the original reuters report (linked from the article):

> The girl, who turns 14 this month, and her two brothers, aged 12 and 15, all worked at the plant earlier this year and weren't going to school, according to people familiar with their employment. Their father, Pedro Tzi, confirmed these people's account in an interview with Reuters.

[...]

> Pedro Tzi's children, who have now enrolled for the upcoming school term, were among a larger cohort of underage workers who found jobs at the Hyundai-owned supplier over the past few years, according to interviews with a dozen former and current plant employees and labor recruiters.

> Several of these minors, they said, have foregone schooling in order to work long shifts at the plant,
Sadly the moose pop in Maine has declined by like 70% or something due to the proliferation of winter tick
There's enough keys (including ones that aren't even really mapped) on the Advantage 360 Pro that you could use as a dedicated f5 key.
Personally I dislike using contact forms. If the email address is shown I’ll just use that. Some people say you’ll get spammed that way but that hasn’t been my experience. These days unless a client specifically requests a form I will use a simple mailto: link and avoid the hassle.
Well duh. SATs maybe useless and completely unrepresentative of real world application. But they are just that - standardized. You know 10 years in advance what you are prepping for as opposed to "oh well I am this background so doing this set of activities optimizes my college application because the application reviewer is so totally allowed to bring in their own biases".
Write barriers are a single local conditional on the fast path, if I’m not mistaken. Also, since a JIT compiler is in action, it may have a much wider range than every object interaction. It’s basically free on modern computers with branch prediction.

ZGC (the low-lat GC) does employ read barriers though which will decrease throughput considerably, but latency and throughput are almost universally opposites of each other.
It seems possible to me that people of a less analytic personality type can improve learning using the cue, "imagine you wanted to socially impress a particular person, an academic". The same way a weightlifter who doesn't study the anatomy of external hip rotation can get good results with "screw your feet into the floor", or GPT-3 from "Let's think step by step". It leverages instinct to do what isn't understood consciously. I agree you're going to need originality to really excel.
yup theyre along the whole highway, the article was a little out of date,though the moose isnt yours if its a road kill, its state property [the state claims ownership of moose but shirks stewardship] and its ?donated? in someway to food security solutions [giveaways to people who have insecure/no food supply]

its an offence to just take roadkill moose. its also an offence to allow it to spoil by not reporting it.
Car found buried at an Atherton CA home once owned by a man convicted of murder
I truly feel that people who think that property prices are going to go up forever are in for a shock.

In many countries, the population has already began to stabilize or decrease. Look at Japan for an example of what is in store for many other countries. There is just not enough people being born to drive the sort of demand required to keep property prices increasing forever.

Maybe innovation in housing drives some type of infinite growth picture, where houses keep getting better so whoever is left on earth just keeps paying more for them, but I'm not sure if that's a reality.

There might be a large influx of immigrants to fill apartments thanks for climate refugees, but they're (very sadly) not going to be coming to NYC with a bunch of money?

Are property price slumps sad for people? Yes, are they the end of civilization? I don't think so.
> when you search on these terms the main engines (all run by cloud service providers) return poor results not congruent with the scale of the phenomenon.

A dubious conspiracy theory, frankly.
Huntsville had the highest per capita Ph.D for a while due to operation paperclip.
> Handling everything from server procurement to FTPing the files to the server and even server maintenance. When I got back, this was "a big no-no" and mostly frowned upon. Everything was deployed by "git push" (fancy FTP?),

While I do look back with nostalgia on the days of editing files in Notepad++, FTPing them to a live server, then quickly switching to my browser to refresh the page and make sure it works...

Those days are in the past for a reason. No, git is not "fancy FTP". Yes, version control really does add much-needed structure to collaborative projects and change tracking.

You can still run a small business web server on a colocated server and FTP files to it if you want. You just won't find any modern engineers who want to touch that with a 10ft pole. The world has moved forward since then, and for good reason.
Could you share some resources on this?
Scott is very smart, but he's never worked for a large enterprise. The book has been written for the Clueless who are... clueless about their situation. They work hard, try to meet their KPIs, reach their annual goals, fill their DEI quotas, but somehow people who are worse at meeting these formal targets get promoted ahead of them.
Precisely. I've found that people from Alabama are actually more literate and intelligent than your most common worker from a blue state, it just depends on which aspects of life you find more important.
A million dollar per year RDS bill buys you, list price, a multi-AZ deployment with 1024 state-of-the-art CPUs and 5TiB of memory per replica, which strikes me as much more than a mere tens of thousands of email accounts would ever need.
It tests in grammatically correct English. Libraries are free. The internet exists. You can't expect a college to cover basic English writing that should have been learned over a lifetime.
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There are several proven cryptocurrencies with negligible setup costs and fees. For example, I have over 200,000 microtransactions on Algorand on my account. The cost is less than 1/10th of a penny each.

And yeah, we should not rely on exchanges because it does defeat the purpose.
That's determined by the coefficient of friction between the load and the surface. A coefficient of 1 means the force to drag is equal to the normal force (ie, the dead lift). Most things (including moose fur on soil) have a coefficient < 1, but it's not hard to engineer combinations > 1, such as race tires on asphalt.
"Critics have claimed it's exaggerated". Okay. You'll note that the only citation to that claim is a political science professor in a political science journal who's asserting that las Casas exaggerated in order to establish a rationale for the Spanish crown to intervene. Even if true? How fucked up did it have to be on-the-ground to make that seem like the right tactic?

Even if I steelman this attempt at an argument to its fullest, "exaggerated" doesn't mean "didn't happen"--if you go actually read the article that Wikipedia page cites, von Vacano does not claim that it's false--and we have other contemporary accounts of the Spanish acts of genocide on Hispaniola alone.

Somewhere in the mid hundreds-of-thousands to a million Taino, depending on which ends of the estimate make sense to you, lived on Hispaniola when the Spanish showed up.

By 1650, they were gone.

I wonder what happened? Maybe it was ghosts.
Ask HN: Computer-assisted prosthetic/workflow for math?
Hi, I often come up with fragments of algorithm ideas in my head. I want a tool to enhance the breadth/depth of material I can get out of one unit of study effort. Is there any tool out there that can make use of my sketching process to give me contextually relevant information?

I can jot the ideas down on a whiteboard, or on my iPad. Very much of it is sketches of the transformations I'm thinking of. I can barely start reasoning about things otherwise (ie. at a linguistic-syntactic level) before getting good pictures. Once I've got the pictures, I can tackle the algebra, or the code, but it all starts with the pictures.

btw these things would be awesome if they existed..:

- sketch -> sketch search: context-appropriate diagram reverse-image search: the same way that The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) helps mathematicians discover surprising links between numbers, is there a good way to search for related diagrams of things, just based on the 'meta-math', rather than the math itself? - note: this reminds me a lot of Hoogle, in a way

- sketch -> lemma/theorem search: could you combine sketch parsing + e.g. Lean's mathlib library of theorems, to show me things I might find useful, before I have even made the connection myself?
That's what I thought I was saying.
I do, thanks :)
From UK and spend a lot of time across the continent. Never get non iced water anywhere.
The Advantage360 feels like Kinesis' answer to the DIY Dactyl keyboard — which has a Kinesis-like layout, but which you would have to download, 3D-print, build and solder yourself. Being open-source (parametric SCAD), there are also a bunch of derived designs out there.

<https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard>

There is a PCB kit for the Dactyl to reduce the amount of handwiring:

<https://bastardkb.com/product/flexible-pcb/>
Yeah this is just a browser setting - this complaint sounds in bad faith coming from someone who apparently knows about all the other aspects of using certs?
Bullshit. My moral standards place me under no obligation to accept moral standards of the past. Quite the opposite, in many cases.

> Due to a lack of scientific context

Explaining is one thing. Excusing is another.
My understanding with handwriting is that, while there's theoretically a "correct" way to hold a pen that I vaguely remember learning in school, in practice there's actually a lot of perfectly fine ways hold a pen that will work completely fine. Yes, you probably will struggle if you're grasping it in your fist, but whether the pen rates on your index, second, or third finger is pretty irrelevant overall.

I assume that the same applies to typing - there are bad ways to type, definitely, but if you can broadly use all of your fingers while typing, then you shouldn't run into issues in most practical situations, and my impression is that most people who type a lot will quite naturally figure that out. I, for example, don't have particularly good form for leaving my fingers on the right home row keys, but I can easily hit 100 wpm if I know what I'm writing, and I don't ever need to go much faster than that.

The flip side is, of course, that the people who _do_ go faster tend to use a different method entirely - either shorthand for paper-and-pen note taking, or stenography with a specific keyboard for typed notes.
If I need to share something "sensitive" an encrypted 7zip file with the password provided out-of-band is usually the simplest solution.
It's mostly a matter of discipline to not run back to what you're comfortable with to get used to unusual layouts. They will become second nature to you if you use them long enough.

I am not suggesting that you must do this, mind you. Just that you almost certainly could get used to it if you forced yourself to. The benefits of doing so may not be worthwhile, though.
I think lots of perfectly good companies have hiring people who might make this kind of mistake. But I'm also concerned it would doom an open source project, as contributors/users would have more trouble finding it.
That's right! It's a management problem through and through. Always has been.
I largely agree, but setting up mail server these days is way, way, way more complex than 10 years ago. It’s not people losing skills, it’s technology itself becoming overly complex.
> I walked home from school. I can't recall my parents ever picking me up.

In the United States in the 2020s being able to walk yourself to and from school without A) having your life in grave danger from motor vehicle traffic and B) having someone call CPS or the police on your parents is an incredible luxury.

The neighborhood where I grew up was built in the early 90s and its elementary school and middle school are on the opposite side of an eight lane highway that has no crosswalks or sidewalks (on the school side) for at least a quarter mile. The town believes so strongly that no one should walk or bike to school that they zoned the school and built out the roads such that attempting to do so would sooner or later result in certain death.
Not to mention, trivially debunked by typing the term into a search engine: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cloud+repatriation%22&oq=...

I know HN comments bias heavily toward anti-cloud, but the suggestion that all of the search engines are conspiring together to bury some massive underground anti-cloud movement (that conveniently confirms anti-cloud beliefs but is unfortunately just hidden by evil search engines) is laughable.
They haven't released their first in-house laptop yet. Some of their new laptops are reportedly quite good, but they're still rebadged Clevos with custom UEFIs and other firmware mods.
So OP (of the reddit post) hasn't shown the offending material in question and the source of this post is from the Ben Shapiro subreddit? I'm going to need a bit more proof than that.
I used to feel the same. So when I was looking for some relief and an ergonomic layout, I picked the X-Bows. It has fn keys and was a nice introduction into the non-standard layouts. It made a big difference for me.

Then I picked up a keyboardio atreus. It took me a few weeks to get comfortable with it. But now using layers feels natural- I don’t have to leave the home row!

Having an F5 foot pedal would be fun…
You probably get tired if you jump too much, so instead of increasing the height by 1cm, it's probably better to skip most of them.
> No, git is not "fancy FTP"

I was specifically referencing an old fad (might still be a thing but I haven't run into it in years) where production is a remote and a dev pushes their main branch to it to deploy. Yes, version control is amazing and it was something I used a bunch before my hiatus, but back then, it was usually SVN IIRC.
You just admitted it’s a failing strategy in the last half of your “incorrect” retort.

A solution to global CO2 emissions has to be effective globally or it has failed. The only thing it has accomplished is a slight slowing of the global increase. That is complete, abject failure.
Haven't we heard this one before? https://web.archive.org/web/20091230061832/https://www.indep...
My naive sense of things is compared to 10 years ago, now that we have k8s and can more easily deploy what we want in arbitrary environments, the cloud proposition becomes more about on-demand, elastic compute, and less about specific services. But that also because of k8s, we can also just have static set of compute and solve 80% of the problem with whatever kind of service we need.
> Threads is the most relentlessly grim and bleak thing I've ever seen. It's like they thought "let's make this get bleaker and bleaker until people have just had enough".

The reality would have probably been worse.
There are exactly three main things ergonomic keyboards need in order to be correctly ergonomic:

1) Split (so the distance is adjustable for your body, depending on your shoulder width)

2) Two axes of adjustable tilt (sides tented down, far side angled down)

3) Palm rests for when not typing

It's shocking to me how many ergonomic keyboards get the first two wrong -- they're not split, and/or the axes aren't adjustable at all or only one is.

This keyboard is split (yay!) but appears to be adjustable only along one axis (boo).
> Until someone can demonstrate that this is an actual problem, I will believe it to be a fake problem

If a payment processor suspects money laundering, it's illegal for them to tell the business that. Under anti-money-laundering legislation, this is considered a crime called "tipping off": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470685280.ch...

(Disclaimer: Used to work at Stripe, but not on this particular area. Not an expert on either the law or Stripe's policies.)
Government only cares about crime against wealthy property owners.
>we ought to respect minors enough to allow them secure and encrypted communications with one another, without the prying eyes of bigoted parents

”bigoted parents”? Who are you refering to, FSF?

It’s the parents’ right to raise their children to adhere to any religious beliefs or ideologies, even those you do not agree with! Regardless, it’s not your job to dictate how parents should raise their children.

Although a relationship of trust and respect of privacy should be established between a parent and their child, this should not be taken to an extreme. The internet can be quite wild, it’s neglectful to let your child consume whatever content they come across and speak to whomever they like. It’s a parent’s job to set healthy limits to these things. This does involve keeping a healthy culture of openness in the home, which contradicts the notion of privacy (from their “bigoted parents”) that you’re advocating children should have.

I am a privacy advocate myself, and am against mass-surveillance by the state. Here is the problem though: pedophiles and groomers do exist. The way we mitigate this problem is not by giving the tyrants more power, it’s by empowering parents by providing them with the tools to limit exposure to these threats. This gives power to the (bigoted lol) parents to filter out the bad and keep as much good as possible.

The companies that are bribing tyrants to partake in the surveillance system should have their leadership thrown in prison. The companies that provide solutions for us to protect our children should be rewarded and praised.
Not having encrypted drives is some kind of misfeature nowadays, especially for mobile devices.

Fallbacks can be key escrow (i.e. put a printout or a physical key into a sealed envelope and deposit it at a family member, friend, or notary), and backups, encrypted with a different (or more than one) key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup for example allows the use of multiple keys, so a backup could use the same (primary) key as your drive and some secondary key(s) to access the backup if the primary key is lost somehow. As I mentioned in another comment here, keys should have been physical features for a long time, but hardware vendors would had to standardize on a general implementation and as we know, they all like to "standardize" on exactly their way of doing things.
Another guess is that there was a broad political directive from the administration, which is enforced by the private monopoly. My guess is as good as yours.
The HN community 1) likes building and hacking, and 2) has nostalgia for old technology. This makes them feel a lot of affinity toward "doing things themselves" -- server infrastructure, running desktop linux, avoiding dependencies in their code.

The reality, though, is that the steady march of progress encourages us to outsource what we can to people who are better at the thing that is auxiliary to what we do. I don't grow food because I'm bad at growing. I don't repair my car because I'm bad at auto repair.

I do build software, and my company builds a very specific type of software to solve very specific problems. I'm happy to focus on that, because that's how we make money. Other people are much better at building infrastructure than I am, and so I let them do it for me. If there comes a time when the cloud offerings are either worse than what I can build or too expensive, then I trust someone else will come along and fill the gap in the market before it becomes worthwhile for me to do it.