skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an outdated viewpoint. 10 years ago, outsourcing to India involved a lot of tradeoffs that usually ended poorly. But Bangalore has become a first-world city in some ways, with a middle class that was educated in Western universities or viably-equivalent Indian universities.

Before the pandemic, I worked with a guy (in person) who was educated at an Indian university, who was as good a developer as any of the American intermediate developers I've worked with, including fluency in English. The rise of remote work has further enabled this sub-economy to flourish: since I've gone full-remote myself, I've worked with a few Indian developers and learned a lot from them: they're not worse developers than me (I'm a senior full-stack developer with enough experience to predate the existence of "full-stack developers"--much of my experience with Fortune 500 companies). There's even enough of an economy in Bangalore that one of my coworkers left for a pay raise to work at a company based in Bangalore.

There are still downsides, primarily time zones. And if you are looking to save money, it's not going to really work out that way: you can still hire chop-shop Indian devs for 20% of what you'd pay a Western dev, but Indian devs who are equivalent to Western devs will require Western pay (minus at most 20-30% to account for the time zone issue, but you'll pay that out in management costs due to the time zone issue).

I'll also add that, coming from nonprofits, some people viewed hiring from India as a way to provide "aid" to the poor in India, but it doesn't really play out that way: most of the folks who are educated enough to work Western jobs, obtained that education because they are from the upper castes with generational wealth.
"The Computing Machines in the Future" (1985)
http://cse.unl.edu/~seth/434/Web%20Links%20and%20Docs/Feynma...

In section 3, Reducing the Size, he speculates having a billion transistors in a computer, then immediately qualifies his statement.

That was almost thirty years ago.
Well geez, really glad that killing a few students defused that series of demonstrations!

Err, wait, it didn't accomplish that at all.
Composing Music in High Altitudes
Who is Elul?
I also agree with you for what it's worth. Even it is somewhat possible, it should be WAY more open and free. Like SSL it's not a luxury competitve edge, but basic modern day infrastructure
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What battery waste? Batteries are highly recyclable.
oh, yes! i remember those angry troll comments on HN as well. as if flattening all UI was the only thing that mattered and everything else was skeuomorphism.

no sweetie, not everything needs to be a pictogram. and everything you see or use online is skeuomorphism off of something in the physical world at some level. yeah, that flat design also.

Edit: Added "at some level" after helpful comments below.
If you rely on caricature to assess social reality, you will find ample confirmation for your beliefs.

Upon reflection, you might possibly wonder, though, why many Chinese, including a number of my friends and colleagues in Beijing, Hangzhou, Kunming, and Hong Kong deeply envy Americans for the 2nd amendment and wish they had access to firearms to address issues in their lives.

As a antidote to parochialism, consider living abroad for decades and reading news outside the English-language bubble.
Whose lives are you talking about? This seems to be a generalization based on a small subset of humanity or something.
Yup. There’s a reason why skeuomorphism died with Steve Jobs.
My bad. I misread the initial interaction.
You could probably use Sigstore[1] for this: it's a free, publicly run CA and transparency log that ties signatures to OIDC identities, meaning that verifying a signature doesn't require maintaining a long-term keychain -- you can simply ask whether the input was signed with the same email identity that mailed it.

The project is currently more focused on software signing, but it's generic over any input under the hood. The bigger challenge here would probably be mucking with whatever signature envelope PDFs use, and ensuring that existing PDF verification tooling can consume Sigstore signatures.

FD: I'm involved in the Sigstore project.

[1]: https://www.sigstore.dev/
Electric cars are great and all, but there's a few things that keep me from buying one (so far).

First, there's the price. I know that some countries subsidize the purchase of an EV but without such support, electric cars are still targetting the upper end of the market when compared to traditional cars of the same size and with comparable features. Added to this is a latent feeling of mine that an electric car might lose value even faster than traditional cars already do. I mean, we all know from experience with battery powered devices (of the hand-held kind), how batteries deteriorate over time, and I think this impression is inevitably associated with electric cars, too, whether it's actually relevant in practice or not.

Second, but perhaps equally important, is that I currenly live in Europe. And unlike what you may be used to from suburban North America, I neither have a driveway here nor does my house come with an underground parking garage for its tenants. I park on the road. Sometimes quite a distance away from my house. So, charging over night is out of the question - which means that the only option for charging would be at the equivalence of a traditional gas station. Except, short of any super charger infrastructure in my vicinity, I have a hard time imagining spending 30 minutes every time the car runs empty. I have a larger family, and although 30 minutes might not seem much to you, it's definitely a considerable amount of time to me.

I realize there are quite a bit of advantages to EVs, and I would really love to enjoy them. But I just feel that these two points alone are sort of a deal breaker at the moment. I hope things are going to get better, though.
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So why not "Don't do it at all" for accessing the content if you do not want to pay for it? You feel entitled to receive it on your terms, but other people are not allowed to only offer something on their terms?
I know this limits job opportunities, but a few years ago I started pre-screening the interview process. I ask specifically if the interview will be the whiteboard-type. If the answer is yes, I politely refuse the interview and tell them that I don't participate in whiteboard interviews. This is all done tactfully of course, but I refuse at this point in my career to be part of the tech hazing rituals. I have many other things I enjoy doing, rather than spending 6 months on Leetcode to ultimately make someone feel good about their previously worked out binary tree algorithm.

This has eliminated 90% of the stress involved in job searching, and I'm confident that I can get an offer at basically every interview I get into.

I'm not going to get a position at Amazon or a SF company, but after seeing what friends have gone through I have no interest anyway. I also make coastal money living in the Midwest, which was achieved by the exact method I outlined above.

Now if I was in a desperate situation I would probably be forced to go through with these whiteboard interviews, which would suck - you do what you have to do though. However, I wish more engineers would refuse whiteboard interviews. If more job seekers did this I feel like we could change the industry, but the whiteboard philosophy is so widespread that it's an uphill battle.
This is just a PR move with the sole aim of achieving more votes. Considerations such as whether this is fair towards other Americans in Russia, whether this makes the world more safe, whether she actually had the drugs on her, have been laughed out of the room.

If getting Paul Wheelan out was more popular, Griner would be rotting in Russia instead of Wheelan. USA has given up a war criminal for a very very stupid stupid mistake of someone who is clueless about how the world is out there.
I second the SoundSticks, my gen2 are still rocking over 10 years later.
It depends on what you mean by getting some of that pie. Do you want to refer engineers and get a cut of the referral fee or do you want to start a better tech recruitment company?
It's not a stretch, and it fits the definition Twitter provided. You wouldn't be able to find the tweet unless I'd linked it. It's shadow detached from the parent.

Personally I prefer the term shadow moderation.
Regardless, Brian is right in this case.
It's unfortunate as Firefox used to have excellent MHTML support (which similarly achieves an all-in-one file) via addons, particularly the feature-rich UnMHT. While Chromium and its derivatives support MHTML saving natively (and in the past Opera Presto and IE).

If they brought back MHTML saving support it'd be a great win.
For what it's worth - this is the same colloquial language I would use with close coworkers when discussing topics.

None of the cursing is directed at the person, but the topic under discussion. At no point have I cursed at him, or even been snarky to him. I have used emphatic language outside of a formal setting.

Personally - the existence of a curse word alone is not enough to invalidate an argument.

And in this case - it reflects my true opinion on the topic: It's bullshit to blame the user here, when the tech exists precisely to allow more accurate determinations of cause. It literally exists to prevent EXACTLY the sort of grey area the commenter above me seems to take for granted. I absolutely should be able to allow an oauth app to interact with a service and not be held accountable for malicious actions of that app if the actions are the result of abuse by the app and not my intent.

Otherwise why fucking bother with the rigmarole of the oauth app registration in the first place? Just hand the user a personal access token and let them plug it in where ever they'd like if you're going to ban them anyways...
> even when they explicitly tell you the operation entails irreversible loss of data and have you manually retype the repository name.

This is proof that inattentiveness is something developers should account for. Otherwise, GH could just have easily slapped a modal that said "Are you sure?"
In either case, the actual information on whether it is painless is immaterial to the choice. The only thing that can factor into an agent's decision is the information that he learns about the suicide agent, and the agency has a lot of control over that information.
the 5k EV that can go 50 miles exists and is called an E-bike :)
> When I see std::string_view, nothing tells me that this may lead to memory corruption because the underlying storage may go away at any time

That's not true. The word "view" quite explicitly tells you that it's a view... into something else, whose existence is generally independent of you (just like in real life!). If anything, it's clearer than an asterisk.

> (and the compiler will happily let this happen).

Just like with pointers and iterators. There's no difference here.

> When I see a raw pointer in C or C++ code I know automatically that gotchas are involved and I need to be extra careful.

You "know" this for iterators too. There's no reason why you can't "know" it for views too. It's not like they're introducing a new ownership concept here - these are just bounded versions of iterators and pointers.
A nice guide, but there's a problem with the responsiveness queries in my opinion.

If you set your breakpoints at the boundaries of common resolutions (768, 1024, 1280, etc) you'll find that they're wrong in weird circumstances. Setting your 'tablet' query to 'min-width: 768px' because that works on an iPad 2 will fail on a Samsung Galaxy Tab running Chrome or an Amazon Fire 8 HD running Silk. It's far better to put the query near the middle of two resolutions eg 900px instead. Media queries should be generalized to cover the layout for devices up to that point, not specific to approximate real world devices. It makes life far simpler in the long run.

Also, there are a lot more things you can query for: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queri...
> I've tried to stay mostly ignorant about the war for my own health - what has been released or talked about that makes people think Putin will launch nukes and destroy a bunch of land and cause untold death and destruction to numerous countries not involved in the conflict?

Most of the military analysts I have read have essentially dismissed the idea that Russia was planning to use nuclear weapons--there's been no force posture changes that would precede imminent use of nukes. The worry instead tends to come from pundits and politicians, and are probably driven more by a desire to support (or not) Ukraine.

The biggest concern is that Russia has consistently threatened nuclear responses to military incursions of its territory (which is not unusual, all nuclear states do this), but the territory that is included in this nuclear threshold is... unclear. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk in September, but essentially nobody recognizes those annexations. Immediately after the annexation, Putin did another round of reiterating nuclear threats. Note that Russia did not control much of Zaporizhzhia (including its largest city and administrative center), and Russia lost control of much of Kherson last month--if you took Russia's claims extremely literally, Ukraine was already in a position to trigger nuclear threshold response.

Realistically, no one believes that Putin will use nukes in response to military failure in Ukrainian territory, with the possible exception of Crimea. The annexation may have been intended to try to extend the strategic ambiguity of nuclear response that exists right now for Crimea to the rest of Russian-controlled Ukraine, but it probably had the opposite effect (which is to say, people find nuclear response to a Crimean incursion less likely as a result of the annexation). My sense is that a lot of these messages are directed towards trying to get the West to force Ukraine to the negotiating table and ratify the status quo in lieu of being able to achieve military victory.
I did not see anything at all in this study that said either of those things.

It says "volatile pay is stressful in a bad way" but makes no claim about stress as a whole?
fines escalate even further, when one pretends theyve stopped, but actually found a way to hide it
That's a neat idea, you see the Google GPT and Chat GPT being knowledge OSes in general which we interact and build on. Does your app work on google gpt and how do you port it to chat gpt etc...
> IRC has died

Just like Bitcoin is dead I guess :)

IRC lives on, I frequent many IRC channels, most of them on Libera.chat nowadays. Plenty of interesting people to talk about.
The docs of Go 1.20's arenas experiment feature
Biden Seeks Fossil Fuel-Free Federal Buildings in Hit to Gas
What sort of workloads were faster for you?
400-500 might be closer to accurate. 200-300 years ago was deep into the Enlightenment and well past the Scientific Revolution. Witch trials were already a fringe and rare thing by the 1600s.
A lot of those batteries are going to find a second use in home powerbanks. They remain useful in that scenario (where remaining power-to-weight ratio matters less) much longer than in vehicles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNbsiZcwGSY

(I also suspect a significant portion of the "what about EV externalities?!" concern got seeded by the oil industry.)
Thank you for pointing this out, I never realized just how many of my comments had been removed in this way! Pretty freaky considering how many of them were simply just citations / sources for things. I was honestly under the impression that my 10yo account never had a comment removed until now.

I use reveddit a lot on threads but never thought to use it on my own account. Thank you for making such a useful tool!
>Not so sure about this. That a handful of aggressive and hungry Russo-Warlords with Nukes is any improvement over Putin.

They will fight between them with their remaining soviet weapons, since they are not competent to fight any large country. Maybe some of those would actually become a democracy.
You're kind of missing the point. All performance tests are relative to the expected load and infrastructure design to serve that load. No, it's not Twitter because it wasn't a public facing web app. The point being that in an infra designed to serve 200 concurrent in an enterprise scenario, Neo4j could have served multiples of that for the specified infra OR could have been deployed on smaller infra. We found it quite efficient and easy to tune.
High blood pressure is bad.
To me, the title was confusing, it sounded like it was about how Uber failed to respond in real time to emergency calls.

If I could, I would change the "When" to "After" despite HN guidelines to the contrary.
Looking at US vs China, and situations like this.. more and more I think the function of democracy is not so much to install good leaders, but to uninstall bad leaders more rapidly.

No democracy could have maintained Xi's zero-covid policy for nearly 3 years.
Ah, I see. Yeah. Undoing decades of malinvestment at the lowest levels of infrastructure is going to have some sharp edges.
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Thanks for your perspective - I have a couple questions since it is definitely a program unique to each child

(1) Was it an accredited Montesorri school? There is a wide range of quality within the Montesorri programs and the quality of the teachers is a real difference marker (in terms of them helping guide childrens desire to learn).

(2) What is your comparative benchmark (ie how do you know you would have done better at another school?) and what is your metric for success (how you performed for tests at school or how you developed as a human? Do you find you have a natural curiosity in the world/learn?)

(3) What type of school did you transition into and at what age?
Yep, they're definitely not a silver bullet for every use case. Cities have started recognizing the limits to electrification for people with cars and without dedicated parking and have began installing charging infrastructure street-side though, so that's one possible way forward.

https://trojan.energy/products/hub
Particulate emissions have been dropping already since decades through optimizations. Electric cars certainly reduce particulate emissions a lot further, but tire and break wear has become a significant part of particulate emissions.

The best really would be to keep cars out of highly populated areas and provide good public transportation and provide walkable and bicycle-safe infrastructure.
> somoene in some country im not part of has money and it isnt taxed according to how my country says it should be taxed

> therefore we need global tax minimum agreements

how does this follow? this isnt reddit or 4chan; your particular philosophy isnt assumed to be truth.
In Amsterdam you just charge on the street. Almost every street has 2 or 4 charging parking spots.
> The a) b) c) and 1) 2) 3) argument seems just confused - those are not delimiters.

Hmm... I don't know about that. They fit many of the definitions I can find online:

> A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter

> a character that marks the beginning or end of a unit of data -- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delimiter
The Wall Street Journal is not where I would go to find out what kids want.
ah, but flat design is also skeuomorphic. methinks it was just some strategic intellectualism with no legs to look down on everything else that people made. clever tricks of the hive mind.
Actually, there are three now, one of which is anti-war, a policy position that apparently is too "right wing" for Europeans to accept?
> For US-based businesses, this generally represents a very small fraction of total payment volume.

Didn’t “S Dakota vs Wayfair” require sellers to charge interstate tax regardless of physical presence in the state?

I don’t see how it would be a small fraction given that.
Domestic panels are what we call embedded generation - they are connected to the distribution networks, not the main transmission network. The System Operator (NGESO) doesn’t have real-time insight into the distribution networks themselves - they are just visible as a net demand on the system. Embedded generation serves to reduce this demand by feeding power locally to the distribution network.

We can forecast the embedded generation in real-time, but it’s only post event once the meter data has been accounted for that we know what actually happened.
I can't figure out why vehicles all need to be massive living rooms on wheels.

People drive pickups to the office. Laptops must be a heavier load than I remember.

Ford won't even sell anything smaller than a compact SUV in North America.

Even discounting electric cars, imagine the environmental savings that could have been made if subcompacts became the norm instead?
They are not the same thing. The BlazeGraph team was acqui-hired into the AWS Neptune team, but Neptune is not based on BlazeGraph tech.
> They fly bombers into their airspaces (oops), deploys military manoeuvres at their borders, rambles about aiming their nukes at the capital cities.

Your argument would be valid, if this was something exclusive to Russia, and not a common mutual thing between Russia and NATO.
NATO bombers just as well fly into Russian airspace, NATO deploys military manoeuvres at Russian borders, and NATO states politicians are just as keen to ramble about nukes as anyone else.
But a leader in what exactly? I have been looking for years for actual usage stats. E.g., MAU and UAM for VR headsets, especially ones broken out by length of ownership. I get that people are buying Oculus units because of the hype, but is there much sustained usage? If so, what exactly is keeping people engaged once the novelty wears off?

As comparison, look at Amazon's smart speakers. $10 billion spent, lots of hype, part of the zeitgeist enough that SNL is doing jokes about it [1]. End of the day it's a "colossal failure": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
It would potentially be something more like the US where your level of care is heavily dependent on what you can afford. The US is pursuing full market access for their pharmaceutical companies - who are notorious for their price gouging tactics - and the UK is in a pretty weak position post-Brexit. There's a reasonable likelihood that UK health spending will sky-rocket while patient outcomes plummet.
> Electric cars certainly reduce particulate emissions a lot further, but tire and break wear has become a significant part of particulate emissions.

Doesn't regenerative braking reduce both tire and brake wear?
> I feel that Graph databases are one of those things like Document databases. You probably don't need it...

I got a really good chuckle out of that.
But stripe doesn’t give you a distribution channel or any other type of platform to build on. And it doesn’t give me access to x billion people with payment details on file, one double click away, without any fraud
Hello from Europe!

While I agree that there really aren't any winners in a war from a humanitarian perspective, it really doesn't feel here like we are losing.

I'm happy to pay a lot for electricity and gas if that means the Russian government will fall and their army will be reduced to shreds (although the gas prices right now are almost the same as they used to be before the war... )

Also to the US, this is an incredibly cheap (it's what, $50B this year?) way of bringing the Russian army to it's knees.
This would be a great teaching trick. Keep broken solutions in your home directory (as the prof or TA) for enterprising students to find and fix.