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Ask HN: Best way to keep up with industry trends
Since starting a company I have been exposed to a lot less of how modern day engineering organizations are run. E.g. learning about new tools, frameworks, and best practices.

Other than reading HN, what's the best way to keep up with new developments?
The StackOverflow question you linked is specifically about JavaScript's Math.random function. As you said, in general it's possible, in fact most software PRNGs use the epoch to construct their seeds.
I'm glad you found this useful; thanks!

Honestly, though, stuff just kinda comes up and pops into my head. I also need to be careful when sharing not to disclose anything that'd be confidential. There's random things on https://nuxx.net, but otherwise... Nothing comes to mind?
Technically, no. But sometimes it is used for that purpose. Most people you talk to expect “reading” to mean physically reading the book. But if you listened to it, you know the content as well as someone who read it. There’s usually not a reason to clarify because it’s not usually a useful distinction unless you want to discuss the narrator.
From an anecdata standpoint, I would say this describes the mentality of ~20% of my past colleagues, and it didn't particularly correlate with their productivity. Inversely, the not-faking-it true believers bring their own problems, like failing to recognize (and hedge against) the possibility that their managers are incompetent and untrustworthy.

From an ethical standpoint, this is no more toxic or false than the facades presented by many employers to their employees.
Another absurdity is food containing prop 65 warnings like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/ramen/comments/zb9xu8/p65_cancer_wa...
We shouldn't be doing either of these things. It wasn't a serious problem 20 years ago when kids would bring whatever allergens to lunch. Throwing away peanut foods is an absurd overreaction and misdirection of food-safety resources.
Let me repeat it for those in the back: If you're still using Google products as your primary drivers, then it's entirely your fault.

Your email is your most prized possession. It is more important than your credit card number. At least you can call your bank if someone steals it. Also, _ALWAYS_ use your own custom domain for emails. Do not host it @someone-else.com

Stop using a free service from a terrible company that can lock you out at any time and, for Heaven's sake, stop recommending it to non-technical people!
Twitter brings Elon Musk's genius reputation crashing down to earth
Except it isn’t. UBI is paid for by workers producing items that they are then prevented from consuming so that those who refuse to take part in production can do so instead.

In other words it is a monetary illusion. The workers can’t be allowed to be any richer because there isn’t any extra production they can consume with that extra money.

Money supply is a flow, not a stock. There isn’t a fixed amount of money.
Programming is telling the computer to do something, using the AI to generate code is just the next step up from a compiler.
I heard it happened in California.

"In August 2020, hundreds of thousands of Californians briefly lost power in rolling blackouts ..."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-blackouts-power-grid/st...
Politics today means things like Hunter Biden’s laptop.
I purchased via this method in Oregon this morning. Perhaps it'll change here soon.
I'm pretty sure the producers involved understand their costs better than you or I and have concluded the optimal outcome is to add an epsilon of sesame cost than a multiple of that of additional decontamination cost.
You don’t want exploitation but you want them to have access to TikTok? I think you should find out about what is on the platform and I think you will be surprised.
https://archive.vn/sWTsR
> PDFs are not useful for any processing.

Oh my sweet summer child.

https://rawgit.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments/master/br...
I can finally put some words on this. Tangentially (no pun intended) in CSS, the poor rendering you get out of an ambitiously border-radius'ed button has been driving me mad for years; time to get down the rabbit hole to see how to replicate that look on the web.
I've never had a problem with sending or receiving with this setup. FastMail's email servers have plenty of good reputation so they're not blocked.

The only issues I've really had are general custom domain & address choice issues:

Choosing to use me@myfullname.tld was not the best idea. A very tiny number of sites stupidly reject the use of a 2 letter username in the email address. Easily solved by setting up an alias of mail@myfullname.tld though. If I were starting over I would have just made mail@myfullname.tld the main address (and I would have aliased male@myfullname.tld). That also makes it a bit easier for humans to read too. Only 2 letters before the @ blends in too much.

Address hiding that many sites do fails to hide anything. Many times when you log into a site, it will display your email address in a way that's meant to avoid people seeing it over your shoulder. But most sites that do that only hide the username. So I'll see things like m*e@myfullname.tld
First of all, buy your own domain from Gandi.net, hover, namecheap, or wherever you prefer. Then get an email account at a private provider who let's you use your own domain: fastmail, gandi, proton, tutanota.. As long as you keep paying for your domain registration, you are not beholden to a mail provider.
> How did we end up in a place where you need to make food in pharma-grade cleanliness facilities unless you want to be sued into bankruptcy.

One theory is there's a certain class of pharmaceuticals that induces autoimmunity disorders. These drugs aren't observed for medium or long term effects such as autoimmunity disorders, despite the fact they operate directly on the immune system and there's a growing body of evidence they do indeed induce autoimmunity.
It’s mutually exclusive because it wasn’t the internal rights of individual states that set off the civil war, but the question of which way western states would be. In other words southern states wanted to impose rules on the union outside their borders.

Florida trying to tell California what to do is by definition not a states rights issue.
In this specific hypothetical, sure.

Or it could mean the conveyor next to it uses lots of sesame oil and they can’t guarantee every single particle stayed in that belt.

Or it could mean the conveyor on the other side of the factory is and they don’t want to risk it.

Nobody knows the specific reasoning a company has for adding it in unless they had insider info from the company itself. Everything else is pure speculation.
> The fundamental problem here is that there is no way to get support from google that is a human being.

No way other than paying a trivial $1.67/month for Google One.
My whole career. It has worked for quite a few years already without a hiccup.

What makes this strategy work is the quantity of technical incompetence that's present in nearly all workplaces. I am actually a liked employee (both by superiors and by colleagues), I just have a low tolerance for bullshit. Usually the problem is "the other way around", that is with people that follow processes, use proper corpspeak but don't actually produce much, and are trying to cover the low output with manners.

I've been writing code on and off since I was 8 years old. Of course not professionally :)
I resonate with you, I've had to remove bread from my diet, except for homemade options (which, luckily for me, my spouse is great at making). Sesame has a majorly debilitating effect on me, so it's not something I can even begin to flirt with.
Spellbound
I think it's a great move in this particular case just because it's so highly watched. A major motivation behind recusal is to maintain confidence in the judicial system. SBF has already been the subject of all sorts of claims of political corruption. Better that this one be squeaky clean, even if sophisticated observers might understand why this sort of connection is innocuous.
I love the taste and texture of sesame seeds. I snack on black and white sesame seeds all the time.
There are many videos on YouTube with it failing these kinds of examples indeed.
Fastmail with your custom domain. I am a user, I am not paid to advertise them. I do not miss Google at all.

If you do not like Fastmail, still get your own domain for emails.
As Ivan Drago would say: If he dies, he dies.
I NEED a rotary dial as a fidget toy.
I've hosted my own email for over 30 years. I've watched it slowly change from a (somewhat) trusted environment into a war zone. Administration time went from nearly nothing to several hours per day up until about five years ago.

For the past five years I've been using mail-in-a-box. (http://mailinabox.email)
It is generally problem-free, but problems can arise if you host it on a sub-par provider (or provider network).

I highly recommend it!
On the contrary, what I've seen of Douyin is no more substantive than what is on TikTok, it's just more compliant with CCP censorship. It is an entertainment medium first and has no pretensions about being anything else. This "common sense" you reference sounds like the same kind of "technology rots your brain" Luddite-ism that welled up for a while and then faded back into well deserved obscurity when radio and then television and then the Internet first proliferated.

I want to see the studies or even any kind of actual data substantiating this "dumbing down" or even "harm" that doesn't reduce down to teenagers saying and doing stupid shit, as has been done for a good chunk of our species' time on this rock.
(Many) Americans also equate higher living standards with a huge TV which is generally turned on.
The same interstate commerce clause that the federal government interpreted as giving them regulatory authority over intrastate non-commerce, in Wickard v. Filburn.
> It is not socially efficient to spend massive amounts of resources accommodating a small number of people with allergies.

It is also not socially efficient to have a society where you have to worry about if your particular issue will be "efficient" enough for other people to care about. That basically sounds like a very low-trust society. And the economic consequences of having a low-trust society are so much worse.
Amen sister/brother. I am right there with you, standing on the fringe of society.

Sadly, I do not believe assisted suicide will ever become a broadly accepted outcome. Too many people are afraid of death and willing to subjugate the freedom of everyone in order to defend their precious sensibilities.
It's also been a goal of CS for some time with some estabilished terminology. eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_synthesis & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_programming
For years I've been telling people I know to NEVER trust all their security to one-password services. Given so many tech companies penchant for playing stupid and loose with internal security without customers even being aware of it, this kind of thing was bound to happen. All the worse to trust a password vault service under the circumstances.

Too many people who should know better on this site itself kept recommending things like Lastpass... Incredible.
AFAICT it’s a pun. It’s a “processor” that spits out PDF files. Hence “pdfcpu”. Doesn’t seem harmful to me…
We're here (computational scientists) and we're quietly working doing our thing. The only reason for the disconnect we don't really swim in the same circles as the lispy programmer types, we tend to be relegated to academic circles which by their nature are rather insular. There is also a very different approach to computation in general, and so there is "laughing" perhaps, but such is how it is I guess.
How does bitwarden get pwned?
Are you or can you try to make sure that your behavior is s close to normal as possible? If you normally access your account from Chrome, use Chrome. If you normally use macOS use it. If you normally have a static address at home, use it.

Trying to recover your account from your friend’s house in another country, or whatever, could be making it worse.
Ex-Google boss Schmidt helps fund dozens of AI policy jobs in Biden’s government
The headline isn't true. Cannabis is illegal in all of America, since it's still on Schedule I at the federal level. While some states may have removed their own laws against it, that in itself doesn't make it legal there.
How would you deal with the currency risk inherent in dealing with cryptocurrency? Assume that the landlord, vendors, tax man, and employees all want USD from you, and do not accept cryptocurrency as payment.

Please explain how you would protect yourself from adverse price movements in cryptocurrencies as a merchant to ensure you have enough USD to pay all your obligations.
I've never been asked the reason for a go-around, but I've definitely offered it if I felt it might affect other aircrews. Interestingly, I have been asked the reason for a rejected takeoff, which I think is ATC policy to ask about and record all RTOs.
I am curious why airlines seem to be the holdouts regularly putting nuts in everything/distributing nuts as the main snacks. And they all do it.
I’m pretty sure that allowing companies to slip legal liability with a “might contain” which just result in boilerplate for all allergies which isn’t helpful to anyone.

I’m glad your allergies aren’t so severe. But minimizing contact isn’t enough for people who are deathly allergic to peanuts or sesame, where the best case for exposure is an epi-pen shot and a trip to the ER. It’s not so much asking for padded walls as enough information to allow people to live without fear of dying because of something they ate.

Every kid deserves an education without fear of being killed by some other kid’s snack. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to just eat their PB&J at home.
"I shall never disparage anything I once loved, because the love was real."

That's some good advice.
Impressive ego that you consider yourself the archetypal “thoughtful person” and can determine what all other “thoughtful” people will or will not enjoy.
Tabwave: A mindful productive app to replace the browser's new tab
Ok, this may be a dumb answer but bear with me, I’ll reiterate an idea that I often proposed to a colleague who has a heirloom land and house in Wisconsin: turn it into a adult farming fantasy retreat!

Two indisputable facts: (1) Most city dwellers like myself dream about a simpler life, working in a farm with their hands, raising up at 5am, harvesting crops, etc. (2) As most people commented farming is back braking work so (1) is just a fantasy for 99.9% of people who think about this.

Why not let people live the farming life, e.g. for 5 days, living on a farm and doing the actual work as well as paying for the experience. I would easily pay $200 a night to live on a coffee plantation during harvesting time to collect and process beans or help operate a combine or milk the cows, etc (am so ignorant about farm life it’s hard to give legitimate examples :-)

I don’t know if this idea already exists in practice. The colleague I propose it with excitement always gave me a bemused but incredulous look!
I use 1Password now, but KeePass has conflict resolution and also a full history of all secrets.
Would anyone be interested in a Medellin, Colombia group?
My DNS provider for my domains provides email account setup and storage through the interface and I use that with clients as well as self hosted web mail. They seem to have solved the issue with emails going to spam so I haven't felt the need to self host it.
I have been using KeePass and variants for a long time, and have never had any problems with it on a variety of devices.
And frankly some mix of self diagnosis/anxiety from parents. In my circle, there's a few obsessive mom-types that are so fearful of allergies/vaccines/etc but their kids have never actually been diagnosed by a doctor.
After reading this report, it’s not clear to me what the federal government ought to have done or should’ve done differently. Not regulate food labeling at all? Or not regulate food labeling if less than 1% of the population is impacted by an issue? Remove prior food labeling laws for other allergens? Provide incentives to prevent companies from simplifying their processes and keeping costs lower (especially during a time of high inflation and rising interest rates)? Punish companies that are bypassing the spirit of the law and compel them to create and maintain facilities and processes to prevent cross contamination (and make products that don’t have allergens)?
Merry Christmas!
Wishing everyone a peaceful and prosperous 2023.
The context is important: southern states were fighting specifically for the right to continue to enslave people. Any argument that doesn't focus on slavery in the context of the civil war we had isn't valid, or at least is incomplete, because it elides the reason for the war in the first place.
I dont think they do anything to the bun. My kid has a sesame allergy, its pretty dumb when you pick up something, read sesame and you wonder why, we are seriously struggling finding hamburger buns at the grocery store that do not contain sesame - after this new federal law change to include sesame. They have a seed flavor but seriously could get that from another type of seed. Luckily he doesnt have a sever reaction only irritates his tongue and throat a little. very minor.
Nasal Vaccines Are Here
What makes you laugh says a lot about who you are
> It’s also laughably out of touch to say Google products are low quality.

Have you used their Nest products? Absolute garbage.
That might not be the case, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34118182

tl;dr: Fastmail custom spam filtering needs some time to actually do anything. Now no more 2 spam emails a year get through the filter.
This has been part of my web hosting package since the nineties. I've never been interested in the low-level stuff, in this form - managed via an user interface - it's a good compromise. The only stumbling block occurred after more than 20 years in the form of DKIM, SPF, etc., the introduction of which had simply escaped me. This led to a gradual, seemingly non-causal disappearance of email, especially in communications with larger companies.

In the grand scheme of things, I really appreciate this setup. All my domains can contain an infinite number of derived addresses, which makes it possible to control outgoing information. For example, it's easy to detect and eliminate multiple types of spam sources.
Some European cities also have district heating, which is managed differently than at-home heat creation.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/berlin-kicks-of...
I come from one of those countries as well, if you work as a software dev or have a good amount of income, this is great.

I would assume labor is cheap where you’re from, the problem might be with selling your product locally.
Though maybe more pertinent, the EU has required sesame allergen labeling since 2003.
Yep. All upside, no downside. Better safe than sorry here.
I think the correct strategic move would be to make it an issue in the months before the election, and try to force the R challenger to come out strongly against it. I would not expect any serious boat rocking right now due to where we are in the political cycle.
Here is a sample requirement:

https://www.stjohnsschool.org/uploaded/Files/Nut_Sensitive_F...
I do. For many years I have run a Mail in a Box server hosted on Digital Ocean. I like it very much and have had no problems. MIAB is a wonderful piece of scriptware. The guy promises to follow best practices in all things and, as best I can tell, he delivers. I have rarely had any problem with deliverability or anything else.

I continue to do so for several reasons, hosting multiple domains, ad hoc addresses, etc, but the biggest surprise reason is a completely not email one. It hosts DNS.

I LOVE hosting my own DNS. The first and most important reason is that, unlike all of the other services, there is no delay getting new records on to the net. Until MIAB, the 'will be updated in 20 minutes' thing drove me nuts. It made doing programmer stuff that relied on DNS incredibly annoying. Now, my LetsEncrypt proof is there instantly.

Of course, not being reliant on the good will of Google or having to decide if it's worth another $3.50/month for another address are all good things. But, the other main reason I choose to host my own server is, also why the MIAB guy makes it possible, to cast off the shackles of the corporate overlords.

It is bad to allow a mission critical function to be owned by five big companies. Much like the current consequences of having relied on Twitter for our short form public communication, I see the move to the decentralized Mastodon as similar to my implementation of MIAB. It is, for me, a blow in favor of internet freedom and robustness.
Have you ever cleaned up sesame seeds? The article's "remove all the sand" analogy is exactly on point - they're tiny and get stuck tight in every available crack. No normal cleaning process is going to remove all of them.
I think Butler had a harder problem. His job was to produce violence and threats of violence. It's harder to know whether that's truly used for good ends than, say, a web form.
My apple cables are consistently the first to wear out. I must be using them wrong.
One word: SimFarm

If you try, you’ll probably end up with locust swarms.
> Because what the US does isn’t even close to that of China.

The US actually appears to have a much more extensive global surveillance system than China does. Nothing even remotely comparable to what Snowden revealed has yet come to light about China.

> They would not risk getting thrown in jail for nothing by refusing a request from the CCP.

This is a very cartoonish view of how things in China work. The Chinese government knows that an attempt to leverage a company like TikTok (or Huawei) to spy on foreign countries could backfire and damage Chinese companies abroad. So far, it appears not to have used these companies for spying to any measurable extent. The NSA hacked into Huawei's systems, and found no evidence of spying. British GCHQ regularly audited Huawei's hardware and operations, and never found any evidence of spying.

> The fact is you cannot challenge that request with the CCP.

If the Chinese government requests data from TikTok, an American company, that sits on US-based servers, TikTok actually can challenge that request. US laws will come into play, and it will not be a simple matter to transfer the data (particularly in secret).
Welp, Canada has ignored that convention and has yet to receive the first or final steps of a UN response: a strongly worded letter.

Safe to say we can all ignore that treaty with impunity.

edit: Oh and the sky didn’t fall either. If anything, the opposite: marijuana isn’t a cool edgy thing anymore. You just do it if you want to, or don’t if you don’t.

The black market still exists, but prices have cratered, so assuming black market demand is unchanged (it’s probably lower), the criminal element has shrunk in size.
Even the ones I could name, that I have personal, direct experience with, have become shitty over time.
Owned Domain on Fastmail

Used to be on a Legacy Google Apps for Domains before they pulled their forced changed to paid accounts.
> On takeoff or go-around, especially go-around, you kept one hand on the throttle levers until after positive rate of climb was achieved.

On multi-engine jets, common training is to remove your hand from the throttle at V1 (takeoff decision speed). Most problems after that speed are to be taken airborne and dealt with there.
This comment comes off as condescending, like someone trying to pander to zoomers or an adult trying to larp their opinions through a Bill Nye episode in comment form when you can just write your response simply without the decoration.
Flowable regions would be amazing. Text placement edge cases would be mostly solved by this