skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brother you're from India? The market is much more tough and much more dumb here.

Due to competition, very few measures are competed upon very fiercely.

Whatever applies in west doesn't apply here.

I have had friends like you who did incredible projects and contributed to open source.

The best of my friends have ended up in relatively good startups due to open source and projects, after lot of struggle.

But on the other hand, I have seen absolutely incompetent morons who did Leetcode (or even cheated at it) and got a high life job.

Scale ruins things I guess. This market is pathetically fucked.
Wow. That's quite a story!
That would be a desirable action but look what happen in the end of 90s to Microsoft. It was about to be broken up and in the very end it didn't. They become dormant and polite only to strike back some 10 years ago with Windows 10, its telemetry, ads and cloud services which are being pushed onto users whether they like or not. And somehow, no regulators decided to step in to clean up this company's behavior - everyone seems to be ok with what MS is doing. Whether it's the US or EU. I take that the business and lobbing goes extremely well in both markets.

And because of this, I don't believe that the US is able to break Google or the other flagship companies despite of reasons existing for such action.
> Isn't the unemployment rate in the US low (around 3.5%) right now?

Remember that the "unemployment rate" in the US is very particular. If you haven't searched for a job within the past 4 weeks then you're not unemployed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_Sta...
Sure you can do that. But look at the list of 60 vulnerabilities with score 9+ that you're exposing yourself to:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...

So you can try it out but don't open any documents, or run it while connected to the net. You'd better also not insert any images. Have fun!

We could also have a post "World where bad people don't try to break your software"
Yes, because the ones who owns the venues also own Ticketmaster.

Live Nation is the name.
Most people may be fine, but considering that the CDC reported nearly 92,000 drug overdose deaths in 2020[0], I think there is a problem. Granted, it's a low percentage of the population, but that feels like the whole reducing people to statistics. The number seems to be growing, and anyways, you don't need to be on the immediate path to drug overdose for addiction to be an issue.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db428.htm#secti...
The pricing policy is a bit confusing.
> It's mainly that the core editor is Emacs

What’s the problem with that? Emacs is, on balance, the best editor and ecosystem. Nothing else comes close, and time spent on anything else is ultimately wasted.

> I don't think I'll ever have the time to actually understand things like CLOS and the metaobject protocol in Common Lisp.

They are really worth considering. I have found that the longer I use them, the wiser the decisions they encode were.

> The condition system seems pretty cool.

It really is. The more you get used to it, the more intolerable it is that other languages don’t provide something similar out of the box.

Common Lisp isn’t perfect, of course. It has some very real flaws! But at the end of the day, nothing else matches it, even though over the past three decades the baseline language has gotten closer.

Garbage collection was a huge win on the past. Gradual typing, too. But the baseline language of today still doesn’t have macros. It still doesn’t have something approaching CLOS, let alone the MOP. Almost no languages have reasonable condition handling.

In a ton of ways, Common Lisp is an improvement on its successors.
I think it’s a fair comparison in the sense that they are considered meta-frameworks
Engineering projects have a finished state? So once they build a road or bridge or dam, nobody needs to touch it again forever? It's finished right, no more work anymore.

Even in electronic hardware there's often continuation of design and refinement. Have you never seen a board with a revision number on it?
It's not enough to get a job, no.

I am not a good fit for companies, and I know it.

I was just refuting the article.
Are you sealioning me?
Was that doing a primary/secondary model where the primary wrote a timestamp to the shared disk and if the secondary didn't see that after X seconds, it would take over?
It’s an EU wide definition that exists in 27 countries not specific to Ireland. Your comment was unfortunately worded if thats the case as at least two other people picked up on the same remark. Apologies if so.
By "people" are you excluding organizations such as governments, corporations etc?
Yeah you're 100% right. There's absolutely no contradiction. This guy's online presence does make him stand out. Unfortunately, in his own words, he isn't too great with following logical constructions (like code) written by others.
Well, for one, you tell Meta about me, without my consent.

Let's say I have a kid at a school. I don't use WhatsApp, but several parents have me in their phonebooks. They use WhatsApp and also use Facebook on their phones. Facebook gathers their location information, and given what Facebook knows about them, it isn't difficult to infer that I also must have a kid attending a school at a particular address at particular times during the day.

Data mining quickly gets scary.

You can also look at it another way: if this information wasn't valuable, do you think Facebook/Meta would have paid a billion for WhatsApp back in the day? Do you think they maintain the "end-to-end encrypted" communications app out of the goodness of their hearts? This is extremely valuable information: millions of people share their identifying information (their phone number) and their social network (their phonebook). It's worth a lot!
Its very easy to fire people in the US, so there is likely considerable more stress involved in the US workers day to day as they don't know if they are going to be randomly let go tomorrow. US companies will often lay off hundreds of people to make the bottom line look better. We generally make good $ but it could all end tomorrow so we are always thinking of the next position. In addition, we get used to the money so while we could probably easily get a lower paying job if we have to, many of us [not al] also are not that great at financial planning in the US so the stress is maximized. On top of that our health insurance for our family is provided by our jobs.

So in the US its a perfect storm of stress and reliance on our jobs that can be taken away at any moment.

Writing this out, stressed me out :)
May you make it through another day.

Sorry to intrude, but I think if this helpse one person, it helps a lot. I don't know your story, so I can't tell if you have a reason for your suffering. Mine would def. be cptsd and one or two other ailments. For me it's connected to food.

Takes about 4 days to "activate" the depression and suicidal ideas after I eat anything plant based. Currently looking for a gastro-enterologist to get the biome checked out. Here is, what I have collected over the last few months - I've been reading and searching since 2018 now.

https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum
Also in Elon News today:

Community Note correcting Musk’s anti-vax tweet mysteriously disappears https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/15a086f/com...
If they get this power, why do we need the global ban, then?
You can add this in the dictionary under false dichotomy.
Very cool what games work with it? Have you tired Pokémon battles
Remember when everyone and their brother helped everyone and their mother get on Chrome about meh, maybe 15 years ago?

Time to get everyone and their brother help everyone and their mother get on Firefox.
>>Sure it does.

I can't comment on other jurisdictions, but the United States has a section of legislation called the Civil Rights Act Title VII[1] codifying that discrimination on the basis of a variety of factors (age included) is actually not (legally) right.

I think this is hard to enforce in practice, but just to be clear -- it's not (technically) "right" to be ageist in one's hiring practices in the US.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/centers-offices/civil-rig...
Thanks for sharing. Like your podcast name:)
Yea, the big brands will do it.

But the platform will suffer. Spoofs will become common which leads to a loss of trust. Then more people and companies will be turned off and more companies will stop paying the minimum to keep the check mark. It could become a death spiral.
Thank you for your amazing software and for continuing to push the boundaries of test automation.

Most interesting thing I've read all week.
I know this.

The article had an implicit bent that standing out was good. When you're like me, it's not. That's what I was refuting.
I don't know a single person who uses WhatsApp. I live in the eastern United States.
There are other conditions. There's at least a cultural component in that we haven't always embraced mental health care in the US as much as we do today. Many other parts of the world still don't.

Whether over or underdiagnosed now, it was underdiagnosed in the past.
It's notable that the proposal was put on a personal GitHub rather than a Google corporate GitHub. Someone is trying to avoid Google's obvious presence being too visible and throw their engineer under the bus instead.

For shame.
Podcasts: Future of Life Institute, Breakthrough Science Summit Panel
Having looked at the pricing of retail card vs cloud, I came to the conclusion I could probably buy enough cloud compute to complete a phd before I 'paid for' the cost of a 4090 build...
> Ms Luke said hackers took control of her PayPal account, in a credential stuffing attack that affected 35,000 PayPal customers in December.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-25/byron-bay-data-breach...
This happens shortly after Twitter pays out five figure sums to users that amplify Musk's own posts.
Obviously they're within their rights to do this and also to take @x but it's not a great look.
Depends on the context! For close-to-the-human high level languages, you generally want to solve these things through optimizations. For close-to-the-cpu low-level languages, you rather want tools to express the desired behavior in the source code. That is, you need an ability to write code in a way that _guarantees_ that optimization triggers. Eg, you want explicit SIMD types rather than just loop auto-vectorization.

Zig is very much on the close-to-cpu side of the spectrum here. When it comes to copies, the current version of the language/compiler doesn't _yet_ provide the required guarantees with required ergonomics, but this is being actively worked on:

- https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2765
- https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12251
- https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5973

In the meantime, you need to look one level below the source language to ensure that the runtime behavior of the code is what you want it to be.
"Bragging" seems unnecessarily pejorative. Reading the information about his patents didn't sway me one way or the other the first time I visited his site, but I can see it being relevant data for some of his audience. The (superior) content of his books did sway me, as did Mark's willingness to make many of them available for free. I've since had occasion to interact personally with Mark, and I've unfailingly found him to be gracious and personable; "braggart" does not apply, in my experience.
Time to build a fresh web. Get me my hypercards!
I love all these blog posts that will take you to the heaven of the $500K jobs with three easy steps.

It is hard, period. Otherwise everybody would be there, and if the advice works then you will have to find something else as in any other market, gaps close.
In my Java projects, new UI with no customization, the breadcrumb view is there at the bottom of the window.
I wonder if any web servers or web apps have started to block Chrome users yet.
“They usually advertise themselves by a user agent string” my understanding is this is very much not true, but all that info comes from cloudflare which obviously has an incentive.

Are there stats on this?
Everywhere in high-end networking.
Good suggestion, did that, thank you.
That really sounds like intentional.
noooobody cares about your critical opinion, just do your thing and leave your supposed lessers in the dust
> By the time they adopted x86-64—reluctantly or otherwise—Alpha was neither performance nor economically competitive.

AMD's first AMD64 processor launched April 2003, Intel's first launched June 2004. Compaq had sold the Alpha IP to Intel in 2001. Yes, there were new Alpha models released in 2003 and 2004, but I don't think there was heart in it; in 1999, Compaq and Microsoft canceled Windows 2000 for Alpha during the release candidate phase.

In short, it shouldn't be surprising that a 2004 Intel processor was faster and cheaper than a high performance system line that hadn't had much investment for five years.
Super relatable!
I’m always amazed when people don’t get this. It’s like they’ve bought into Google as part of their identity so much that they are in denial with regards to how Google make their money.
If you also include Windows 2000, Vista, and 7 computers that weren't updated in the last decade, I think that would be a sizeable fraction of all Office 2003 users in 2023.

Whether or not they make up the numerical majority of all extant users is simply irrelevant to the point of 'Plenty of people'. It's easily many, many, thousands.
Google Ads and Search would have to pay Chrome for search placement. Just like they do to Mozilla right now.
I thought the CE mark was just something you attested yourself. Are you talking about something else, or am I confusing it for something else?
It didn't happen when Apple did it with Safari (and you all were quiet as a mouse as well, with HN actively defending Apple Safari monopoly with this feature enabled)... so why would NOW be any different?
If your choice of operating system and web browser are not WEI-compliant, you can expect something like:

"Sorry, this site requires a certified web browser.

Your browser does not meet the security requirements that this website requires.

Please upgrade to the lastest Google Chrome and remove any uncertified plugins."
Yes of course you need one, the detection is what I can call flaky at best (talking about the websites I visit, not that the tech doesn't exist) and also I know many people who only run a good chunk of websites on their actual preference, and others on the other version, I'm one of them, I only use dark mode in about 1/3 of websites where I know about the two modes.
I have a different take on the topic.

People should not pay for software - average Joe should have all kinds of software basically free.

Now you ask "who should pay for development", corporations, companies or foundations where people still could donate but would not have to. Where corporations and companies pay salaries and provide end users with services.

Solo devs should not write and maintain anything without getting paid.

Yes it is "corporate dystopia" but on the other hand when I see all kinds of rants or horror stories from OSS maintainers and companies that don't want to contribute it seems only reasonable way. Corporation/Company/Foundation pay salaries for devs and provide people with software while charging for services like keeping data or any other actual services that can be connected to software they provide or in case of foundations by donations.
‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for controversial physicist
At the HBM neuroscience conference, amd I agree with the headline
Apart from ChatGPT, I can find answer in reddit instead of SO.
For a personal blog it has quite a lot of PR speak
There isn't anything on your comment about "family-like". This is just "is this company better for the employees or not"? All of those points have nothing to do with family.
At the very top of mold's README (my guess is no, it won't become OSS):

> This repository contains a free version of the mold linker. If you are looking for a commercial version that supports macOS please visit the repository of the sold linker.
Why does anyone think they own or are owed anything on a private platform?

Decentralize or one day you'll also get screwed over. That's been the lesson of the past year or two.
You can get a job. You've made it clear that you know what you need to do to get a job (be more flexible with the language you'll work in, remove all non-technical opinions from your blog, and for the love of god stop carrying a fucking gun with you everywhere)

If you don't want to do the things that would qualify you for the available jobs, that's not because your technical posts wculdn't make you stand out, positively, it's because you're choosing not to!
Tyson biting off Holyfield’s ear. Not the best but memorable.
LineageOS isn’t entirely free from Google. It relies on AOSP, which is maintained by Google, and it suffers from the decisions that Google makes. For example, Google made a change in AOSP to require location services to be installed as a system package instead of a user package, something few users know how to do. The result is that users are less likely to use something privacy-protecting like Mozilla’s location services. Moreover, Google has reimplemented a lot of AOSP functionality in its Play Services and the industry now uses those Google APIs instead of the old AOSP ones, so loads of apps won’t even run on LineageOS.
I love that binder idea.

I've been meaning for years to put together a proper "projects" portfolio for my own site. I really like what Tom MacWright has for that https://macwright.com/projects/
I'm not sure I get your argument. Basically everything you're talking about applies to physical manufacturing too. You have high fixed costs (equipment, location, assembly line workers, what have you), and you also have marginal cost (software basically has zero marginal cost). Good physical goods also take effort, and great people to design them.

> Physical manufacturing is hard, but it at least brings in dollars

You say this as if it's some indelible fact that if you make a physical product, it WILL be bought and you WILL make a profit no matter what, but I think it's safe to say this is objectively false, as many failed physical business would attest to.

> OSS, privacy and wankers reverse engineering your software shrinks your market substantially.

As opposed to in the physical world, where nobody ever cribs your ideas and sells them at a discount compared to you... AKA "Amazon's business model"? (not to mention overseas knockoffs of products

Given all these things being equal then, software has all the same benefits that your parent comment mentioned, while staying at best EQUAL with physical manufacturing, save for maybe higher salaries to the people making your product (arguable in some cases, but on average probably true) but this difference pales in comparison to not having to own a warehouse and manage last-mile shipping costs etc.
Can attestation of the browser be used as personally identifying information? It obviously must be one more data point in identifying the user?
You vastly underestimate the complexity involved. Also, new attacks get discovered that were not even dreamed 20 years ago. There is no "just get it right" when right is measured by what we know, and that keeps changing.
No, it isn't good.

Despite what some on the political spectrum try to say, the Internet has become a basic human right. It is required in schools in America. In many cases, it is required to even interact with certain government entities. Allowing governments and corporations to force users to a specific browser on a specific operating system just to interact with their site goes against everything the web is supposed to be -- an open platform for the free exchange of ideas.

This proposal is a slap in the face to all of that and basically allows governments and corporations to force users to use what those governments and corporations choose.

This is net neutrality all over again, just in a different vein.

I, for one, will continue supporting Mozilla and Firefox and will never again use Chromium-based browsers, or any browser which supports this. I just hope I can keep browsing the sites I need to.
Probably also consider all Google employees complicit. All of them -- especially those who could easily just choose to work someone else, like their developers -- are either in favor of, or okay with, Google's mission to destroy the web.
No Biffo the Bear. So sad
I think it’s kind of naive to think a company that gets 80% of its funding from Google is going to go out of its way to protect you from the same company or that it won’t implement the same proposed DRM standard when it already implemented the older one.
Dashlane has integrated the FIDO passkey standard directly into its live password manager, showcasing a new user interface design while highlighting the challenges and potential of password-free authentication.
This has been litigated to hell on HN, but no, there is no implicit contract when loading a webpage that your user agent will display ads or any other content as envisioned by the publisher. A user agent has always been intended to be something that displays content according to the wishes of the user. Even this "modest proposal" phrases itself in terms of user desires (albeit completely disingenuously). Ads have become prevalent because most users go with the default and don't install content filters to block them, but this does not create some obligation for all users to display ads. Rather, the core dynamic remains that ads essentially display at the pleasure of users.

There is no option to "implements the attestation as something like 'return true'". There is a chain of verification from the hardware manufacturers building in software surveillance, through OS developers treating the device owner as an attacker, this proposal of carrying the same user-hostile dynamic through browsers, and finally to the website that by verifying the signatures can force a user to only use software that enforces all of the above.

You should very much object to this! Today, "unsupported browser" is a CYA term that doesn't really mean much besides that the website has limited testing budget (and who doesn't?). With this proposal it would become a hard blocker. Goodbye Linux/BSDs/etc. Goodbye `make install`. Goodbye virtual machines. Goodbye computers that last longer than the rapid e-waste treadmill of mobile phone land. You will of course be able to keep running user-representing operating systems, old computers, "jail" breaking them, etc. You just won't be able to access banking websites, followed by web stores, then general sites. Basically anywhere today that hassles users with CAPTCHAs will be looking to implement these restrictions eventually (which is basically everywhere).
It's not illegal, but how is this not unethical?
Time to start donating to Mozilla.
Most importantly, Futurama's Bender runs on a 6502.
I've heard through the grapevine that Namecheap will buy and resell domains based on what you search. does anyone know if there is veracity to this claim?
> Not using Chrome comes with zero cost - you can use the same websites everyone else is using, just use Firefox.

Not quite. Increasingly, as Chrome became popular, you get websites that "work better in Chrome". Or do not work at all in other browsers. And you hear recommendations to "just use Chrome", so that things work. It's just more convenient all around.
A list that includes John and Samuel Adams and Alexander Hamilton, who eventually cajoled all of the other Founding Fathers into condemning slavery and (except for Madison and Jefferson) freeing all of their slaves.
How about Jitsi? https://meet.jit.si/

It's free and open source, works everywhere, has stuff like background replacement, and doesn't require signup at all.
Half the TFflops but 4 times less energy consumption (4070ti is TDP MAX 285W)