skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm buying a lifetime thing, it's an investition. I spent money and got thing that will never get old. As time goes on, I'm getting more things and I need to spend less.

If I'm buying a subscription, it's an obligation. I'll have to spend money from now until I die or I'll get reduced QoL.

Even if today I have spare $200/month, that might not be the case tomorrow. Maybe I'll get fired. Maybe government turn my cash into paper. Maybe I'll have to pay everything I have to doctors to save my live or health. I'll still have bought songs, but I'll no longer have access to the streaming service.
I think the github link is an Andrew Yang campaign site.
I don't think seeing something like "Works best on Chrome" is rare. Also blocking websites at all for other browsers than Chrome.
Try e/OS/ indeed ... it works for me and many others.
Larry shapes the "Art World" both in and out of the US
Yep. You'll cut yourself on Ockham's Razor if you bring it to a fight.
> Plenty of people are using copies of Word, Powerpoint, and Excel 2003 just fine

Unless they're also using computers and OSes from 2003 (spoiler -- they're not because those OSes wouldn't work with today's internet), those people are benefiting from untold efforts in the meantime to maintain their OS so it has that compatibility with 20 year old user space code.
Norwegian coastal ferries transport just a few dozen cars, alongside 600+ passengers in coastal mode, with 1100 tonnes DWT. The car weight is not really material. If it was, they'd put a weight limit on the service not a nature limit.
My preferred way is via the resume, it has all the relevant information, i.e. skills, achievements, experience or references.
Since it's a ferry, a solution could be to just push if overboard. How often do fires on ferry happen?
No that part of the article was very silly, almost dishonest as I imagine he actually knows better.

> If I look at my own webserver logs, it’s very clear which are bot requests

Nobody ever lies on the internet?
This is also true of SaaS dev tools.

There are plenty of ways to reduce friction. In this case, mold could have offered a 30 day commercial license to the company to demo the linker and see if the ROI was worth it.
> No patient had ECG- changes, and none developed major adverse cardiac events within 30 days.

Which aligns with

> We found that across this large dataset, the entire COVID-19-vaccinated population of England during an important 12-month period of the pandemic when the COVID-19 vaccines first became available, the risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination was quite small compared to the risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection. [0]

[0] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....
Many states and provinces in north America have similar provisions, just fyi.
The bathtub curve says electronics fail more often early on in life or at the end of their lifespan. Maybe one of the vehicles had a bad battery? Probably those EV's are charged at the factory for testing, transport and to prevent the battery from draining.
Possibly there's a way to prevent a fire in a single vehicle from spreading to the others. Maybe better compartmentalisation or starving the fire from oxygen. That will require a lot of retrofitting on those carriers though.
This is kind of overblown isnt it?

I remember sites doing all sorts of hacks to identify and shut down IE back in the day. "Works best in Chrome/Firefox".

"The proposal calls for at least the following information in the signed attestation:

The attester's identity, for example, "Google Play".
A verdict saying whether the attester considers the device trustworthy.

"

So a user agent string and a weak attestation?

This seems an overcomplex nothingburger.
In my country, middle schools are small, so a 10k city can have 3-4, and most kids do indeed live in centric locations, which mean only a fourth of them at most don't walk/bike there.

Also, you get assigned a public school depending on where you live (the closest) so unless you go to a private school, you're going to the closest one.
> Software has no marginal cost.

Maybe you've never experienced the difference between writing software for 1000 people and writing software for 1M people, or (I imagine) 1B. The marginal per-person cost of software is not on shipping. It's on "what kind of weird shit will I now have to do because 1M is a lot of chances for my software to break weirdly, and people have paid for it"

> You don't have to worry about quality control and returns.

You don't have to worry about quality control and returns if you don't care about quality control or returns.
It's summertime. The 24 hour news cycle needs a boost. A bit of clickbait never hurt, has it?
Requiring remote attestation of devices not owned by the relying party should be illegal unless it is a revocable opt-in and only used to protect interests of the user, not service provider.
Those industrial use lists are way out of date though. Many of the companies don't exist anymore, last I checked. And the presence of companies using Common Lisp doesn't really negate my comment. It certainly has its niches, which is probably what it is best at. But I highly doubt one could convince, at the outset of the project, a company that chose Elixir to instead use Common Lisp, for example. There are lots of companies actively using Elixir.

> ps: Python competing? strong disagree^^

I pretty strongly dislike Python, but we have to admit that any language today is competing against it in terms of mindshare, despite several languages being much better designed.
It certainly has, but the level of centralization, the amount of control by the platforms, and the lack of alternatives has always been slowly ratcheting up year by year, day by day, as we boil in the pot.

It reached other people's breaking point far earlier, many of us only noticed last November, and for the majority of the people, that breaking point is still in the future.

edit: noticed you were being downvoted and I don't like that, you make a good point
The company banned hydrogen cars as well.
It’s the inter GPU communication. Scatter and Gather have much worse performance on AMD GPUs.
An increase in scarcity drives innovation, innovation reduces scarcity, repeat.
SaaS works when not everything is atomized into micro-profitable businesses. The problem with SaaS is it enabled subscription hell and destroyed ownership. When I buy software I reasonably expect to own my copy. No different than when I go to the store and buy a book, or buy a CD of music, or buy food. With SaaS I own nothing. My data is theirs. My stuff is theirs. It is no different than your example where software no longer works with your operating system. If you squint, you can see that once the company changes their model/raises their prices/etc it's no different than my software suddenly not working. The real difference is at least I only paid the exact cost for my utility vs. 5, 10, or even 20x as much for the same utility.

There is a dramatic difference between a world where some software is SaaS but most is owned vs. our current environment where everything is SaaS. It's the gestalt of the SaaS economy you have to look at and not the isolated cases.

Moveover the issue isn't "productivity software" really. That enhances your life. The fact I can't even own some books, music, simple software, movies, etc is the problem. It creates an environment where the average person is tied down with so many subscriptions just for things they'd normally buy once that they become more poor than would be otherwise.

I am at the point where piracy now makes more sense again and I will basically refuse to purchase any more software. To be honest, I don't care who it hurts. I am tired of being victimized by companies. One of the only software I pay for is the Jetbrains product suite because they are a company whose SaaS model is actually cooperative. Sublime is another one who has more than acceptable terms.
Sorry, but this is all coming from a SV bubble.

I work for an established (perhaps legacy) tech company. While people with such views aren't the norm, we have quite a few of them, and we all get along quite well. The only thing that would give pause in the list above are the transphobic comments.
> But I don't get any $ from it unless they sign up on MY site, right? Since there's no sharing mechanism.

Exactly.

> So I don't see how joining in would benefit me - if anything I'd lose a bit of revenue from people who would have paid and now find they don't need to because they're signed up for some other product which I have no hand in and no revenue from?

It would not benefit you if the average person paid for multiple free software projects. In that case, they would only have to pay for one instead of multiple.

I don't think that's the case though, so this solution should make more people pay for free software and that should benefit the developers on average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
Previous owner was compensated proportionally to the value of Twitter.

In an act of kindness, Elon Musk didn't make him pay.
Because Elon Musk is a douchebag and this is another brick in that wall.
> Going forward, electric cars, hybrid cars and also hydrogen cars will not be allowed on board.
you can't push them when they are deep in a pack of cars
Let me guess: Was it a Tesla?
So, how secure is "secure enough"? Android's security model is okay, and Google knows it, so they just keep redesigning the UI without substantial API changes because the updates have to be coming out with each lap the planet makes around its star.

> Devs had to update their software to not make such huge assumptions and to handle no access cases gracefully.

Sure. But at some point it will reach the "secure enough" state, won't it?

(Actually, macOS permissions work mostly transparently API-wise. Apps can request access explicitly so it better fits their particular UX, but the prompt would also pop up the first time the protected resource is accessed. No code-level changes are necessary to support this.)
I wonder if these types of bans will become more wide-spread - I can imagine them being quite dangerous on underground railways like the Eurotunnel.
My parents had the same idea but instead of smart phone use, it was religion. It wasn't so successful for them.
Using JSON files instead of a database
You would have to push the entire column of cars before it overboard.
It was always about the right wing kind of free speech - free to harass and insult people, freedom from consequences.
Who was forced to get vaccinated in which country?
These are not open-deck ferries, the cars are in closed decks.
So now I feel even less bad about just calling my local restaurants directly and picking up myself. Not that I actually felt bad about that.
David Grusch is a whistleblower claiming that the U.S. military is in possession of recovered alien craft.
Solution would be to provide a place at the dock to store your battery ;)
How I tailored my way into software engineering as an Afghan woman
Proprietary file formats are also a problem.

Sure, you can get versions of your data that are technically usable/readable by other software out of Google Docs or Figma, but you’ll never have a fully fleshed out original because nothing else can read those formats because they’re not documented and can change at the whim of their creators.
A former company I worked for started having a larger Indian userbase. We experimented with supporting them more and it would be similar to what you said - significantly lower prices for them. We chose to mostly ignore the Indian userbase and let them use the product as is without catering to them

The reality is that just because someone pays less doesn't mean they cost less to support. And then, if you support a large number of cheap users, it's even more expensive to support.

As a business, you'd rather have 10 customers paying $10 dollars each instead of 100 customers paying $1 each. Larger businesses can overcome this with economies of scale, but smaller businesses cannot
The premature departure of flash, and the premature state of Javascript trying to be a hammer to everythign also contributed to this.

Web apps were running fine with a bit of Jquery.

Today's experiences are much more immersive for sure, and the technologies underpinning them are getting much more effective and efficient to write and maintain. Svelte is one that comes to mind.
In spirit, I agree–spread your knowledge, far and wide.

But making your voice heard and stand out from the crowd is no simple feat: we don't all have the luxury of Twitter following, a much subscribed RSS feed, a prominent domain name to spread the fruits of our hard work.

The network effects that benefit early influencers are difficult to pierce, I find.
I think this post was made because of this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66310280

From the article:

>Last year a cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars caught fire and sank off the Azores. Lithium-ion batteries in the cars caught fire and firefighters needed specialist equipment to put out the fire.
A physical product has limitations. Creating 1,000 car mirrors requires capital, storage, self space to sell. Once the mirrors are created no changes can occur. Any changes requires a new batch.

Software has expectations that it can and should be changed after purchase through updates/patches/upgrades/saas products. That creates an ongoing cost a physical product doesn't have.

There are tradeoffs and different expectations which make both difficult. I would rather go the software root because I have the advantage of free developer time but someone else might find making 10,000 widgets from China much easier and cheaper. We think software is easier because we devalue what we add and what we really cost
> However, as fire inspector Sigurd Folgerø Dalen at the Oslo Fire Department said to Faktisk.no, large amounts of water will be needed if an EV catches fire.

That shouldn't be too difficult to find on a ferry.

The Danish Institute of Fire Safety seems to think it's OK: https://brandogsikring.dk/en/news/2022/new-knowledge-about-b... / https://brandogsikring.dk/en/research-and-development/mariti...
> the people you're harassing are simply implementing a policy that they don't have the power to change.

I'm not on board with harassing people (sad that I have to include this disclaimer).

That said, the people are not simply implementing this. They're actively and publicly justifying and defending it.
Cars on a ferry are locked in by other cars, and in large ferries like this one a ceiling as well.
For me the barrier has been that I've never gotten around to setting the blog up. Often having ideas for (I think) a good post, but don't have the blog to post it to. Some of them get noted down in case I ever do.

I do intend (as in, have been particularly intending recently) to do it, because I think then I would find it lower effort, I would do it, and that I would like that. We'll see, the list of things I've intended to do is long!

I particularly like the style of (others') blog where you dive semi-deep on something semi-obscure to fix or do something, perhaps it's not your usual area, and then write up a nice explainer for the next searcher, or a note to self for the future. Explain it to someone who's never understood it before, while you still remember that perspective.
Trying to reach official authorities is a good idea.
I will quote and extend part of my call to action I did in an other thread

- ban Google all together in your personal life. No chrome and no excuses. Stop the bullshit or leave this profession. Use startpage, duckduck or whatever for searching.

- develop with and for firefox and friends only, introduce usability problems for chrome

- employ the same tactics as google.

-> Bundle firefox with the software you are distributing.

-> Like google did, remove the competition altogether from the users device.

-> make your npm-module or your website slower in chrome

-> let your customers know that your service for non-chrome users is cheaper. Money motivates.

-> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link to download or page with more explanation.
Tell that you detected that their current chrome has security and privacy risks and that you recommend to take action immediately. Average user is easily scared into action.

-> use as many tricks as you can think of to spoil the well for google.
Destroy search results, fill their storage with /dev/random, whatever your imagination leads you too. You keep telling us you are so smart. Show it.

- remember, Google's capital is data. Hit that and the beast will die.
And wine to circle back to our topic at hand.

But simple pasta and fish dishes appear quite often in the "blue zones" around the globe. Something I should do a better job of eating more of.
So He isn't back yet then? :'(
That's not the same thing. Chrome's setting can force audio to be muted regardless of user interactions or manually started playback, until the website settings are changed to allow sound.
My initial thought was exactly the compartmentalization idea.

Also, as far as I understand Lithium-based battery tech you can't really have/ship a "flat battery", it has to have some charge in order not to break down on itself. If that's the case then yeah, the simplest option "ship it without fuel, like an ICE car" goes out the window.
>doesn't make any good software

What if the person does make decent software, but is a huge influencer?

Why not opt for the Spotify model? Usage = money. Why turn this into a popularity contest?
Interesting, I wonder how it does in WSL?
^-- this
Why do we insist on making software paid? Wouldn't it make more sense to work toward making software more stable so I could decide to make a calculator app during my free time, and have it somehow still used 200y later?

Software is stupidly simple to distribute, but for some reason one of the hardest to keep. Obviously if we cannot use any software of the past, we are stuck with developers having to maintain old or new solutions.
That is indeed an impressive application. Thank you for sharing. (I'm having trouble with the website on a tablet though.) Is there any talk where the author describes it?
I'm not sure why I feel the need to convince you. I think your confidence in the face of contradictory evidence that I've seen triggers something on an emotional level for me. I also feel confident I am correct but you disagree.

Hopefully you, someone reading this thread, or I get something beneficial out of this, though! I hope you are successful with your investments and they give you peace of mind.
from the article:
https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/278437235

"... The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $300,000 - $900,000.

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy..."
As N of people → ∞, chances for software to break → finite maximum. And for good enough software you should consider that maximum already regardless of the number of users.
Totally subjective, completely non-rigorous.

That said:

- I'm middle aged and have had tens of thousands of cups of coffee

- The difference is pronounced, not subtle

- It's well-studied https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18296328/

FWIW, I've played around with a lot of supplements. Generally the effects are non-existent or subtle. I'm not generally given to a placebo effect wrt this kind of stuff
The higher end (Daniels / DMC) are very precise tools that you should calibrate with a go/no go gauge. If you handle one you can see why they are fairly expensive - everything is precise, heavy, and without slop and must remain so over thousands of crimps.
Building an AI to Query Lex Fridman’s George Hotz Podcast
I see a lot of comments bashing cross platform mobile development. By and large, I agree but there is one very important caveat:

RN is amazing for the business, especially small businesses.

Yes it’s full of quirks and yes it’s never perfect but if you’re a small to medium size business trying to get your app to market as cheaply as possible, there is no better option than RN right now. Maybe flutter.
On blogging - I would add to the discussion, ask someone you trust their opinion of your writing. If you are a great or even good writer, this can be good advice.

I’d you are not so good - this can backfire. I’ve seen a lot of CV’s with blog links that turned me off on the candidate immediately. Usually for more architecture type positions, not coding, because architects need good written comm skills.
The Architecture of Modern Observability Platforms
I think you answered your own question. It's hard to get into writing if you don't do it regularly.I literally have a list of 30 things it would be nice to write up (not all technical) but the chances of my doing it alongside everything else are quite low.
So everyone that wants to use GPUs to accelerate their compute needs to write a BLAS implementation in shaders... FFS that's not reasonable at all!

Sure, it's entirely possible, but there's a reason that high level libraries are the go-to for scientific compute.
My take is that it's an attempt by the US three letter agencies to get people off of qanon and and onto a far less dangerous conspiracy.
How do you filter for these companies in the job search process?

I saw one and they copied Amazon to a T ( doesn’t help the exec team was lifted from there)
with attrition quotas, heavy on calls tight deadlines etc
But as mentioned above, isn't doing so against Google's own self interest? It seems like the project is explicitly stating their goal isn't to allow for websites to do this, and they are implementing it in a manner consistent with that.

One thing about your comment above: Hulu can't start implementing attestation until Google turns the knob to 0 because they can't start randomly dropping 5% of Chrome users. So in your comment above it should be "and" not "or". If I understand correctly Hulu cannot act unilaterally with the currently planned implementation of this.

If let's say they did turn the knob for Chrome, wouldn't it take a while for websites to start implementing this? For me not knowing as much about this it feels like this is a step in an ambiguous direction which could be good or bad still. But since it's Google everyone is thinking ahead in the causal chain. Can you help me understand why this is such a big and clearly bad step against the open web? Thank you!
And often the people who end up apologising become loyal, long-term customers with no further issues, if anything more polite than the average.
Have you ever actually seen a bunch of cars tightly parked on a ferry? If not, google 'cars on a ferry' and click some images. Now, imagine a car somewhere in the middle of the bunch catching fire. Are you going to volunteer 'pushing it overboard'?
Many random apps do e.g. McDonald's app, and not just root but SafetyNet checks, which is way more strict than just root thing
Can't speak for the other platforms, but I work on an M1 Mac and using IntelliJ feels like trying to move while submerged in a barrel of syrup.
FWIW this ship is much closer to a cruise ship than a ferry. It goes along the coast of Norway, taking 6 days to go from Bergen to Kirkenes, taking scenic detours along the way.

It has capacity for just a few cars, and with a maximum vehicle size that is quite limited - e.g. a Tesla Model X is too big.

What is noteworthy is that they are also restricting hybrids, so in practice it means they will only take on really old cars.

Their competitor "Hurtigruten" which travels the same distance is a lot less restrictive on car transport.

They way I read this, they are bound by the contract with the government to offer car transport, but they are putting up restrictions in the name of safety etc. that ensure less and less cars are actually transported.
And freedom to "censor" speech they don't like.
People who wanted to keep their job, friends and family. It's disgusting.
Can you imagine if a company did this for something really important, like your email? Is there protection against this?