skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if a company with enough market power uses that power to damage competitors, then this is deemed predatory

I think the trick there is that you legally have to show intent. One could argue that anything a market leader does to grow or even just retain it's market share hurts the smaller competitors.
I've been using Brave on an older Mac for nearly as long as it's been out, no complaints. I especially value getting adblock without need of an extension (which would introduce third-party vulnerability).
Averting a Fruit Fly Emergency in Mexico with a Nuclear Technique
I report nearly all auto-generated unsolicited emails as spam. I also report nearly all follow ups to ignored cold emails. I will protect my inbox.
His manager noted, “Arthur had a knack for working hard without learning transferrable skills."

^^^This!

Arthur was lucky to retire at 58. He probably made fat bank which turned out to be golden handcuffs. If he ever got downsized, he had been f*d.
High frequency algorithmic trading. Often ran on colocated hardware within the exchange / trading system data centers. Started with stuff like Sun SPARC, Solaris and Oracle and we slowly made our way to Suse, Intel and... surprise, our own database optimised for fast writes.
For $666/day the author also sells infinite exponential growth. [1]

[1] https://taylor.town/hire-me
First version of IE3 didn't even support file uploads without an add-on, but IE4 on OS9 was great.
A comment above says they are using https://www.qdusa.com/products/ppms.html with the DC 4-wire option.

All my instincts would prefer they were using the AC 4-wire option, given any reason to question results, and/or issues with contact effects, etc.
Is the suffragette movement about to fizzle out? Movements fade away, unless they succeed in changing the status quo.

Open source has stopped being a movement since the turn of the millennium.
Having a comfortable, stable job for many years sounds like the worst version of hell one could possibly invent for people who live like I do.

There are better things to aspire to than predictability whilst making someone else rich.
I had about 15 jobs over 40 years, not including 9 years at the two companies I started. But some were short term contracts, and several (in a row, sadly) ended in my employer going out of business, mass layoffs, etc. I always found doing something new was revitalizing. Also found that sometimes something new was awful. Being comfortable changing what technologies you are expected to use helps, taking advantage of new tech being new, and not many people knowing it, is good too. At my last job before retiring I stayed for 5.5 years, and could still be working there today, except it was enough of a career.
You may be right, but I don't think experience is what makes people prioritize stability over anything else. I'd be so depressed at a real job like the one described, it would be irrelevant that it was stable and gave me extra time. Some people are ambitious, some just like variety.
Forgot to mention, the idea of "sane logic" is often times more important for the human who maintains the code, than the consumer who gets whatever it is the code has produced. Maybe that clarifies my thoughts.
awww, you're so gullible
Media could be owned by the staff. That's what the Hell Gate website does.

https://hellgatenyc.com/about-us

We could also restrict ownership by audience size. So any one person or non-media organization cannot own or control multiple media organizations if their total audience size is above X people. Audience size would be prorated for partial ownership or control (i.e., owning 1% of a newspaper that serves 100K people would count 1K people towards one's total). This is an off-the-cuff alternative, so assume the regulations would be written by actual lawyers who consider edge cases.
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I agree, I see "anti-trans" and accusations of being "transphobic" typically used as a silencing tactic, to stymie and derail discussion.

But these issues really do need to be discussed, as there is real-world harm arising from these medical interventions, and from the non-consensual redrawing of the boundaries around single-sex spaces.

I think you're spot on with your comparison to attitudes towards FGM, it really does highlight the double standard.
I would say the ending -- the part where you are unemployed and unable to support yourself in your old age because you invested decades of your brainpower into a highly specialised, non-transferrable skill.
I keep one in the kitchen. On my desk, I have an abacus, mostly for keeping my mind sharp. Same reason I have a rubiks cube, too.
I had a look to the Framework one, however, I've read (here, on HN, mostly) things about the battery life, the screen size and the feeling of flimsyness due to its DYI nature that were a turn off for me.
We skeptics have just grown tired of arguing (with everyone, on everything, all of the time)
Yes I meant Slovakia, which for part of 90s, the wilder part of that decade as we all can probably agree, was part of Czechoslovakia.

Jan Ducky was the minister executed, he was connected via corruption to many many politicians still active today, even former Czech prime minister Babis (who comes from Slovakia), he is actually one of the suspects who ordered it back in 90s.

Dissolving folks in acid was done in both states, before and after we split. Of course we only hear about cases which were discovered, back home many ended up permanently "missing". But anyway I don't think I was clear (or you guys misunderstood me) - its not for the crime rate alone that would make people like Kundera not wanting to come back, but overall state of society and state itself. If you paint yourself 90s as some sort of pinnacle of our history where everybody was happy and people were singing and dancing on the streets, we must have lived in different universes then.

I mean its 2023, I happily live in Switzerland for many years, having lived in both Czech republic and Slovakia long term in the past, and I would not go back for exactly same reasons. What most rich folks back there (CZ and SK too) do is create a bubble around themselves to not be part of rest of society - but that's desperate attempt for quality of life which is a baseline in other places. Kind of South Africa approach although you can see it in other places where middle class evaporated. Definitely not a place I want to raise my kids, or grow old with all that it brings.
I got this far, wondering if this was satire or not, then realized they just have no concept of the world at large:

> America, some of the EU, England, and some others are considered “First World” countries

Some others? Canada? England isn’t a country. UK is the state, yes, there’s weird terminology, but even as a Brit we don’t class England as a country. I love the implication Wales, Scotland and NI are not first world.

Some of the EU?

There’s so much missing here it’s crazy.

Yes, the article has many many flaws, that was my personal limit.

Besides, when I’m half way through and still can’t tell if it’s a joke or not, I think that’s a red flag.
Variety for the sake of variety is foolish though. If variety is not required, injecting it where it's not needed is just called "breaking things"
Can you clarify why being locked into the Google ecosystem locks you into Chrome? Brave is a Chrome fork which seems to stay up to date afaict.
So you left a job that paid 2x and exposed you to hard problems that require reliable solutions for a job inside the horror clusterfuck that's the modern web where nothing really "works" and there's no real engineering to speak of besides monkeys throwing crap in a shared pile and shovelling it out the door ASAP.

Good for you I guess?
> Firefox simply got outcompeted by Chrome

Yes, a lot of issues are of Firefox's own making. Google sabotaging them helped, too: https://archive.is/tgIH9
> On Windows/Linux/MacOS, I haven't found a single app worth using.

This has been my problem, I ended up buying a £20 Casio because all the apps suck. I was shocked how we can fail so badly with so many resources.v
Not on your list: Orion Browser by Kagi.

Very fast. Zero telemetry. Lightweight, natively built with WebKit, made for you and your Mac. Industry-leading battery life, privacy respecting by design and native support for web extensions.

https://browser.kagi.com/

Note that Edge is more or less Chrome except account / telemetry going to Microsoft not Google.
At least virtually all applications use the same configuration mechanism, which is a lot nicer than many custom formats scattered everywhere (though more and more applications seem to use .config on Linux now).
Yeah, and I failed to even find an option to open a local HTML file on mobile Firefox (for Android) just now.

That's a shame — things were definitely different in 2019 when I built the initial version; and mobile browsers were definitely a target I had in mind for the tool (especially when it comes to the recovery).

Instead of wrapping the existing tool into a mobile app, I'm thinking about standardizing the QR code format from the tool a bit more — so multiple, more task-specific recovering mobile apps would be possible. (Like, the one in your password manager detecting certain internal text formatting and importing the entries automatically and such).
An easy way to experiment with this is via Strudel[1], a JS port that plays in-browser (annoyingly, works better with Chrome than Safari.)

[1] https://strudel.tidalcycles.org
They couldn't hire any replacement VB6 programmers.
It is probably too late with record high temperatures, every few years, for centuries to come.
I've seen it. Some people are weird and just want a stable job that pays them alright so they can focus on their family and other things they care about.

A few times in my career I've seen people with a decade-plus experience leave companies they would have stayed at for another two decades if it were within their control. It's sad. They struggle a bit because they often realise that they've over fit their skillsets to that single company.

One guy I knew was hired as a "web developer" in ~2005 because of his HTML/CSS knowledge. He continued to do basically just HTML/CSS until he lost his job in 2020. Lovely guy, but he saw his job as just a job and couldn't give a damn about learning new technologies. I often wonder what he's doing now... I doubt just knowing HTML/CSS is a hireable skillset anymore.
> so that I could learn the web tech stack from the ground up. It was all to avoid this fate. I'd like to think I've succeeded.

I'm not sure if that's intentional humour or not.
I always wonder, when I see videos like this: who creates the system of little machines that nudge, shove and knock items from one step to the next?

What's their job called? And when that is your job, can you just go into any factory and come up with the answer – or do you specialise in a certain field? And all the parts you use commodity, or are they specific to pencil making, for example?

If anyone has any light to shed on this field of work I'd be interested to learn more.
Factorio is unplayable without blueprints. It's such an integral part of the game that it's like asking if Quake has guns.
mostly I open python in a terminal or use spotlight for simple math.

I haven't owned a calculator (dedicated) since I was a child.
Streamline decision making and increase the operational effectiveness of arXiv
Create clear roles and responsibilities and foster accountability
Have representation in governance that reflects the diversity of arXiv’s community
Ensure opportunities for new voices to be heard

Sounds like empty management BS, hopefully it won't change anything day to day. Why can't anyone ever have any real or interesting ideas? Why even write something if it's just something the worst llm could spit out?
If you serve plain static HTML from S3 or Cloudflare Pages (or even a vanilla nginx on a vps) and put a decent CDN in front of it (and don't load 3p resources), it will astound people how fast your page loads. I regularly get this feedback on my own webpage.

It's not rocket science - it's how we made webpages in 2001. Browsers are really good at that.
One company was almost bankrupt and only by sheer luck with some injection of capital managed to avoid closing shop while bringing a former founder, and the other one didn't have to deal with such problems.
And now you are jumping from one "stack" to another, none the wiser, your knowledge hopelessly outdated just a year in. The principles you learned in HFT? Those apply all the same.
> Everyone is very actively working on making the browser dead and serving you content exclusively via corporate controled apps on locked platforms.

Aka cable box.
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I thought so at first too, but the planned "street performance and dumpster diving" tells a different story.
If coding is mechanical, then the code will often turn out to be overheady, uninspired suboptimal solutions á la everything is a class, not well extensible and maintainable, or the task at hand truly not fit for the skill of a good developer.

Coding is a craft. There is an art aspect to it and there is a lot of room for inspiration and ideas to improve things.
right, just problematic people to lead their efforts (brendan eich)
I need translate on iOS. Chrome and Edge are the only browsers which offer that, and Chrome is much better than Edge. I hope Firefox brings native translation to iOS soon. I'll be making the jump when they do.
> But let's be serious, they could have just said "99% of the top Python packages upgraded to our new packaging system" which would be much more informative and interesting title

How about "99% of the top Python packages don't require being compiled to install them".

That's one of the biggest wins of wheels. They have pre-compiled binaries for all supported platforms of that package. This typically applies to Python packages that have C dependencies.
> battery drain when sleeping, trackpoint freezing after a while, fan kicking in for no reasons.

With the exception of the trackpoint freezing I've had exactly those issues. I even had to send the laptop to the repair service because the battery thing was unbearable.

I was tempted to get a System76 but went for a ThinkPad mostly due to fear of the unknown. Lesson learned, I guess.
I should think that years of specialized C++ work in hft environments would have come with impressively high pay… in which case one could retire early and self study anything for fun, not hope to find a job for financial reasons.
> At that point nothing would stop AdCorp from cutting a deal with the new ChromeCorp that says...

I suspect judges that just ordered an antitrust would not be kind to people to people who essentially ignore the order by recreating an informal structure.
You're completely right. The site doesn't even bother to explain what "eggs" are. And while it lists the benefits of wheels, there is no word about the apparent downsides of eggs, or maybe a little comparison table.
>In my experience watching for attribute changes is very fast

Watching for attributes changing is not the whole picture. Why did the attribute change in the first place? Probably because you're doing stuff in terms of DOM attributes, which is slow - not individually, but in aggregate. Death by a thousand papercuts.

> I've worked on some React apps which were so slow due to unnecessary re-renders that my new computer would often freeze during development

I haven't managed to achieve that. If your computer freezes, that almost certainly means you're running out of RAM, not that your CPU is busy. I admit that the React "development build" overhead is considerable.

> I was able to fix it by refactoring the code to be more specific with useState() (to watch individual properties instead of the entire object) but this flexibility that useState provides is a React footgun IMO.

I admit that React has some footguns, but I don't see how the reactive model can be implemented entirely without them. It's a price I'm willing to pay, because it makes most things far easier to reason about. 90% of my components have no state at all. Of those that do, the vast majority have no complex state.
If you possess legislative powers (which no single person actually does) then sure, you can decriminalize murder and make it a non-criminal offence.

But why? You lose your presumption of innocence, you lose a guaranteed defence attorney, and you still face years of prison and maybe even the chair... there is a reason why offences with gravest punishments (that is, crimes) have pretty strict procedures and proof requirements set up around them.
Bloomberg? Comdb? If not, sounds very similar, anyway. Been there, done that!
The cost of maintaining old versions is constant, spread over an ever-dwindling customer base which is why the price grows exorbitant. That said, Bull still maintains the GECOS mainframe OS that was already obsolete when it gave UNIX the pw_gecos field in the 70s, but you have to pay for it.
This right here is just such a scandal waiting to happen.
Unpopular opinion here for sure as I see enty of calls for regulation and antitrust suits, the easiest answer is for people to simply stop using Google products.

Sure that's easier said than done given how much we depend on them today, but is it really harder than convincing the federal government to step in and break up companies that pay huge lobbying bills, understand how tech companies work in the first place, design new regulations to prevent this happening again, and sit waiting to scrutinize any acquisitions that may come from the break up?

Call me naive, but I think if people really care they have a much better chance to avoid Google than the government has of actually fixing this on our behalf.
Ah good to hear! Even if it wasn't consumer ready, I wanted to tinker/hack with it pretty bad!

Of my VR and AR device experiences, ive found I just dont have the bodily endurance for long sessions over multiple days like I do with computer screens. I thought screens + an "anywhere, any position" keyboard would be more suited to what I wanted[1]. The TapStrap got me partially there.

[1] WIP blog post about it, still have a lot of blanks to fill in, https://cobertos.com/blog/post/portable-computing-setup
Maybe he tells those juniors that GPT4 can do their job.
IIRC with combinations you get factorials (n!) while with permutations you get n^n.
Awesome. I just wish they could do some deal and release an RP2042 with, uh, maybe 1 MB of onboard flash for $1.
He was sufficiently good at programming:

> Westbrook once touched legacy code without ending the company.
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> But to train a model to deny truths which are politically taboo does seem to be misaligned with training a model to favor truths, no?

Strictly speaking, RLHF trains models to give answers which the human raters believe to be correct. In uncontroversial territory this correlates with truth, in taboo territory only with what is politically correct.
I know it's not all about the money, but over the course of your entire career, do you think that move was financially positive or negative?

I'm very roughly estimating that you could probably have worked in the HFT job for around two-thirds the time you're going to have spent working on generic web tech, and still been better off.
It is talking about showing nonvisible features as visible.

Like this quest app for visualizing wifi strength in mixed reality.

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4793438284066128/
it'd be a step in the right direction if one of the "new" browsers trying to do cool things were using gecko (firefox's engine)
Saying the quiet part out loud
Howdy, that's almost me! AMA!

I've spent 10 years as the lone dev at a small medical facility, writing database software and dealing with lab hardware etc.

I guess I've touched 100% of the codebase because I wrote it all, but I always wonder if my skillset is so niche that I'll always be at small companies.

Here's the deal though, work isn't everything and I'm at a job that recognises that.
Says the person that can form a sentence, likely thanks to instruction they received from a school.
Rpms, apks, debs, msi, exe, tarballs, zips, jars, wars...
I don’t think anyone working with low-level C++ for HFT can face similar fate. Most of skills gained at such job seem very transferable. The article seems to be more about jobs where 95% of work consists in implementing CRUD in accordance with very specific business logic of the company.

The only reason to change such job I can imagine is to sit out your non-compete package. But I am not in this industry so maybe I’m missing something.
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My thoughts exactly. What am I seeing that wasn't obviously not available in the 1950s?
I agree - college is a filter - not a tech tree.

In engineering school you solve problems similar to industry - but its more the difficulty than the similarity.

New grads can handle the difficulty your job provides. If you train them - they should get the hang of it.

Industry leads academia in undergrad - not the other way around.

Industry knew that new grads needed 6-12 months of niche education (this is the general operation of Turbo Encabulators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag). It was in their budget. Now.... not so much.
And I would have never understood that from a cursory look at the article. Learned it just now from you.
> unreasonable searches and seizures

Unfortunately, unreasonable is subject to interpretation. I'm not saying it's right, but some could plausibly interpret civil forfeiture as "reasonable."
I reckon that is called material flow and logistics and is an area inside mechanical engineering schools. I worked in the past for companies doing just that in every size from a pencil to parts as big as a car.
I did the same, I thought C++ was heading for obsolescence. Now a master of Java, Javascript and can write great full stack apps. Meanwhile HFT C++ jobs are paying double, I'm thinking of going back, even if the systems are boring.
The web stack might give you more transferable skills but how did you calculate the trade off vs the 50% pay cut? Was the salary not actually very high and at a low ceiling compared to web work - i.e. you expect your salary to soon exceed what you made working in HFT? Or was there a serious risk of layoffs happening far in advance of your retirement? If the goal is to support yourself after retirement, are you saying in certain circumstances halving your salary 10 years into a tech career ultimately optimises your entire-career-earnings?
Ideally, yes! Unfortunately, there is such a thing as being young and not knowing your own worth / not knowing how to negotiate / not having a manager who looks out for your career growth.
Why do people get stuck on these soulless jobs?
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I didn’t say fringe. I said puritanical. In the US puritanism is mainstream.

Next you’re in europe check out our attitude to nipples. Or people saying offensive things (non UK).

I’ll grant you one thing, Europeans also hate billionaires. I guess that’s just the natural envy in every human being.
Exactly.

What is this? The fourth or fifth time we've played this game with the telecoms now? Enough is enough already.
Well these are at least more or less known and widely used (though I agree if you never worked with Java that .JAR and .WAR will be confusing).

But when a language ecosystem opts for cutesy niche names then they just end up confusing everybody, including some of their own users.
Perhaps his aspirations had nothing to do with his day job?
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> But a breakup of google(alphabet) is something very unrealistic and actually not something I want to see, unless we also break up Microsoft at the same time. Otherwise we end up with Microsoft dominating the web again. No thank you, I still remember those times.

This isn't the 90s anymore. Smartphones exist, where Microsoft is irrelevant.
that's the beauty of art—it can mean totally different things to different people