skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, the bizarre practice of “garden leave” as well as contractual notice periods is limited to the U.K. market.

In the USA no significant tech company has any contractual notice period, and the social norm is to provide two weeks notice.

In fact, at Google the policy is that the maximum period an employee may continue is three weeks once they have handed notice of resignation.

I believe bizarrely long notice periods, commonly three months now, are a large contributing factor to the depressed wages in technology in the U.K.

When friction is applied to the labor market, it’s to the detriment of the employees.
Indeed, everyone is biased and so am I. But the job of journalism is to at least make an attempt at stripping away that personal bias. That takes a self-awareness, respect for the other side and humbleness that modern journalists seem to lack.
It has to begin with people that hat are above reproach. I’d submit the openBSD folks.
> The length limit is high in most browsers (100k chars)

Huh, I just saw a 2018 post on a Chrome support forum indicating that Chrome had the same 2083 char limit as IE...

Checking more deeply I've found more direct Chromium info indicating implying either no limit or a 2^31 character limit, with a 32kB display limit. So, yeah, the URL length limit may not be an issue.
This is why copyright should only be granted on things that don't have DRM, or where a system is in place to release the un-limited copies when support of licensed copies ends.

We should allow licensing, but only if the companies allow the benefit of that - perpetual replication allowing goods to never fail - to accrue with the licensees.
Sure, but it’s a collective social decision that’s generally seen as good for the average person. How popular do you think it would be if Walmart went on stage at the next shareholder meeting and said “yeah, automated terminals are working great, we aim to fire all our cashiers over the next few years”?
Someone shared this in IndieHacker recently https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
> * Properly speaking, it is not a capitalist system, as there is a lot of investment, including by state-owned enterprises, that seems uneconomic (extreme example: ghost cities).

The definition of capitalism doesn't require that the capitalists are competent.
The version I 'heard of' involved a joint also.
Are you comparing the Facebook news feed to the Google home page? Is that a fair comparison, considering the news feed does a lot more than loading static assets? Unless you were comparing the News Feed to say, logged in Gmail.
This comparison isn't appropriate.
There are some sweet spots of old laptops which are serviceable. Some are even Macs. There's also some which have an Intel ME which can be disabled. Some are even x86-64. Its getting less common though.
I know you can break it, but this is in response to someone asking a question about how to buy DRM-free ebooks.
>For one, it contradicts the dogma that more trade is strictly beneficial.

It is strictly beneficial, in aggregate. But in any situation, there are winners and there are losers. There are no decisions you can make where everybody wins. If you live in a first world country and your skill set is worse than somebody in the developing world, you’re going to have a bad time.
don't hold your breath
To be honest, the first thing I thought when I learned about this case is: "Great, maybe T&S will fix Croatian Wikipedia too!". Then I read the comment quoted in [0]. Looking at the greater context of T&S's actions it really seems that something shady is happening at WMF.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20319504
You need to add microG to the mix, otherwise a lot of Android apps (including many open ones) won't work at all on your "Android".
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will go on trial next summer
CSS Quickies: Border-Radius
I don't get all the explanation going on in "Prevalence of English-based programming languages". English is the lingua franca of programming so origin is almost irrelevant. I'm Swedish but if I would develop a programming language I would do it in English, even if it was only for myself so I don't believe the "used English to appeal to an international audience" argument.
> Most device makers fork AOSP and distribute binaries

That's what Google does as well and it's called "Android".
You could say it's a Great Circle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle
For a lot of 8 year olds that is accurate. Imagine not being able to read at 8. If your parents don't intervene you will be handicapped for life. On the other hand if your parents tutor you then it becomes a non-event.
The space for small apps like spreadsheet2website, community website, CRM, ERP to name a few are all niches with existing major competitor. Maybe the time of low hanging fruits has passed and it is time to make the brain work.

There might be room for small innovations but without network, like OP, I doubt it will work.
Thanks for your comment.

I think this is fine, especially in the way you want to handle it. Even a rough estimation for the price helps, at least me, to make a decision or get further in contact.

And I also understand that vendors are not showing prices _if_ the product is complex. As mentioned, As an example, all the ticketing or live chat solutions are probably not a complex enterprise-grade software (at least not the ones I looked at) so there is no reason not to show prices, imho.

Out of curiosity: What's your product?
Can I get to my bookmarks that way? Seems to only allow me to make them.
Thanks for the answer. I notice that you have not stated, per my request, what type or quantity of evidence you would need before accepting climate change as incontrovertible ie. proof of climate change.

> Also, my qualifications on this topic, how little I might have, should not interfere with finding common grounds.

You tell me which is more valuable: the testimony of an expert, or of someone with no qualifications? I think the former - do you disagree?

> The situation is painted black and white by popular media and social websites.

My fear is we're quite possibly terribly damaging the planetary ecosystem. That's pretty black and white to me.

> Most climate scientists are not on either end.

If you are going to claim this, please back this up when you say it. Claims without references are useless.

https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-conse... - "Depending on exactly how you measure the expert consensus, it’s somewhere between 90% and 100% that agree humans are responsible for climate change, with most of our studies finding 97% consensus among publishing climate scientists."

<https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-06-15/97-per... - a more careful look at those figures.

> due to duplicitous media coverage

duplicitous - please justify that.

> However, there are many secondary and tertiary effects. These, alleviating or contributing to global warming, are not part of our climate models.

These being...? Specifically? I actually need to know these because I take a (non expert) interest in climate models. It's actually tangentially related to my current job.

> Instead of jumping to conclusions

At some point we have to accept or reject a hypothesis that we're putting ourselves at enormous risk. Or we can keep putting it off until we find out for sure whether that lump is or isn't cancer, by which may be too late.
it doesn't have to be an url shortener, but i believe that you need some external link to get self-reference here. as a rough handwavy analogy, linked lists use a pointer to the tail, not a value of the tail (here the value being the site-stored-in-a-url, and the pointer being the shortened url)
It's not, it's just fun to think about. Likewise french dominance of culinary terms, etc..

What I find more interesting is actually how removed from spoken English most programming language reserved words are.

Taking C and derivatives: "if" is pretty close, and "while" captures the meaning of the word but not its typical usage. The meaning of "return" is correct, but jargon (yes, you're "going back" to where you were called from, but that's not what people mean when they use the word normally). But from there it gets weird fast: "else" reflects a somewhat odd sense of the word that sounds archaic and stilted in human communication; "for" and "break" have little to no connection to spoken language at all.

As far as type names: "int" makes sense if you took high school math, and "char" abbreviates a real word that no one uses ("letter" is the one we get taught in school). But no amount of literacy is going to tell you what "short", "long", "double" or (weirdest of all) "float" mean, those are all terms of art you need to learn from scratch regardless of what language you speak.
>he _defeated ISIS_

He didn't, the Syrian Arab Army and Russia did (and the Syrian Defense Forces, to an extent).
One thing which I don't often see mentioned is that when you refactor (e.g. rename a type), with type inference less code is changed therefore fewer git diff "hunks". That means easier merging.

For example:

var thing = getThing();
processThing(thing);

If you rename the type that getThing() returns, for example from "Thing" to "TheThing", without type inference the above code has to change (the type of "thing" has changed); with type inference no characters in the source code are changed.

If somebody else makes a change to those lines, e.g. writes the whole block in an "if" statement indenting it, without type inference you now have a merge conflict you have to resolve. With type inference, merging works without manual conflict resolution.
Packt, Manning, O'Reilly

I buy mostly technical e-books.
Unless you misjudge how long you press. It’s not foolproof. And even a short blast can be heard a block away indoors.
I find the national security argument unconvincing, especially for the US, which enjoys an abundance of natural resources. The best thing we can do for national security is be a friend to all nations, rather than world police.

Developing multiple lines of trade helps guard against the hostile exporter, but we should be asking why they are hostile in the first place.

The best thing we can do for our agriculture is to allow the free market to allocate land, labor, and capital to their best and highest use, which is probably a lot different than the use allocated to them by lobbyists, cronies, and bureaucrats.
This probably has more to do with the low population than the incidence race.
I've been an e-bike advocate since the first time I rode one. It's an amazing feeling being able to effortlessly overcome hills and riding as fast as 28mph on flat terrain without struggling too much.

The major downsides are: weather extremes (that are going to be more common). The bike is generally heavier (much more effort to get it into the building or onto a bus).

And of course, the biggest one of them all - you are now vilified by both car drivers and pedestrians, while taking on more risk than either one. And of course suburban sprawl being the center-point of US culture, anywhere takes too damn long to get to even on an e-bike.

It's unfortunate that the US isn't more dense, which would make an ebike an ideal mode of transport in ~80% of cases.
I’d argue “wasting money” with higher wages for employees is more of an indicator of being comfortable in its business model and margins rather than just a few people paid millions. For example, Costco seems a lot healthier than Walmart and last I checked the stock for the latter was underperforming against Costco (although Costco is also underperforming in comparison to broader indexes because of the Amazon fears by investors).
That’s just progress. We don’t miss the days of travel agents or horse buggies either. Railing against progress is simply tilting at windmills.
>You can't solve an issue without identifying its causes.

Agreed.

How are the fundamental causes of domestic violence different from the fundamental causes of all other types of physical violence, in your opinion?
I largely agree with you. But the following line from the article is devastating, "For a lot of children, when they’re 8 years old, it’s too late."

And this mawkish line is published under the banner of Stanford, an arbiter of the truth. I expect better.

edit:

My comments seem to have sparked a nerve. I simply wanted to point out bad rhetoric that undermines the cause and weakens an institution of trust. The situation is bad, so there's no need to exaggerate or lie to deliver the point. And this isn't a partisan issue. A conservative like Thiel would deliver a similar message.

There is, however, a pernicious insinuation in that quote. The notion that if you haven't achieved x by y age you're done. That's a debilitating notion. And we have it in the tech community, if you can't code by z age give up. Or if you haven't achieved some startup success or some corporate title
at an early age you're a failure.
> Security against institutions is just as important as security against individuals

This is very well phrased.

It gets across something I was having trouble putting into words -- that security and freedom aren't always just opposite goals that conflict with each other. Freedom isn't an ideal, it's a practical system designed to guard against tangible harms.
That's the point. The only way that's possible is if things sit in a process that takes many months.
:-)

However, this would also work in Perl, etc, (anything featuring short-circuit evaluation and type coercion for evaluating conditions.)
Implying that China is correctly reporting their true GDP. Given how opaque their system is in general, it's hard to trust any official sources. It's likely they are ~2% lower than officially reported already.

https://www.ft.com/content/961b4b32-3fce-11e9-b896-fe36ec32a...
I think the general idea that the VICII could use a range of addresses for one thing while the CPU used it for another was understood from the start.

But I would guess the sheer inventiveness & range of things people put the C64 to was/is astonishing, even to the wildest thinker on the development team.

Complete side note: The brain is a very strange thing. I read this post earlier and then started to so some work. I repeatedly found myself trying to type a double quote using SHIFT-2, which is the key combo for the PET and C64 (my first computers). Actually on the PET, it's not the 2 key, but the key where the 2 would be on a modern keyboard.

Weird the way 30+ year old muscle memory is invoked.
Maybe look at a different programming paradigm then? :)

I remember trying to learn APL and then watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A and was amused that there is this world where programming is just symbols :D

So maybe look at i.e. something apl-like, or maybe ml or haskell or erlang, where so many things you can do with functions and composing them, or even Prolog, where everything could be thought of as a set of rules/constraints to be solved (I think? haven't programmed in Prolog since uni :) )
My guess is that you stand to make more money long term by trading with everybody. War profiteering is great money today, but I don’t think the Koch brothers take the stereotypical quarter-by-quarter approach to capitalism.
Devstronomy project aims to provide datasets related to astronomy in an accessible format (CSV, JSON, SQL).

https://devstronomy.com/#/datasets#csv
D has support for Unicode characters in identifiers, pretty much the same as C does. But now I think that was probably a mistake. Some people use it, but nobody who wants their code to be editable by the larger community.
I find it interesting that this is front page news even in Africa.
Could you expand on your comment, I am interested in Wikimedia communities? To be honest, I am probably not the only one who thinks that you just want every manga character ever to have its own Wikipedia page after reading "when the inclusionists lost to the deletionists".
Don’t forget https://www.humblebundle.com/ for frequent book bundles.
I laughed at their street cred.
I'd rather plain bias than false equivalency.
I wrote about why I didn't go with guile-wm here: https://lobste.rs/s/ssl8wx/xlambda_v1_released_window_manage...

Reproduced below:
I actually have a pretty good reason for doing so, libwm already had most of the functionality I needed (I had used wmutils in the past, and that’s where I got most of my ideas for this project. (You can see the end result of me modifying the basic wmutils scripts here: https://github.com/kori/wm), and it was small enough that extending it with Guile would be the fastest way to get a working prototype, and it would help me learn about how to use its FFI, which is actually very important, too, because I plan to integrate Guile with other software I use!

I'll definitely look into all kinds of layouts. I think it's important to be as flexible as possible, when it comes to a window manager.

PaperWM seems nice, I like the idea of a scrollable window manager, I think it's a great idea for touchscreens, not so much for the standard keyboard+mouse combo, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20308904
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers. It's good in some sense that two oligarchs who fund various political organizations agree on something but I'd rather have actual democracy in the US.
Ideally it would be amazing to have Xlambda be a good fit for GuixSD, as I really like that project.

Also, same! Guile (and Scheme, in general) are growing in popularity a lot and it makes me really happy.
Ask HN: What are the pros/cons of using gmail API?
The only solid evidence is that Fram used the word "fuck", as that was the diff provided to him. Everything else, including the incident with LauraHale or any potential relation between her and WMF is just speculation people are rushing into in order to find an explanation to WMF action.

This is why the Open Letter is so elegant written. It does not speculate. It addresses the core issue which is the lack of solid evidence and community process.
> Its founding donors — Soros’s Open Society Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation — have each contributed half a million dollars to fund its takeoff.

And if it works, its also pretty cost effective.
http://archive.is/OMpNP
Ask HN: IBM Clous vs. AWS for Prototyping?
What do you think is easier to get set up between the two?

I found that IBM Cloud has a lot of StarterKits which give you the boiler plate right away. Though I did find a bunch of bugs during the process. Making me uneasy to proceed further.

However, I was not able to find much of AWS with similar resources.

Any pointers?
Huge assumptions there. And some significant work has gone into investigating the first and found it's the other way round: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264288737-8-en.p...

> We can help Africa and South american countries

It would be a significant improvement if the US stopped "helping" South America. Allende would like a word.
The US is to my knowledge far less strict with any emissions, and have very limited emission inspection. Do you have any example of areas where the US are more strict, including inspections that validate the rules?

With regards to diesel vs. gasoline: Where I live, gasoline is 5 times more expensive than it is in the US, so diesel have been favored solely for its efficiency. We consider anything below ~25km/l (or ~60MPG) to be inefficient, and anything below ~20km/l (or ~50MPG) to be terrible, and that has been our standard for close to 20 years. NOX vs. CO2 is always a discussion, but we do our best to burn as little as possible of anything.

We also try to disincentivize owning old cars that are legal by older standards by having taxes on emission technology (e.g. no modern DPF), as well as fuel efficiency.

(Not that I'm fossil-fuel apologetic—I'm going to get an EV as soon as its affordable. Cars are pricey here.)
This is a real misunderstanding of economics. If you increase productivity through technology, it's possible for everyone to earn more real dollars (as a product of cost of living).

It's not a zero sum game. Imagine it this way. Everyone today is making more than hunt from a cave money. Why is that? Because a single human can produce more than the bare minimum for survival.
Well the Supreme Court grabbed a whole chunk of federal power with this decision[1] that pertains to the exact situation you describe, albeit on a larger scale. The short of it is that even if you grow something for your own use, the Court's opinion is that still affects interstate commerce.

> Filburn argued that since the excess wheat that he produced was intended solely for home consumption, his wheat production could not be regulated through the Interstate Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court rejected the argument and reasoned that if Filburn had not produced his own wheat, he would have bought wheat on the open market.

Good ol' Interstate Commerce Clause strikes again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
but I don't think the Koch
brothers take the stereotypical
quarter-by-quarter approach to
capitalism.

No, no they don't. Their focus is much more towards long-term growth and development (and long-term sustainability, which includes treating workers well and helping them succeed) than quarter-by-quarter results.
The moment I come across a well-behaved Wayland version of Xmonad, I'll switch personal systems from Xmonad/Xorg and work systems from Unity/default Ubuntu (Wayland-based) to it.
They are very, very powerful tools (Lisp/Scheme/Haskell based WMs).
Sounds like we need to go back to the deposit libraries that were part of copyright in the early days.
When put together it seems like a lot. Getting to the point of focus in one hour for one hour of productivity translates in 4 hours a week of actual free time. This is depressing but the true reality. What Noam Chomsky says about wage labor is true.
Apple Moves Mac Pro Production from Texas to China
You know whose kit for 5G is Huawei better? Go on, have a guess, says UK Three
The vast majority of journalists are unionized and therefore benefit from the popularity of anti free market ideology.
Very simple — Dollar is a global reserve currency, and T-bills are of equal prominence in the debt market.

Foreign holding of US debt increased by few times since year 2000.

The more US government borrows, the more TBills are there for purchase for foreign institutional buyers at attractive prices.

Those are of course the real movers of the current account deficit: rates and tbill market

US exports and labour will never be competitive until US can radically rethinks its view on government spendings and debt policy.
Shameless self promotion, but if you're interested in this sort of thing and know a little about DNS, you can similarly host a website purely through DNS records; no hosting, no cost, etc. https://serv.from.zone
I'll add another same here. I still can't figure out exactly what the fuss is about, after reading the linked question and many of the comments here. Is it that the SO home page doesn't offer any way to search questions, instead giving you links to either sign in or purchase one of their products?

If so, I really don't get the problem. Has anyone without a SO account ever gone to their home page to try to look up an issue? Surely it's overwhelmingly more common to just search for an issue directly in a search engine and check the SO links in the results if they turn out to be relevant.

And right now, visiting https://stackoverflow.com/ in a private browsing window, I still see a search bar right at the top. I really have no idea what anyone could have a problem with here.
> People eat a lot and exercise to lose weight. They don’t eat to only replenish expended energy. They over consume then often compensate with exercise. So a particular rider might eat more or might eat the same regardless of whether they pedaled or they used electric power.

Some diets aren't as efficient as others though. Feeding corn to cows then eating the cow meat is going to be vastly less efficient than eating the corn directly for example.