skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as long as they support ucontext and SDL2

Why not SDL1.x? It would be more portable,

What about Symbian support?[0]

[0] http://anotherguest.se/
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There are a lot of dev jobs that are balanced and not stressful at all. Some dev can even come here during work hours ;)
This is a standard practice for many companies
Paying £4 a month for use of your own doorbell?
But the traffic coming from Google results will always view it from Google servers.
Sorry, I misread; monads were only introduced later. The above paper introduced the field of category theory itself.
Bug hunting is a complicated profession.
Illegal immigrants cost the country around 50 billion dollars a year and commit identity fraud at a rate of around 40% (this was even investigated by the GAO to figure out why the IRS was burying its head in the sand). You've drunk some potent kool-aid if you think ICE has been demonstrated to be bad.
Whenever I see a new IM service pop up, my first two questions are:

1. Is it FOSS?

2. Can I use it in Weechat?

That's really all that matters to me. I currently use Weechat to handle IRC and Matrix.org.

I've had to use Slack in an internship in the past. Thanks for mentioning wee-slack; I'll keep an eye on it should I be subjected to a proprietary IM service again.
You might as well try it out when the stakes are low, to prepare yourself for when the stakes might be higher.

It's also not a certain probability that he's going to lose, either. Defamation is notoriously difficult to prove in the US.
Uchronia
> but why do websites display long videos as GIFs?

Because for GIF playback no need any video player plug-in in browser.
Batteries would be the easy part :). But with your level of knowledge, I'd suggest you first buy a used Macbook, maybe even a broken one, and find sources of hardware to replace/improve the machine affordably. Also do some Arduino/Rasperry Pi projects. (I've been a software dev for 5 years and I'm learning a lot doing the above myself.)

I believe there are a few open source laptop projects in various states of completeness and goodness. Some ARM, some PowerPC, and so on. There was also OLPC.

Here's some links. You'll notice you might not like the options. One is an ultraboook with 1-2 USBs. The others are like, high school science projects :P

https://hackaday.com/2017/02/05/olimex-announces-their-open-...

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

I'm pretty sure there's some better ones, but ther you go. Oh, and to make your own board schematics and designs for 3D printed cases I suggest a Macbook Pro, 2012 or later.
9front runs wonderfully well on the Pi and other SBCs.

#cat-v on OFTC is very helpful if you want to try it out.
Google open sources library to generate CLIs
The AmpProject is without question controlled by Google, so I reject your claim that it "does not have anything to do with ads or analytics".

The company is an advertising company. If 90+% of your revenue comes from one thing, that's what you are. Anything else is a gimmick.

That tech fanboys continue to ignore or refute this fact about Google just shows how much Kool aid they've consumed, I assume by skipping the drinking part and going straight to Kool Aid baths and Kool aid enemas.

Blocking third party resources on a site is not a "bug" that needs to be "fixed".
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> Once I get beyond 2-3 services it's just too much hassle to keep track of everything.

Docker Swarm shines in this regard because it's easy to setup, and its simplicity allows you to just forget about it. I run 30+ services behind a reverse proxy for personal use and don't need to keep track of anything.
Ah, I didn't realise/remember it has a noscript block, it's been a while since I dug into the issue originally.
The author's post after realizing things had gotten too severe:

http://apainintheneck.com/2019/11/16/the-worst-thing/

† The author's obituary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/obituaries/josie-rubio-de...
Tony Brooker dead at 94, author of the first high level language
Yes, I ran with the original in lockstep and confirmed the same reads and writes were occurring.
You make some good points, but there are areas where costs are outrageous... namely healthcare, education, pensions, and the military.

Our pension system in the US is not funded in a way that is sustainable for the long term. Obviously, it was started by FDR on the assumption that we could just fund existing retirees who hadn't paid in because there's always more young people than old people. But that assumption is no longer true. And the federal level is where things are actually looking quite rosy. State and municipal pension systems are, in some areas, on the brink of insolvency. I expect some states, in the coming years, to ask the feds for a bailout.

Most huge military technology purchases seem to have little justification at this moment... the F-22 and the Joint Strike Fighter are obvious examples. The number of military bases is astounding, but the return on investment for those isn't clear... particularly in regions where there are literally dozens of them. Huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons that can destroy the world multiple times over, which after some point doesn't seem to add any deterrent effect.

Healthcare spending, even just from government programs alone, is high relative to other nations, and yet we don't even have universal health coverage. Very little is spent on useful preventative medicine, and enormous amounts are spent on last minute emergency procedures and end-of-life care. When we are able to make a difference, we don't, and precisely when little or nothing can be done, then we take out all stops and try our best to do something. Italy has the 2nd-longest lived population in the world, despite spending far less on healthcare. They aren't known for having a world-class healthcare system, because the truth is that they don't. What they have is world-class healthy lifestyle.

Education spending, empirically speaking, seems to have little correlation with outcomes. Since 1970, adjusted for inflation per-student spending has roughly tripled, with some variation from state-to-state. But despite the overall large increases in funding, there are constant cries that not enough is being spent. But if we compare to world-class nations like Finland, who spend very little, we are left with a puzzle. If they are able to provide better education for cheaper, then obviously funding is not the deciding factor.

Parks are trivial and have a great cost-benefit ratio compared to those big 4 areas of waste.
R Shiny is another example of a reactive programming mess. I spent about 7 or 8 hours of trying to write a reactive program but for which the use case was actually straightforward (and I would have preferred to write it imperatively).

My use case was basically filters: you have three dropdown lists that change based on the ones you select previously. Power BI and MS Excel filtering is good enough to solve the problem.

I wonder if there is something written about how MS Excel handles filtering internally; maybe it is something like a directed graph?
Unhurried
Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
How to Use Rsync to Sync New or Changed/Modified Files in Linux
Totally a valid criticism.

Elementary is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, which is based on Linux. Most of the value in that chain is the work of others.

Last I checked, debian.org & kernel.org don't have a "Pay What You Want" button above the fold.

Debian is awesome. Linux is awesome. I'm not going to tip my hat to some guy putting skins on Debian and charging for it.
It felt like it took forever. But about 200 hours all up, over a few months.
That is absurd! Was this an April Fools joke (can't load the PDF right now)? I can't imagine any use case for that feature that isn't going to be hell to maintain.
Most people seem to intrinsically understand that a single browser-making ad company dictating what features a website can or can not use is about that company flexing it's muscles to control things.

Is that really not obvious to some?
This was much more about Java than Lisp. It was just a really out-of-the-way way of writing Java. Clojure almost made me hate Lisp because of all the leaning on Java that's done as shown perfectly in this post. Actual Lisp is a lot more fun.

Install SBCL, pick up a Lisp book from 30 years ago (e.g., Paul Graham's, Peter Seibel's, Norvig's), and start hacking.
Plan 9 is the successor to UNIX. Inferno OS is the successor to Plan 9. If you use
either for a while, you'll appreciate how well-designed the system is. That, in
itself, is valuable. It doesn't need to bring a profit to your startup to justify
its existence and use.

> We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive
for.

From the movie Dead Poets' Society. Emphasis mine.
Success is a powerful drug that can cause very convincing delusions.
By some definitions I would consider subsistence farming a much more meaningful job than what tens of millions of Americans are doing now - middle management, financial advisory, advertising, bureaucracy (medical, managerial, political, regulatory, etc), legal discovery, data entry, tax accountants (which only exist because Turbotax bribes the government to keep taxes broken), and many more.

There are tons and tons of bullshit jobs that don't produce anything valuable, don't fulfill anyones need to have a meaningful life, but somehow keep butts in seats often at keyboards getting paid to justify someone elses jobs existence.

There is a reason why job satisfaction is abysmal, why depression and opioid abuse is rampant, and why those weren't as large problems two centuries ago when people were almost universally subsistence farmers. The labor wasn't easy but it always justified itself to those doing the work (assuming it was your own farm, growing your own food, which was and has always been pretty rare). You knew why it had to be done, something lacking in many modern careers.
Shit jobs aren't synonymous to menial jobs. Shit jobs are ones where you suffer physically and mentally, and that suffering usually has little to do with actual job responsibilities, and more with a shitty boss (manager or entrepreneur) treating you like a consumable and trying to optimize you.

E.g. flipping burgers at McDonald's isn't a shitty job because you're flipping burgers; it's a shitty job because you are paid badly, made to work much faster than it's healthy, and the management is shitty to you both personally and structurally, in how they plan the shifts, etc.

I'd argue that any shitty job could have a non-shitty variant with mostly the same tasks and responsibilities, and only the conditions changed. Which leads me to the answer to your question: anywhere between invention of agriculture and the industrial revolution, or perhaps even up to XIX century. Even when people toiled on farms, to then give most of it away to some nobles with swords, at least they weren't micromanaged day-in, day-out by said nobles.
He's not kidding about the cafe babe in section 4.1.

>The magic item supplies the magic number identifying the class file format; it has the value 0xCAFEBABE.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-4.ht...
I dont think its an undue burden to require retailers to verify things like safety certifications. Yes, it might make it impractical to have a company sell billions of different products, but I'd argue thats a good thing.

You might say "well, sellers will just counterfeit the certifications", but the fact of the matter is courts tend to look at actions, intentions, and motivations, they dont interpret laws like computers interpret code. The fact that Amazon co-mingles inventory and seemingly has near-zero interest in getting involved in their own supply chain means there is a lot of low hanging fruit that is being ignored in the interest of profits. Changing the law would a step in the right direction, even if imperfect.
Facebook may be listed and headquartered in the US, but it's actually lots of companies, like most multinationals.

Facebook customers in Europe pay Facebook Ireland, who are subject to 12.5% corporation tax. Facebook Ireland in turn pays "licensing" fees to Facebook Cayman Islands, where there is no corporation tax and high bank secrecy.

Remember the Vodafone tax scandal? You might think that as a predominantly British company (spinoff of Racal in the 80s) listed in the uk, they ought to pay tax on the UK profits. Instead most of the profits appear in Luxembourg.
Everything is ultimately built on the work of others. Do you call Brave or Vivaldi "half-assed" because they didn't write their own browser engine from scratch?

The fact that they didn't start at zero doesn't make their contribution any less meaningful.
Debian Votes on Init Systems
> frame it in terms of the profit generated or money saved as a direct result of your output.

As I pointed out here[1] this is hard to do and no company does this. If you can find a way to quantify your value to the company, that's great. 90+% of the cases I've seen where people do it, they're making wild assumptions that no employer would buy, though.

> Would they try to bring the price of IT equipment down, with the argument of a shorter delivery route, if they were doing business with a retail business close by their office?

No, but they would bring the price down if they could buy it cheaper from a competitor. If you live in a low COL area, they could try to argue that they can find other employees in your area for whom they could pay less than what you demand, and those people would still get paid more than the average in that area.

There's a reason outsourced employees in other countries don't get paid as much as they do in the US. Do not expect that you can change that dynamic easily.

Of course, if you can demonstrate that it'll be hard for them to find a remote worker with your (perhaps rare) skills, then your argument would be more appealing to them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21685035
It’s worth developing: Pop! is the fork of Elementary by System76, which is known for high-quality open-source laptops/desktops. I have never tried either so I can’t assess the quality. From the screenshots I have seen, it remains Linux, so not as smooth as macOS.
So if you made $1B in revenue selling $1 bills for $0.50, you'd have lost $500M

You'd have lost $1B. You'd have to sell 2B $1 bills @ $0.50 to make $1B revenue.
I remember elsewhere on HN I got totally shat on for this analogy. The main case where this doesn’t apply is that monads can decide whether or not to execute later computations and that’s why it’s actually more general than a programmable semicolon. I think the programmable semicolon is more applicable to applicative functors than monads.
Firefox already has the video player control interface for gifs; you just have to right-click.

HTTPS is unnecessary for this site.
They explain in the article why they don't like that.
The same can be argued for anybody. For example, Engineers who don't start their own companies are at fault when the company they work for goes tits up and they are unemployed at an advanced age and unemployable because of their outdated skillset.

The truth is, I think, nobody perfectly optimizes their prospects. People are people and people like to be in their social groups and compete in their social groups, which puts you on a track to a specific future.

Kids from middle-class families don't have to abandon their social circle to become white-collar workers, they can just be comfortable with their friends and "fail" and become a depressed white-collar worker in a not so cool company with only O.K. salary. There are numerous movies about people on this path.

When kids from an affluent background choose to stay comfortable with their friends, they "fail" and become spoiled brats. Usually portrayed as d-bags who don't live a fulfilling life and simply spend their daddies money on drugs and luxury.

When a kid from a lower-income background chooses to stay comfortable with their friends, they end up just as miserable but they also have survivability issues.

This is why "going to college" is such a monumental part in life: It gives you an option to change social circles and if you still fail, at least you can fail in a bit more comfortable house and car.

I hear that college is inaccessible for many Americans, maybe they should fix that. Equal social comfort opportunity can create a much more just society.
Thanks for posting this! I've been working around a lot of concrete dust lately, and it didn't occur to me that the N95 certs might be lies. Also didn't know there was a government website I could check against.
You and Narya enter the restaurant and sit down. The place seems very fancy.
There are many tables and chairs set up around the room. A waiter comes over
and sits next to you. He orders a glass of red wine and a bottle of water.

I died laughing.
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Hello people I am preparing for AWS developer interview. Can you suggest some good questions asked in the interviews?
Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon
For ease of setting up self-hosted apps, Yunohost (https://yunohost.org) is less polished than Cloudron (https://cloudron.io) but is free. There's also Sandstorm (https://sandstorm.io) which had funding at some point and was looking slick, but it's not clear if development is continuing.
I keep seeing this way too frequently - Amazon pushing everything towards a dystopian environment. These posts gets highly voted and then its as if we forget and move on let things be the way they were. Amazon has gained too much momentum and now its way too difficult to stop it.
Maybe there should be government cameras in all the vehicles, and other sensors that can detect what is going on and provide it all directly to the NSA.
Because most people aren't going to learn yet another language for the privilege of being able to contribute to something.
I never have had to suffer these types of interviews. But I keep thinking, the problem was thought up and answered with a lot of work by someone smarter than anyone in the room. And they want to see if the victim can cough up the answer like a trained monkey? What does that prove exactly.
CE is a self-certification (I don't know about UL). For this situation CE is worthless as anyone could put up a sticker.
Can we stop acting like work is a competition? People with shittier jobs don’t have a monopoly on complaining. Otherwise, I could say “oh yeah? What about people who worked with asbestos and died? You think welding is hard? What about dying from lung cancer, HMMM?”

Just because your work isn’t as grueling as someone else’s doesn’t mean you don’t get to be unhappy or dissatisfied with it.
Awesome situation. This is the most fun I've had in a while xD
I am always surprised to hear how much programmers get paid in the US (third world disclaimer: It's a lot!).

> Average pay for manufacturing engineers is about $78k

This is more on par with pay for (top) programmers or engineers that I know of. In South Africa, actuaries get paid much more than programmers. From what I have seen on HN, US based programmers (in top-ish companies) get paid actuarial salaries. As a mathematician, I have a lot to say about actuaries, but alas, that is for another day.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable can clarify this. Median pay at tech companies is sometimes > $100k annually. In my view as a not-a-US-citizen, that is a lot of money.
React Toolkit is so good, I've been following the advanced tutorial with TypeScript and it makes Redux so much cleaner. Thank you!
I'm glad you were able to finally publish it Nick! I enjoyed playing it a month ago and was blown away then.
I wonder what would happen if lots of people started playing colab-based games like this...?

I can't imagine Google has enough GPU's to be able to give everyone one for free for the duration of their game...
CE certification is self-assessment. Usually there will be testing, but it can be hard to figure what is required and what has been done.

Then there's simple fakes and the "China Export" mark.
NanoNeuron – simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn
Really? I thought Tesla owned all its dealerships and employed the dealers. Am I confused?
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The problem with this is that there may be laws that are highly valuable for poor people (e.g. minimum wage, workplace safety, building/fire codes), but irrelevant for rich people/politicians and thus end up way way down on the priority list compared to, let's say, budget laws or the next big tax cuts package.

A mandatory sunset provision can only work if the legislators act with the interests of their country and constituents first and their individual pockets second, which isn't the case any more in many Western democracies. The US are just the most obvious example where Republicans blocked everything Obama tried to pass through.
It’s nicer to use.
It's what you would get if you trained a prediction model exclusively on HN threads relating to nutrition.
See, the problem is that when companies get big they stop thinking in terms of values and start thinking in terms of equilibria.

A values approach to this problem would be promoting people with good taste, and then building a culture of acquiescing when they decide to step in. If someone doesn't like that, fuck 'em. Yeah it might hurt in the short term, but every time you let people with bad taste stall the show you erode your culture a little, until one day you come to work and realize that nobody can decide anything anymore.

An equilibrium approach is to say "well, a consultant will cost $3M/year, and potentially pissing off Alice and Bob and Carol and maybe Dan is painful and it's difficult to calculate how much that will cost, and $3M < UNDEFINED == TRUE so let's hire McKinsey".

I have a huge soft spot for economics, but the thing about equilibria like this is that they never account for externalities and long term costs, and $3M < UNDEFINED is just bad logic to use, and also it's spineless and cowardly and people should know better.