skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"dev", "designer", "manager", etc. aren't interchangeable machines in the same way that compute instances are; they're human beings! Would you personally work for this "AWS for employees", with no job security, with no consistent working relationships with other people, with no knowledge of why you are doing the things you are tasked besides "the algorithm said I must do it, so I do it"? I know I wouldn't.

Fortunately, this is a horrible idea that has essentially zero chance of becoming reality, as things like stable work relationships and a sense of purpose boost productivity, making employees more productive per unit labor cost than a Mechanical Turk for making more Mechanical Turks.
In contrast, I asked my French bank to do this once and they did immediately.

The problem is between me and the vendor, not the bank.
the patriot act was passed because people were scared and wanted to stop terrorism
Brand is intimately connected to real-world performance. If they don’t fix their plane, the new -8 brand will eventually follow the MAX brand.
> One of the topics that came back a few times was the removal of XUL-based add-ons during the move to Firefox Quantum. I was very surprised to see that, years after it happened, some community members still felt hurt by this choice.

Know your users. If I wanted to use chrome, I'd have used it. What made Firefox Firefox was its powerful addon eco-system. Now its just a poor chrome imitation.
This graph of software dependencies from various sources is fragile but exactly the sort of issue IPFS was designed to solve.

If something like node.js stored all sources in IPFS then the data would remain as long as someone builds the software.
I like my surgeons like I like my women: with a formal education.
> The chauvinism is strong in this one. I'm in France, because I like things here. But startup culture isn't one of them.

I think this depends a lot on where you are, and who you connect to, and whose judgement you value too.

The mood felt very different to me between Paris intramuros, Paris suburb, Nantes, Bordeaux, Sophia, and even in each location, there are coexisting networks (installed businesses, "web" startups, industry ones, "marketing" ones, etc.) with different aims/cultures.
This guy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Corbett ? I'm sorry, but that is nowhere close to a credible source
I think you meant "flora", relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1471/ :)
> At the time of XUL removal Firefox didn't have much else going for it in terms of performance and stability, such improvements came later on around the time Quantum released

It was exactly Quantum release which took away XUL extensions.
> France is very racist

Literally the biggest lie I read here for a long time. Yeah France is so racist that 20% of the population is of foreign non-white ancestry, nationality is easy to get (notably got automatic if botn on national soil), no welfare programs discriminates on nationality basis, illegal aliens are rarely expelled (being sentenced is not more automatic ground for it), there is laws forbidding criticizing immigration, land are given for cheap to build foreign religious buildings, etc. If anything France isn’t putting it’s original citizens first enough. The super high tax rates explained elsewhere is in great part used to fund immigrants life.

Also from the point of view of most French, the important thing is speaking good French and integrating well with our culture, regardless of skin color.
I wish we could get some info from an expert on that topic, as a French person some of my friends said they were surprised how much help they got from the government (grants, tax rebates, etc.) and they ended up doing all their software development in France, while the hardware was built in China, because they found the dev quality/cost ratio was so good.

There's also money you can get for creating a startup if you volunteer when your company does a round of layoffs for example.
People are filling the religious vacuum with scarier stuff.
> "Don't know why they're called a factoring company in Holland."

To me it sounds like a bad translation. "Invoice" in Dutch is "factuur". "Facturering" is the process of sending an invoice. I have often encountered the word "factoring" as a supposedly-English translation of it.
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> because I like things here

Do you think it would stay the same without all the regulations you love to hate ?

You can't complain about paying taxes and at the same time say you love France, 80% of the things that makes France a good country to live in are financed by taxes one way or another. Just look over the pond if you want to see how France would look without regulations, 1930 France is today's US in term of workers rights and social security. I'm sure it's perfect if you're in the top 15%, not so much otherwise
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Product-led Growth
I used to maintain Solace MUD in early 00s, what a time. Still have the source code for it, I think, and the forum is still somewhat active despite the fact that the server's been down for a long time now.
Yeah that's my point of view as well on the French system, going after tax exemptions is almost a full time job since there are so many of them. And of course the companies who end up benefiting from those are most often the least deserving...
I wish they would've tested more distances. If the threshold is 1.5 meters or even 1.0 meters that's still better than nothing at all. No one is touting these apps (or masks, or social distancing) as the ultimate solution to the spread of SARS-CoV-2, it's all just things we can do to reduce the risk.
>>malware and spyware was pretty common.

Malware and Spyware is pretty common with purchased games, of course they call it "DRM" but it has the same goal and purpose
Submitted and discussed at length a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24027663
I've been for skin prick allergy testing.

It accurately identified an allergy I knew I had.
Not sure it covers all the features you need but worth mentioning: Spect[1] for macOS, frugal and fast.

1: https://stevenf.com/spect
Have you heard of Space Station 13?
Wynncraft is similar to what you're talking about for a "rough edges" dungeon within the Minecraft community. It has a lot of clever dungeons and quests put together with mostly standard Minecraft concepts. They've enhanced the leveling system quite a bit and some of the textures are improved but the "monsters" are definitely rough around the edges.
Very interesting article. Seems like Boeing used the Apple approach to computing here in the quest to make more money.
Hi Christian, welcome to France.

My suggestion to add to your French podcasts list:

Tête à Tech - https://teteatech.fr/

This is my favorite podcast about technology by Awa Ndiaye and Jeremy Lezac.

Enjoy the croissants.
My experience in Lille, France would concur with that. Never had I seen such blatant racism as I did when I went out for the night with another white (swede) and a black friend.

The black friend was not allowed in a club that we were and had two instances I saw in different bars of overt racial comments from strangers in the short time we were drinking together. It was weird.

He came back to the next day with a beat up face and a story of some horrible events that unfolded shortly after I'd went to bed.

This guy was dressed like us and in school to be a lawyer. He wasn't loud or anything you might think that might draw attention to him other than his skin color.

Growing up in the states and living in a few cities in Europe and in traveling, I'd never seen anything like this in my life.

N=1 and all that but it was truly bizarre.
So they wanted to make a "backwards compatible airplane" with new engines so that pilots could use the existing certificates...
> Do you really want to be using 20 year old software?

Yes. When a piece of software is working the way I want, I don't want to change it. I want to keep it indefinitely. Aren't there games from 20 years ago you'd like to play again?

When a developer makes improvements, of course I want those updates. Keep me up to date automatically. But let me opt-out. Let me revert. Here's my dream: I'd be able to rewind my whole operating system back 10, 20, 30 years and be able to run and use everything from back then, exactly how it was.
Now that i've check it seems Enterpise get's the feature sof Pro for Workstations.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/windowsforbusiness/compare
"Reliable mail service to every address in the country is one of the foundational building blocks of a developed nation. Those that argue against it to me seem irrational."

Those who would argue, blindly, that this service must be provided by the government ... seem irrational.

Moreover, we are in a digital era, trying to reduce our paper usage.

I have not received a paper letter of material usefulness literally in years.

95% of my mail is junk mail - wasted.

The remaining 5% is the occasional letter from the government, of the bank, reminding me of what I have already received online.

By any reasonable stretch, the USPS is largely just a 'junk mail service'.

Society may benefit frankly from the end of this waste and the end of paper mail for most procedures. What remains for the most part is just packages and a few letters there's no reason decent regulation couldn't have it managed by private entities.
We can see very large populations of sun like stars, and there are no observations of this kind of behaviour, so it seems unlikely. The large full sky survey telescopes coming on-line in the next few years will rule this out our in after a decade or so though. If billion sun like stars are watched for five years at least fifty should pop in a micro nova if the theory has any legs.
> maybe writing down the way beforehand

Google maps street view (satellite if not available) is far preferable. You just need to remember landmarks to turn at.
I'm French, French people are blind and most of them have no idea how easy it is to live in France compared to basically any other countries in the world. I guess it's a lack of perspective, anyone who spent any amount of time in eastern europe or in the US (places which aren't even that bad to begin with) would instantly see how lucky they are to live in France.
Isn't it basically outsourcing outfits?
Yeah well unfortunately the HR department that screens resumes doesn't agree.
I would say the opposite after done some traveling, it's honestly one of the best countries when it comes to racism. There are very very few countries in the world where you can just arrive there and be treated as local from day 1, even in Europe.

It's just focused strongly on integration instead of being focused on multiculturalism like in the anglosphere. And you really need to understand that because US values don't apply.
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> normally it is balanced by a similar flux of thermal radiation coming in from the environment

The parent comment wasn't talking about net power dissipation. 800W radiation would be the case if the environment was at 0K. Usually, the environment radiates about 800W back at you.
A shout out to those involved in Acorn, RISC OS, etc around the late 1980s and throughout the 1990's. Around 1992 or so, our family bought our first computer (when I was around 5 years old) which was an Acorn A3000 running (if I recall correctly) RISC OS 2 on ROM. The school I went to also had Acorn computers (including the RISC PC toward the latter half of the 1990’s).

Nowadays I consider myself extraordinarily privileged to have experienced RISC OS on Acorn hardware in its heyday.
I see so many things in modern computing inspired by RISC OS. The taskbar in modern era Windows and Mac OS is remarkably similar to RISC OS 2 which was released in 1988. RISC OS was also an early pioneer of anti-aliasing fonts and had it years before it appeared in Windows.

However, sadly, there are many things now lost to history. A machine running RISC OS 2 booted in literally <3 seconds. It was basically just a console screen with “RISC OS 2048K” (or something along those lines) and a second or two later you were at the desktop. It is near impossible to find any modern computing device that boots as quick as the A3000 running RISC OS did.

RISC OS also had a wonderful file-save dialog which was simply the file icon—which you were to simply drag and drop directly to the folder you wanted to save the file to! Given you usually had the right folder open anyway, it was usually a case of just dragging to your already open folder. So much more sensible than having to search for a folder in a small explorer window.

Thanks to all involved. Acorn and their RISC OS sparked a lifelong interest in computers. Thank you!
You’re getting downvoted because you may have missed my point.

To clarify for
your sake, once you have hardware in the loop (eg mechanical engineers designing things, manufacturing scaling for production) and a large commercial organization who needs to be ready for a product launch, you need a waterfall type plan. Agile principles (customer focus, respond to change) can apply, and you can break up the work into 2 weeks, but you do need to look past the next 2-4 weeks and know where things are planned. Commitments matter in the $millions.

Software-only SAAS has the luxury of avoiding that complexity.
One think that would make wonder is a company wide event queue.

Just imagine all the things that it would be possible to make automatic if all the events that happens inside a business environment where in a queue.

And don't even think about how it would be great if the same queue were open to outside providers.
Right but I'm doing that because those are frameworks in other languages which offer a comparable developer experience.

fasthttp isn't even a web framework. It's not surprising that using a raw HTTP library is dramatically faster than using a full framework and ORM but it's also not a sustainable way to build complex web applications with 1000+ developers.
Ah, my memory is terribly hazy then, awful mistake that also shows my bias. Anyhow, I think it is a shame capabilities, performance and security cannot coexist yet in browsers. Wish WebExtensions would get more attention to extend their APIs, surely more powerful extentions are still a significant strong point in choosing a browser.
Not all bacteria is bad. In fact, without bacteria within our bodies there would be no us. It's been a long dirty and evolving road to get to this point. The First World's modern obsession with hand sanitizers and such is having unintended consequences. We should not be surprised.
> You would have to pay (...) 3.4k "church tax"

This is the only one from the list that you don't _have_ to pay, unless you're officially part of a church.
I like the way Singapore keeps it simple by having tax exemptions and lower rates for the first $ X of income (and overall lower tax than most places in Europe), this is easy to work with and allows you to reinvest in ways you see fit rather than having to deal with a bunch of other entities from advisors to government agencies that all have their own agenda.

Edit: corporate income that is.
let me finish your summary:

... but the aerodynamics were changed in the process and they fixed it with software, which was bad.
It's about laziness and efficiency rather than snobbery, IMHO.

You're outsourcing the QC to a trusted third party.

Reading papers takes up enough time and effort as it is. I do not have the time to reproduce all of them.
This Twitter thread about Roblox really enlightened me about it, had no idea how it was more of a game engine and how much money people were making with it.

https://twitter.com/molleindustria/status/128376418142720000...
This is a relatively new practice, invented by Robert Maxwell in the 1950s or so.
It especially does because people think that being against 'Chinese apps' like TikTok is 'sinophobia', when really we love Chinese people it's just the government we don't trust. So it really does makes it special to see those Chinese characters in that README. I want to see more of that.

But I also immediately feel concern. I hope this Shanghai developer is not targeted, bullied, or persecuted in any way like having their money seized.

Damn. Just donated to their PayPal because I feel so encouraged by it.
The root servers only serve the root, root-servers.net, and .arpa, and they are starting to move .arpa elsewhere - https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2020-Aug...
> Are there any good open source solutions to solve these problems? Bonus points if they’ve been proven at scale

https://yacy.net/
Ironically it's done for user convenience, so that you don't need to automate the periodic payment yourself.
I've used both hundreds of times in the US, and that has never happened to me. They would only call to sync our positions to find each other, which happened very rarely.
Couldn't the traffic be somewhat reduced by changing the time and order of operations?

Currently, Chrome does the following:

(1) on each network change, send three DNS requests with random hostnames.

(1a) If at least two of the queries resolve to the same IP, store the IP as the "fake redirect address".

(2) on a user search, query the first search term as DNS.

(2a) If the query result is NXDOMAIN or matches the fake redirect address, do nothing. Otherwise, show the "local domain" hint.

Instead, it could do:

(1) on a user search, query the first search term as DNS.

(1a) if the query comes back with NXDOMAIN, don't show the hint and stop. We're done.

(2) otherwise, make two more DNS queries with random domain names to check for fake redirects.

(2a) if the two queries resolve to the same IP as the first one, we have a fake redirect. Don't do anything. Otherwise, show the "local domain" hint.

Results of step (2) could be cached until a network change.

This would only require 2 instead of 3 probe queries and only if the user actually searched for something and if the search term actually caused a DNS match (fake or genuine).
The reasoning doesn't make any sense. China's Open source code vulnerable to what external factors? Not being censored? Github getting blocked in China?

The code is all open source... You can literally just copy and mirror everything. This is a blatant move to get China's open source community to move where they can be easy controlled
That seems like a false analogy. In the case of thermal radiation you actually are emitting photons with a total power of 800W independent of your environment.
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I agree with some of that. But we can only live like that in the short term. We're currently China-sponsored: just look at the size of our debt! The 2021 budget is half funded by debt! One day will come when we'll have to make aggressive cuts in our way of life because France won't produce anything anymore.
Yeah, it's not very accessible at all. In the Northeast at least, to get there you have to cross I-95, then a block of industrial area, then the actual river is usually blocked off by a tree line. And it's like that for 90% of the coast.
You don't need to have 1000 developers working on the small performance sensitive part of your application though. Split it out into its own application, and then have a small dedicated team.

I can't speak to fasthttp as I haven't used Go much, but actix-web in Rust is a full framework (not as full as something like Rails, but certainly more than mature enough to be used for production projects).
As an adult, it feels weird to say this, but it's probably the former child in me speaking: This is absolutely beautiful. It sounds like the vibrant, lawless communities no longer found on 4chan and obscure forums that are now dead. Children and teenagers finding their own way without adult supervision. If I was 15 years younger I would probably download Roblox right now.

Keeping the pedos and other bad actors out is probably impossible, instead society and parenting should focus on educating children on the dangers and mitigation.

Teach them not to give out personal information, not to send pictures they wouldn't want the whole world to see and not to be too trusting and they should be good. If they follow those rules, this kind of exploring and creation of (youth) culture is actually safer than anything that happens irl.

Whatever happened to Second Life, where all of this should be possible without fighting censorship?
I always see this, we love the people but not the government.

Is there a case where we hate the people ? Are people as a collective harmless.l ?
Take business creation & administration. The climate now in France for that is incommensurably better now than it was 20 years ago. The paperwork, the administrative va-et-vient, the relations with the state, insurances, banks, profesionnal networks & helpers, are way faster and leaner now.

And even the startup culture itself, or the social consideration of pursuing one venture, is of course not the same as in the US or in Germany, but it was pretty much non-existent just 15 years ago, compared to what it is now. It's not perfect, because it's young still, but it's here now.

About regulation, per se, it's not a bad thing.

About education... you don't get to judge a system by a single metric, especially not one that pertains only to a very small sample. Not saying it's good/bad/better/worse.

You're 18yo, you have plenty of energy and headroom to discover and create anything, anywhere; what matters is the networks with which you will work, wherever they are.
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I think this makes a much deeper point. You can't create an app that will pay people badly because it will pay people badly.

We (society) have traditionally massively underpaid people who are time rich and cash poor, but who have basic life necessities provided outside of their income - teenagers, most obviously, but historically the same applied to middle-class married women (look up "working for pin money").

But that involved discrimination - either only offering these jobs to people who were not relying on them for basic life necessities, or paying people who were actually trying to make a living much more (at least minimum wage, and in some cases far more). That discrimination has usually been illegal, but paying a local teenager a few dollars to mow your lawn (when you would pay a much more substantial fee to a proper lawn-care firm) is the sort of informal small-scale law-breaking that no enforcement body would ever bother with.

But you can't, intrinsically, aggregate this sort of thing. That takes the human being out of the loop, which means there is no one to discriminate. It makes the law-breaking large-scale and formal, rather than small-scale and informal. This happens to all sorts of things - there are plenty of informal payments made to people in exchange for small amounts of their time (lots of us have paid a bit more than the fuel costs for a friend to give us a lift to the airport), but when this starts to scale up (ie Uber), you have to turn it into formal business and employment arrangements, and that changes the nature of the relationship. You can't scale it up without changing it in kind.

I know that a lot of people on HN don't like the idea that there are some things that can only be done one-to-one, personally, and informally, and therefore cannot be automated, done many-to-many, impersonally, and formally. But there are.

For the specific case, surely the solution is to assess how long the job will take, check the minimum wage or living wage, and then aggregate multiple bounties until there's enough to pay for the job to be done.

As for health benefits, the likely approach is something like how SAG health benefits work - you pay a percentage of your income into the plan; if you earn more than $X per year, then you get health benefits. Someone should organise this across all "gig" jobs and employers can then require people working gig jobs to sign up for this (and deduct the percentage at source). That someone would be a labor union, of course.