skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused with that paragraph. So if I statically compiled a project with Qt without any modification, does it fall outside the scope of LGPL as well?
Sure, but the stakes are human existence on the planet. I don't know why you would turn away from solutions we already have with boundable risk.
The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
Yes, and I'd argue this is the strongest form of selection bias in such circumstances -- and the one that takes the most courage to avoid falling to.

First they came for ... and I didn't say anything.
Then they came for ... and I didn't say anything.
...
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

When people select themselves out of speaking up for others because of fear, the purity/outrage spiral can get out of control.
I'm in Europe too. It's not solved, and it's very common indeed. At any time there are millions of unpaid carers. For many of them full-time work is completely infeasible, and for many others part-time work is infeasible as well.

Heck, for some even getting out to the shops is difficult, as how do you go out if you need to stay with your cared for person all the time.

Maybe you'd consider it solved if you count the benefits on which so many carers rely; certainly not without them.

Even then, I find it striking that benefits for carers where I live are lower than benefits for an unemployed person. As though a carer needs less to live on.
> the leave is unpaid

All employer-paid employee benefits ultimately come with a reduction in salary. The reason is simple - companies do not look at your salary when deciding if it is worth hiring you. They look at total compensation (salary + benefits). The larger the benefits, the lower the salary.

Me, I prefer minimal benefits and maximal salary.
My first foray into seeking linux help on the web, circa 1996

me> hey how do you bla
guru> rtfm
me> wtfm
guru> $ man bla
me> oh shit thanks

To this day, I still use man on a near daily basis.
The physical keys is why I still grab my 30ish year old HP-11C for quick experiments, however it's hard for me to phantom a good experience with K on a single line display. We'd probably be better off with a portrait form factor, roughly 1/3 display, 2/3 keyboard. Getting switches with the HP quality and feel is the biggest problem.

EDIT: actually, porting oK to the DM41x might be the best option (putting stickers on remapped keys).
JS and HTML beautifier please!
I agree it’s hard to judge a particular case without seeing the specific example. But you might want to consider the following:

“ No subtle put-downs or unfriendly language.
Even if you don’t intend it, this can have a negative impact on others.”

https://meta.stackexchange.com/conduct

“Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.“

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I’d be curious if you feel that your comment meets these guidelines? If not, do you think the relevant sites would be better served by changing the guidelines?
Comment is dead now, but

> Should microsoft be able to choose which apps you can install on their operating system?

MS does choose what is on the MS Store. You can install applications outside of the Play Store.
Patroni is rather rough around the edges to get going, but works fairly well once you do.

We manage a rather large cluster using it and for the most part, it works.

Getting functional PITR that you can restore rapidly is honestly our biggest gripe with PG. WAL-G/Barman certainly do work, but when your DB is measured in terabytes, even bootstrapping a replica is very slow.
Except filenames can contain quotes as well as newlines, so it is still not possible to parse the output of ls[1][2]. In fact, filenames can contain any byte except for NUL (the terminator) and forward slash (the directory separator). Dealing with this reliably means using NUL separators everywhere, as in `find -print0`, `grep --null`, or any of a shedload of similar flags. Unfortunately POSIX doesn't seem to support any of these, and it's unlikely that NUL support will be universally available everywhere (let alone implemented using the same flags).

[1] https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/128985/3645
I guess $1751 / month isn't a big deal in developed countries. But in India this is a lot. Also if I include the RDS Read Replica in total RDS cost, it comes down to $2627 / month (~ INR 1.93 Lakhs / month). Here this is equivalent to 5 Junior Developer Salary / month.

Based on our current customer base of backup and restore solution with addons, AWS spend is about 12% - 16% of the total product revenue. Our company has about 5000+ Active Customer base where the core product offering is different. Backup and Restore solution is itself an add-on. If we would have priced this considerably larger due to larger RDS spend, then it won't be surprising even if we get just only 10% of the current addon customers (700+).

Plus I would say this isn't a much complexity, everything is automated using Terraform and Ansible - pg installation, streaming replication setup, ZFS RAID0 setup, etc... Not a single command is executed in our EC2 Instances manually. The only benefit we get from RDS is the failover capability with minimal downtime. But for that, x4-x5 increased RDS cost isn't worth for us.

We still use RDS for OLTP and service databases, but not affordable for the backup offering.
If you're saying that no company controlled by foreign nationals should be allowed to do business in the US, that is absolutely a sharp, consistent dividing line.

I don't think you're saying that, though.
Is Y Combinator worth it? (W17 and YCG F19)
Of course the US isn’t the only country that plays this game. The government also needs to justify it some how, and I don’t even blame them for that. But at least here we can stop pretending there is some sort of objective, consistently applied standard at play.
US companies operating in China need to follow Chinese laws, including those on censorship. Google etc are blocked because they are hosted outside China, and are not willing to cooperate in China.

What I find bizarre about the Tiktok ban is that they are being banned essentially on executive whim: as far as I can tell, there are no concrete allegations, much less evidence, that they're violating any US laws.
Therefore he doesn't actually make a lot of money.
This is a poor argument, including the sarcasm. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Last time I checked, Canada was still a democratic country with an ideology roughly aligned with that of the US.
It very likely isn't a coincidence as the main manager of Instagram has been lobbying for the ban of TikTok.
"Minimalist" can be readable. If you're going to ask people to read and engage with your blog, please use the most basic accessibility guidelines (thicker fonts, higher contrast, etc.) You've actually gone out of your way to make something that's difficult to read.
Generally, Russiagaters think that the KGB still exists, and that the USSR never fell.
Back in '81 when MS-DOS came out and ascribed "magical power" fo files ending in ".com", DNS didn't exist (except possibly as experiments stuff between a handful of university or military mainframes). It was also an era where the vast majority of users of those .com files were doing so off 5 1/4" floppies (or possibly even 8" floppies), and the very idea of adding "resource forks" to your on-disk data would have been ridiculed as an outrageously profligate waste of extremely valuable disk storage resources.

It's easy to say "we should never have" in retrospect. But you're basically accusing programmers back in the late 70s of having insufficient foresight to see problems that would make their decisions seem bad almost half a decade later.

We also should never have let companies sell cigarettes. Or burn fossil fuels. Or start social networks.
What if the two neighbours share an electric vehicle or two, and swap which garage they are in based on where it is cheapest to charge? The car that isn't charging can then supply electricity to the other house.
I have not read detailed reports, but just HN commentary and the reddit post that revealed the amount of data collected from phones.

Trump's narcissism notwithstanding, the natsec issue with these apps isn't that US citizens are communicating with others, including foreigners. It is that they are installing what may very well be Chinese government spyware on their phones, with detailed tracking and keylogging.

FWIW it would be interesting to keep an eye on what kind of permissions and access some of these PC gaming platforms have to peoples' workstations, as well.
Ironically, secession of California would have Xi Jinping pouring champagne. How does abdicating to China to own the libs sound?
The US is a democratic government with the rule of law, as seen in the case of slavery.
I wrote a reply, which quoted your comment, but then you keep rewriting your comment after I already replied, and long after you posted it, so my quote of your comment wasn't even the same anymore. That's bad form.

I deleted my reply. I regret engaging with people who do that.
Sure, but now it's at a level where arbitrarily banning Chinese products barely meet resistence from the opposition and media.
By extension, you recommend Europe, India and most countries should block fb, twitter because this is too much power to let US have over them.
The level of detail and quality of writing in this is unbelievable. I can follow it really clearly, and I don't know anything about assembly on the BBC Micro.

Direct link to the most interesting file (which is 1.5MB so sadly doesn't open in GitHub's regular web interface): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markmoxon/elite-beebasm/ma...
Russia, Iran, and North Korea will be rotated back in again. The important thing is to maintain public support for increased defense expenditures.
As did almost every business on earth...
Behavior like yours is why we need codes of conduct. Did you stop to think that you can fix this yourself, either by recompiling ls itself or through a simple alias?
And six hours later, as I read this thread, nobody has registered the domain still! ;-)
I think there are few people as cynical of self help and life advice literature as I am but I'd make an exception for Naval.

Naval is an exceptionally wise person and speaks with amazing clarity. I think people would enjoy him if they took some time to listen to him talk.
My cousin is one of the directors of the company. One Xmas I got a signed copy from David :)

Elite on the Beeb was the game that started me coding, all those years ago, and now I work in R&D at Apple.
Great article. Chris’s rust podcast often sounds like this article reads and worth the time.

I happen to be a Python guy. I don’t get to program every day anymore, and python is about all my brain has room for now. However, I’d love to have optional types and am envious of the Typescript crowd. I wish they would have based it on Python instead. Oh well, one can hope. Maybe one day we’ll have something like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_TrueAudio
I believe AMD did that, but there is little to no softwares actually make use of it.
> It's not a company. It's a division of a foreign government.

Can you elaborate on this? As far as I can tell this is just not the case, and none of the people saying it are clarifying what they mean.
Source code to M.U.L.E. found in possession of German game developer
may someday please someone help dethrone the underlord of AI & rise us up
“ The source code to M.U.L.E., believed lost, was found in 2020 in the possession of Julian Eggebrecht. He had pitched an enhanced 16-bit version of the game. EA accepted the idea and sent him two discs with the source code of the original.”
So much I disagree with here.

* The rules in place for any types were created in good faith but small exceptions should be allowed for externally defined structures you don’t own. It’s nice when type libraries exist on definitely typed but there is not a dined type set for everything.

* I love TypeScript but loathe OOP. When I encounter developers utterly dependent upon OOP I stereotype them as CS students who are largely incapable of self learning and incapable of forming original data structures. That sounds mean, but it’s usually correct. I have yet to encounter a JS developer hopelessly dependent upon OOP that can walk the DOM or asynchronously walk the file system. Earlier in my career this stereotype was reserved for many Java developers but this is no longer the case.
I couldn’t afford a full size one but got a 40% split and it has been great. Joint issues but placed a mouse and later a trackball that I can use with right hand or thumb in between the halves and a few layers to get F-keys up to 24, numpad and media buttons.

Absolutely amazing to use and has rid me of a lot of pain.
I ended up buying an expensive mechanic keyboard because a coder I follow on YouTube had such a beautiful sounding keyboard whenever he typed, that I had to get something similar.

I'm not even going to try justifying the cost based efficiency or ergonomics or build quality, I simply love the sound of a well-produced mechanic keyboard.
I think a hybrid model would be my ideal setup. Something like flextime core hours but extended to days of the week.
> hiring some intermediaries

There's absolutely no need. Facebook cooperates with three-letter agencies, and we expect them to.
Aren't you getting killed on inter-AZ bandwidth costs with streaming replication?

This was our experience when we tried it.
>... Bytedance is a Cayman's Islands company...

Sure, it's incorporated in the Caymans, but we all know that that is just a technicality.
Have you considered maybe your problem is simply that you don't understand Scala?

I used to be a professional Scala dev and loved the language. Sure, there's some complexity, but I still strongly believe it is the most powerful and expressive static language around.
I used to get worried that Gen Z was coming for my job until I realized that just like I didn't learn anything that excited me for my career at school, they probably won't either. It's a crap shoot if you get the right skills at the right time when you are still excitable about otherwise "overly-complicated" things.
Sure, but what the article was proposing is analogous to a situation where the price of crude becomes so negative that gas stations start giving away gasoline at the pump.
Perhaps this is not the case in your nation, but here in America, they are most certainly not professional. I don't set the standards, but I wish to operate in a professional setting, so I abide by them. There's also the fact that they're inextricably linked with crime and prisons, and I would never wish to be seen as associated with such things.
This is a great, detailed report. I use one of these providers and see somewhat similar results (I do not use my ISPs DNS, but another one with DoH).

Am I right in concluding that these blocking methodologies can be thwarted to a greater extent by the user using Tor (or a VPN outside the country) and/or the websites in question using ESNI (and the user also using a non-ISP DoH provider that doesn’t have legal presence in the country, since the DNS providers will be the next target for these ill defined blocking orders)?
You hit the nail on the head, which is what prompted this question. I have a job that I actually quite like for company I enjoy building products I believe in.

I think so much time is spent on how to strip or hack your life away to achieve FI without much consideration about what to do with your independence once you have it.

In my projections, I've planned a few trips a year in the calculations but just constantly traveling from place to place isn't my cup of tea.
Tax evasion is illegal; avoidance is not.
It isn’t clear from the article, but how do we circumvent this? Would a VPN work?
Some states (and other countries) offer paid family leave (not only applicable to births) via payroll taxes, i.e. wealth redistribution.

Me, I prefer a society where children have a higher probability of being attended to by their parents even if it costs me some money.
> China already blocks the western Internet, so they have an advantage by default.

That might be an advantage to the Communist party but it's not an advantage to China as a nation, or its citizenry.
I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America. I just wrote a post about it:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer...

India is literally the largest democratic country by population in the world. Despite its issues, it has a functioning democracy, yet its freedom of speech is limited.

I've lived in a few different countries, and one thing that still amazes me is that America still has some of the strongest court prescient when it comes to speech laws. We have restrictions of course, like all countries do, but I've never seen the US ranked high on the free speech indexes I've seen. My own research leads me to believe the US and Japan stand out as the two nations with some of the strongest free speech laws (although Japan's have some challenging issues with copyright and fair use).
It may not have been intentional, but the way the question was phrased, it sounded extremely dismissive and borderline accusatory. If that was not the intent, that's great.

Honest feedback, no ill will.
Pichai became the CEO 5 years ago and many of the deprecated product launches predate this CEO appointment. You can legitimately blame him for product cancellation but I don't think it makes sense to blame him for "throwing everything at the wall".
Judging from the details, a Proxy/VPN to another nation should work.
Great thread? Really? Dan Alexander is hawking an anti-Trump book released on 9/22.
Crystalwell had a shared CPU/GPU L4 cache with ~50ns latency. I don't think there was a programming model where you could bounce data back and forth that fast, but I don't see a reason why the hardware wouldn't be capable of it.
You overpay during the year, but when you file your returns, do you intentionally deduct less than you’re allowed, or intentionally skip tax credits? I personally would prefer to have the government owe me money than owe the government money, but I do my best to make sure my taxes are accurate and I’m not in the hook for any more than I truly owe.

Things like the child tax credit aren’t really meant to encourage particular behavior, but others are. I have a 401(k) to save for retirement, but it also lowers my taxes (in my case, it lowers my future taxes). The tax break is meant to encourage me to get the 401(k). Am I a bad person for taking advantage of the tax break?
Then of course the web would similarly use

http://homepage.html@org.example
It's far less of a problem than advertised. Nuclear fuel contains far more energy per kg of fuel than carbon-based, so the total stock of nuclear waste in the US could fit in a two-story warehouse the size of a football field. It doesn't make sense to store it unless we discover fusion, since at some point we will come to our senses and use that "waste" as fuel for newer reactors.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
> As with many Chinese companies, the company has an internal Chinese Communist Party committee serving the party members among the employees, with vice president Zhang Fuping serving as its Party Committee Secretary. It also has a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Public Security for the ministry's public relations efforts, and joint ventures with a state-run publisher in Beijing and media firm in Shanghai. ... It has garnered public attention over allegations that it worked with the Chinese Communist Party to censor and surveil content pertaining to Xinjiang re-education camps and other topics the Party deemed controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
It doesn't have to be because it's not controversial.
No surprise, KN95 is a legit Chinese standard equivalent for NIOSH N95. So one should roughly meet the other in technical sense, quality control aside.
Wait, there are people who voluntarily don't wash there?
Automator and AppleScript are the top two automation tools on macOS. Automator is the more user-friendly of the two; provides a visual workflow interface for chaining together tasks and capabilities. AppleScript is Apple's attempt at natural-language scripting. Between the two, there's very little you can't automate on Mac, although both have counter-intuitive idiosyncrasies that can be frustrating.

One of the best non-Apple—and, seemingly, least well-known—Mac automation tools is called Hazel: https://www.noodlesoft.com/. I've been using it for years, and I strongly recomend it.

Hazel does one specific thing, but it does it really well: it watches a specific folder for files that match criteria you specify, and it does something to them: moves them, copies them, renames them, even passes them to a script (AppleScript or Javascript) or Automator workflow. Here's a few things I'm doing with Hazel:

- keeps my desktop clean by moving all files that are more than a day old into a "desktop_archive" folder, which is organized into month and year folders: /2019/09, 2019/10, etc.

- automatically unpacks downloaded zip files, and moves any fonts I download into a Fonts folder

- checks the desktop for any text files that begin with "notes" (or "project ideas", "journal", and a couple of other things) and moves them to their respective folders, also organized chronologically.

- checks the desktop for any image files with specific filenames, and runs an Automator workflow on them that resizes them, renames them, converts them to JPG, and uploads them to a remote server. (This is for a project I'm doing where I upload sketches to my blog; all I need to do is save a screenshot to my desktop, and Hazel takes care of the rest.)

Depends on your needs, but Hazel is one of the best apps I've found for automated file management. The setup I have right now is that I can save certain regularly created types of files to my desktop and Hazel does the rest. Saves me a lot of mucking about saving and formatting stuff. (Disclaimer: I don't work at Hazel, know anyone who does, or have any incentive to say nice stuff about them—it's just one of these really useful apps.)

Also, FYI, Hazel is pay-once: no scummy subware pricing or anything like that.
I built a VSCode extension: Folder Size
Shows the current file | folder size in the status bar for Visual Studio Code
Yes, and they also don't add single quotes to filenames that contain whitespace characters when displaying them as mentioned in the article.
>if you can build new applications, or architect new infrastructure, great! industry loves you, and will pay you much dosh to do that. if you want to fix or improve existing things, or ensure that new stuff actually works, you're valued less.

Let the old flesh die. Maintaining it is Sisyphean, and it should have been written in Rust.

>the smart and capable people recognize this and move towards greenfield work even if they don't like it as much

People can actually like maintaining enormous, C/C++ legacy codebases instead of greenfield work in safer and smarter and easier-to-use technologies?

Masochists, I guess.
God I’m the opposite. I’m loving it.
Heh, I was thinking about this idea literally last week, nice to see someone's done it :)
Back when I was poor and all I had was a laptop... my girlfriend wanted a computer but we didn't have enough money. So I loaded up virtual box and plugged in an external monitor, keyboard and mouse binding them to the virtual machine. This setup worked really well to let us both browse the internet simultaneously.