skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla is an interesting case, but I don't think it's representative of the wider ecosystem because it's unique. It's a corporation which isn't selling its products, and it's also a nonprofit which doesn't use its donations to finance its product development. And its main income source is Google advertising money. While I have some fondness for Mozilla, it's on a path to failure in the long term. It's trying to be both a corporation and an open source project and it's failing at both. I don't think the Google funding has been at all healthy for it.

There is a demand for mobile operating systems and web browsers. While it is currently funded through advertising and other means, if this method of funding was ended, the demand would not vanish. The market would adjust to support that demand. After all, we did historically pay for operating systems and applications. Entire corporations' fortunes were made from software sales.

In many ways, I would prefer a return to this model. It's simpler and it's honest. I very much prefer to be a valued paying customer rather than a product, with all of the privacy and other problems which result. It also results in a better product since the companies' incentives are more aligned with the paying end user.

Absolutely agreed about the lawmakers being more careful. Looking back at the Microsoft antitrust trial, that seems small beans compared with what big tech is up to today. And even then, I personally think that a broken up Microsoft would have been better for both the company and the wider world. And I think that applies tenfold to the tech behemoths we have allowed to accrete today.
AFAIK Go template library parses HTML and applies appropriate escaping depending on context. I think that most sane HTML template libraries will do at least HTML escaping by default. Dynamic CSS and JS usually rare so you can pay extra attention.
I was really excited about this when I got the email a few weeks ago with a beta invite but after two minutes I realised I’d be unable to use it, and still can’t now it’s launched...

Why oh why is GitHub now considered the single place where code lives? Even as alternative providers gain in popularity.

It’s really sad to see DigitalOcean requiring this for some reason.

Please either allow use of arbitrary Git repositories (e.g. self-hosted GitLab in my use case) or provide a stand-alone CLI tool to enable deployment of anything, like Firebase does.

Disappointing so far.
Christianity within the roman empire might be a good counterexample. However, Justinian came to power in Byzantium in 527, while classical Rome appears to have been done for, if not by 192, at least by 268.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century

> "The crisis began with the assassination of Emperor Severus Alexander by his own troops in 235. This initiated a 50-year period during which there were at least 26 claimants to the title of emperor, mostly prominent Roman army generals, who assumed imperial power over all or part of the Empire."

Furthermore,

> ... religion is in severe decline in any place near or in a city. Rural religious communities are hanging on by threads.

is not supported by the data[1] on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#... and we know from the 1950-2019 graph that secular trends are not rapid enough to drastically change the numbers below in half a decade.

For instance, Seattle itself was 63% religious, and as for rural religious communities, alabama was 87% religious.

[1] It's amusing to me how the US divides religious beliefs. For example, my wife, from a traditionally catholic area, divides christianity with the trichotomy of "Christians" (catholics), "Reformeds" (protestants) and "Fishies" (all the other cults). To be fair, she might count orthodox in their own grouping, but when this came up we were talking about local cults.

So (assuming all those racially segegrated listings are evangelical denominations?) she'd say the US a few years ago was 13% reformed, 20% christian, and 32-35% fishie.
We have allowed 100s of thousands of Software Engineer immigrants. Are the hiring prospects of American software engineers impacted? This should be provable with at least a couple of decades of software engineer immigrants coming in.
Correlation is not causation, but maybe you should read them.
I found the answer: https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/906910...
> A similar thing happened with VGGnet in image classification

I know I am at risk of a "Nobody will ever need more than 640KB of memory" comment, but the model size has exploded far in excess of our ability to improve GPU cards.

GPT-3 is two orders of magnitude larger than VGGnet-16. Back when the VGG paper was published a Titan Z (2014 gen) had 12gb of RAM, while a Titan RTX (current/previous gen) has just doubled to 24gb.
This is totally upside down.

What is 'coherent' is a civil society that is consistent with the application of it's constitution.

Of course 'private property' is a construct - but that construct is fundamental, Constitutional. It's like voting.

If you take away people's property, your making some very deep transgression of the societal compact, and it's wrong.

There are cases where we need to make change - like lowering or increasing the voting age, we have to be careful with that.
Like what exactly? I am curious. Is this happening because if everybody was buying industrial dish washers an entire industry was going down or there are legitimate problems?
>Lawmakers should have been more careful about which mergers and purchases they approved. Many of the issues we face with big tech is because lawmakers are to inept at seeing the long term consequences of the deals they themselfs approved.

Lawmakers (in the US, the House of Representatives and Senate) have no role in approving or disapproving specific transactions.

In case you aren't American and are unaware, unlike many (but not all) nations, sitting legislators (lawmakers) may not serve in both the Legislative and Executive Branches at the same time.

As such, since it's the Executive Branch that executes and enforces the laws passed by the Legislative Branch, lawmakers have no say as to how the law is executed/enforced -- except by changing/repealing/passing laws.

Instead, the Executive Branch, in these cases, the Federal Trade Commission[0], the Department of Justice[1] and perhaps other regulatory agencies (such as the FCC[2], FDA[3], etc.) that have a particular industry under their purview make such decisions.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/

[1] https://www.justice.gov/

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/

[3] https://www.fda.gov/
I produced Babbage’s autobiography (that this was taken from) for Standard Ebooks as a nice ePub edition (darkmode-compatible SVG illustrations, MathML, etc etc). Hope you enjoy it; I certainly did.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-babbage/passages-f...
> who...nurtured...his inclinations.

You mean funded. That Pfeiffer Turbopump is several hundred bucks used.

When I was 13 years old, I would have killed someone to own just that analog scope.
>Had I used PHP I would have been just as pwned as my friends.

This is a myth, the issue is if you learn by Google instead of using something like a book. All languages and libraries (that I used) allow you to run raw sql if you need and all books/good learning materials when introducing SQL will explain how to do the correct thing with escaping parameters or even nicer using bound paramters.
Maybe 95% of people use it and it made sense to them, who knows?
For such a liberal country, the US have a very strict immigration control. In Europe, many countries are rather the opposite - the state has much more control yet immigration matters are much more relaxed.

I am genuinely curious where this „tradition“ comes from, maybe some historians or experts in geopolitics here?
I'm a European, white male but a lot of what you write resonates with me because of my background:

I specifically remember walking well over 10kms in biting cold on a particular new years day early morning to get back to the farm to take care of my responsibilities, having pasta and corn (with grated cheese sometimes) for as a typical dinner etc, stretching pizzas out to last 2-3 days etc. To the annoyance of my family some of these habits stick hard even today :-)

Oh, and pretend it didn't matter when someone lost my my "new" (at that time) 3310 cell phone that I had got second hand from a another friend (who again had assembled it from broken ones that he had gitten hold of :-)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/2/140218-black-...
For Engineers and Doctors from India, its takes more than 20 years to get Green card now. Its because of the arcane country quota system which assigns the same numerical quota for each country regardless of population, so India and Monaco get the same number of Green cards.

This is the remnant of the pre-1965 racist immigration country quota system which allowed only European whites into US.
I agree with the author. I think it's important for a country to have a set of shared beliefs, and that the idea that the Bill of Rights is more than just a legal document is a very good starting place for the US. This appears to be an unpopular opinion on HN, though.
Yeah, I think JIT only works when you have an Internet connection or at least, a smartphone. Before them, I simply had to remember more stuff, now I can look up details any time (and my own notes don't take hundreds of A4 pages that I loathe going through anymore).

I think it's messed me up a bit, tbh. All I really remember now is the conclusion/result of a previous multi-hour/day learning quest. Why or how I arrived to that conclusion, I don't know. I just know that at the time I deemed it to be the correct answer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Chrome was also advertised relentlessly, for years. For something which isn't being sold as a product, Google certainly spend a lot of time and money promoting it. And that was certainly not out of altruism. They wanted the control and influence, and let's face it, they have got it. Unfortunately, I don't think antitrust covers strong-arming web "standards" and related influences.
I'm assuming you are not a FireFox user, otherwise you often (particularly here on HN where "fancy stuff" gets showcased) run into stuff that does not work for you. I suggest you try FF for sometime, you may find that there already is a problem.
Thanks for the overview of available products! It's great to hear that others saw this as a potential market as well. Google wasn't the first search website, MS office not the first word processor, Apple didn't invent the mouse. The market still seems ripe for someone to make a "proper" social media watching product, and I think there is no better moment for it than the current corona times.
Nice subjective observation. My own: some of the most intelligent people I know are easily distracted by noise; other highly intelligent people that I know are not.
Hmm, thanks. Link for civvies like me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Electronics_Type_Designa... which gives the letters some rationality.
s/recruiter/programmer/ and the question makes just as much sense.
Came here to say this, in particular:

> This problem was never root caused, though we suspect an issue in the Celery workers themselves and not RabbitMQ.

So the problem wasn't Rabbit itself, but the usage/lack of understanding.
Spaced Repetition well explained or How to remember anything
The problem with XHTML is that the "abort on parse failure" behaviour simplifies a computer science problem at the expense of creating a business problem; now if you have an error somewhere in your content generation pipeline it means that the site goes down. That's a pretty difficult tradeoff given that most CMS are absoutely not designed in a way that ensures well formed markup.

Back in the dim and distant past when XHTML was a fashionable term to throw around, Evan Goer did a study of whether sites claiming to serve XHTML were actually doing so. The results were not pretty [1]. Some people took the results as a challenge and tried to ensure they were sending valid XHTML with the correct mime type so that browsers would catch fire in the case of a parsing failure. In almost every case it turned out to be possible to get their sites to break with user generated content (e.g. searchng for XML-invalid characters which were then echoed back onto the page).

So I contend we ran the XHTML experiment pretty thoroughly 15 years ago, and it turns out that it doesn't really work. Once you accept that parsing errors being fatal isn't viable for publishing, you have to have some kind of error recovery system. The one in HTML isn't ideal since it's basically just the codification of many years of improvisation and reverse engineering. Maybe something like XML5 [2] would be better. But figuring out how to move the world in that direction is an unsolved problem. Meanwhile HTML Just Works for most of the people most of the time.

[1] https://goer.org/Journal/2003/04/the_xhtml_100.html
[2] https://github.com/annevk/xml5
>> I'm not sure that narrowing degree qualifications is a win

Yep this is a problem, some (many) H1B people do not have a relevant degree in CS, not sure how this will work out for them.
Hilton Hotel heir something something TV show?
Not exactly comparable to a Roomba, but there is the Farmbot: https://farm.bot/

Ops, you said house plants. I guess my suggestion isn’t suitable for you, but might be interesting for other people so I’ll keep it here.
More forms of hand-ball contact are now considered a penalty.
Unfortunately that site is using TLS 1.0/1.1 and won't open in modern Firefox...
I recently bought ConnectX-3 too but not arrived yet. I have been thinking to use Infiniband bit I'm afraid to use it since I heard that it works completely different from Ethernet and I am zero knowledge in that.

How's your experience in Infiniband? Do NFS/SAMBA work well without significant works?
You can correct all mistakes by using backspace and retyping what you're meant to type.
I got a 100% accuracy in the end but that's what I expected as it's the same behavior in other typing exercises as well.
H1B visa holders already require being paid more than the prevailing wage for the same SOC job in the same area.

And no, the consultant chop shops haven't been an issue for at least four years now since USCIS started cracking down on them.
Super cool but I'm curious if anybody has figured out how to use the VSCode Juypter notebook integration with Google Colab?
Sad to see that Senx does not talk with its community
https://github.com/ovh/tsl/
This method used to work for me, but i don't know lately it's barely even touch my feeling about the very vast universe, and how tiny and unsignificant we are.
I think it's more like ~100k USD in Bangalore vs ~250k USD in the US if you include stocks. (Checking typical L4 Google salary in Mountain View vs India in levels.fyi)

Companies do prefer to have most of the development done in the US as far as possible, because there are intangible benefits from being in one time zone/in the same office etc., and for that office to be in the country which brings in most of the revenue.
For every job that's done by an immigrant, there are 10 that are moved overseas. Politicians have taught people here to look at the immigrant as the boogeyman while they silently kill regulations that prevent jobs being offshored.
It’s funny how this has become such a weird art form.

There are plenty of players (mostly strikers) who don’t do anything fancy but score 99% of the time by just picking top left or top right corner and hitting it so fast it’s impossible to save. Harry Kane is a good modern example, but Alan Shearer also never really missed penalties with the same idea.
Trello's is exposing admin feature flags to public
In the end how much did you really save?
AFAIK, even a master's degree has points which add to your total in the comprehensive ranking system.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

And those points matter towards getting a Permanent Residence Status.
I'd recommend you study some real math for this. Popular science articles and books are great entertainment but are distinctly different from the real deal.

You don't become a surgeon by watching Dr. House or a historian by watching the history channel. Don't expect to understand math by reading a wikipedia article. To really get it, you need to dive deep and get your hands dirty.
As there are already other projects using vscode to produce an online IDE, I think "just another" is quite fair.
We were cross-town rivals, then. David Lee Roth attended my high school (John Muir, also in Pasadena) three years ahead of me.

Here's my Van Halen story. In my last year of high school, one of my friends was a budding rock guitarist. He often talked about the local band Van Halen and what a great guitarist Eddie was. Van Halen was scheduled to play a show in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on January 25, 1975—thank you for the date, Wikipedia [0]—and my friend and I went together to the Berry & Grassmueck music store on Colorado Boulevard to buy tickets. At the counter, my friend said something like "I’m really psyched! We're going to get to see Van Halen! He’s great!,” and a fellow standing nearby perked up. After we left the store, my friend told me, “That was Eddie Van Halen!” Just hanging out in the local music store, apparently.

My main recollection of the show is that it was extremely loud: several stacks of Marshall amps in a concrete-lined exhibition hall and only a couple hundred people scattered around the floor to absorb the sound. I wore earplugs, but my ears still rang afterwards.

I see now that the next day was Eddie's twentieth birthday [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Van_Halen_concert_tours

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Van_Halen
Another large number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi#Origins
Really? What degrees have you seen from software engineer H1B candidates?
As a New Zealander, this level of pay just baffles me. Is the US the only place where SWE's get paid well compared to other professions?
This is why if you're in the Rails world, I'll always recommend Hatchbox [0]. It takes the PaaS layer from Heroku and applies it to generic nodes on DO or AWS - I'm grandfathered into a really good plan price, but even as it stands today, if you're building Rails apps, it's a great option.

[0] https://www.hatchbox.io/
As per discussions on Github it remains to be seen if Mono AOT is still the name of the game, or if CoreRT will take its place, or whatever.
But... why would you not just set the correct collation?
It awards penalty kicks even for unintentional touches of the ball, as far as it is not a ricochet. Before that the hand had to be in unnatural position to signal intend by the player.
A friend of mine was really unhappy at his job like 10 years ago, but he was kind of stuck. Two small children and a wife, not making a lot of money, and being a fairly average developer, working at a shitty company that heavily exploited their devs and relied on people not knowing they could just leave.

He eventually talked to a recruiter and told that recruiter about his situation and shyly asked whether he had anything for a developer of his skills. The recruiter reassured him, told him he'd find something for him and sent him home. The next day, he called my friend and asked him when he had time for an interview as he had two companies that were interested to meet him. They agreed and about a week later, he had signed a new contract and quit his old job, with a pay raise and a much nicer team.

My friend never wrote about it online. I'm pretty sure there's plenty of similar stories, but you won't hear about them, you'll only hear about the negative ones.
I'd wager the answer is that you're mistaken as to how much control the government exercises over its citizens in Europe.
Hotels and restaurants do indeed have thicker and more robust plates and utensils. Rough handling by guests and staff as well as the aforementioned pressure cleaning with aggressive cleaning agents make it necessary. Catalogues (picked randomly from google results, no relation): https://hotel.seltmann.com/
>>To the annoyance of my family some of these habits stick hard even today :-)

At the risk of sounding like a Meninist. I have to say one of the big reasons why Indian men leave behind families at home back in India, is because some of these struggles just can't be expected to be shared by their families. It just gets too much after a while, and after that you just have to keep up with it on sheer will power.

It takes a toll both on your body and mind.

I realize that in order to undergo some struggle analogous to this the American citizens have to undergo Navy Seals training or something. Or they run Ultramarathons just to create the human yearning for struggle and story :) And the attrition rate there is quite high.
Yes you can. All you need is for the company to have a foreign branch somewhere outside the U.S. That's it.
Interestingly, I know many scientists who take a general theistic worldview (might I say universeview?) despite (or, I think, because of) this vast universe. But their perspective generally has little to do with organized religion and often in really just an intelligent creator, who may or may not share qualities with “God”.
How familiar would you rate yourself with Middle East politics? From people I know who are quite deep into it, it’s actually a very significant change to the geopolitical balance of the region that will likely have a lot of ramifications going forward.
One can only imagine how long it would take a modern-day Jonathan Swift to reach -4 [flagged] [dead] around here.
This would work and this something that Angular DomSanitizer does [1]. But I personally am not a big fan of this solution as it has large performance penalty if the sanitized string is huge.

[1] https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/2038568f3e631cb15e91...
Show HN: I designed a series of squircle-less iOS 14 icons
Third-party code scanning tools: infrastructure as code and containe
Oh I love me a great analogy!!
For the kinds of jobs being moved, their merit-based points system grants permanent residency immediately and citizenship in 3 years. In the US, if you are from India, you can find yourself waiting for up to 20 years of indentured labor to get your green card.
I found that Mexico has interesting law that considers inflation. The unit is called UMA.

https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/mexico...
EPI is a Washington think tank funded by American labor unions.

I wouldn't take anything they publish about foreign labor seriously, especially how they cherry pick stats on that report.
A Heavily Commented Linux Kernel Source Code for Version 0.12 [pdf]
Yes, this is a perfect example for the nature vs. nurture debate.

While the kid building his reactor is almost certainly intelligent and driven, he was also lucky enough to be born into a family in the upper 1% income bracket, because most people would have neither the space nor the funds to set up such a laboratory.

It's kind of the same with child prodigy musicians. Unless the parents have a piano at home, they'll most likely not notice their kids talent early enough. And most middle-income families these days don't own a house and won't have a piano around for decorative purposes.

BTW, that harpers link is an amazing story :)
Yes. It's a form of sexual submission. It also plays strongly on the aspect of delayed gratification. Instead of orgasming and the chemical 'release' effect that entails, you are kept 'on edge' and, well, horny. The eventual (extreme lifestyle practitioners of this fetish excluded) orgasm tends to be much, much more intense.
Arm SystemReady – software that just works
Your point is still valid but yesterday I learned about the newest workstation cards from nvidia - A6000 series with 48GB

https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-rtx-a6000-a40-gpu-profession...