skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case, wouldn't it be better to review which programming job positions pay decently and are open where you live -- or are willing to relocate to -- and see which languages they are asking for? It's unlikely that COBOL will be your top choice.

Otherwise you're "putting the cart before the horse", so to speak. Plus listing COBOL in your resume can have a detrimental effect in future job interviews, at least at some companies.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3722299
The people want green policies. The people vote in the politicians. The politicians tend not to last more than a few years.

The fact that many industries (and associated jobs) will migrate outside the EU by the end of the decade is a tragedy for the EU, bit isn't on the minds of either the politicians or the people right now.
it took a lot of time but i do like the cypress approach. there are weird things like how you can’t get the current time because all lines execute immediately and are evaluated later. but once you get your handle on .then and .wrap it is good. they should have picked a different name than .then because it’s not a promise but looks like one
Seeing how the CCP currently and actively mistreats Uyghurs, and that the flag represents the CCP, I’d say your logic is correct. The Chinese flag does represent the human rights abuses performed by the Communist Party.
The Nintendo Switch outsold the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
Plenty of xountries have been comitting genocide recently. Canada and china for one, the us too, etc..
An old guy who teaches people how to paint in a fun way is interesting? The only agenda is getting people to watch CNN for CNN. This story will get eyeballs for a little while. Sometimes the news is just the news. Even when people think the news is some kind of conspiracy, it usually is just the news trying to get attention and sell some ads.
Two-Die Xeon? Leaked Sapphire Rapids Photo Teases Chiplets
There are enough repercussions for deviating from the norm in modern western societies, especially offline. Again, toxic people congregating to indulge in their __wrong__ beliefs wouldn't be nearly as bad online if they weren't ostracized offline.

I agree, there must be a way to have the better beliefs to survive and the lesser beliefs die, but ostracizing people who hold the lesser ones doesn't rid them of the beliefs.
Video: C Programming on System 6 – SOCKS5 Support
If there are limits, its not free.
Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700
Although I will probably disable this like Pocket, thank you for doing this in a more private way than Google does with the newsfeed in Chrome.
Maybe it's gotten fixed in the last year ?

Thank you , I'll keep that in mind the next time I build a front end testing stack
Last I checked the British and Americans did not murder millions of their own citizens for political power, as happened in USSR.
No, Windows provides a stable ABI for decoding PNG images, it's called the Windows Imaging Components library[1]. I don't think it's sustainable to expect every application to ship effectively an entire distro to provide stability. Consider if my app shipped an old version of gnutls, would you be happy to use that? Should it be my responsibility to update it for eternity? With win32, on both Windows and Linux via Wine, you can just use the win32 bcrypt library and assume the underlying implementation is secure and up to date.

Win32 is the only solution for a usable, stable, application-level ABI on Linux. I don't like that fact either.

[1] See CLSID_WICPngDecoder here, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincodec/...
Over-ear headphones are older than earbuds, how do you relate this preference with getting old?
This policy is probably a necessary precondition for including trade. It lets them negotiate from the moral high ground.
Involved yes. But it is quite limitation in terms of creating design that is not wtf for majority.
Because the only communication platform (mail) was the government.
Any decently competent technical leader can tell if a developer is being productive or not. It's stupid to waste time trying to measure something that is virtually unmeasurable.
You're right. Similarly, I cannot express how good this site really is in just a few words. Having been an enthusiastic amateur photographer for decades as well as having worked in electronic imaging for about as long, this is one of the best practical illustrations of the subject that I've come across.

I'd highly recommend it to anyone who is seriously interested in the underlying 'mechanics' of imaging.

(Incidentally, anyone whose has read my many anti-JavaScript raves, then I'd only say this is exactly how JavaScript ought to be used.)
Its awful that most people here are criticizing COBOL, yet they don't even know it, but they just "heard bad things about it".

In my country and in Sweden it is quite easy to get good and stable job in banking/insurance/consulting business with Cobol on Z/OS.

Salary is around 10-30k PER MONTH. Around 3x more then in let's say Java.
They moved their production out of EU into China, US or even Turkey.

Of course they won’t come back. Congrats.
Holy shit, I need to erase this from my memory.
Similar to the Bose QC20. I have both, and am starting to prefer the APP, but batteries don't last as long. I keep using the QC20 wired some each week too.

In both cases those 'transparency modes' do filter out a bit of useless noise, and I do feel a bit more 'aware' of things/people outside me with that mode on. I've often thought that's also at least partially because I intentionally switch to that mode for a reason (then switch back to full noise cancelling when done).
Very fun!

It would be cool if this was a bit faster, so you'd be able to move the mouse around and see it flashing up different pictures of people pointing at it in real time.
You’re probably right. That said what is an example of something you can’t do note that you could do with more open HW, at a personal level. I get that distributing apps at scale isn’t doable without going through some store . But at a personal level what are the types of things that tinkerers can’t do with a Mac or Arm based PC?
I'd love to see logic taught in schools. Like philosophy of argument style courses. Of course this won't fix all the problems, since it depends on the acceptance and practice of the knowledge presented (US grades and high school graduation rates aren't great). But maybe it would give us a chance at being a little better.

I think citizenship tests should be extended to all via school curriculum. If we require people who immigrate to know our laws and how the system is supposed to work, then I don't see why the people already here shouldn't also be required to know this basic info.
Erno Rubik: ‘The Cube has his own voice’
Gruber is an “embedded journalist” all the way. I kind of expect him to give random bad reviews to lower priority items to build credibility for when he gushes over the M1 processor.

I’m not saying he takes orders from Cupertino but there’s no need for that. Heck, I was once a fanboy and I didn’t get freebies.
One of the more unexpected things on a good pair of noise canceling headphones was hearing conversations on airplanes that folks thought were private. Eliminating some of the background hum almost feels like a super power at times. (And occasionally an unwanted one)
A more likely output would be chinese factories blatantly lying and certifying that such dohicky was produced using 450 tons of emissions and transport only uses like 350 tons of emissions.

And you wouldn't have any way of verifying whether it's true and demonstrating it's false.
Launching the Lock Poisoning Survey
I bet if we do a demographic IP check that is what most HN logins come from.

I surely do, whatever Porsche and Ferrari do have very little repercussions on the automotive market, if you want a comparison.
>Would it not be better for users, if private platforms also provided the same free speech guarantee that the government is obliged to give.

No, because forcing social media platforms to publish speech they object to would infringe upon the free speech and free association rights of those platform owners. Twitter has the right to decide what it will and will not allow on its platform, and it has the right to change the rules as it sees fit. And I guarantee that everyone with an account had to agree to terms of service to that effect.

And no, just in case this comes up, Twitter doing so does not mean they somehow stop becoming a "platform" and become a "publisher" and should lose Section 230 protection. That's not how Section 230 works, and the distinction between platform and publisher commonly used in these arguments doesn't really exist in a legal sense - Twitter is allowed to moderate their platform beyond merely removing illegal content, and can even express political bias in doing so - while remaining not liable for user supplied content.
Do you run an ad blocker in your browser?
> everything Croateam does

You mean eveything Croteam did. They stopped doing Linux ports after Alen Ladavac left for Stadia.
If the outcome is 'the West' handicapping its economies while China continues its growth and expansion, then will you not end up with a situation decades down the road where we all live in a China-dominant world?
Given the number of Republicans supporting the current "what evidence, just hand me the election" self-coup attempt, I honestly think that around half of Americans have decided they don't want democracy, because the wrong guy might win.
Good idea, will do it from now on. Black? Yes. White, yes. Potatoe? Yes.

But seriously - these race questions seem wildly out of place in countries like Poland where 99% people are white, and sure there is racism, but there are better determinants for disadvantaged groups - like the place someone was born in, or family income.
If you're not on at least 2 lists, you have a boring life.
Not the person you originally applied to, but in my opinion this is most likely because corporations used to be extremely restricted in other aspects. Corporations were limited to operations listed in the charter they applied for and often could be immediately dismantled if they were found to be doing anything in violation of the law.

This mostly changed due to 'corporate personhood', the idea that corporations should have the same rights as people.

This article goes in to a lot of how this has lead to corporate abuses of power:

https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol41...

This one's an easier read, but basically an editorial on the one above:

https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-histor...
I think what he means with "needs more than 1 vendor" is that there exist a competitor to Dell (or now HP) that provides roughly the same service they can switch to if they are not happy with their services. With Apple the only supplier is Apple. There is no other supplier you can switch to if the relationship with Apple gets to the point that you can not work with them anymore.

This ignores the operating system from the equation. Basically there is no effective replacement for Windows or macOS (or Linux). Whichever platform you pick you are stuck with due to legacy/having to retrain hundreds (if not thousands) of workers if you want to switch.
Here's a picture of all the different regions:https://imgur.com/a/oYDA5Ja

For those curious if how it works, Paul Irish did a breakdown of it quite a while ago: https://youtu.be/Z2ZXW2HBLPM

TL:DW - Vornoi Diagrams[1] and manual tagging, no machine learning needed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
Another angle here is the amount of people communicating and making a living thru facebook, particularly in third world countries (i am born in, and still living in).

The accessible value in tapping the network effects of FB as a communication platform is quite an okay amount of democracy.

But on the other hand I think the polarity in US (and large countries like RU and CH) is quite relative to the size of their countries.. is there any science to that lol
How Has the Culture at Google Changed Since 2010?
Those who no longer work at Google, that did over a decade ago; how do you think Google has changed as a company and culture, and do you think these changes were inevitable?
Ownership provides insulation from cash flow problems. It seems like it's just a book trick and real estate speculation is so lucrative that any investor wants to optimize businesses against their best interest as long as they own real estate.
ARM instances are usually 10% cheaper than their equivalent instance.

How exactly did you achieve such a dramatic reduction in cost? The graviton instances aren't faster than the Intel/AMD options, so you need at least the same number of instances unless something else changed.
As I understand it, his priorities for headphones are comfort, noise cancellation and good sound, not necessarily in that order, but comfort is a big factor, so I can see why he focused in on the weight.

If you’re looking for a solid AirPods Max review as headphones, not just as an Apple product and where it fits and yadda yadda yadda, this is not the review you want. I haven’t seen the review you want yet, but it should show up somewhere soon.
Not sure if you can make money directly with exploitation on facebook or twitter...on PornHub you can.
> Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising. [0]

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...
Paying for dead cobras always pays off.

Also ticket != value. Lots of tickets for things that involve almost no work and things that actually make a difference to the customer/product are not equal.

Everything I work on is new products/projects and tickets come in all sizes and shapes, and often change daily as some exec crams in more new ideas or some designer or product person "clarifies" the ticket, even after the work is done. Tickets are often written and estimated long before decisions are actually made. Defects are written that require a lot of investigation only to discover it's some other teams problem and you can't do anything or turns out to be a temporary service outage no one communicated or misconfiguration in some CMS or even plain simply not understanding what the product does.

Measuring productivity by tickets closed is a whole pile of dead snakes.
I don't completely agree with this. Money can affect developer productivity, but it takes time to realize its value. Money makes things easier. That person whose being paid the smallest amount possible, is probably trying to just scrape by. Paying people more money frees their personal life up to handle other things, less stress about family stuff etc. I never believed the "leave your personal life at the door," thing. How you live affects your work, and making life easier makes people more productive (on average, not all cases). Now this isn't an immediate thing. It's an investment and it takes time. The person has to realize that money is available (emotionally) and start to trust it will be there.
I built 2 games, 200K downloads. I didn't quit to work on that particularly but it took me only 3 weeks to build a very simple react native trivia game that I knew instantly it was going to be a hit. The game is only for a specific european country, so, for the total population, it was pretty cool. It was top charts on app store / play store for a while and the hundreds of reviews of people loving the game changed my life.

I eventually needed to take a job since it wasn't profitable for long (2-3 months) and my plan now is to build other games and quit the boring corporate job once for all.

The only advice I have: launch as early as you can.
On my second game I waited unnecessary months, and I realized I could've prioritize a lot better.
Today I learned that the internet is AWESOME.
Hey Breck, I was one of those staying on your couch. Had a great time and yes, without AirBNB wouldn't have been able to connect to great people around the Bay Area.
Luckily, flash isn't needed any more: https://html5zombo.com/

We should have always known, as anything is possible at ZomboCom.
Sidestepping any consideration of taste or art, I was bemused to find a selection of albums by ventriloquists:

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/hallofsh30.htm
Macs in general are terrible for triple-A gaming. I doubt any Mac in existence can run a Bootcamp's version of Cyberpunk 2077, except maybe a Mac Pro with a top-end GPU, or maybe an eGPU would work, assuming you could get a top-end AMD or Nvidia eGPU.

On top of that, there's a lack of raw mouse which Apple hasn't fixed despite over a decade of people begging. This really fubar's FPS games where absolute control over sensitivity, acceleration curves are crucial for mechanics (e.g. countering recoil and flick shots in Counter-Strike)
Funny right now I'm trying to decide between 60Mbps for $29 or 100Mbps for $38 here in Ecuador. I live alone. I'll probably go with 100Mbps not because I need that 40Mbps but because I believe it'll more reliably be >= than the 20Mbps I need to live and work.
"Yes, more features make a better language"
At the pace of what Rust is adding feature, it's the next C++ in the next 5-10years.
By pulling the break, give the system time to adjust and come up with efficient ways of integrating the people already in the country and when we start to see positive numbers then we can start taking in more people again.
I don't think noise cancelling headphones protect you from hearing damage though so you made the right choice
I know it’s tempting to believe only the audio specs matter, but would you buy a receiver with great output and only one jack?

There’s more to it, perhaps.

The ecosystem integration, materials are apparently above the plastic-y norm, the just works without fiddling with EQ...

Oh and buying them is not compulsory. Really very little reason to even login to post this, given reality on the whole.

Thanks for sharing I guess. Not sure how salty hot takes make HN “better” than Reddit. The rules mean nothing.
I've always assumed this is more a factor of installing linux "aftermarket" versus the manufacturer able to be careful about the bios+os interop, rather than anything with the OS itself. I imagine hackintoshes are similar.

AFAIK linux-only distributors like System76 don't have this problem.
If anyone of us has not learned the lesson yet.

> Real programmers don't write in COBOL. COBOL is for COmmon Business Oriented Laymen who can run neither a business nor a real program.

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/RPDEQ.html
This applies to all media though. I love the discovery channel but not all commercials. I love “Life Below Zero” but it’s filmed in a way to maximize the chance you turn to it when channel
Surfing, and getting you to watch ads. it’s not optimized for long term viewing.
In the real world there are always limits.

Absolute free speech, like the free market, has only ever existed in theory. In practice even most free speech absolutists are just quibbling over where to draw the lines of censorship and tolerance.
Which hardware are you using? My assorted Thinkpads haven't had that trouble in quite a while. (Although the sleep/wake stuff definitely seems janky to me in terms of UI behavior.)
Drivers. The way laptops sleep and wake is pretty unique to each type of computer, and many manufacturers don't care about Linux support so kernel developers are left to figure it out on their own.

I haven't used Linux on a desktop/laptop in a decade so it's sad to hear that things are still the same.
There’s a personality type that enjoys complaining that their city is just the worst and they would leave if they weren’t just so accommodated etc. I’m not saying that’s you; I don’t think it is.

But when it happens in Sweden, do they call it “Stockholm syndrome”?
It's a photo of a nude 10 year old.
When it comes to audio quality and red wine I am completely unable to appreciate the quality differences over a certain minimum threshold, which is quite low (at least as measured by price). Maybe I would be able tell the medium level stuff from the very high end if I was allowed to compare them to each other in an undisturbed environment, but if I then had to guess which was the more expensive, I would likely get it wrong a good chunk of the times. I usually tell people that my senses are just not acute enough, but secretly I suspect that most people who claim to be able to appreciate the differences that I am unable to, really aren't either and are at best just experiencing the placebo effect. The fact that you report to be disappointed by the audio quality of the HomePod, a product that a lot of reviewers praised first and foremost for its audio quality, does nothing to relieve me of this suspicion.

Who knows whether or not I am right or not? What I am quite certain of, is that I'm not likely unique when it comes to not being able to appreciate the small differences in quality that cost the most. Which is to say that for me and a lot of other people, it seems pointless to get hung up on whether one pair of very good headphones sound marginally better than another pair of very good headphones. Unless you're working in a studio as a sound producer, at a certain point the audio quality simply ceases to be the most important attribute of a pair of headphones. I don't know if it's true that you can get a pair of wired IEMs that sound better than the AirPods Pro, but even if it is, it's irrelevant, because the AirPods Pro sound fine to most people who buy them.

Through the years I've owned several different brands of headphones in the price range $100–$150 that I bought because reviewers claimed they were extraordinarily good value for the money when it came to sound quality. And maybe they were, but I've hated most of them for getting mostly everything else wrong: Wrong length of wire, wrong placement of microphone and buttons, and just horrible build quality.
Ah, it's another entry to the good old "Google search for 'Florida' + your birth month and day and see what happened" lol
good point, we just gave them syphilis

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
Murdering millions of other nations citizens is equally as bad or even worse than murdering your own.
Reasons to Build Hybrid Mobile App – By Valentin Podkamennyi
The book How To Change Your Mind has a great deal of the history and current state of the science.
You are late in your monthly payment to BLM and black owned businesses.

It's called "corporate freedom"
Eh I don't need that review. I'm actually interested in the portability over anything else, because I'd consider wearing these over the AirPods Pro if they were light enough. I've already "invested" too much in hifi headphones and the whole setup as it is :)
There is a lecture by the late Randy Pausch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&vl=en). The gist of the part I'm mentioning is, "When I stop correcting you, I've given up on you." People who don't voice their opinions aren't necessarily happy, they quite possibly have decided it's not worth trying to change things.
Hard problem part 1 doesn't really indicate that they did / will solve a problem though. It's work, but is that 'productivity'?

That seems kinda arbitrary to just manipulate the issue into tiny pieces to fit some sort of metrics system... but not reflective of the actual work.

That seems to just lead to the typical gamification that comes with counting tickets and other metrics systems that end up being arbitrary or even easily manipulated.

Ticket measuring just seems like asking for Goodhart’s Law.