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The article says that's 4000 employees out of 1.3 million on government assistance. The only way they are still qualifying at $15 an hour is if they're a single mother with multiple children, or particularly disabled.

If you want companies to not have any employees like that on government assistance, they'll just stop hiring single mothers and disabled people. Their skills aren't suddenly worth $25/hr just because they have children.

The government subsidizing their pay is a good thing, and I hope it happens to more people like those 4000 at Amazon.
It's pretty hard to predict when a SPAC will merge, that's basically what your risk is: the time value of your money. However if you're buying at NAV, there's almost no downside risk other than that.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/jammu-and-kashmir/story/sout...

They just banned internet for million or so people in Kashmir.

Outright internet vban, twitter ban is nothing
Not quite. Animate exists, but acquiring it is prohibitively expensive. Flash was popular in no small part because it was easily pirated, and so cheap as free. Animate requires a prohibitively expensive yearly subscription fee.
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Even before Covid-19, nightclubs were struggling
Unfixed for 1 year, not years. I've got an instance of Commento running on two of my sites and haven't run into / heard of this issue on Firefox. Though I'm not using the Docker image.

Maybe give better steps to reproduce the issue, as it seems to only be happening to one other person?

It does seem like Commento's development has lost its momentum (last commit was 6 months ago). The author likely isn't getting more funding from Mozilla and is focusing on their primary money-maker, the cloud-hosted service.
> A typical car made in the 1980's would be lump of rust and barely functional after 50,000 miles.

True, but 1980 was more than 40 years ago. The cars since the early 2000s have been trending towards cheaper parts, lower quality transmissions, and turbo charged low displacement engines. They are dialing most cars production costs down until they last just long enough for the warranty to run out. Most car manufacturer warranties don't even have more than 60k miles.
I can't find a reference off hand, but from following along the JDK-Dev mailing list the philosophy is not to remove sun.misc.unsafe until all the features are available in other public APIs. They're well aware of how important it is.

Hopefully someone else can chip in with a better reference or I can find an appropriate cite to back this up.

Edit: Ah, here's an example:
https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/396

> It is not a goal to remove, encapsulate, or modify any critical internal APIs of the JDK for which standard replacements do not yet exist. This means that sun.misc.Unsafe will remain available.
I think it helps to view people as charitably as you can. I think Jeff, like most capitalists, is looking for leverage. So he wants to change the future, rather than mitigate the present.

There's certainly good faith arguments to be made against his choices. But I don't think one needs to imagine he's selectively blind or a hypocrite when different positive values and different time horizons serve to explain.
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The ship in the distance had its first explosion recently. I was actually worried briefly I had to have something built by then for shelter from the blast/fallout, or have to make it to the ship and disable something, with how much it was warning me about it, but the explosion seemed to make no difference.

I think I just haven't really started down the base-building path yet. I built a... purifier, I think, a small motorized thing, that's just currently floating outside my escape pod. I thought I built the pipes but I might not have yet, I don't have anything else unlocked. Would building the pipes unlock more things or do I need to hunt for something in the sea?

I know I figured things out a little more slowly than the game expected me to. I kept thinking I was supposed to explore more at the beginning than it wanted me to. I actually almost killed myself trying to reach the ship and trying to find a non-radiated section to enter, since the game made it sound like I needed to explore it right away, and before that explosion happened (now I know I'll need at least a radiation suit).

Now that I know that food and water becomes less of a hassle once I get that base started, I'm definitely going to push down that path, and I expect it will make things more enjoyable. Hunting the fish is one of my least favorite things so far.

I play most FPS games with a controller, have since Halo (Counter-strike/Valorant are exceptions). I prefer playing these games while sitting on the couch. I played through all of Outer Wilds on the PS4 and had no issues, for example. Even the new Doom game with its twitchy gameplay is plenty fun on the consoles.
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I think we killed it.
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Ask HN: Could what.cd have been considered an archive for copyright purposes?
I've been doing research into the history and demise of what.cd. If you don't know what what.cd is, it was a private bittorrent tracker that lasted for about 10 years. I find it fascinating:

- what.cd likely held the most complete digital archive of music in all of human history, surpassing any real world library archive.

- The rules of what.cd ensured high quality, bit perfect reproductions with checksum logs of the rips.

- Members of what.cd likely purchased as many, or more CDs as they downloaded, as the rules required this to remain a member.

It seems like the net cultural effects of what.cd far exceeds the economical cost. It was essentially a small club of digital archivists. If I was a librarian, it would make me very sad that it shut down and so much information was lost, likely forever. It's almost like the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria.

Given all that, would a system like what.cd be able to survive legally today, if it was defended as an archival/library? Can libraries be crowdsourced?
Ok, I mistook your mentioning of electrical connection as suggesting BPL as an alternative delivery mechanism.

But again, no NA carrier I'm aware of is pushing out new DSL DSLAMs anywhere in the country or even building out copper capability at all in new neighborhoods. Its a legacy technology that isn't being invested in, for good or ill.
This particular book/course is aimed at being accessible to even high school students. The projects stop short of the depth you'd see in a computer engineering degree because it ends up being a survey of CMPE. It's a good starting point for people who either are considering that discipline of formal study, or hobbyists/professionals with different backgrounds that want to understand hardware better.

Regardless, you'd need a different book or course to get what you're asking for in your last paragraph as that changes the scope and target of the book radically.
> If you can't tolerate Firefox because of Mozilla's problems, how can you possibly stomach Chrome/Chromium with Google at the wheel?

OT, but I think this is an interesting psychological phenomenon that occurs in a lot of settings, in particular politics: People, services, products etc are not judged by objective (or even just common) standards but by the standards they announce for themselves.

So someone who claims strict moral integrity and then falls short of that is seen as less trustworthy than someone who is upfront about being shady and then surprisingly acts less shady than expected.

If anyone knows a name for this effect, I'd like to know.
Ask HN: How Does a Canadian SWE/Data Scientist Make a Move to the US?
I've tried now and failed multiple times to make this move over my career. Primarily been interviewing with Tier 1 companies and not getting through, so I figure might make sense to try to get the attention of the Tier 2's to at least get into the market, but none have really reached out or accepted my applications.

Despite what the media wants you to think, Canada is not a good place to grow in IT and Software and ML. Best jobs here are being a part of a remote office for a FAANG or going to work for a Bank, or even just remote jobs for US companies since they'll pay you in USD which will mean you get an automatic 30% pay increase.

Pay is 2-3x less than the US, and CoL is about the same (especially if you want to buy something with a somewhat commutable distance to the major metros).

So my question to those who have successfully left later in their career (7-10 YOE), how did you manage it? What companies paid the most attention to you? What did your experience look like and how did you promote yourself if you weren't part of some hot startup like Shopify?

NOTE: I'm not here to argue the merits of the Canadian tech market. If you like it here, kudos to you and hope you find good growth opportunities.
I think Rust makes a compelling case for production code with a high degree of reliability without sacrificing too much performance. Something I think developers don't appreciate enough is that Rust helps you write code that doesn't crash nearly as much as something in C/C++, particularly with respect to how library authors express fallable code with option/result types and the lack of memory safety footguns like iterator invalidation.

Consumer software is better without crashes. It's sad how rife software is these days with segfaults that can be prevented by design.
Nice, second season is upcoming.
what is he supposed to do about the problem of hunger? at best he could fund research into new farming and production techniques, hoping for a breakthrough. and it seems like he's already doing that, along with many others.

I guess one of the downsides of great wealth is that people assume you can solve problems that have plagued humanity for millenia, but are just choosing not to
I'm curious about this. I have been using the same webpack.config.js file (save modifying paths) for nearly 3 years. I kid you not, yesterday, I finally decided to upgrade to the latest version of webpack because I am about to embark on a new project[0] for the next 6-8 months. It took me roughly 20 minutes to modify the file according to the latest configuration conventions and have everything up and running exactly the same. I find it unfathomable that maintaining a short config file is "too hard".

I decided to try my hand at using CRA for the first (and last) time to build a small app at work because it had recently hit the scene, and appeared to be fast-becoming the idiomatic way of engaging with the library and ecosystem. I don't even remember why at this point anymore, but I had some issue that required me (as in the docs at the time said so) to eject the app. My jaw literally dropped after I saw what the project had become. It was... thousands of LoC. And spread across so many files!

Clearly we have different definitions of "too hard", but, to me, the task of understanding all of that was "too hard". I am simply not wired in a way such that I can use a tool without understanding how it works (obviously within reason). I have to imagine that when you say you "didn't want to maintain a webpack configuration" that you mustn't really understand what that entails, and are using the output from an ejected CRA as a proxy for what that configuration must look like. I assure you, it's rather simple. I've spent 20 minutes in the last 3 years doing so.

[0] I would estimate the kinds of apps that I build are far more complex than the vast majority of use-cases (think fantasy sports draft/league management software).
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I don't think they'll ban Twitter. This isn't the first time ruling party is unhappy with it. Govt. would not want it to be escalated as it is already in a soft war with China and would need USA's support in it.
> Universal housing like SLC is doing is cheaper, more humane, and lightyears more effective.

I read about that program and it sounds amazing.

Decent public housing is pretty common in Europe as well.

I forgot to mention one major cost savings for a city. It is much easier for someone housed to get a job and recover financially than a homeless person.
I used MacPorts before Homebrew was a thing, and had plenty of experience with bsd ports going back to the late 90s.

Homebrew was just straight up better, no doubt about it. It wasn't "noobs," "good timing," or "tricky marketing." They were just better, even if still not what these posters desire.
These are terrible! The function of a cheat sheet is to provide information in a format that's better than reading a standard webpage. EVery one of the cheatsheets I clicked on would have been better as a standard webpage.

The only Lambda references appear to be in a side-by-side comparison with EC2, which is not helpful for anyone working with lambdas.

Just bad.
> Agreed, but this also raises the question: what should their course of action be?

To comply with the law.

No, I don't like it either, but I also don't like the idea of corporations having the ability to flout the laws of sovereign nations because they disagree with them.

> The course of action they followed implicitly supports human rights violations

This is not a "course of action" anymore than not committing a crime is a public service. Enforcing human rights laws is not Apple or Google's job, full stop. They are corporations who's goal is to make money, and that's it. Enforcing human rights is what Governments are for.

Instead of asking "why aren't Apple and Google helping activists in Pakistan?" ask "why is Pakistan allowed to abuse it's citizenry in 2021?"
That's a fair point. Pascal is no longer a commercially significant language. Still, I do run into solid little projects that are written in FreePascal from time to time. Sometimes not so little.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal
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Or switch to Firefox, which haS an address bar and a separate search-only box.
and where's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snz7JJlSZvw ? ;)
The (rather massive) flaw in your reasoning is the idea that Google and Apple are the solution to the problem.

If you live in a society without religious freedom, that's a big problem, but Apple and Google can't fix it.

If you care about the problem, it's important to understand this. If you succeed in getting people to focus on symptom of the problem and not the cause, you will help prevent it from being addressed.
Providing tools (strong encryption) isn't really the same as managing a whole market and dictating who can and cannot participate based on random whims.

If they were giving the FBI backdoors but not the UK or Pakistan, then it would be a different story.
They stopped doing that 2017.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
You assume all it takes is money to end world hunger.
> maybe sheds light on why Google decided not to hire Max.

This is the sort of myths we hold about interviews. That the company is doing such deep dive on us that they are reading our Github commits and considering the trade-offs of MacPorts vs. Homebrew architecture.
Yeah Lab Corp and all them work a lot on the supply side, but last mile consumer experience is awful. I think it's equally as hard to perfect that last mile consumer UX and distribution challenge, and probably more valuable long run (if you own the customer relationship, you have a lot of leverage to negotiate prices with vendors, and swap them out lego lego pieces, a la Apple).

Not to say that 23andMe will be the Apple of the space (and realistically Apple with Apple Health has a good shot at it), but I definitely don't think anyone wasting time with the B2B businesses will be the big gorilla in 10 - 20 years, and instead it will be a consumer facing company like 23andMe or someone.
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> We seek value in our policies and investments and this writing fails to convince that hypersonic weapons have no value.

So for defence spending you need not ask for "good value", you're willing to spend billions as long as zero value can credibly be denied? If they have great values, surely you could list some of them? After all you imply hypersonics have many, and dire advantages!

Anyway, the article does mention some advantages (later detection by OTH radar and ability to perform some evasive manoeuvrers), and then explains why these do not provide outstanding benefits. I guess you found this bit lacking and wanted a mention of some of the many other unique qualities hypersonics have?
I think natural entropy will solve that problem over time. Give Microsoft another year or two, and I think we’ll see a hard fork.

Looking back at WebKit, Google forked that into Blink. I don’t know why Firefox couldn’t do the same.

I suppose in a couple years we’ll be able to check this post to see if Microsoft has done a hard fork or not. Will be interesting to see.
> Symbolic gesture that won't pass, and will be used against the dems (rightfully) in 2022.

Since the Dems have the power to pass it, if it won't pass, it probably won't be used against “the Dems” generally.

It probably won't be used to much effect against even those that support it, since those that support it will probably be those whose constituents do, too.
It seems the intention of the study is precisely to determine the impacts that these plugins have on prevention (or facilitation) of fingerprinting.

I think it should eventually complete, since mine did and I use a similar constellation of privacy plugins -- I think there is a timeout that eventually occurs once the various fingerprinting methods fail.
an interesting experiment is that with a politically charged post on India, many Indians will comment to criticize their own country and Pakistanis and some middle East folks would chime in too. but in case like this where Pak is involved, thry are all absent from discourse. not a single pakistani wants to criticize their country. Why ?
Or you could add a 'salt' to the location, before adding randomness, so there is an unknown offset.
I frequently wonder how many Einstein level ideas have been lost because people have to work meaningless jobs with mediocre bosses to put food on the table instead.
Yes. Exactly. How do we as outsiders know the us govt isnt doing backchannel deals with faang, even with one is enough to get the ball rolling.

Even if thats not the case, my question still stands. If American companies banned parler, why dodgy govt intervene like how it tries to potray a sense of high handedness when it comes to Iran.
If the can sanction companies to not serve Iran, cant they force them to serve parler in the first place?
If not then they are silently agreeing with faang decision, against free speech
Wow, this is easy!
I’m not sure anyone claims their reason for not using Firefox is that they think Google is a better organisation than the Mozilla Foundation.

I agree that browser diversity is a good thing for the web, and I’d love it if Firefox was more popular. But I’m not going to let that motivate my reasoning about whether it’s a good web browser.
I have had a number of similar notebooks over the years. Every one of them has been lost to the washing machine, so the future is saved from my random collection of notes and missives. Though I've stopped wearing cargo pants so it's less likely they'll be missed in a pocket search in the future, maybe something will survive.
Yet England feel way more secular than USA in practice, given how much Christianity seems to matter in US politics.
I'm a lowly, very dumb user too. I ran Brew doctor and realized that the default installation is now in /opt/homebrew (which to my dumb ears seems like it solves most complaints I've heard about Homebrew).

Since Homebrew threw a warning at me with my old install in /usr/local, I completely uninstalled and reinstalled Homebrew 3.0.
If I were Jeff I'd be calling up Elon and thanking him for taking all of the attention away so I can do what I want.

Perhaps I just don't have the ego to be a billionaire.
If you don’t like what the SPAC is going to do then you can get your money back before it’s used in the acquisition.
There's enough talks in here to last me most of 2021
Not nearly as uncommon as you’d think. Bigcos have all sorts of data requirements. One of my first jobs involved pulling tapes from libraries and sending them off to Iron Mountain every day (and on occasion retrieving and restoring from said tapes).

On the biggest end, you have folks like AWS glacier with an absurd amount of homemade libraries (and generally no tapes stored on/off-site outside of libraries)
I'm going to go with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli... on this.
It’s a big task to calculate the net benefit/harm of one person, much less something like a large company.
short positions do not have to be reported to SEC, so you just can't know. there's ample evidence that melvin's short positions have been closed at about the time GME rose to $150 the first time - a lot of other stocks enjoyed the same general upwards movement indicating somebody closing a diverse lot of shorts.
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> Twice it is stated that hypersonic missiles have "few" advantages over cruise or ballistic technologies. But few isn't zero and the difference could be crucial.

But isn't that the author's point? That these weapons are evolutionary, not revolutionary?
Yeah, I was going to chip in; there are two kinds of stable.

You can say "Java N" is more stable than "Java 8" because they crash less often under fewer circumstances.

But you can also say "Java 8" is more stable than "Java N" because we know most of the bugs in "Java 8" already so we can avoid them (and we don't exercise the unknown bugs very often because we'd have worked around them by now if we did).

Often that second kind of stability is more important than the other one.
As a part time game developer who uses mostly C++ and a bit of Python, I have considered writing a project with Rust a few times, but I've always struggled to find meaningful examples. This is game-changing.
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I don't subscribe to the idea of creating so much additional code for a relatively simple constraint.

Code should be dense. Dense means a lot of important constraints implemented in small amount of code.

Sorry, but I can't believe how wrong this is. "Dense" is a really poor metric for code quality. "Simple" is a much better metric. And one aspect of "simple" is "not interwoven".

So the question here is, could the new code I'm advocating be implemented in a way that is simple and not interwoven? That is, not adding complexity to any of the rest of the code base. It is nothing more than a safer leaf.

And the answer is, in this case, yes. This does not increase the complexity of the code base. The amount of code added is commensurate with the need to make sure it's not a foot gun.

Clever naming, or visibility restriction, is a poor solution. You may prevent the function from being called explicitly more than once. But you don't prevent future refactors from leading to the function that calls that thing being called more than once.

The crucial bit of humility that is necessary is to realize that there's no way you can foresee how these problems will come up in the future. The only thing you can do is be defensive.
I'm glad to be proven wrong about this! It's not a site I or any of my other heavily database-engineering-focused colleagues were aware of. It seems to be rather new (~2015), which might be why.

It seems to just be one fellow's blog, though, addressing only a haphazard collection of topics so far as he feels like writing about them. Whereas CanIUse.com (despite also mostly being the work of a single author) is more designed as a complete reference work, and is a FOSS project open to contribution (https://github.com/fyrd/caniuse). So, not quite the same.