skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my perspective the U.S. has steadily shifted to the right the last 40 years. What was once Republican ideas are now labeled socialist. For example consider Romneycare and it’s similarities to Obamacare. It was Nixon who created the EPA. These are just examples to express my idea and are not meant to be taken as exhaustive.

I see no change in the rightward shift. I think it will continue for some time. I believe Republicans are committing demographic suicide and that in 2032 things will be very much different in terms of power if white nationalism continues to be implicitly embraced by the party. Voter suppression works for a while but is not a long term strategy.
And postgresql has the similar
ltree datatype https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/ltree.html
Fixing mistakes, typos, and errors are good things. Many articles and people suggest fixing typos in documentation for your first open source contributions. I would be interested if I found a new GitHub account with multiple accepted/pending PRs fixing things.
Old advertising displays in the analog era used prisms that would turn in synchronicity to display one of three images. Their refresh rate was many seconds, but they still found (and continue to find) use in advertising anywhere from low-cost highway billboards to low-power display stands in malls and parking lots.
I know this option isn’t the best, but check out rentacoder or freelancer. You’re going to get underpaid, and competing with lowest-cost vendors. This is contract, 1099 work, so no employee benefits. (But! If you play your cards right and understand taxes and laws, it can be more lucrative).

However, what you have going for you is that you can speak and write English well. You do not have to (and should not mention) where you live, or your own circumstance. Most people are looking for someone cheap to do short projects.

The goal here is to bootstrap your experience with paid projects, even if the pay is low. You use that to then get in front of larger projects or part time work.

Pick a tech platform or a platform family and stick with it, at least initially. You’re looking for projects that, after completing them, will get you in the door with stuff that pays well.

Anything that you develop that you can put into github, you should. Usuallly, contracts are done as work-for-hire. You might be able to negotiate keeping copyright. You might not. However, tools and scripts you write to assist with it should get posted. Your hobby projects should go there too.

Now, to talk specifically about your strengths. If you love teaching and you are good at writing, one thing you can do is to start blogging about your projects, or writing tutorials. It is a kind of psychological or marketing jujutsu. Teaching something implies expertise and authority, so long as the content is competent. You can even frame this as documenting your experience learning something. Just make sure that you brand this as you authoring the thing.

Last, give some thought to speciality. If you are known to be able to solve problems in specific areas, people come to you. Some people write web apps. Some people do devops/sre/infrastructure. Some people write low latency multiplayer game servers.
Not good enough for San Francisco, car property theft even happens now while the cars are being driven by people:

https://abc7.com/car-robbery-traffic-thief-jumps-out-of-robs...
Some fun ones. What was more interesting to me was that a couple of my contemporaries who were taught by him also then went on to be in top ten groups.
The strange case of Xfinity login failure
It's the timing that makes it suspicious. It's exactly for this reason that I usually don't click the "unsubscribe" link for the first few emails I get. After all, if it's a one-off, why bother?

But I have scripts that count them, and when they get to five I then make the decision. Again, sometimes I continue simply to bin them, but sometimes I click the unsubscribe link. Mostly then they stop and there's no additional problem, but more than once that address has been used on other spam emails, and only after the unsubscribe.

Do you have actual evidence that it doesn't happen? You might, as others have, be arguing that it's not worth the spammers' effort. But setting up a script triggered by an unsubscribe is pretty trivial, and emails can then be sold at a premium, accompanied by a certificate of sorts that the address is valid.

So maybe it is worth their while.
alt is not an independent modifier you can assume would play a similar role in a different context. Alt-right is just an alternative rightwing movement.

My personal take would be that alt right is a rightwing suberversion of traditional american conservatism. In addition to largely white identity politics, there's also a strong push for anti-establishment, and indifference to traditional norms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

> The term is ill-defined, having been used in different ways by various self-described "alt-rightists", media commentators, and academics. Groups which have been identified as alt-right also espouse white supremacism, white separatism, right-wing populism, anti-immigration, racism, anti-communism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, antifeminism, homophobia, and Islamophobia.
I'd say computers can be as fun as they ever were. When I get a rare moment of free time to hack on my personal projects, low level CLI utilities generally, that's as fun as it was hacking on the same type of tools in the 80s.

But the computer industry as a profession, certainly way less fun. In the 90s Silicon Valley was places like Sun, SGI, HP, Cisco; building custom hardware and software. One got to work on compilers, kernels, server code and network stacks and all kinds of projects where correctness and performance mattered. Rewarding fun work.

Today Silicon Valley is Google (ads), FB (ads), NFLX (movies), Apple (cool, actual hardware and software product, but IMO too tightly walled-garden to be any fun).

Now, of course, yes there are people still working on hard problems and low level systems but those jobs are few and far between, have no recognition anymore and don't pay well. To follow a path of career progress, it's just adware or dumb webapps.
Currently sessions are database-backed, but that can still scale a lot, especially if you use Redis. However we do plan to add JWT-based auth at some point.
>Imagine onboarding for Netflix including a pleasantly designed screen saying "Before you can use Netflix, you must Enable Third-party Stores. Go to Settings > Privacy..."

Then we deal with that later?
Lower threshold for one to occur. A cancel attempt can be really small. Sometimes a single person is enough.

More targeted and more often aimed at specific individuals.

As a side effect of the above, it is much easier to devolve into harassment and worse crimes than when it was a business that was being boycott.

More access to data to cancel on. Much easier to take information out of context now that social media exists.

Cancels also take on characteristics of a meme. A given behavior may lead to a cancel attempt while far worse behavior by others is ignored. There is a lack of rhyme or reason that pairs up with how some things become a meme and other similar things do not.

What is considered worthy of being canceled has increased to include many actions that the majority does not feel comfortable cancelling over, but given the previous changes a smaller group is needed to convince HR that someone should be fired.
Lol HN finally sounds like ZeroHedge. It's taken 5 years. The game was over in 2019 when Repo rates spiked.

An economy that can't function at 2% interest, much less 7% (historical average) is dead in the water.

They'll release a new Central Bank fiat stablecoin and try to keep the Ponzi going.
It implies that a user loading software on their own device is doing it from the side, rather than this being a normal way to install software.
I have great success with https://fyne.io/ used it to build my home grown MFA app (written in Go, work on iOS, Android, Desktop). granted it takes a bit of binding in C to work on iOS.
No one that actually means they won’t sell to random internet strangers has a price listed up front and center. This is likely a CYA from the legal department.
Honestly, I feel good about this (I'm Australian too).

It's causing pain to the government now, to put pressure on re-evaluating their ridiculous proposal.

Besides the obvious drawbacks of the proposal, there would also be side-effects that won't be seen until later, and I'm glad the side-effects are being shown right now to try and stop this whole mess.
Would you consider this person[1] to be transphobic? He is not a conservative and yet holds similar views to that of Shapiro.

[1] https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/
it's also stifling innovation to be restricted to one store front. Imagine if all you had was Walmart, Target and KMart (iPhone, Android and Windows). "you can't build a new store because of all the R&D Walmart has put into their stores".

You act like all the R&D isn't paid for with phone sales and development kits ($99/year).

If you want to restrict the market? The price of that restriction should be regulation.
Rails is often regarded as the Get Shit Done framework.
And human drivers, who habitually drive at least 5mph over the speed limit, are going to experience some major frustration when these habitually drive 1mph under the speed limit.

I don't think people are ready for this part of it. I foresee dedicated lanes.
You're getting downvoted but you're right. It makes good business sense to have what Marx called a "reserve army of labour", a percentage of unemployed people such that there is always more demand for jobs than there is supply, ensuring wages and labour conditions get pushed down.
Nope they are other way around cleaning one's bottom than toilet paper. They are nothing more empowering than a washing machine to clean-up clothes.

Please watch the video because I guess from you answer that you haven't...

Beside my point was just that you choose a particularly bad exemple this is not a thread about washing machine vs smart clothes... (even though washing machine probably win against jacquard which is not water proof)
Back in the dark ages, mail loops happened more frequently. I learned the importance of spending the money for an extra spindle for the spool partition that way.
I wouldn't believe anything the Daily Mail writes, even if it agrees with your priors. It's just such an awful newspaper that it makes me consider if the deal was legit.
While famous worldwide, the Swiss data protection law only states what is forbidden and what is permitted. It doesn't include any mention on what happens when you break the rules.

It has many "ifs" but not a single "then". It's like a parent threatening a child not to do something in the hope that the child never responds with "or what?"

Authorities have issued several advisories against global actors but whether or not they decide to comply is purely based on political agenda.

In my opinion, the answer to your question (was the resilience of the Swiss data protection law tested) is no, simply because it can't be tested.
Friscoians.
Nothing except a hardware root of trust sealed by keys owned by Apple?
A few tens of articles, about things which are almost always resolved.

I personally have had updates rejected, and then simply resolved the issues and resubmitted.

It’s simply false to say that apps are just pulled at any time.

You have allowed a few voices on hacker news to give you a false impression.
Probably the most straightforward thing to do is to learn and implement your own based on an early Forth like FIG Forth or Forth 83: http://www.forth.org/fig-forth/contents.html

http://forth.sourceforge.net/standard/fst83/

There are certain cosmological nuances of Forth that come through by the time you get to where you have bootstrapped IF ELSE - and while later Forths add more features(which is great for production uses) they aren't the essence of Forth, which is in the minimalism.

Factor is also so much different that it deserves another category, despite syntactic resemblance.
a metoo on sex in the music industry would be one reaction to the article, another would be a metoo about mafia involved and controlling your industry.

The second one looks much much gutsy tbh..
People need to stop believing in Hanlon's Razor.
I heard all about that but I really don't think it matters all that much for the vast majority of players. People who are really active in video game communities are indeed likely to be annoyed at this and loudly complain online, but I'm sure the vast majority of casual players won't care massively about any of this. In particular all the online features. I'm in my 30s, do you realize how hard it is to schedule anything with my friends?

Paying for exclusives is a bit of a bummer but game development is pretty damn competitive as it is, Epic injecting a lot of money to secure exclusives might actually do some good for indie devs.

In my experience most of these exclusivity deals are temporary anyway, so you just have to wait 6 months to a year to get it on your store of choice. That's a fair compromise IMO, especially since nobody bothers to release finished games anymore anyway, so you might as well get the finished version on Steam on sale a year later.
Just sign up for Facebook through Australia.
(So don’t just do documentation pull requests. Blog about the project itself, why you like it, help promote it, write a short tutorial about it on your own blog.)
To be clear, that was my point. You can't punish the computer and good luck finding the one to punish for an accident ten years later.
But maybe if it's free software...
Shapiro is right-wing mainstream conservative, not alt-right.
Not entirely true. But the ones who were paying attention to the American Civil War, which provided ample warning, were widely ignored.
There are definitely many applications for slow refreshing displays.
But I would actually suspect, that advertisers would prefer the LCD as it is active. It catches the eye more, than the passive e-ink.
well, many people driving around also don't reach the "human-level AI" too :) The computer beats me in chess, while it still would fail to find the proof i came up with in my Math MS thesis. Is the driving more similar to chess or to finding a math proof? I think it is closer to the former.

In a few years, giving the speed of sensor development and growth of computing power, the automated driving system can continuously capture and monitor 360 degree environment, at better resolution than human and across the specter of wavelengths (visual, IR, T/GHz) and react better/faster than human. Given that, i think human driven cars will be relegated in couple decades to the position of horse carriages - not allowed on highway for example where automated cars will be driving faster at tighter distances while being networked to each other in the vicinity. In some sense the driving may happen to be best suited for insect style distributed intelligence with relatively low intelligence of any given node which still possesses heightened senses. I wonder whether Google cars communicate to each other when meet at an intersection - either option has far reaching consequences and will define our near-term future.

Plus at some point insurance industry will say their word which most probably will be based on the sole metric of $/mile loss, not AI IQ score.
I like the grocery store analogy. You can get Kellogs Corn Flakes at any grocery store. You can get General Mills Cheerios at any grocery store. You don't have to make separate trips to the Kellogs store and the General Mills store. There are exclusive store-brand items, for which you do need to go to a specific store, but there's minimal additional cost to do so. You don't need to buy a new car to get from Trader Joes to Wegman's, you can use the same car to go to both.

With app stores the situation is reversed. Exclusives are common, and many quite expensive devices only have one store available. And once you've got an expensive product from the Apple App store on your Apple device, you can't (usually) change to a Google device and the Google Play Store and still use the product without re-buying it.
I think a lot of people, especially in the tech industry, get a somewhat distorted view by the cesspool near the Moscone and Market Street. Not that there aren't problems elsewhere but the area that conventioneers are exposed to is especially awful.
I like some of the advice in this thread, but taking a bit of a broader view:

OP, you're trying to do 2 things here: (1) get a job, and (2) learn a trade. Those are different, though related pursuits.

The ideal is you can find a job that will teach you the trade; in other words, you're looking for an apprenticeship. There are often gov programs for tech apprenticeships (typically state level, so I can't link a definitely-relevant one), but [1] may be a place to start. Also just google "[state] IT Apprenticeship." There are also corporate programs at IBM and Accenture you should look at.

Second, even if you can't get the tech job immediately/this round, don't give up. Google needs IT support folks enough that they started a new education program to teach people enough to work for them [2]. If you have to get a different job, look at that. It is a bit pricey at $49/month, but Google says they'd consider completion to be equivalent to a bachelors.

Finally, every CV you submit should have a cover letter, consisting of the paragraphs you wrote in this post from "I am a techie at heart" to "solution seems impossible."

Good luck!

[1] https://www.apprenticeship.gov/apprenticeship-industries/inf...

[2] https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-it...
> But does anyone really believe that Joe Biden would have had popular rallies even without a pandemic to hide behind

There's a two party system in the US. Like every presidential election literally ever, both parties attract a lot of popular attention because.... there's only two parties.
> headless browsers available. So I wrote half of my own browser

The OP said - headless browser, I.e: network and parsing the Dom, but not rendering.

Perfectly allowed. Please stop saying otherwise.
Aren’t message queues a basic primitive in a highly available system ?
Avoid drilling through load bearing beams.

:-)

Worth repeating ...

no conduits can be found - looks like naked cable
Upwork? Be a freelancer, work for cheap to build up resume/portfolio. You can start raising your rates or parlay into a contract or salary position.

Upwork has been a place I use to get some gigs, some of my best clients actually.

Good luck!
You can run your own software already, just create an app in xcode and install it on your phone and possibly pay for a developer license I think :-( Being able to distribute it and have others use it is another matter.
Fully agree. But hey, we need to start with something...and the sheep wants cheap and easy answers.
lawd have mercy
I think going after all aggregators would have weakened the government position. The current approach forces Facebook to weigh the likelihood of other orgs getting onto FBs turf, once FB is onboard, the government can go after the others, one at a time. It works better via divide and rule vs having all providers presenting a united front and dropping Australia _en masse_ (which would have a high political cost, vs FB alone which doesn't have a lot of political capital)
Mnuchin Joins Speech Circuit at $250k for Live Address
> waged a trade war, believing that it would be easily winnable.

What happened in the end. did they win or lose?
So it's just like GDPR?

Guidelines intentionally kept vague so that some bureaucrat can slap a huge fine and collect the rent?

I wonder if that rent-seeking attitude will accelerate or curb the current brain drain Australia faces.
I’ve had aftermarket mods for years and haven’t had problems. There’s a big market and people will do what they want.
I was an early adopter of Stack Overflow. I was also an early leaver of Stack Overflow. That was because the site seemed to cater to elitist anwerers and moderators than to the people asking the questions.

All too often the answer to a question was :"this question doesn't suit our website" or "this question has been answered before" or "this question is below our prestige level".

If the system was smart enough to answer that a question had been answered before, it should have been smart enough to merge the current question with the old question, or at a minimum, to just link the current question to the older question's answers.

If a question wasn't relevant to the website, then a blanket 'offshoring' of the question to something like 'Let me Google that for you' would be better than a plain blank wall.

As nicolas_t said above, "I always feel a bit sad and wistful when thinking about Stack Overflow. It was a great idea and at the beginning it worked well but the moderation culture destroyed the site.". My sentiments exactly.
I have seen former employees of mine join companies started in YC, and the ethos I've seen around YC in that way reminds me of how my great grandmother talked about working at General Electric. It's a decentralized Empire in vibe, with all the games and politics. It was really difficult to deprogram people once caught by the allure. People think in terms of their programs, like cookie cutters.

Structuring SAFEs, doing mentoring and creating batches, and creating a kind of orthodoxy based on unorthodoxy done better, definitely hit a stale point. I think it's even to the point the founders could return and do it again based on what they learned, with more "stay hungry, stay foolish" again, albeit with veteran wisdom now, and it would be revolutionary all over again, upending its own past.
I've never liked this company.
lol they didn’t open source the model weights
I agree the specific example he used is not a great one. I think you nailed it. It seems his main problem was spending a lot of time and resources on a problem that most likely wouldn't exist in Waze the startup. It's not the kind of problems he wants to spend time on, which is valid.

In this particular example he even acknowledged that it was important. But it's not always the case and then I can understand the frustration. As you said "question the rationale for doing something".
The parent’s point is regarding accessibility of code examples, and your comment seems to be about the convenience of pasting an image of code into a tool that should make accessible text easy, but falls short when it comes to code.

If this tool created an accessible SVG instead of a PNG then I think it would be getting a lot less criticism. There are accepted ways[0] to make SVGs accessible, and they are better for performance than the alternatives.

When you give people shiny tools that make it hard for visually impaired people to consume information, then more of that sort of content will be embedded in blogs, presentations, MOOCs or whatever else.

PowerPoint and Google Slides should really just get their act together with regards to rendering code blocks. It’s quite sad that in today’s world they still don’t have a built in way to show code on slides in a formatted and colorized way.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/
Texas Bans Firms from Taking Natural Gas Out of State
Yes I'm wondering how they're going to deal with vandalism in a city like sf.
People share and distribute modified firmware dumps and load them on their automotive ECUs. It's actually quite common.
This is just wrong. Apple disallows apps that duplicate existing functionality, i.e. browsers. You can write whatever wack headless browser you want, and there are tons of frameworks for this exact purpose, too: All manner of methods to do network things without invoking Safari.

This is a jawbreaker of hyperbole around a chewy gum center of truth.
I was more ragging on the tetanus paragraph.
Meh. Distribution of computer programs has been done since the beginning of computing. Also, there is innovation in the water supply (which most people are unaware of).