skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. As a survivor of one of these battles, when the neighbors don't want you to do something, they will throw every wrench they can find into the works. "Good faith" is nonexistent. I'm very, very sympathetic to environmental concerns, but the way I've seen this sort of thing used in real life is absolute nonsense.
For historical context: XMLHttpRequest was invented for outlook web access, so the idea and usecase preceded gmail.
My mom went to the ‘64 worlds fair almost every day (according to her, she had an uncle that worked there.) She told us stories about various exhibits when we were kids, but the thing she remembered the most was the video phone- that she should see as well here someone across the planet.

Fast forward to 2020 and she is spending hours every day on video calls with her grandchildren.

We might have missed on some of our dreams from 1964, but not all of them. We’ll miss more in the future if we don’t articulate them.
Hello everyone, I'm an undergrad at Georgia Tech, who recently had my first paper published in [Science](https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/582/eabd6299). I wanted to make the paper as accessible as possible, thus I wrote a layman's explanation of the implications. Let me know what y'all think!
There is a slight difference in effort expended for the latter, and in effort expended and priority granted to make it fast. (And less legal system involved, which to a degree by principle is not fast)

Just look at usual vaccine development schedules, or the timeframes the mRNA developers had planned to work on before covid as a comparison. Same thing: less resources available, less willingness to spend resources in support, no special priority given, more detractors (often understandably and legitimately) getting in the way of speed -> slower process
Europe is more heterogeneous than the states, so it's not a fair comparison.

However, if it's worth anything, there are no capital requirements for starting a company with liability protection, which isn't the case in several European countries.

Americans also aren't required to register or deregister themselves with the local government whenever they move.

I can think of other examples (the lack of television taxes, religious taxes, &c). Again though, these examples depend a lot on each country, so I'm sure you can find exceptions for each of these depending on the European country you look at.
C# (dotnet core) allows publishing self-contained executables with single line command, there are no much difference there
Except generics already present in the language ;)
Who filed for you last year? Just have them do it. It should cost a couple hundred or less unless you have an expensive accountant.

But yes, you basically are mailing in a return with zero for revenue, expenses, etc. It’s a complete return documenting no activity. You’ll also be marking Final on the form so they don’t expect another one next year even though the corp is dissolved.
I am genuinely curious. How did the meeting end? Did the font get changed? Did anyone say 'really?'? Obviously, the story is ridiculous, but I can't help but wonder how it worked out.
Comparing constantly ongoing processes with an emergency response doesn't really stick.

It's an exception that got elevated to the highest priority. There must have been some efficiency gains as well but the prioritization part doesn't scale by definition.

That all said, 8 years is ridiculous. I have to wonder what work actually happened in those 8 years.
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Construction is a big part in some locations but it doesn't make housing unaffordable, merely expensive.

From memory:

Tearing a $2 million single family house and putting 6 apartments there would allow you to charge $3k rent. Build taller and rent drops even lower. This is assuming construction costs of $500 per sqft.
asus zephryus is a better buy, as much I would love to purchase the system76. Core of it, is it at least 20% higher margins.

The Ryzen 5000 is out, I highly recommend either going for Asus Zephryus or wait for lenovo's mobile 5000 AMD lands.
> high cost is convenient to artificially "create jobs"

Is that where the money actually goes, though? Serious question.
There was never in history a quest for the benefit of what is now a surplus population that has as only asset to pollute, contaminate, be parasitical and cannibalistic. Whatever stands for AI(no real definition in the lead text, just suggestive blabla), will be at the benefit of the immediate and power of the established few. Our "elites" are, were cockroaches. Between them and the latter surplus population there is a margin of whoring societals with some wackoo agenda not surpassing their primary drifts. The lower on the food chain, the cruder the desires for basic comfort.
Not that I am aware of... Would an automatic update lock the device?
>Politicization of projects: the civil service is weak compared with both elected politicians and their unelected political appointees, and there is not much continuity in design.

This one may be especially relevant as the green line extension mentioned in the paper as possibly concluding in 2017 would've been under a new administration that especially worked to undo a lot of Obama era policies.
> No nation can survive systemic corruption for very long, it is a cancer that eats away at everything.

While I appreciate the sentiment, I’m not sure that’s true:

- China is managed by corrupt elite since the last century

- Russia is completely corrupt (as was the USSR)

- India seems to have systemic corruption issues

- France politicians are well known for their corruption scandals

…
It really does seem that personal responsibility is a dirty word these days. Whether it comes to being able to critical review some news/social media someone has read online or maintaining the computer in your pocket.

I wonder if it's an off-shoot of the concept of 'victim blaming', meaning it's not allowed to lay the responsibility for someones actions on them, there should be safeguards that prevent someone from making a mistake in the first place, even if it's at the expense of people who know that they're doing. I haven't fully fleshed out in idea in my head yet.
> Usual CCSDS frame format is not used, instead custom framing protocol is employed

I've worked with this before, and it can be a pain.
And if you've grown so big that there will be one or two reports every month, make sure you lobby the right people in the government departments.
Do you believe in the idea of externalities? If you do, doesn't it mean the cost you refer to is a finite number that can be approximately determined? And if someone just makes up a number, it might be larger or smaller than the correct one?

Then, if one determines the externalities of burning a unit of fossil fuel to be a specific number, what do we do if charging the whole world that much is not enough to prevent climate change?
A crash between updating balance and putting the message in the mailbox can still result in an inconsistent state.
I don't think it'll necessarily happen via Spotify renegotiating it. It'll happen via a competitor offering this scheme, and indie labels pulling their content from Spotify.

The obvious player to offer this competing service is Bandcamp. They haven't yet, though an awful lot of the pieces are in place— they have a mobile app that lets you trivially stream anything you've ever purchased and listen on trial to things you haven't, and it even has genre playlists and recommendations:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903547253/a-tale-of-two-ecosy...
At that size, it is feasible to download to a laptop computer. If it was made available for download, it would greatly increase the odds of it surviving as there would not be a single point of failure.
> If criminals were smart (his words), they’d use Signal or Whatsapp where they’d be a small percentage of the user base and authorities would have a much harder time to get court-allowed blanket access like they had with Sky or Encro.

How could I get a court order to get blanket access to Signal?
Simply put, there’s no accountability. Nobody really wins if it gets done under budget and ahead of schedule. Lots of people make out like bandits if it takes forever and never gets done.

Bureaucracy and ridiculous regulations are true but with accountability these types of problems can be surmounted. Government and government contracting attracts a lot of lazy people who under produce because they’re not compensated on output but rather hours worked. Petty grievances between departments and individuals can tank projects just because some woman felt slighted by what some guy said to her in a meeting a year ago and they both have to approve a project etc.

Companies literally get paid millions to build websites that most talented fresh college grads could handle in a few months. However, thanks to the arcane compensation laws, these kids have no experience so their labor category is low and they will not be compensated relative to their older, useless colleagues.

The entire system is set up so that the government officials find a few competent individuals to do work and then try to keep them and the smart individuals build these relationships, start their own contracting shops and field out the work to smart fresh college grads and pocketing more than half of the pay they pass along.
An interesting aspect is the guilty until proven innocent aspect:

Rough translation of parts of the header of https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/03/11/oproep-sky/ :

The federal police sent out a special 'wanted' message: All users of the encrypted Sky ECC phone have to report [...]If the phone was used for legitimate purposes, the collected data will after verification be [veiliggesteld]

I don't know how to translate [veiliggesteld] as it is pretty vague. The word might be approximated as 'made safe' or 'put in a secure location', but it surely does not mean destroyed.

As expected, the whole thing raises some eyebrows in privacy circles.
Thanks. Was a good show, though nothing super informative.
The article doesn’t really talk about supply chain constraints. It talks more about the threat of losing market access
yes, like you said, covid will never go away, and there is more awareness of the problem of airborne viruses in enclosed spaces like an office.
Second. I want a LinkedIn that respects its users. Sellff doesn't need to make a product that is much different from LinkedIn.

1. Let me make an online resume, publicly connect with past colleagues, and give and receive recommendations and skills endorsements.

2. Sell job postings.

3. Sell search tools for jobs & candidates.

4. Don't trick people into uploading their contacts.

5. Don't provide an Invite All feature. Require users to state the relationship type for every invitation sent. Allow me to opt-out of connections by type: acquaintance, family, friend, school, work,etc.

6. Respect my communication preferences. For example, don't rename the preferences and re-enable them every few years.

7. Don't break core product functionality. For example, don't remove the email archive button for a year. Use functional integration tests.

8. Provide discussion Groups with useful moderation tools. This would draw users to your site every day. Don't provide useless moderation tools and let all groups flood with spam. Recruiters must pay for every message they post to a Group.

New feature idea: Allow groups to curate comprehensive FAQs. It could be like Quora & Stack Overflow for professional questions. This could grow to be a very popular and bring a lot of daily traffic.
It is unknowable. People who truly want the best for the environment obviously exist, but the outcomes of our environmental policies have secondary and tertiary effects that would also benefit people who wanted to make population growth and population change difficult for other reasons.

Apologies for the gross long URL, and as always correlation is not causation, but correlations are still worth thinking about: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=redlining%2Cen...
Only a simulations study, title misleads one to believe that it is "actually" scientifically proven to be true.
> They are the biggest player in the dev-machine market, but more alternatives are popping up making it even harder to monetise.

As someone who loves the feature set of Docker for development but grows increasingly disillusioned with its performance on Mac, would you mind elaborating what these alternatives are?
Keep in mind, Nvidia does have some genuinely good process mastery around handling encryption intended to keep users from utilizing hardware in ways they don't intend, and creating trusted computing platforms where safety critical systems are concerned.

https://docs.nvidia.com/drive/drive_os_5.1.6.1L/nvvib_docs/i...

They've moved from keeping that sort of thing in EEPROM's to burnable fuses from what I understand, and I'm pretty sure what I'm aware of is pretty far behind state of the art.

If they've managed to set up the key management as well as they have and keep things hush-hushed enough to keep the nouveau folks obstructed, this seems either like an uncharacteristically careless mistake, or some seriously well executed malicious compliance from somebody.

Either way. I still find it irritating to the extreme that this type of thing only seems to happen to the detriment of users. Nvidia wins either way. Miners or gamers will buy out their cards.
yes and no.

I believe GPL 2 might be ok.

You can also distribute your own GPL software on the app store, it you dual-license it.

But I believe distributing someone else's GPL 3 software is a problem, because as RMS said he realized he had to add freedom zero, the freedom to RUN the software.

Remember that Apple stops you from RUNNING software, then gives/sells you the permission.
Today's lead isn't remotely "coasting". All you have to do is read the list of new features added every release. If Chrome was coasting that list would be empty.
They announced it on April Fools. And it seemed like a joke - 1GB for email? Yeah. Right. Hotmail had, what, 10MB? 15?

Best April Fools joke ever.
Valid mRNA has a start codon and a stop codon. Without these mRNA will be broken down and untranslated. However without translation the vaccine will be useless. So while unintended translation is unlikely it is possible that efficacy would be impacted.
Do you have some examples, just to get an idea of the problem?
The 2.5% tax doesn't mean country B is growing 2.5% faster. The 2.5% in country B could be sitting in a vault doing nothing or being spent on yachts. Conversely the 2.5% in country A is being invested in making the workforce more productive.
Heroku.
We used to Colo servers or rent dedicated servers. You had to setup linux/apache/database, etc. Manage logging and backups. And then to scale up you had to do it all over again. First you split the dB onto its own server, then start sharding/load balancing/replicating. And then you take the whole site down by letting a log file fill a disk or something.

Heroku and 12-factor apps easily made building a business 10x easier/faster/cheaper.
I drive on unplowed paved roads and I can tell you from first hand experience that there is a world of difference between snow tires and all season tires. The chemistry of the tire itself is different. All season tires start getting hard around 40F whereas snow tires stay soft/rubbery below 40F and colder. This is fundamentally why snow tires are superior for snowy/icy conditions. This is also why you should not use snow tires in summer because they will wear very fast due to the composition being soft.
It would be really hard to cite Baumol's cost disease too often. It's a key part of many things we see going on in the economy, and therefore in society more broadly, today.
Sure, there's playing demographics, and then there's inserting "the most egregious Mary Sue of all time". I don't think anyone considers Jake Sisko or Nog to be on the level of Wesley Crusher.
Putting aside the question of whether there's an objective standard for whether someone is underpaid - it is not true that nobody in the UK makes $150k/yr as an IC SWE without being a contractor. Filter on the UK: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer

You'll see that mid-level (L4/E4) engineers at Google & Facebook easily break 150k; senior engineers (L5) start at ~225k and hit 300k. That's about 30-40% less than what Google & Facebook pay engineers in SV.

I also saw multiple other companies where engineers with less than a decade of experience were approaching or breaking 150k - Transferwise, Improbable, Palantir, Morgan Stanley, Booking.com, Cloudflare, Bloomberg, Yelp, Babylon Health, Goldman Sachs, Stripe, etc.
SpaceX wouldn't exist without NASA sinking a lot of money into very risky R&D and training up a whole fleet of engineers capable of doing the work that SpaceX does. The public sector can be insanely bloated and slow - that's quite true - but it's necessary and contributes a lot to society that the private sector would never deliver.

We need balance in all things.
go split / layer keyboard, and you will change your mind. I will never go back to a num pad, cause it would mean the loss of layers and a 60% TKL.

Until you experience it, you will not have the experience.

Either UHK v2 or Dygma Raise. Both are great.
Make sure to add the CRT filter
So nicely said.
I read a quote somewhere about ancient big buildings... Like stonemasons that were crafting stones had to imagine each stone beating really important in the bigger picture.
The quote said it better than me here.
> For that you need to be registered as an iPhone Developer Program member ($99)

Again, simply not true. You don't need a paid developer license for local installs, and this has been the case for a very long time.
Thank you for sharing this. Giving people hope and a belief in the future is what the Fair is all about — especially in the face of extreme pessimism.
It is easier to become prisoner in America.
Wolfram Alpha. The ability to perform calculations on "nebulous" things is amazing. Things like comparing the population of China to the population the US (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+united+s...) are great. Visual solutions to complex math problems? Awesome.
> If people (developers/engineers) would only sit back...*

It is a matter of incentives. At many companies, developers are rewarded for shipping, and not for quality, efficiency, supportability, documentation, etc.* This is generally expected of a technology framework still in the profitability growth stage; once we reach a more income-oriented stage, those other factors will enter incentives to protect the income.
It does have adjectives and nouns, and they are worth considering.
Except that corrupt corporations go out of business...
thats a lot of work when all you really have to do is add a CRT filter over top of pixel art instead of dealing with this sampling mess
Until what? 20 years ago if we're generous, New York construction was specifically controlled by the mafia, which controlled the unions and drove up costs by restricting in a rather extra-legal manner who was even allowed to bid on a job.

Painting capture by organized crime as some necessary feature of all labor unions is probably not fair. They captured a lot of the politicians, too, and often also owned the construction companies.
Do people want their freedom? For many people even today there’s a strong desire for comfort, familiarity, duty, etc over freedom. We aren’t allowed to urinate in public, even if we are careful to avoid making a mess, a health hazard, or to flash anyone - because we’ve deemed that freedom not worth the costs to comfort in walking your streets without people peeing in public. You can’t own military grade artillery anymore, you can’t curse on the radio, you can’t work as a child, you can’t purchase cigarettes under 18, you can’t even legally drive or even prove your capable of driving safely before 16 (much less vote). There’s plenty of freedoms we forgo for some degree of security and comfort, and we wanted a different balance of freedom, security, and comfort just a few years ago, or decades ago, and we’ll likely want a different balance in 10 more years. Plenty of people in 2020 were totally fine with fines and enforced curfews in light of protests, riots, and pandemic. Freedom doesn’t seem like a true north for humans
Breaking the 640K barrier.
Cost plus contracts, duh.
Even more, they’re net takers partly because they’re have more expensive infrastructure. Lots of long roads and bridges that are infrequently used
> Why should they be forced to stop making a product at a price customers enjoy?

When you ignore all the objectionable parts, it sure makes consumer protection look unreasonable, doesn't it?

Besides, the ultimate price consumers pay isn't any lower - it's just hidden, delayed, and probably higher.

Let me ask you - why shouldn't citizens be allowed to collectively bargain, expressing their terms in the form of legislation? If companies don't like the terms, they're free to sell their products elsewhere.
> is there any serious development in java NOT using Spring?

Yes. And I don't just mean people doing Android development.

1) DI: Don't always need DI. For things like injecting values from config, it's really unnecessary given that we have very good control over production, down to building our boxes from a playbook. For things like mocks, plain old Java suffices -- you can roll your own (actually, someone in your team just needs to do it once and it keeps getting improved/forked). Guice exists as a fallback.

2) REST: Jersey + own libraries on top, Retrofit. Using Spring for REST is probably the poorest use for Spring, for me.

3) ORM: you can use "just" JPA. Don't always need an ORM either -- the strategy varies depending on the requirement. Although for some projects I have used Spring Data JPA because it seemed like the easiest path. At least Spring was localized to that artifact.

4) Lots of good OAuth2 libraries as well as things like pac4j. If you're wondering about Spring Security, it's definitely one to consider if you're doing lots of webapps in Java. But in a polyglot environment, a lot of Java code just handles APIs while node handles the UI.

Anyhow, this isn't to hate on Spring or anything -- I use it if it adds value. This is more about not taking the the complexity hit if you can help it. It also makes the code a bit more straightforward and readable.
For those who haven’t read the article, before talking about the above reasons - which are indeed important - it leads with:

"The difference in costs often boils down to domestic state capacity: bureaucracies in East Asia and Continental Europe tend to be better-staffed and more empowered to make professional decisions. The details are naturally more complicated, but the pattern is nonetheless clear: the countries with the lowest infrastructure costs are also the countries where the state acts swiftly, with mechanisms that limit the lag between financing and construction."
> My father for example always used Android. [...]

> [H]e got an iPhone and he find it more difficult to use [...]

I guess that's precisely because he is used to Android, not because iOS is more difficult.
> Why not the webcam and the mouse and the speakers while we're at it.

Given the reportedly awful quality of webcams and especially speakers on those Clevo laptops, you might be on to something...
Stonyfield: A Survival Story
> Emacs and vi are both mere footnotes compared to VSCode in terms of market and mind share

According to StackOverflow's 2019 developer survey [0], 50.7% of editors used VSCode, 25.4% used Vim. So that doesn't really support your claim that vi is a "mere footnote". 25% of market share isn't 50%, but it is still decent and more than a mere "footnote".

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...