skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same experience here, Netflix works without too much hassle, but Prime is limited to a much lower bitrate than on Windows.

At one point I experimented a bit with making an addon myself, and it's possible to intercept the requests and spoof the UA/platform to get URLs for the HD streams, but then it goes to VMP/widevine and is a bit beyond my abilities. Best I could get was for the HD quality option to appear in the UI, but with a complaint that it wouldn't work because I needed to update or use a different browser.

Now pretty much the only time I use Prime video is for the occasional watchparty, and I'll just pirate the stuff I want to see in HD.
Ah, I forgot the ability to, in the keyboard itself, swap the left control and caps lock key by flipping a DIP switch.

I set mine that way back in 1991 when I first bought it, and it has remained that way since.

And Northgate supplied a key puller, and two alternate keycaps, so that when one flipped the DIP switch, one could also swap the keycaps so they were actually properly labeled for their function.
I don't think this exactly the same. The "no one got fired for choosing IBM" was a derogatory statement. It wasn't uncommon that you got some significant discount for related products and so businesses would have a blanket policy that if IBM provided a solution you were required use it _even if you knew the solution was worse or wouldn't work._ Doesn't work? You're not going to get fired because you "had no choice."

You can argue with price or the peculiarities of a service or that AWS is taking over the world, but I have never seen them use contracts to force effectively companies to comply.
11,438 words of "business" platitudes. Then again a lot of consulting is
couching everything in mba-speak.
a good tech product, especially in consumer and info tech, generates high profit margins and reliable recurring revenue protected by intellectual property , network effect,s and high intellectual barriers to entry. Other industries and sectors have lower margins and low barriers. This creates an incentive to spend a lot on capital, such as human capital, to produce such tech products.
You’re not wrong about housing starts, but as far as the lumber prices goes it’s not a base effect. The price was already increasing pre-covid and covid shutdowns accelerated the trend.
> insanely therapeutic

Quite an oxymoron here.
How to make the most of your software engineering career
> Your approach will always be a valid choice, for those who want it

This isn't "my approach" – it's the approach that the vast majority of purchasers prefer. And pining for the good ol' days of technical datasheets doesn't help everybody who can't start their cars without the successful interaction of nearly a hundred proprietary microcontrollers running proprietary code speaking over a high-speed data bus.

And here's the annoying thing: I want a car that doesn't have a hundred microcontrollers speaking over a high-speed data bus. I want a car like my old '88 Camry, that I could take apart with my dad and fix almost all of the problems I ran into with the help of a Haynes manual and a trip (or two!) to the junkyard. But the market clearly does not agree with my desires.

So how do you get there from here?
Not only more common -- that is effectively what crashes are: demand for liquidity exceeds the supply, and the way markets are set up, this condition causes an even greater demand for liquidity, in a feedback loop.

Most of the time, you can get liquidity, but only at a price that really hurts. Sometimes you can't get it at all.
Many have gone bankrupt without any form of dividend. Many others have gone on for years reinvesting in the business before doing a dividend. (I'm counting as buy-back as a dividend - with modern tax code it is currently a better way to do them)
Roku's market cap: 44.178B

Apple's market cap: 2.212T
Large-scale energy harvesting by triboelectric nanogenerator (2013)
I heard of that happening when I graduated, which was in 2016, so I would not be at all shocked if it's more common now.
What did I misrepresent?
Unless they are colluding that's not how a free market works. If supply is truly plentiful, someone will be willing cut prices to gain sales. Others will then have to follow or watch their customers disappear.
Apache Sedona (incubating): processing large-scale spatial data
My OS has that (KDE) sort of. Non-KDE apps don't use it because it's OS-dependent.

You'd need all platforms to have this and then a multiplatform abstraction layer to exist before it became useful... and by useful I mean: you can start rewriting every application.
The market doesn't really dictate your sales price. The market may dictate the price vs sales curve.

If you raise prices, usually unit sales will fall (although, not always) and sometimes there's a big cliff as you approach (or surpass) competitors' prices.
Creating Interactive Applications While Maintaining Your Sanity (2020)
Yeah, I was surprised to see Murex mentioned on HN as well until I realized it's not the Murex I was thinking of!
In my experience (and it's probably partly because it's what I'm used to), working between US East Coast and Europe--so about 6 hours difference--works pretty well. And many of the teams I work with are distributed that way. It starts to get harder if you bring in the US West Coast and/or APAC.
Even if the industry is unpopular there's not that much appetite for legislatively killing it at the drop of a hat because everyone knows that's not a good precedent to set.

More realistic would be substantially increased taxes on non-primary residences.
I just finished filing my taxes in the USA. Let me tell you, the US government is my biggest annual subscription by cost.

Joking aside:

Jetbrains all product pack - $149/yr

Half decent home internet - $65/mo

Cell phone bill (with my wife's parents) - $140/mo
For anyone who wants to try a Model M or had them and misses them, Unicomp continues to make them (in the original factory): https://www.pckeyboard.com/. They're even made with USB now, so PS/2 adapters aren't necessary :). Of course, there are also a bunch of older ones on eBay as well - as bstar said, they're built like tanks.

I used a Model M when I was younger and loved it, I'd probably get a used one or buy a Unicomp one if they weren't so dang big.
Not quite about the obvious. It's not about loss of jobs to automation, but about losing commissions.

Presumably commissioned employees are part of the store's differentiator from Amazon. So they'd better find a way to compensate them according to the contracts they originally signed.
Until they decide to release HDCP 3.x and make it mandatory for HD streams then you can continue to enjoy 480p video on those hdmi ports.
Asking someone whether or not they can do the job isn't discrimination. Asking someone if they know something basically unrelated to the job might well be. It could be designed to filter out people who wouldn't know that thing rather than filter in people who'd be better at the job. What is that if it isn't discrimination?
> your comment is completely divorced from the situation on the ground when it comes to app development

Perhaps it is.

> The UI has changed overtime, sometime substantially,

How so? I see an app in the store. I install it. An icon shows up on my screen. I tap it to open it. A window is shown where I can type text in. If I receive a phone call or text message, something is displayed on the screen to alert me to that fact. I can tap on that to be brought to the event source. Or I can ignore it. When I close the app, there's usually some way for changes to be saved (sometimes automatically).

This workflow, as the user sees it, hasn't changed.

> there is now an entirely new language (Swift) you can write your apps in as well as a new design language based on that new language (SwiftUI).

Did that deprecate compatibility with apps written in the older language?

> APIs change version to version of iOS and customers expect things that are now possible on newer iOS versions even if your app was written on an older version

Like what? The context was a text editor app and todo apps. What has changed here?

> Also, a lot of app developers work directly with their app’s communities to focus on what their users want.

That's pretty cool. What about basic features without needing a subscription?

> Have you not dealt with the annoyance of an app that hasn’t been updated for a newer OS? Or one that isn’t even providing “table stakes” to other apps in it’s category?

Yup. It's almost always an app that's written in some trendy language, using some cloud feature, or some paid-for app. I use lots of free software on my laptop without that problem.

Notably, text editors from 30 years ago still work fantastically. Email clients from 30 years ago still mostly work great (unless using certain popular anti-consumer cloud email providers). Games from 20 years ago are a hit or a miss. A lot of times they work just fine with an emulator.

And I've already paid for all of those. Once.

Why should the iPhone be any different?
i not sure what your talking about... people get their phones fixed all the time, its just the companies make it very difficult or not possible at all when you can't get access to parts, or you have companies like Apple who prevent you importing parts even if the parts are ripped out of broken devices.

Then you have Apple who lie they say you can't recover your data or repair your device, yet you go to a repair shop and you get your data back and phone fixed...
Maybe in startups. The companies that are generating these vast amounts of wealth are large tech cos like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, Netflix, etc. which all are making absolute craptons of profit over the medium term.
,, opening up being a taxi driver to anyone with a car''

That's what customers want. Taxis were always too expensive for normal people to use. In the past they needed to know the routes to any place inside a city, but since we have GPS navigation, now that knowledge is much less useful. Nowdays I care more about the car being modern than the knowledge of the driver.
I am sure there are plenty of executives at Tyson Foods pulling in 7 figure incomes, to name just one multinational that makes hot dogs.
I am very glad Tantacrul is now involved with Audacity. This is great news.
I am trying to follow your logic, but its fast and loose. It sounds like you are saying the prior cigarette flavor bans occurred after the cited evidence about African Americans consuming menthol cigarettes more frequently than other Americans therefore menthol cigarettes were not banned intentionally as a weapon to harm African Americans. That is a lot of assumptions not based on anything plus a factual statement that is likely false about the timeline.

Coincidence is not racism. Inventing a story from imagined assumptions isn't helpful for people disadvantaged by actual racism.
I understood all the components but given I don’t do a lot of complex distributed programming , I kind of got lost about what Horde and libcluster do. My world view is very simple: backend app server and front end code.

Can anyone ELI5?
As an ISP engineer, I can tell you my company has numbers and figures that we are much more productive in networking, applications teams and development, and a handful of other teams across the board by working remotely. Been selling off officespace all last year and continuing to do so. We do work more working from home. And all that said, they know full well what teams should be back in the office and those of us who could feasibly work permanently from home.
There are several issues with this tax.

First, the ultra-rich won't pay it. They'll take out loans against their stock instead of selling it.

Second: The 14th amendment to the state constitution[1] says:

> All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only. The word "property" as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership.

This bans any sort of graduated tax. The state supreme court has upheld this in the past.[2] If the legislature wants to make a graduated tax on capital gains, they'll have to amend the constitution.

Third: This tax is counterproductive. If you tax something, you get less of it. Tax cigarettes and people smoke less. Tax alcohol and people drink less. Tax gasoline and people burn less gas. Tax gambling and people gamble less. And if you tax capital gains, then people invest less. If you're going to tax something, tax bad or neutral things, not good things. This tax won't ruin the state's economy, but it certainly won't help economic growth.

1. https://leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/RCWArchive/Documents/2019/WA%... (Amendment 14 is on page 59)

2. http://courts.mrsc.org/supreme/039wn2d/039wn2d0191.htm
I greatly appreciate not needing to live in govt housing without buying a house.
> File systems dedupe now

Huh? is there a citation to that assertion perhaps for a particular instance?
If you want to support individual home ownership against well-capitalized REITs, I think you basically need local governments to impose some kind of vacancy tax and/or an non-owner-occupancy tax. Otherwise individuals will never have the financial firepower to keep up.
Inside Netflix’s Quest to End Scrolling
Isn't this kind of what Apple is trying to do with the TouchBar?

Shame that the TouchBar is hot garbage.
The decision to not (yet) have finer-grained protection for WebAssembly memory pages was in part motivated by the JS API surface in the web embedding. WebAssembly memories are exposed to JS as ArrayBuffers, and optimizing JITs can and do optimize ArrayBuffer access down to naked stores and loads. In addition to the optimized JIT code, ArrayBuffers are used throughout the webstack for moving data into and out of programs (read: Chrome's 6 million lines of code). The entire webstack is not really prepared for read-only ArrayBuffers causing signals underneath.

That said, we always knew a day would come where WebAssembly would get the ability to set more page protections. For non-web embeddings, this is easier, but as of yet, none of the engines I know of have either an API or are really prepared for the implications of this. I am still bullish on eventually getting that capability, though.

Thanks for your paper.
so much for that narrative by the media of millennials and gen-z struggling. Some are but many are not. The media always tries to make these huge generalities.
if you're running any kind of reasonably large deployment serving real customers, $72/month is NOTHING. my startup is dropping more than 1k/month already without including our devops guy's retainer!
Yes. xbox360 games running on xbox one often run with a custom emulation layer that includes a bunch of monkey patch fixes to make the game work right.
This isn't a totally unreasonable position to take, but in some cases "whatever it was that kept this from happening before" really is nothing more than "nobody had thought of it yet".
For what it's worth, I know we have some common ground in markets. We do disagree on where they should be applied and why, but I don't mind sharing a country with you at all.
Let's set aside software RTR, which at first glance I believe has no increased costs associated (besides a decreased profit margin from lack of shortened support windows and a locked-down ecosystem).

Could you expand on the specifics of what changes RTR would necessitate the hardware to have? Let's say beyond the fact that a non-reversible bond/connector would otherwise be the cheapest option (saving perhaps fractions of pennies on the BOM).
> but I do know that in particular areas of the US, you just straight up cannot afford a home anymore on median income

Correct. The national median income is insufficient to purchase a home in the most expensive cities in the country. That seems reasonable?

The national median household income is about $65,000. That’s enough to afford a mortgage of somewhere in the $300,000 to $350,000 range.

Is that enough for San Francisco? Absolutely not. But that will buy you a nice house in the vast majority of the country.

California has garbage housing policies. San Francisco is even worse. You can buy a lovely place in Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta, etc on national median income.
`spctl -v --assess -t execute` is crucial.

My app layout is fairly complicated, so I'm sure I'm exercising a lot of the corner cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26996223

I check that executables don't depend on libraries from outside the app, I check that I successfully shipped everything as universal2, and I check for stuff like .DS_Store and vim .swp files.

Here's my final stage check script, which staples notarization and checks the stapled dmg at the end as well:
https://gist.github.com/lunixbochs/3d5eaf04e789932f8a19ca0fc...

I shared notary.sh in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26996457
I remember printing out the gentoo documentation back in the days to do a stage-1 install with the only computer I had :D. This was so much fun
That stance being: we own Taiwan and we will depose their government by force if necessary, eventually. China senses this moment as one of profound weakness for the West. What makes you think they aren't preparing to strike while the iron is hot?

Top brass in the U.S. military is saying an invasion is likely within the decade: https://www.newsweek.com/top-commander-fears-taiwan-could-in...

Edit: I fail to see how China invading Taiwan could be considered a "military response", rather than a blatantly illegal land grab according to international law.

Edit 2: The international law in question is the one forbidding annexation: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/israelopt-10-...
This is the real problem IMO. We need more dense condos like Chicago, where the median condo price is 268k versus other large cities where it is almost double that.

This is just people being taking advantage of their housing...investment/tax shelter/savings plan that is bidding the price up.

Look at something like this zero red flags that I can see for $219k that is much cheaper than in most other large cities, housing doesn't have to be this expensive. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1706-W-Huron-St-60622/unit...
> If TSMC wants to retain their workers they have to dig in their 40% profit margins and increase salaries to compete for talent.

I agree completely. I was trying to comment on the Western narrative about capitalism: "Capitalism is all fine and dandy unless it impacts me negatively."
Never came across Cougar, they have some cool looking scissor /membrane keyboards, but neither is TKL, sad. I can understand why you buy three items at once if you like it!
Swimming is good but I find it inconvenient. I have to go to a pool, and I can only go during the hours when it's open. And then negotiate for lane space, and more than two swimmers per lane gets awkward. (Even more if I want to swim butterfly.)

Running lets me strap on my shoes any time and just go.
I understand what you're saying and I agree with it, however, the exposure to the financial markets is what drives the high compensation in tech. If they were not exposed to financial markets in the way they are then they would not pay their employees nearly as much.

This is true of nearly every field with high average compensation in the American economy: real estate, finance, oil and gas, and tech. The other two big ones are medicine and law. The high paying law jobs are basically serving finance. Medicine's high compensation is due to screwed up regulatory stuff and an artificially limited supply of doctors (due to how AMA sets the number of residencies).

Edit: What I'm trying to say is, the easiest way to get rich in America is to work in an industry that is exposed to the financial industry. It embeds leverage into what you earn. Let's say you own a company making $10mm in revenue and you own the whole thing. You can probably sell that to a PE firm for $20mm, much more than you would make in a comparable amount of time just from owning it yourself.

I'm not making a value judgment or anything of that nature. This is the way it works.
He's the spearhead of the NYT pro censorship by tech wing. He's bad faith activist disguised as a journalist.
look how little engagement his tweets get. Big media with their billions of dollars cannot match even no-name accounts.
REITs are not the problem. Land speculation is the problem. Worst part is that the gov promotes this, and voters eat that shit up as well("Your mortgage is an investment").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax is the solution.
> It seems like their target market is mid-level executives that can be dazzled by fancy marketing.

Sounds like a pretty sizeable TAM
Scalable and Async Ping and Traceroute in Rust
This was really good! Lots of useful advice.
Triboelectric Effect
Oh, interesting, I didn't have a sense of how widespread that was.

I remember this 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck that was dredged up by a private company. The Spanish government then sued and won. They had to give back ~500k coins. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44302476

I'm not sure how I feel about the outcome. In particular it seems odd that Spain could indefinitely claim ownership, even if they have no intention of recovering the wreck. That being said, I don't strictly believe "finders keepers" applies here either.
> it'd rather treat devices as things that we lease for a low cost from a vertically-integrated company.

It's weird how you defend Corporations' private property while apparently disliking the idea of personal property.
It's not exactly a secret what's going on there. While I doubt the place is on fire 24/7, the substantial damage sustained to local businesses cannot be denied. It would be difficult to convince someone who was thinking critically about moving their business there that all is well now and going forward.
I didn't actually say that. What I did say is we should have a priority discussion ahead of us, and that maybe we should cut back on the military industrial complex, as one aspect of that discussion.

The other thing I did was walkthrough a little bit about what those priorities might look like. There's several ways to solve this problem.

And we do have a problem when roughly half the labor force makes roughly 30k a year.
Plenty of people make 250k in finance jobs out of school.
The most elite roles go up to 400k
Good summary and clarification. Yes, we do not aim to break out of the (browser) sandbox, and yes the example exploits only use functions that are already imported into the vulnerable WebAssembly module.

However, I would draw a bit more attention to the consequences when memory vulnerabilities in a WebAssembly binary are exploited:

(1) Not every WebAssembly binary is running in a browser or in a sandboxed environment. The language is small, cool, and so more people are trying to use it outside of those "safe" environments. E.g., "serverless" cloud computing, smart contract systems (Ethereum 2.0, EOS.IO), Node.js, standalone VMs, and even Wasm Linux kernel modules. With different hosts and sandboxing models, memory vulnerabilities inside a WebAssembly binary can become dangerous.

(2) Even if an attacker can "only" call every function imported into the binary, it depends on those imported functions how powerful the attack can be. Currently, yes, most WebAssembly modules are relatively small and import little "dangerous" functionality from the host. I believe this will change, once people start using it, e.g, for frontend development -- then you have DOM access in WebAssembly, potentially causing XSS. Or access to network functions. Or when the binary is a multi-megabyte program, containing sensitive data inside its memory.

Sure, the warning is early, but I'd rather fix these issues before they become a common problem in the wild.