skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is worth noting that software salaries are artificially inflated HEAVILY due to a general unwillingness or lack of interest in hiring overseas developers.

Because it's been tried before and for the most part it was an abysmal failure. I was just starting out doing some basic web freelancing as a teenager in the 2000s and even I got roped in to clean up an outsourced project after being outbid a year earlier by an overseas firm during the first outsourcing wave. Lots of people on HN have horror stories of cleaning up from that era.

We've been here several times before - like literally just this past year of everyone saying "oh but now you have to compete with remote workers everywhere!" Salaries keep rising because software is an arms race. The companies making the most profit will continue to invest in getting the best people and outside of the odd global crisis, the industry will continue to grow as everyone else tries to keep up both in technology and in hiring. All those firms I cleaned up after as a kid are still around today and bigger than ever, yet on this side of the ocean we keep making more and more money.

I think we've got at least a century before software hits the diminishing returns that the industrial revolution did. My local lumberyard is still using DOS machines probably made before I was born.
> Sure there are, easiest one to reach for is the consumption (or even ownership) of various drugs.

Drug consumption is far from victimless. Even light drugs such as marijuana have negative effects on your cognitive abilities. That has an impact on others (the archetypal example being parents distraught by their children becoming drug users).

Stuff such as heroin, cocaine, meth, definitely have serious side effects for others.

If anything, your argument backfires spectacularly, since in a world where this would be possible alcohol, tobacco and possibly coffee would also be banned, for their disastrous consequences (coffee isn't really disastrous, but it's not that good, either).

I remember reading somewhere that the mortality rate on others (i.e. someone drinks alcohol and someone else dies due to that) of alcohol, for example, is second only to heroin (maybe meth, too?). It beats out stuff like cocaine or marijuana, for example.

> Beyond that there's prostitution in many jurisdictions, and no doubt there are other "victimless" crimes still on the books (basically those formed around morality - and therefore moral harm - rather than an otherwise identifiable harm or loss).

Prostitution is not victimless. It's mostly a female occupation (male prostitutes are a very small minority) and a good chunk of female prostitutes are abused and practically forced into it. I mean, it could be victimless, but in practice coercion is so present that it's almost impossible to separate the two.

> The problem with reaching for the "almost every choice you make affects someone" trope is that it's very easy to use it to justify any moral panic you choose.

That's why I said that only stuff where there's general agreement, including both liberal and conservative countries should be considered. For example murder would fit, since there really isn't any jurisdiction where murder is not a serious crime.

> Sodomy (and by that I mean non-procreative sexual activity) is an excellent example whose laws were still active in some states up to 2014* (and maybe still).

I agree. For your example, I'm having a really hard time to come up with real life, scientific, documented, negative side effects of sodomy on others. So it's much easier to distinguish between moral panic/aesthetic (let's be honest here, it's mostly an aesthetic thing, many people are just disgusted by it).
It’s an apt description for broadly-scoped criminal laws with highly deferential and selective enforcement. I’d bet a prosecutor could look at any given cellphone and find something to charge the owner with.

Edit- It reminds me this first amendment wonk who pissed off local police and was then ticketed for failure to register his bike: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28w6xvRj9EM
I miss Jay Leno, who through pretty even-handed comedy would present the news.
Exactly.

Linus was able to out-compete a team of hundreds of Microsoft Engineers who spent years building a Source Control system by himself within a span of 10 days when he built git.

You can't take Microsoft Source Control, add a few stories, and end up with git in a Sprint. You can't split that work up between different teams.

The essence of git is in a unified design that matches the essential complexity of source control requirements. When you play the game of telephone from user to sales to program manager to project manager to architect to lead developer to UX designer to DB modeler, each step along the path introduces errors. Those errors made the system harder to design for, harder to scale, and harder to use.

Linus was able to cover every element of those to a passable degree himself. You need to empower your developers. If they don't use the product, if they are not dogfooding, you have no chance to compete against those that are.
> The vast majority of people on the planet are also Christian. Does that make "humanity" a Christian institution?

The point is that Christianity has become so normalized to you that you don't recognize Christian celebration as religious.

The fact that you incorrectly think that the "vast majority of people on the planet are also Christian" proves my point.
> They dont talk about or even cover the same things

Yeah, this is a key thing to realize. People seem to think that Fox News, for example, just trots out falsehoods all the time, but if you skim the news, I'd say very little is actually factually incorrect. It's more about the story selection, who they choose to interview to get the quote, how they contextualize (or don't) statistics, etc.

But once you realize that, you realize it can apply to, e.g. WaPo, which many Republicans say is very left-biased, while many Democrats say it's neutral.

I think an amusing non-partisan example of how story selection biases viewpoints is the so-called "Summer of the Shark"[0] where for whatever reason shark attacks became a part of the summer's zeitgeist and got extensively covered. Meanwhile, shark attacks weren't at any particularly elevated level, contrary to what many people ended up believing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark
>Thus it's important to never re-use an address once you've spent from it and always spend the entire amount by using a newly generated change address.

How does that work? Anytime you spend coins from an address you hope you spend the exact correct amount that was already there? You pay 2x transaction fees to have to transfers - payment as one and remainder as the other and hope they both pop in the same block?
FWIW: The reason why they aren’t easy to automatically remove is because they are often put in manually by editors.
It's interesting to see how you've characterized what happened in r/canada. I think it is itself an example of polarization.

r/canada used to be great, as you said, but it didn't become polarized in a right vs. left manner. The moderators were self-admitted alt/far-right people who were pushing a particular agenda.

When the country as a whole votes left at a consistent 65-70%, then r/canada simply no longer represents the Canadian viewpoint. r/canada used to give center-right viewpoints attention at about the same rate as the support they got in elections. The push from right-wing mods to move to an even or greater split doesn't reflect the political reality of Canada.

r/OnGuardForThee is now a far more accurate representation of the political landscape of Canada where 70% of people vote center-left to left.
I've never leased a car before. If I get an EV in the next year or two, I'll definitely be looking at leasing for this reason.
Imagine people not being impressed with arguments like “I don’t agree with his attempted oppression of a vulnerable group of citizens, but I sure do like his position on immigration/tariffs/capital gains tax.”
Really seems like you need to respect the author’s wishes here, but the tension between author and community can get complicated with FOSS. Open source is a contract with your audience that the code can be used freely. Authors gain their audience because of that contract, so there’s some obligation for them to respect that. That said, respect flows both ways, and I’ve had FOSS code get repackaged to steal credit which feels like just as much of a violation. (That’s not the issue here but it touches on the same challenge.)

There’s no silver bullet. Sometimes things just don’t work out right and you need to fork or make an alternative. I’d personally lean towards making an alternative in this case, if it’s possible.
Mistune: iOS RCE vulnerabilities that have been hiding for a decade
> didn’t Xmas start being used exactly for that reason, i.e. to separate the event from religion.

No, its a Christian abvreviation originating from the ancient use of the greek Chi (visually identical to Latin X), sometimes along with Rho (Latin P) — the first two letters of Christ in Greek — as an abbreviation for Christ. Itsl dates back to, IIRC, the 16th C with similar forms back to the medieval period.

Its been railed about as originating in a modern attempt to de-Christianize (or even explicitly paganize) Christmas more recently, but that is completely ahistorical.
No, parchive v1 also used Reed-Solomon. The main difference between v1 and v2 was that v1 worked on the file level, but v2 divided the set of files into blocks.

Also, the parity matrix for v1 would be sometimes singular (non-invertible), which v2 tried to fix but it didn't quite work.
Same with flechettes, to which end they were stamped with "INVENTION FRANCAIS, FABRICATION ALLEMAND" ("Invented in France, made in Germany").
Christians are a plurality of the world population but far from a majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
I've found that looking at higher level, more commentary based news sources helps.

Some examples: Persuasion, The Dispatch, The Bulwark, and an assortment of substacks.

I get my news from Reuters with a sprinkling of fox/nytimes/reddit thrown in
The problem is that movies influence what we think the truth is. Is Tokyo like the Godzilla movies? I would hope that everything not obviously related to the fictional attack is realistic to how the people actually live, because like it or not movies influence us.
It's easy, just procrastinate later
https://cognitohq.com/ is another YC company that's already in this space. I haven't tried either service, but I wonder how they compare.
Turn Off, Tune Out, and Drop In (2019)
The issue with this standard is it can only be applied to situations where you're making decisions about the fates of other people - where you don't have skin in the game. It would be ridiculous to, for example, require that all trans people possess in-depth knowledge of TERF arguments against the validity of their identity (along with counter-arguments) before accepting that they understand their own identity. So sure, subject the lofty peanut gallery to this standard. If you're actually personally affected by a political issue it's usually pretty easy to figure out where you stand on it.
I have been reading the economist for a while now and im curious if you have felt a decline in quality or maybe its just my differing in opinion from recent articles.

Mostly i feel more articles coming up that are worded in a way to convince the reader or a certain point without any data. This is something i never really noticed in the past.

It might just be me though.
Yes, it can be extremely hard to deals with this type of ADD/ADHD without medication.

People write whole books about it just to avoid calling it a disease and making medication more accepted.
> ... didn’t Xmas start being used exactly for that reason, i.e. to separate the event from religion.

No lol, that's just what Fox news said when they were talking about the "War on Christmas". It's a historical typographical thing where X was used as an abbreviation for Christ, you can look it up. Nothing about trying to separate it from religion.
I highly recommend experimenting with turning off the news completely for a time. You quickly find that the vast majority of "Breaking News!" that gets shoveled out simply isn't that important for most people, and is there mainly to feed a news addiction.

Alternatively, use the Internet Archives to read news from this date from 2-5 few years ago. You'll probably find that most aren't worth reading, which gives you a good sense of how important the news you read today will seem in just a few years.
Do your Muslim friends celebrate Christmas? Do your Jewish friends?

Most non-religious americans are something like Christian Atheists. They don't believe in a god, but their worldview, ethics, and cultural norms are still originating in Christianity.
This is generally why all music college students take piano lessons as a form of "gen-ed". It gives a base every teacher can start from
There are many different types of managers, and "General Managers" are a thing. I.e. they drive product, eng, and UX. Ultimately, every CEO is that kind of manager, and they have to be. You can't just lean back and say "eh, people will figure it out, I hired accordingly".

The tricky part is figuring out how much guidance you must give to achieve an overall goal, and then step the hell away from micromanaging.
I wonder if there will be a sharp downward trend in per-worker productivity in those “$300/mo makes you lazy” jobs once everyone goes back to work. Boss makes a dollar, you make a dime and all that.
Why? Isn't life in prison effectively the conviction?

I could see, "better than to reveal a secret", but that's not "conviction"
> I think this is missing the darker point, which is that the main stream media along with the political parties that support them, are the the echo chamber.

They are part of the echo chamber. They aren't the echo chamber. Social media does a fantastic job of demonstrating that people naturally construct their own echo chambers. We tend to judge the main stream media & polities without appreciating a context where they don't exist. It's increasingly clear that for all their ills, they do deliver, albeit in a flawed and limited degree, on their espoused objectives.

They're terrible, except as compared to all the alternatives.
AFAIK it all should work on Librem 5 just fine. Even Pinephone shouldn't have a problem here. See demo videos here: https://media.lrdu.org/sxmo_pinephone_demos/.
Remember ActiveX?
To be fair, AirBnB for Solana would be pretty pointless, the interesting thing is if they can come up with something that wasn't possible before crypto.

The disruptive potential of the internet was clear even as we sat on dial-up connections, crypto is way past that point but still hasn't produced anything useful. Making ETH a bit better will not fundamentally change that.
Self-Balancing Electric Bicycle in Action
If anybody is looking for a routine database that supports more complex routines like the Wendler's 5/3/1 variations with Training Max percentage based weights then check out the [Hardy.app](https://www.hardy.app/howitworks). The routines can have progression overload based on AMRAP, deloads, etc. And the workout tracking app calculates changes in your TM based on AMRAP and other rules in the routine. Just enter you 1 rep maxes and hit "start".

Full disclosure though, it's kinda self-promotion because I've been developing [Hardy.app](https://www.hardy.app) with a friend for over a year now. It's free and we're adding more features all the time, check it out if interested. :)
I don't work in this space currently, but have colleagues and former colleagues that do. So many companies still have people running around with clipboards or doing routine calculations in Excel or handing loan applications by hand or managing contracts by printing them out and filing them or having someone sit at a monitor and watch for an alert so they can tell someone else or manually processing reward point changes or fax out hotel booking confirmations.

This is ludicrous to people steeped in tech, but I have had former colleagues or classmates or even myself work on all of those in the past year and a bit.
OTOH: IRC only counts users who are currently online. Discord counts every user who has clicked an invite link and "joined" the server, regardless of whether they are active.
Your talk linked from https://shivekkhurana.medium.com/reaching-flow-state-with-cl... was absolutely brilliant.
Presumably there's space for both "free and good enough" and "paid and actually good" in a lot of market though.
I would if Apple ever publishes it on Android. They don't really believe in cross-platform =/

I only ever really make time for the news on the crapper. It's a nice way to compartmentalize. Plus it cleanses the soul... shit goes in, shit goes out. Current events are too depressing otherwise.
Show HN: Real Time Video Stream Server Based on Aiohttp, OpenCV
Hello, this is my new side project - Real Time Video Stream Server.

You can get information from several cameras simultaneously by RTSP or using default web cameras and see video from them is you browser. Please check my work, thank you for your time.

The app allows to choose what camera streams you would like to watch at the moment.

You can choose day/night modes for better user experience.
> Suddenly, having good health insurance

Just think, we could all pursue our hopes, dreams and soul satisfying pursuits, if having good health insurance wasn't directly tied to having a "good job".
> To make it contemporary: Should I be trying to get into the mind of a Q Conspiracy theorist? An Antivaxer? How many conspiracies do I need delve into and understand such that I can make a passionate argument for them?

Yes and it's disturbing that you (and many others) have no interest in understanding other people.
Probably not the answer you expect, but the I18N team is hiring :) https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/internationalization-enginee...

Otherwise, if you're a trained linguist and have demonstrable consulting experience QA'ing technical documentation then we'll be happy to arrange something.

In either case, we appreciate your feedback, and my emails are open!
Have it as a second factor. Just make it harder for police to confiscate devices. U2F keys are great but they can be confiscated too along with your password. Fingerprint or face is possible to copy but much harder. Most police don't walk around with 3D face scanners.

Also make software self-destructing with a warning, i.e. if the user chooses it at installation time, all data will be destroyed automatically by the OS if they move the device off-premises. Make the setting unchangeable after installation time.

Police won't want to destroy evidence, so they'll have no choice but to leave it on premises.

I'm not trying to enable criminals, but rather enable whistleblowers and to not succumb to unreasonable new laws, and keep unethical searches for bad reasons in check.
I think the format for single precision and double is defined by the standard. Beyond that may be implementation dependent.
I’ll press y to quit.

I’ve been trying for years.
Windows 11 Is Coming, What New Features Would You Like to See Microsoft Deliver?
I feel bad for TravisCI as they seemed like nice people and were innovators in their space.

But it’s tough to compete in the CI space nowadays and I think trying to squeeze a few hundred a month out of projects will not work out well.

It seems like their market will be teams with specific use cases that can’t use GitHub Actions for one reason or another. So haxx.se should be free anyway since that’s not their market.

The bad PR is a whole other issue.
I'm going to watch it as means to avoid doing what I should be doing
Free speech censored by peer reviews ...
Eyeroll. Read it. I read everything. Look, my brain is broken. It would literally be easier for me to off myself than do everything I need to do every single day. It's simply hell.

A mediocre life is the best I can hope for without modern medicine. When I had access to it, I felt normal for the short but brilliant time it lasted.
I think most of the replies are tunnel-visioning on the snow-in-la-aspect. Even if you do start training people to start drive well in the snow, I don't think that will meaningfully reduce accidents, at least in LA. Especially when you consider DUIs and texting-and-driving contributes way more to accidents in LA.
> 1. Stripe has strict access controls—only those working on Identity/verifications can access the data.

> rather than having individuals collect and verify your ID, Stripe will securely handle verification.

The above statements are materially false. You allow customers of Stripe Identity the ability to access and retain "captured images of the ID document, selfies, extracted data from the ID document, keyed-in information, and the verification result". [https://support.stripe.com/questions/managing-your-id-verifi...]
During crisis decade post 1999, many shifted to better pastures, not content with being played like pawns and having bleak outlooks. Now, many developers having regretted biting the bullet for two f. decades are thinking the same, after quite a bit of introspection during COVID. Not saying everyone will jump on the same: Some went to work in kindergartens, just sick of everything java. However, this situation is exactly the spark that'll make people seek more of what they truly are meant to do in this life.

The best advice I can give is, treat other people as you yourself would want to be treated, or how you think they wish to be treated. Be kind and seek the best in others.
That description could just as easily be for the US. Maybe you disagree with the terminology, but when people talk about their health insurance being predicated on their employment, this is what they are talking about.
Something else to keep in mind is that liberal/conservative is a false dichotomy. We have at least four major cultures in the USA - some scholars put it as high as eleven - and they each have differing core values.

This accounts for much of the infighting we see in political parties and the various factions that arise.

I'm not so much a progressive Democrat as I am a member of "Yankeedom," as Colin Woodard dubs it.
I can hardly imagine how our technical jargon will change in the next 250 years. If you'll permit me…

What it means to execute code on the "bare metal" has changed over time. If you track its usage on HN, it is now common for programmers to use this to describe running a program outside of a Docker container or hypervisor/VM, but still atop an OS.

(I personally think this change in meaning is silly, but my feelings on this matter don't matter.)

Interpreting security policy making use of this "bare metal" term is now tricky. Choice #1 is to interpret the policy in the context in which it was written. Choice #2 is to attempt to interpret the policy in the context of how the term is now used.

(The best choice is, of course, to rewrite the security policy in question to address the change in definition, but for the sake of argument let's consider this to be too impractical to even consider.)

Let's assume that the 1996 policy in question is: "No company-written code that interacts with the Internet shall run on bare metal."

If we strictly interpret the policy in the context in which it was written, then we're in a pickle. Agner's hand-rolled x86_64 HTTP server is permitted. It runs atop GNU/Linux, so it's not freestanding and therefore isn't a "bare metal" program.

On the other hand, if we determine that the modern use of "bare metal" is compatible with what the authors of the policy intended, then the security team is clear to insist that Agner run his HTTP server within Docker, for instance.