skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a little more nuanced than the wikipedia article suggests, I saw some other sources saying that they're allowed to hand out stuff, but not if it's like a reward for signing up for the card. For example: handing out a shirt in exchange for applying wouldn't be allowed, but handing out a shirt to anyone that visited the booth would be ok.

from https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/statutes/c...:

(2) INDUCEMENTS PROHIBITED. —No card issuer or creditor may offer to a student at an institution of higher education any tangible item to induce such student to apply for or participate in an open end consumer credit plan offered by such card issuer or creditor, if such offer is made
One thing we Americans really need to learn is that Capitalism does not necessarily bring Democracy. It's very possible to have a capitalistic economy under an authoritarian regime, with multiple historical examples.

But after the Cold War ended, America/ns conflated Capitalism with Democracy, thinking they are one and the same, and that if we could bring bring the former to authoritarian nations, the latter would inevitably follow.

But they aren't, and it doesn't. If you want to spread Democracy and human rights, you have to spread Democracy and human rights. If Capitalism follows, fine, but it needs to be built on a foundation of freedom, represenative government, separation of power, checks and balances, and institutionalized protection of human rights, and it can't be relied upon to guarantee that.
I would be interested in improving (or at least experimenting) in this direction. Do you have any hint on what to do, or what was the problem when you tried? As with PDF we are not bound with a specific rendering pathway in the code, there could be the possibility to improve the Qt rendered for, at least, those fonts which are supported via Freetype.
What I really really want is a Linux phone with a physical keyboard like the the Nokia N900. Is this too niche?
Where’s the back button? - took me half a second to dust off memories. Also it’s uncannily snappy compared to how I remember it!
As someone who worked on code bases with sometimes fairly big teams before the days of mandatory code reviews: I applaud this. I feel like the culture of code review has become way too serious and strict, to the point we need a “Nit:” syntax because yes, people take issue with the very biggest and very littlest parts of your contributions these days.

Everything has to be perfect. Everything has to be “clean”. It can really get quite stifling, especially when you remember a time before code review when working, high quality software was somehow still delivered.
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Well, Facebook and Google goals align (gather as much user data as possible) so that is probably the reason. FB literally took print ads to try to fight the tracking disclosure tags Apple wants them to use, so yeah, I can see FB probably having their own app store on day 1 the moment iOS allows it
"Glorified auto mechanic" is exactly how I'd describe how software development is viewed in Europe. There is a much bigger emphasis on "just" buying software from Microsoft and SAP to "solve" problems.
`you can overlay a Spanish colonial map detailing how much forced labor must be performed in each region with a modern poverty map and there is still a high degree of correlation.`

Could this be partially attributed the geography, natural resources available in the region. AKA both the Spanish Empire and contemporary society saw the same poverty inducing industries available in those regions?
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) dog
They've been "thinking" about that for at least 25 years now.
I thought one of the main complaints of the system is “too many ivy leaguers” (who share diff values), so why aim for the thing that we talk bad about?

What’s bad about not being part of the derided elite class?
You should find it hard to believe that every state does things the same way because they don’t. That’s the point.
poor unappreciated APNG :(
It's never made sense to me with drugs either. Dealers are scum but recreational users are just exercising bad judgement. One side of the transaction has 100% of the culpability for a transaction that's voluntary on all sides.

Chris Rock (I think) even has a bit on it "no one ever sold you drugs, you went and bought them".
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Sure, we shouldn’t have this naive view that these so-called solitary geniuses work 1000% on their own without any input whatsoever from other people, but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t do most of the heavy lifting.

Seems like a reasonable middle ground, and therefore more or less destined to be lost in a sea of extremes.
This reminds me of listing a free TV on Craigslist and using a “victims” phone number.
> even Purism had to have blobs for the Baseband and Wifi (I think, or maybe it was just Wifi?)

Baseband and Wifi both run blobs, but not on the main CPU and not from the userspace. As a result, the phone is the only one recommended by the FSF: https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/.

> Not sure what is up with my Librem

Librem 5 does not have suspend-to-RAM yet: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
They've also been doing it. There's tons of outsourcing companies in Europe and Asia. Many bigger companies have offices in those countries as well.
Given it helps, I would not ask anyone to stop what they are doing. I was just curious if it might be more “placebo” than chemical, and clearly both the placebo and the chemicals are useful.

Meanwhile, I was just trying to provide extra data, i.e. it’s possible and acceptable to forgive yourself for not being perfect without any diagnosis.

Hopefully it just provides any one who reads this, one extra strategy to help themselves.
Well, the Nintendo Wii has 88MB of memory and a 730MHz single core PowerPC 750CL cpu. And yet games like Super Mario Galaxy or Skyward Sword are quite impressive considering the limited hardware.

The Last of Us for the PS3 never fails to leave in awe, Naughty Dog did some serious black magic to get those results out of the hardware they were targeting.

It's really amazing how much can be done when talented developers target specific hardware.
Same here, I could not play the videos before scrape-downloading them with `youtube-dl`
The problem with that is it only allows a maximum of $25K, which in Toronto's market barely makes an impact on the downpayment.
I don't know how much prostitutes earn in Sweden but low skilled employees earn a very decent salary that includes pension, the state covers health and education. You can actually have a decent life by being a McDonald's worker ( obviously there are exceptions)
I originally assumed you were a dumbass here, not a smartass. well played.
I wonder if in the history of banking the first banks had this much fraud with normal currency? Or is this just specific to Bitcoin? It feels like the stats now are just where by default everything with Bitcoin is (eventually) fraudulent and honest services are the exception.
Useable Linux just a few years away… since 1996
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https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13684

They are making a keyboard for the Pinephone.
> your SOX narrative doesn't cite code review

Thats not for all code. Only the parts of code that need sox compliance. Plus its usually implemented as person doing the deploy is different from person writing the code. So yea code review isn't a requirement, requirement is that a single person cannot make change in the production.
The systems we can build today with a small team are much more complicated than what we could do ten years ago. It's just that we also somehow managed to solve essentially the same problems we solved ten years ago with much more complex software.
> You're nitpicking. You know they meant "a lot relative to the qualifications and difficulty of the job"

No I'm not, and yes I know that, and I addressed it, but I'll spell it out some more.

Just about everybody is qualified to collect garbage, too. Garbage collection is physically risky and also disgusting and stigmatized. Like sex work, pay should compensate for those factors. Just because some people also voluntarily pick garbage in parks doesn't mean that garbage collection should be free.

The fact that sex work is illegal introduces additional risk to the workers, which, again, should increase its price. But, statistically, the highly paid sex workers are very uncommon. And that's not nitpicking; it's observing that OC is cherrypicking.

And anybody who thinks "sex is fun" and that comparing sex work to garbage collection is unfair has probably never done sex work nor had a serious conversation with somebody who has.
What skill domains are the hottest right now?
SOC 2 compliance as well. If you cannot check the box that says "all changes are reviewed prior to release" you're SOL.
Independent creation is a defense to copyright infringement
I see your point, but companies have been offshoring since I've been working at least, probably longer. Seems to go in waves for some reason.
The pandemic made Navajo Nation’s radio stations even more vital
Yeah, software is quite low status here and the salaries are often a joke.
What kinds of technical skills do you see as particularly specialized/uncommon and necessary for high-performance data infrastructure work? Curious for some detail there
Not only you'll raise salaries and keep devs happier. You'll get more productivity, since those managers like to fill their calendar and yours with useless meetings.
Let them. Importing an H1B is worse than simply throwing out a job for remote work to anyone who wants it.
I think threatofrain is proving your point. Their approach seems to be to try to find something, anything, that they can argue, no matter how unrelated to the point at hand, and to keep arguing forever. Points that they can't answer get silently dropped, with no admission that the other side has a point.

I've seen this pattern before. At best it's someone so committed to a position that they are determined to do battle rather than actually have a conversation. At worst it's someone arguing in bad faith.

Or, I suppose, most charitably, it's someone who lost the thread of the conversation and replied to the wrong person.
I like the excitement around pipewire. I was already into Linux when similar transitions were happening with pulseaudio or wayland or systemd, and the excitement today is so different from the negativity (deserved or not) around these other projects.
Meta: with JavaScript disabled (or if it fails to load), your <code> elements are very badly styled because of the highlighter-rouge class on them, which per monokai.css makes them `display: block` (and other related styles designed only for blocks of code, not inline code). When the JavaScript runs, the rouge highlighting is undone by https://thatgeoguy.ca/js/prettifyCode.js, which clobbers the class attribute, seemingly by accident (the comment says it’s adding, but it’s replacing instead) or incomplete modification… thereby apparently inadvertently fixing the problem!

The ideal solution is probably either removing the rouge highlighter from inline code elements, or shuffling the only-for-blocks .highlighter-rouge styles in monokai.css to a new rule div.highlighter-rouge, since they’re not suitable for inline code elements.

(I’m mentioning this here because the author is actively involved in the thread and thus there’s a reasonable chance of it being fixed.)
Interesting analysis. How do you see this 'pushing power' as it applies to hardware vs software features? I think with Google controlling Android it probably gives them equivalent pushing power - whats your take on that? IIRC They force other android manufacturers to pre-install google apps, no duplicate app stores, etc (not sure exactly whats in the contract).

I think Apple has to tread carefully if they want to continue imposing their crazy 30% revenue tax on app store sales. No company wants to pay a percentage fee (vs a flat fee) for a digital good that requires very little upkeep. With Steam i think the percentage goes down as the sales go up.
You have to be familiar with Wikidata's underlying model and how the data you care about are mapped to it, but having done that it's just a matter of picking one of the many example queries and tweaking it so it references the right bits of data.
I’m skeptical of tabula rasa myself (Speaking as someone on the less capable/“inferior”/low IQ side of the curve) but if true this will have to be remedied with a a robust safety net, right? Somehow Murray doesn’t seem to agree - as a set of policy prescriptions, it feels to me that the message is people like me should just starve.
> higher taxes on business

Denmark + Norway: 22%
Sweden: 21.4%
Finland: 20%
Germany: 15%
Nederlands: 25%
France: 25%
USA: 21% (but 35% until 2017).

So the tax argument does not hold, especially for the period before 2017.

Birth rates are also the same: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility...

> the EU is not particularly excellent at any

Odd that there are so many EU countries at the list of most happy countries when EU is not good at anything:

https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/the-10-happiest-countries...
That Next.js issue is 5 years old, here's a more recent discussion where we're exploring adding a CSP by default (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/23993).

We've also added documentation on adding HTTP response headers to improve security (https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/security-headers).
8500 tons?! Damn, destroyers have gotten fat.

Wikipedias

Ah, OK, we call cruisers destroyers now. Weird.
Exactly what I was thinking… code reviews are a major component of many security requirements.
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Sorry, I realise you were riffing that phrase, more cleverly than I appreciated!

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I had to Google that as I'm not Roman and my last latin lesson was as a 9 year old many decades ago, but having Googled, should that have been "quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi"[1]?

If so, I love it - thanks!

And, you're not wrong, but I feel I'm within my rights to be bemused at any irritation the Russian government might express.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_Latin_phrase...
The fact that it's a filter graph for shuttling buffers between sources and sinks lends itself to both buffers for audio and buffers for video. An application that generates video frames could decide to send its video frames to pipewire, and an application that accepts video frames could accept them from pipewire.

This is how screensharing through xdg-desktop-portal (linked in my sibling comments) works. The xdp implementation gets screencapture frames from the compositor and pushes them into pipewire, and the screensharing application (browser, etc) pulls the frames from pipewire.

This isn't new; DirectShow on Windows, and its successor Media Foundation, are also based on graphs. Put "windows graphedit" and "windows topoedit" in an image search engine for examples.
props to Elon and Kimball for running the ultimate long con
I’d like to know this as well. I suspect there’s more because now the entire contents of the vault can fit onto a slip of paper. So just logistically can be moved around more than previous bank eras.
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It's not as simple as it seems, the insider article focuses on average pace, but if you look at race winners more often than not its still a man, this difference in average is probably due to the higher number of men completing with a higher variance in ability.

I think it would be more truthful to say as distances increase the ability for women to complete with men also increases but we have not yet found a distance where women have a definite advantage.

This BBC article covering this topic does much better at explaining the state of affairs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49284389

This is in no way meant to disparage what any of these athletes, male or female. When it comes down to grim determination and pushing the human body to its very limits men and women are the same, but it is also telling that we need to get to this point of pain management and mental fortitude to level the playing field.
How? Importing the H1B means that the skills and IP and other related stuff stays in the country.
I don't think so; in particular I believe the strength of the European economy in the late 90s was merely hysteresis from the growth and investments of the 70s and 80s.

There is a certain structural "stiffness" which is a mix of regulation and culture but I don't believe it changed much. There was a big war in the middle of the 20th century that you might have heard of :-) and I feel like it upended things; poor countries like Sweden and Switzerland were able to spring ahead and the low energy point that the economy settled on was actually pretty solid for the second half of the 20th century: a resilient network of medium sized businesses with great socialization (the soi-disant "Mittelstand" of Germany is the most well known example). Unfortunately it didn't respond well to the global giants of the late 20th and early 21st century.
One thing we didn't talk much about is if it's...a good idea. I imagine many of these folks will switch back into the technical track for a bit. But the reality that Tess speaks to is that many more experienced eng managers are burning out (pandemic management has been no joke), and so companies are tapping on earlier career folks to step into management. For folks who don't opt out of that situation, how do you make the most of it?
It seems to me that continuing to press on this specific goal of using legal force to induce Apple to allow sideloading could induce extreme opposition from the right. In particular from those that embrace Ayn Rand and her parable of Roark.
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My biggest sticking point is that the team write tests where applicable for every PR submitted. Is it fullproof? No. Does it ask for trust? Yes. YMMV
Unfortunately, education in the US is becoming really expensive. The cohort based learning is the way to go! sites like Maven are the future.
> Framerate isn't wonderful (20 - 30 fps on my laptop, which will happily run graphically more intensive JS demos at 60fps usually)

Something I'm curious about is whether the frames are dominated by game logic (ClojureScript/React) or by graphics. If your laptop doesn't have a discrete card, and the author hasn't taken steps to optimize the graphical side via culling, etc, then your fps may not be representative of ClojureScript/React-based games in general
thu2111 says "Who is saying they want to kill half the population?!"

He's speaking of mostly apparent desire, not what people have explicitly said (although it is sometimes explicitly said, too). On the surface it would seem to be political suicide to say one wanted, for example,

- all Trump supporters, or

- all woke activists, or

- all conspiracy theorists, or

- all Democrats, or

- all Republicans, or

- all blacks or all whites or all LGBTQ+ etc.

(pick a group)

to be dead. But there is plenty of such talk going around and it is not always cancelled or censored by FAANG and it is sometimes even encouraged. I believe that the OP's observation is correct about a significant part of the population.

Political affiliation and religious affiliation are both beliefs. Wars have been/are being fought over beliefs. There are plenty of quotes by various parties suggesting what should be done with unbelievers at all times through history.

At bottom, isn't everything we know really belief?
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I'm not sure how that would work without allowing the individual states to act like separate countries. E.g. by being able to put tariffs on other states, sue them for their externalities, place restrictions on people who don't live and work in the state, etc.

At that point, I'm not sure what you gain by not being completely separate countries.
Sure, but that’s not the situation here. iPhone user satisfaction is crazy, off the charts high. I believe App Store stewardship is one of the reasons why.
You could walk on a mud path to the train station. You could walk on a cobbled street, not wide enough or strong enough for cars, to the train station. It wouldn't be as convenient, but cars are useless without roads in a way that trains aren't.

A two-way road between every building, and space for on-road parking or space for off-road parking around every building, bloats out the space between buildings and lowers density in a way that makes cars more necessary. It's possible for thousands of people to live within a short walk distance of a train station without even resorting to residential towerblocks.
Honestly the first two should be a federal thing. I just don’t understand how a federal election has 50 different ways of doing and qualifying things and not one way for a position that affects the whole country. If we were to pull up on a Alien planet and see this kind of election style we would ridicule the ridiculousness that is the US election system.

Don’t get me started on how it makes any sense that we don’t leverage the power of the government for something as crucial as life. Why in the god damn fuck is giving birth in this country not free?
What if the exit scams happening today in China are 10x worse than South Africa’s, because it’s so much bigger, but we aren’t hearing about them? Never mind history.
Same (44) phone calls are for recruiters and marketing spam, so if I'm not currently looking for a job, the phone doesn't get answered
> Is being philosophically critical of something automatically hostile?

Not in terms of the Equality Act. You can be as critical as you like in private, or outside the workplace as I understand things.

But if you voice those criticisms directly to someone in the protected class in the workplace, then you’ve crossed the line.

So, eg, telling a gay person to their face that you oppose gay marriage & all gay people are going to hell might be your strongly held philosophical (or religious in this case) belief, but the act of voicing it to the individual in the protected class breaks your employers obligations under the Equality Act in the UK & they would be entitled to fire you for it. The same goes for persistently mis-gendering a trans person (quite apart from it being extremely rude of course!) as gender re-assignment forms a protected class in law.

(Obviously, this is as I understand things & not the opinion of a legal expert in these matters.)
It's a myth. There's no shortage of developers, programmers, etc. There's a shortage of willingness to pay for them.

Want to attract and retain qualified developers? Pay them. If you offer 5% salary increases when moving to your competitor means a 25% salary increase the developers will move.

Can't afford it? Maybe you should cut those that suck off developers' teat.
And the pendulum swings yet again. Eventually, with scale, I feel this approach will realize why the code reviews were implemented in the first place.

I love experimenting with new approaches and challenging old processes that everyone seems to do "because that's the way it's always been", but I feel too often we don't understand why a process like reviews are as popular as they are before we remove them. These processes grew organically, it wasn't some manager somewhere who came up with the idea. It was a solution to a human problem, and the hardware hasn't changed.

I find this is a great read if I'm not explaining myself clearly on my phone.

https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
Being near the bottom of any hierarchy is bad, and without smashing these hierarchies people like me are just destined to suffer.

After all, the elite class is usually not derided anyway - and many of the people deriding them (think JD Vance) are elites already.