skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So people who hire contract killers are not to blame? I don't understand this argument - saying "it's not our fault the cattle/hardwood logging/mining companies cut down the Amazon" is nonsense, that's been widely known about for decades and we (collectively) just bought more and more of this stuff. It's their fault and ours.
Before signing the contract, ask for clear written exceptions to the requirement.

In my very limited experience on the subject, I have been able to secure exceptions to such policies for side projects and ongoing work that are clearly unrelated to the company's business. They're happy, I'm happy.

Getting the exception in writing early helps both sides of the contract negotiation to be happy before the relationship even begins.
This is really exciting - congratulations to the team and all the contributors.

For those who already know "what smalltalk is all about" but are looking to get into Pharo and get something done, I recommend Pharo by Example and Deep into Pharo - between those two books, any developer should be able to figure out the workflows Pharo expects you to employ to be productive.

My only advice would be to go in without preconceived notions based on your years of using other languages. And the community is super helpful.
Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“
Look, you can go into Chrome today and disable third party cookies via a setting. There may be a way to create an extension that does this change automatically.

Almost anyone other than Google can make this change without major legal worries, but because Google is in both the ads market and a browser vendor they can't rock the boat.

On what grounds? There are businesses whose only product is targeting information for ads. If they can't get the data they need then they can't produce a product and will go out of business.

Hopefully Mozilla and Apple can start pushing some of the tracking replacement technologies since they don't have their hands tied like Google.
It sounds like a very fun environment . But what can I use this for?
The problem with this argument is that it puts us in a very tenuous position: humans need to get over every resource squeeze. Any critical limit that we don't find a technological workaround for in time becomes an extinction threat. In other words: you need to be right every time, I only need to be right once.
Appears the author recently left Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841963
JS is for me clean and comfortable, sometimes more than C# and for some others Python is, and everyone has their own answer to "what makes them so".

Everything being an object may do the trick for you or not. I don't mind a marketing page (even for a programming language) being opinionated, as long as not borderline delusional.
I love the personal entitlement people have when using free email, free social media, free search engines and everything else to the point they are offended if they try to make ends meet by making profit.

Those are not free, the users are paying for them with their share of the ad budget in the price of all the products they buy. And I am not complaining about ads per se - even though I would personally prefer if they disappeared and I could directly pay for the services I use - but about the tracking behind them.
Raylib is fantastic fun, very much looking forward to seeing your progress.
Great article. I didn't get the point of the long central poles - seems that would assist water trickling in, and increase probability of lightning strike; they looked deliberately high.
I'm feeling the opposite, I've read many interesting articles about very diverse subjects through HN, and am often impressed by the quality of the accompanying comments.
The GP is indeed completely mischaracterizing what happened in that thread, to the point where you can wonder if he really read that thread.
Perhaps, I don't do mobile.

I wasn't commenting on the layout, I meant the description of the features, the animations and 'balloons'.

One of the most polished presentations of features I've seen on any OSS project.
I actually encourage the people I hire to not work on tech projects on the side. Go take up an artistic hobby or just go play with your kid. Unplugging from work is healthy; grinding side projects until you burn out is not.
These are all commodities, the fact that you are being served by the closest producer does not mean that you are not generating demand that has to be compensated by someone else increasing their production. The world is connected together.

Also US-raised beef also occupies the area of destroyed forests. American beef didn't destroy the Amazon but it destroyed the environment anyway and is every bit as guilty of producing global warming.
I didn't say they're not responsible too; my point is that none of us needs cheap beef or hardwood or gold (do we?) and it's widely known what these companies are doing, so we can't just shrug our shoulders and say "we didn't cut down the forest".

Agree about the plastic though, that stuff is almost impossible to avoid.
Ads are their foremost product. Search is just their vehicle for delivering ads to viewers' eyeballs.
Actually there are more beginner-friendly standards in the hobbyist electronic space. Using an i2c plug standard like Sparkfun’s Qwiic QT / Adafruit’s STEMMA QT (which are mostly compatible) avoids soldering, but you’re limited to the i2c parts that they have breakout boards for.

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-adafruit-stemma-qt/sp...
I'm getting so sick of this rhetoric prevalent on Reddit, HN, and society at large where we pick a figure that was lauded for their accomplishments, find either real or imaginary reasons that speak again this accomplishments or their character in general and then "cancel" them.

For example, Elon Musk's being born in an affluent family. How many others were born just as affluent if not a lot more, and yet failed to achieve anything of note? How many have squandered their opportunities?

The message that is pushed now is that what you have achieve is through no virtue of your own, but simply a cause-and-effect relationship of being born affluent. Hard work doesn't matter because you were born rich. If you weren't born rich but worked hard to achieve great success - still doesn't matter because obviously you were lucky. To me this seems like a very depressing, deterministic view of the world.

The message we should be teaching ourselves and future generations is despite your circumstances you should and could achieve more. Yes, if you were born in a poor African village without schooling and without money it's very unlikely you'll achieve as much as someone who went to Cambridge and had a very powerful network of family friends and an unlimited bankroll to attempt startups. Does that mean you should resign yourself to wallowing in self-pity because of 'woe is me, why hasn't God made me rich and beautiful?'. No.
Yeah i've seen Cuis at the past, it is certainly a leaner Smalltalk compared to Pharo (though TBH i am not a fan of Squeak's UI). If nothing else it can serve as inspiration.

Also now that i think about it, Cuis might be a good Smalltalk environment for starting out or learning about the language in general since i always get the feeling that the more feature packed dialects like Pharo are a bit intimidating.
> such intrusions are rendered illegal or impractical

The GDPR was an attempt. Guess what happened? Everyone implemented it in such a way as to appear compliant but not necessarily be compliant, and to cause maximum annoyance to the user.

What the solution is here is to have an educated population and powerful privacy tools, like uBlock Origin. [1]

But of course, the surveillance oligopoly is developing its own browser [2], specifically to maintain control and make it hard to implement such tools [3].

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

[2] https://news.softpedia.com/news/google-chrome-microsoft-edge...

[3] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338
LeBron James criticized for saying Rockets GM 'misinformed' on Hong Kong
"It's sad to see him join the chorus kowtowing to Community China & putting profits over human rights for #HongKong," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tweeted.

Profits first
The trick is the ad companies can use anti-trust to get the governments of the world to foot the bill. See the recent issue with the CMA in the UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-to-have-key-oversight...
Billionaire in space, Ransomware stuff, censorship, and new models of innovation
we have seen plenty for google, Amazon, Facebook. I see no reason to think Microsoft is different. Just because we haven't heard of a case yet, doesn't mean it is not possible or that it will never happen. it's more likely just a matter of time.
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VR and AR are the endgame in the long story of human meaning-making
Yes but hard to say if they are due to COVID since she’s always had GI issues, which cause her to avoid a lot of food (eggs, milk, fruits).
OSS dev: I'm frightened of the personal risk of having bugs in my code suddenly mean that money is hoovered out of my bank account since it is extremely difficult be confident my code contains zero bugs.

Insurance usually goes the other direction. Large organizations can amortize risk. Individuals need to mitigate risk. Having somebody buy insurance on my code makes me less likely to want to release it rather than more likely.
What specific tricks do you think tech firms are missing? At least when I worked on the problem, both machines and manpower were plentiful.

At any rate, you seem to be assuming there's a large uncontrolled bot problem. The point of the research quoted above is that there isn't. Unless you're talking about ordinary commercial spam?
whataboutism the empirically based. For that reason along, I feel I must entertain its arguments.
And Command+Enter opens a Finder window highlighting the file.
Here’s a more succinct and accurate take on what happened to Gawker:

Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection.

If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation.

The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money.
He has a lot of good points, but, he leads with a political trope. This is a sure-fire way to lose most of your audience from the start.

His primary argument is “A is bad”. But then he adds “B is bad, and A is associated with B”. But B is tautologically half the audience, so you lose them, and this becomes support for A. Then there are those that think A is good, but B is bad. Presumably this is the intended audience. You just told them that they are associated with B, so you start out with ideological antagonism instead of making a direct point. You are left with only those that hate both A and B, and of course they will re-tweet, but in this case, it’s still just a bunch of opinions, no personal account or facts that could be used to direct change.

In the bigger picture, cryptocurrency is a confluence of technologies that are not going away. It can be used for almost any ideology, and some of those will be popular and some of those will be violently opposed and some will be made illegal. But, in the long run, the one that will survive, for any specific group, is the one that facilitates the strongest social organization. So ultimately, opinions of ideological taste, one way or another, are irrelevant.

Let me reiterate: I think he has some reasonable points within his opinions, and we should consider them even if we disagree.
In most cases? Not at all.

Generally speaking, your advertising ID is linked to a bunch of other technical information used to profile you. So when you change advertising ID, the systems in use can generally correlate that, and have a history of IDs that are linked into your profile.
Kleppmanns books (as this talk) references spreadsheets and the underlying programming model of Functional Reactive Programming. You essentially define a variable as a function of inputs it depends on, and it gets recalculated if any of the inputs change.

In a way it is quite a cool concept, because you can build a model that is based on some inputs and then it gets recalculated on-the-fly as the inputs change (or the model changes).

Is anyone aware of a language that supports this type of calculations in a nice way (outside of spreadsheet applications)?
The 'artificial heart in a backpack' device itself: https://syncardia.com/clinicians/home/
Well, that depends. Be an illustrator for someplace like Disney, and you'll have all that. Illustrate comics, though? 10 hour workdays, and your arm will probably give out at some point - mostly meeting deadlines. Graphic designer? You have it.

Most folks that sell have to arrange meetings with clients, take time to mail art, organize prints, either deal with a printer or printing their own stuff, answer customers, interact on social media... and so on. You might not be creating anything creative, but reproductions of wedding photos and pets.

The non-art parts of being an artist add up, and few folks can survive being an artist. At best, most folks have a full time job (or other income) and selling art is, at best, a side hustle.

A gallery helps with some of this. Of course, it is pretty common for the gallery to take 40-50% of the selling price, plus whatever they charge to frame the piece. You then have meetings with them, and they'll drop you in a heartbeat if you don't produce enough or don't sell well. A few will let you rent space, but you generally need to care for it.
Because cryptocurrencies are built on political ideology from the ground up.
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Yes. Ask. I've never had an employer insist on anything beyond "Let your line manager know about projects you're doing so they can judge if it's a conflict", but left to their own devices the standard contract they've got will reject everything 'cos that is safer for them.

Same for other contract conditions. Had to have one previous employer strike their "usual place of work" condition because it was inappropriate for me, they knew it when they hired me and the people who hired me wouldn't have tried to enforce it, but it's standard text. If I sign it some new manager comes along later and gets to enforce it, no reason to allow that so I had them revise the contract.

In the UK, and I think maybe the US too, the employer actually benefits in a small way if employees get them to tweak the contract. If a court sees the contract as a "take it or leave it" situation - like when you buy a hamburger, you don't get to negotiate the terms of that deal, either buy a hamburger or don't buy a hamburger - then it automatically treats any ambiguity in your favour. But once you negotiate a different text, you had the chance to read that contract, if you thought something was unclear you could have fixed that, so now any defects are as much your fault as the employers.
Electron app is "JavaScript-app + Chromium browser (or any other browser)"

Without browser this "browser extension" (Web-app) could not run on any platform.
Yes, but it is in fact a mixture of gasoline and ethanol. To quote the Wikipedia article:

Blends of E10 or less are used in more than 20 countries around the world, led by the United States, where ethanol represented 10% of the U.S. gasoline fuel supply in 2011.[1] Blends from E20 to E25 have been used in Brazil since the late 1970s. E85 is commonly used in the U.S. and Europe for flexible-fuel vehicles. Hydrous ethanol or E100 is used in Brazilian neat ethanol vehicles and flex-fuel light vehicles and hydrous E15 called hE15 for modern petrol cars in the Netherlands.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ethanol_fuel_mixtures
And nothing a value was lost. Gawker Media and the Gawker blog are gone, but all the other side-blogs are still going strong. Can't see this as a freedom of speech issue. A company with an ugly dysfunctional culture was destroyed and not much else happened.
You say these sites don't load "obtrusive" 3rd-party content.

What is your definition of obtrusive?
It doesn't help that some laptops are 16:9 and some 16:10 so the vertical numbers get even more mushy.

Anyway, my point was that even though "4K" as a concept has good mindshare, that's overkill even for a True Retina(tm) experience in the typical OSes on a 13". Around 100 DPI is what those UIs were foundationally designed for (starting in the 1990s) and all numbers unfold from that decision.
I'm sure a security eng at Google earns more that enough.
Whataboutism is one of the major forces that ended Jim Crow in the US.
Apple realized that their business model did not depend on acquiring as much info as possible about their users. Instead, they sell devices with a solid profit, and provide a user experience in order to make these devices compelling.

Therefore playing the privacy card gives them a market differentiator against those who are mainly into the ad business, and who must collect as much intimate data as possible in order to run competitive ad platforms.
> My point is that I'm not sure even how I would "address" these issues that you are insisting Linux Desktop evangelist "stop excusing".

If any one person could do it, it'd have been Linus but he doesn't seem interested. It isn't anything a single individual can deal with because it's part of the community culture.

> Even taking the one concrete example you provided in this thread, Apple's App Store is incredibly popular -- in fact in the US it has a 56% marketshare [1] -- so why would a Linux OS moving toward what you prefer would increase adaption?

It's just one aspect of the problem. Apple's App Store has one thing going for it that Linux doesn't: there is one App Store. You get your application onto the App Store and everyone can use it. This is not true of Linux Repos. Besides which, the number you quoted is for mobile, not a desktop operating system.

Linux Desktop culture has this rhetoric of freedom and control, while simultaneously pushing an application distribution model that wants to manage everything in a very limited way. You can't install applications onto other disks, you can't have two versions of the same application (unless the maintainers have deemed it a worthy use case), and you can't keep old versions of applications around unless you want to keep your whole system back too.
As a European, we absolutely do refrigerate our eggs.
There was outrage all across the Internet, not just HN.

I tried it out myself, and it was majorly disorienting. It was the sole reason I reverted from the public beta.
> It’s an interesting thought experiment as to what it would take for the world to force protection with an external military force (e.g. this might be the only solution, but the chances of it happening are zero).

Brazil would never tolerate that, nor should they.

On the other hand if you want to buy huge tracts of the Amazon and pay private security forces to protect it, that's doable.

Better though would be to make it in Brazil's interest to protect the Amazon. We all benefit from it being intact, so we should all chip in to create an economic incentive for the county of Brazil to maintain it.
Definitely going to take a look at this. I'm one of the few traditional developers in a company that's got a lot more analytics and database people than application or web people. In such a situation the company is loathe to use ORMs and the old adage of "never do your business logic in the database" doesn't really apply in practice. I've managed to learn enough SQL to get by and fulfill the software's requirements out of sheer necessity and I've actually got to the point I prefer to use it over an ORM, but I'd love to have a more systematic education in the language.
> The text was right.

Weird how a lot of academics don't agree.
Is it really a mainstream position of modern libertarians that state-owned corporations competing against private interest is better than passing a law against some externality? This reads like a Chinese Communist Party press-release and not a non-aggression-pact, individualist libertarian.
For anyone that wants to learn about Pharo, I recommend this online course:
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/live-object-programming-p...
It's available in English and French.
But a gram of AirPods is more expensive to recycle than a gram of plastic, because it’s more complex. That makes it more expensive, and presumably less likely to be recycled after being discarded.
"What Intel giveth, React taketh away."

(Updated for this decade.)
Important Features of a Successful Machine Learning Project
> not allowed to be rigged

I guess I don't understand what "rigged" means in this context. I thought slot machines could essentially be "tuned" for payout by the owner (e.g. pay out 0.96x of what's put in on average), much like these toy machines.
And how many are paid barely above the min hourly rate and not included in your stat ?

30%+ the US population should live in a single room flat and sleep on a sofa apparently:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Households_vs...
> Many of the internets early adopters were actual criminals

the early adopters were college students and professors since that's where it was available. as far as "criminals" it would have only been those pesky "hackers" who were mostly acting from curiosity. there wasnt any big opportunity for financial fraud on the "internet" because there was no commerce on the internet. the commercialization had to happen first and that required massive buy-in long before criminals could have any fertile ground to operate upon.

> and its detractors talked about how it "couldn't scale",

ive never seen such a thing, in the early 90s most of us didnt even have terms like that queued up

> was bad for the environment,

never heard of this
I'm not gonna pile on yet another explanation, as others have already done, but hope I can provide an example that is IMO less bizarre and ear-damage inducing: The 2005 film "Me and You and Everyone We Know" had its score[1] largely composed using a circuit-bent Casio SK-1[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtElSNMkums&list=OLAK5uy_kei...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_You_and_Everyone_We_Kno...
Juan has done some really impressive work on Morphic3, which uses a vector graphics engine of his own design. He's also pared down Cuis' version of Morphic to its most basic elements, so one could change the appearance of the UI to whatever, theoretically
CO2 may be good for plants, but plants cannot grow if the temperature gets too hot or their soil gets flooded by sea water.
> - Major contributions to a big open source project: I assume these people get hired easily.

Nope; it depends on market demand for the project. I know a guy who was a major contributor to OpenStack for years. He’s an E5 at a telecom and is having a hard time finding a better job. Turns out there aren’t really that many places with huge OpenStack footprints.

The one place it might matter is in consulting. And only because it’s a good way to signal to clients that you know what you’re doing.

> Recruiters are not dumb.

When it comes to hiring tech talent they kind of are. They usually have no idea what an engineer actually does, so they’re checking boxes off a list the hiring manager gave them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/oj0dj4/michael_saylor_...
I can only think of a couple of times where HR decided the cover letter was worth including with the resume in a very similar time frame.
BPOM (Indonesian FDA) Approves Ivermectin as Covid-19 Therapeutic Drug
Neither of the two $MEGACORPs (or at least $LARGECORPs) I've worked at have had any issue with various things I've done on the side and I've never kept them secret. So it varies--and neither were in California.