skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Certain big important tech companies" is an important qualifier here. Volvo isn't strategically important to any country, so it doesn't matter who the owner is. The Chinese government used to consider car companies strategically important, but has changed its stance recently, which is why Hyundai's trucking division and Tesla's Chinese subsidiary are wholly foreign-owned enterprises. Other categories like defense production, mining, electricity generation, education and telecommunication are still subject to restrictions on foreign ownership.

The US, in contrast, doesn't have blanket bans (or blanket approval) based on the industry a company operates in, but has CFIUS allow or deny foreign acquisitions on a case-by-case basis. (E.g. remember when CFIUS ordered Kunlun to sell off Grindr because of its strategic importance?)
Not quite a sign of the market correcting this, but rather a possibility of the market correcting it. It all depends on whether Amazon's fears motivate them to improve their behaviour, or whether market forces make said improvements unnecessary or they find alternative solutions that are better aligned with their own interests but do not actually improve the wellbeing of their workers.
So 2 things:

1) I do not believe they are in equal footing generally and never stated that - I was pointing out the nuances with respect to Prop 22. Gig cos. didn't win just because they had more money - they won because AB5 is a despised policy.

2) Unions != Labor. Workers == Labor. This is the key point I'm trying to make.
>It started off awful, and in that time, it hasn't got better in any material way.//

That's not my experience at all. It's not great, but it has improved a lot.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-new-in-mic...
You're ignoring the clear evidence of large scale under-reporting.

But there's a deeper problem. Those are not good numbers because they are drastically higher than would be expected for a vaccine. A big part of the argument for getting vaccinated is that vaccines in general are "perfectly safe" and in particular that the vaccine is much safer than actually getting COVID. What this data shows is that these vaccines don't meet expectations established by prior campaigns, and that actually we have no real idea whatsoever of how dangerous they are, especially in the young.

Consider that US all cause mortality for the under 65s is still seriously above the expected baseline despite that COVID deaths have dropped to nearly zero. Something is raising mortality, and according to the largest virus surveillance programme in history combined with the laxest classification process imaginable, it isn't COVID.
Icelandic Study Suggests Government Workers Are Unnecessary
That's why I work. Financial stability and being able to provide for my family would make me happy, at least happier than being poor.

Things are expensive. Happiness of your wife and kids are even more expensive.
Realistically, what's the alternative? A lifetime spent in bitterness and mistrust?
Bad unions are bad and the sky is blue. It should be pretty self-explanatory that nobody is gonna defend unions which "screw over the workplace", it's a straw-man. But some people still defend unions.. so, a more honest question would be: what do they think is a good union then? What should a union strive to do? What are the critics they agree with?
I spend too much time sitting waiting for people to join meetings that have been cancelled or moved - and Outlook / Teams don't know yet. I'm connected - I know this because I'm sitting there 'in' the meeting. I'm receiving emails. I'm talking to people on Teams... Argh.
This is required by law in the EU thanks to PSD2. It's not perfect but orders of magnitude better than the US banks I use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive
Where on earth are you pulling the 'begging for money' from? I've never seen that happen before.

You are ultimately arguing that a business protecting my data, while also using it themselves to sell me their own products, is just as bad in other ways as a company taking my data and using it to manipulate election results, to sell to shady companies and to market the shit out of me.
They didn't change their understanding with new information, they asserted with 100% confidence that the lab leak idea was a ridiculous conspiracy theory, back when there was simply no intellectual justification for that assertion whatsoever, whilst lying (yes, lying) in their conflict of interest statement about their actual conflicts of interest. The man who coordinated it all refused to sign his own "open letter" to avoid arousing suspicion!

Even today, in their newest letter, they are still trying to obfuscate the real situation and are certainly not apologizing for their prior stance.

At any rate, this claim that scientists are never dishonest or wrong, they just "update their beliefs" as more information becomes available, is getting very tedious. That's not what they're doing. "Science" is constantly bombarding our political leaders with wildly extreme statements delivered not just with 100% confidence, but the assertion that you aren't even allowed to disagree because it's a "scientific consensus". People read the papers and point out that they're making false assumptions or are otherwise pseudo-scientific, but they're suppressed and ignoring. Then when that "consensus" turns out to have been completely wrong a bunch of apologists appear to explain that scientists can never be wrong by definition.

Well, guess what? If a certain type of person constantly make confident statements as a group and insists reasoned disagreement is illegitimate, then is repeatedly proven to be wrong, all their statements become seen as less reliable. As a group.
There are certainly scales, it's not all uniform. But the EU is a big place and people are free to pick which country they live in. It's disingenuous to suggest it's all the same thing.

The larger point of EU workers having more rights is, on average, very true. The US (and China and Russia) treats their workers very poorly by comparison.
The Second Defenestration in Prague, May 23, 1618. Three people of the catholic church were thrown out a window and dropped 17 meters below on a pile of manure, all the survived, one with head trauma.

What followed was the 30 Year War, a topic that I know is sadly a but underdeveloped in US/UK history class, since the US didn't exist then and the UK didn't really do anything on account of it's own internal problems at the time.

The 30 Year War was pivotal for religious rights in Europe as well as one of the most devastating wars in history (up to 40% of the population perished either in war, famine or plagues). Another big point was that as a result of this war, german cities and the rest of europe experienced a big uplift in trade. Especially France, Spain, Netherland and England got a huge boost to their ship trade, which I would argue at minimum indirectly lead to financing the expeditions that discovered the Americas.

Sadly it is a rather complex topic that many historians still fight over, since in most cases if you open history books about it, you see a map of the HRE + Europe with about 2 million arrows labelled "attacks" or "leads to" or "defends" or "defeats".
The marketers love your idea and will inject even more ads if reading the article until the very end (no matter how devoid of information or misleading they may be) becomes mandatory just to comment on it.
How to win a hackathon without coming in first place
I'd assume the tax would be proportional to salary, sort of like social security.

Some conservative napkin math: let's say that people have about a 30-year working career and have on average 2 children. Let's say we want to give them 3 months off per child.

That's 6 months of paid time off in a 30-year (360 month) working career or 1.66% of their career off. So taxes in that range would cover it. And actually people only need to get their after-tax salary in payments, which is smaller. And companies would probably be happy to pay into this because they no longer have the burden of paying the full PTO, it's amortized across the economy.

Beyond taxes, the main contribution of the companies here would be that they need to hold the job for you while you're out and continue to provide non-salary benefits such as healthcare.

My math is probably off but I think it's in the right ballpark!
These are great release notes - I think quite a few Foss projects could draw some inspiration here.
Legally, US and international law recognizes those funds as belonging to the current government of Iran.
Node.js – v16.5.0
Guaranteed ordering per partition while keeping the ability to scale across partitions.
I find myself thinking about the often for any kind of distributed system, and here’s the rule of thumb: pulling events / polling works 100% of the time but is inefficient, and webhooks work 99% of the time but are more efficient.

Make the even ingestion job idempotent, so it can handle multiple receives, then hook up a pull / poll every 5 minutes or hour or whatever to start at the last pulled date (very important, don’t start at 5 minutes ago or you’ll miss downtimes). Then optionally set up webhooks or a push model.
Playlisting Favorites: Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry
I heavily use QMK to change how my keyboards work. I keep most of the normal upper and lower layers, but I also have a layer with a numpad and macros (such as a key that inputs my email). It is still a bit of a learning curve, and I find myself having to think for a second when I am using things like screen or tmux.
Monocles: Secure, ecofriendly, privacy respecting, open source web services
Are you suggesting that the EU would be identical without Article 1 in place?
> bad phone number inputs

That's exactly what this post reminded me of.

The bad phone number input 'prompt' is, I'd say, classic at this point. I don't know which URL started it all, but here are a couple:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/651hfm/i_s...

https://imgur.com/a/4f3XB

Bonus HN posts:

Show HN: I've made a rotary dial number input, because why not? (2019) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21234891) 190 points 86 comments

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers
(2016) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321236) 236 points 122 comments

Google's phone number handling library (2014) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574080) 284 points 42 comments
(Immediately checks for author affiliation to eInk or some bullshit mid-tier American university with an "up and coming" tech transfer office) Awesome, maybe this will actually come to market with a reasonable license fee!
This is until you work in Go for some time like me and you find things that are unnecessarily unsafe or difficult because of the insufficient type system.

Even worse if it won't bug you when you're coding but it will crash in production.

Typescript is complicated because it was bolted onto Javascript and has to cover its use cases.

A leap from "Typescript is complicated" to "most teams should use Go" is too far fetched. These languages aren't even in the same domain.
And noone was surprised
Not if the alternative to working for Amazon is, well, death by starvation. People say communism falls apart once subjects stop having reasonably similar goals. Market economy is certainly more resistant to this, but is it infinitely more resistant? How far can we push inequality before that becomes an issue?

Edit: That was meant as a response to the parent comment.
IMO leftovers taste better than the original meal.
German state of Bavaria in talks with Intel on chip megafactory
Back in the day homebrew allowed you to use system libraries for stuff like openssl while macports did not, which was nice for some things, especially at a time when there were no binary ports which meant installing something like imagemagick would take a loooooong time because of all the dependencies.

Also brew cask was pretty nice, and generally the experience to add a port was not as seamless as adding a formula to homebrew.

I very much prefer macports, anyway.
It seems the headline is misleading in that it implies a kidnapping in the middle of Brooklyn was attempted, but the body of the article says they tried to "lure her to a third country".
> LaTeX imports and interprets arbitrary LaTeX, so other programs can theoretically do just as well.

Right, but the output is a typeset document. The fact that LaTeX (the program) can do this is no evidence at all that it would be possible to build a program that converts LaTeX (the format) into some intermediate representation that make sense to a human. For example, assuming that macros are recursively expanded in place, it's possible that there's no clear dividing line between "this is a user macro that should be expanded before exporting" and "this is an internal macro that should not be expanded" (e.g. you probably want to leave "theorem environment" from AMS package unexpanded because that is semantic information you'd want when you edit the document). As another example, what should be a table or equation etc. might end up as individual lines and characters floating around as separate elements on a page.
Considering many states outright ignore Article 1, yes
Amazon starts rolling out Ring end-to-end encryption globally
I often do that, but now I have to click on cookie confirmation banners all the time. It is very annoying. Might just take seconds, but it sums, eventually I have been clicking on these banners for hours

Sometimes these banners do not even work because of my NoScript
Fragile Heterosexuality
Same for brightness control, at least on my Linux computers. I vaguely remember it feeling right when I used a Mac.
The dirty secret of capitalism-and a new way forward, Nick Hanauer (2019)
The article is almost entirely the answer to your question.

> there are risks when you go down.

Solved by SMTP on protocol level. With HTTP, must be solved on both client and servers application level.

> webhooks are ephemeral. They are too easy to mishandle or lose.

SMTP has this baked into its heart. Loosing messages is possible, certainly, but rather hard to do. With HTTP, it's really simple.

> In the lost art of long-polling, the client makes a standard HTTP request. If there is nothing new for the server to deliver to the client, the server holds the request open until there is new information to deliver.

SMTP is push, not polling. So all those issues are solved for you.
That is what I thought the article was about, too.
> The vast, vast, vast majority of the possible combinations of values of these physical constants produce boring universes, like a single huge black hole or just diffuse clouds of hydrogen without stars.

I wonder if there any universes possible which do not end in a big collapse or heat death. That is, which would be able to support life for eternity.
Fuck you scab
I mean, they've literally been discussing this as a risk themselves internally, so I'm not sure how you can be so sure of that.
> There's 3 more thumb cluster keys on each side, but they're unreachable from a typing position; I use them for stuff that isn't related to typing, like closing a window and setting/navigating through bookmarks in my IDE.

I rarely use those smaller keys on the thumb cluster without moving my entire hand (which is generally for alt tabbing, and I should figure out a better way to do that).

The main reason I was interested in the Ergodox was that my Razer Orbweaver was having issues, and I really liked the ortholinear layout for gaming. Now I've got separate layouts for different game types (fps, mmo, rts), and I just move the right half out of the way for more mouse room. Can't go back now, I struggle to type on any normal keyboards.
I don't read the article and basically never without first reading the comments. Far too many times I see somebody here who can disprove, or knows more about the topic than the article.
Is it so wrong? My phone can:

- Identify places and objects with the camera and give me data about them (Google Lens)

- Plot graphs of the local geomagnetic fields, my exact position on earth (the built in compass and GPS)

- Plot graphs of local radio traffic, signal strengths etc (wifi scanners)

- Control other devices

- Diagnose medical conditions

Smartphones can do a lot already just with the sensors they already have.
Dystopia is an imagined state, whereas Amazon's doing is quite real and tangible.
I don’t think they thought they were at risk and weren’t planning on returning to Japan. I would take 1.3 million in return for never visiting a foreign country again.
Tragic, yet is the tech more accurate than human counterparts?
As I understand it, people in the developing world with high inflation are putting their money into crypto. Also, people with money to invest put it in crypto (both the "very rich", but also regular slightly more technical or otherwise inclined folk). Both of these aren't day to day transactions though.
Yes I know how the holodeck was hypothesised to work, but the actual goal of the deck was VR entertainment and we have that.
Why the hell would anyone choose to take those instead of what works today?

Oh, I see: chaeper ticket prices due to taxpayer-subsidized operational costs...
How do you disentangle politics and economics here? Or, are you just claiming that unions are focusing on the wrong side of the equation?
I haven’t used ts. It seems to be a way to get semi-strong typing by using a “compiler-like.” Since this is possible, is it also possible (and performant) to convert something like Java or rust or c# to performant JavaScript and get the full power of a strongly typed language?
Technically, all the books are online now thanks to Google's book scanning programme and Kindle. You might have to buy it to see the pages but that's OK. Of course Star Trek didn't have money, so ...
The difference between what happened to Ghosn and them was what I was contrasting.
Not much he can do.
Programming language choice isn't a protected class, it isn't prejudice to say that JS developers are mostly dumb.
For those considering a visit: the address is actually "Mariahilfer Straße 212"

(Address stated is "Mariahilfer Strauss", which might be something to look for at a florist's shop.) ;-)
SQL vs. Copilot
I think there a few notable similarities between a declarative language like SQL,
and the problem/solution Github's Copilot is trying to address.

Copilot tries to guess what you want to do, and suggests an implementation for it.

In SQL, you explain what you want to do, and the query planner automatically finds a solution to the problem, and returns a result.

The important difference is Copilot has to guess your intentions,
whereas with SQL, the programmers specify exactly what they want to do
in a precise way.

Much of the auto-generated code Copilot spits out for imperative languages,
is simply not there at all, in declarative languages like SQL,
since you only have to write what you want to do,
and no code at all on how to actually implement it.

My point is, maybe instead of Copilot, we could try to make our programming languages,
future and present, more declarative, to reduce the need to auto-generate code.
Coming back to the US was dumb, the Taylor’s apparently had a home in Lebanon.
I suspect their logistics competitors are even worse.
Old angry man rant incoming.

>comment on the title (which is often misleading)

I grew up with the understanding that in a newspaper you should be able to read the title and get to know what happen and then be able to progressively read more if you wanted more details.

When the title is not accurate enough, or is click-bait, maybe we should start there with the AI there?
I think Elite Dangerous Odyssey recently had this problem. Any ice planet at release was literally blowing out the sun in terms of brightness a thousand fold or so it seemed.
What an abomination this UI was… 14 years-old me thought that brushed metal was quite cool, though.
Installing python does not require admin permissions in Windows, just choose $HOME/... as install path.

It also does not require admin permissions in Linux, although most distros do not offer a happy path for that.
> That table shows that the M1 has a much bigger reorder buffer, large load and store buffers, huge integer and vector register files, way more branches in flight, etc.

That leaves out the most important thing that enables all of that, the 8-wide symmetric decoder that can feed those. x86_64 cpus only have 5-wide ones, and only the first of those can decode the multi-uops instructions, and even worse there are even more complex instructions that are microcoded.
Programmers would never let this discrepancy exist for this long!

Unfortunately, mathematicians are too lazy to "refactor" their work ...
>As it must be.

No IT department in the world has that level of resource, hence the "cybersecurity skills shortage", rolling battles between IT and engineering/sales/marketing, and Shadow IT.

The Zen of IT is giving your users the tools and knowledge they need and locking off the things that are actually illegal. The former use cases no longer bother you, the latter cases don't have exceptions to argue.

You are not doing case-by-case support. Ever.
+1.The fact that most current tech unions are more about $POLITICAL_ISSUE_OF_THE_DAY (e.g. forcing the company to stop working with organization X) instead of just workers' rights and compensation is what turns me off of them. I believe they would be more successful if they split into goal-specific unions: most workers would have no issues joining the "real" union, and those who have specific opinions on political issues could join unions for related issues.
Just because you saw it is no reason to state that unions will become bad actors.
For a second there I wondered if you'd ever interviewed me (but having looked at your profile: no; I don't think we've met, though I'm in London too).

We had similar-ish constraints. SLA was internal, not imposed (the .name registry had externally imposed SLA's, but the registrar platform did not), but the zones were very simple - either NS records pointing elsewhere, or identical CNAME/MX records, so we needed only a short string per address.

I don't remember if we used CDB files or if we stored individual records directly in ReiserFS filesystems (our mail platform had relied heavily on the ability of ReiserFS to handle vast quantities of tiny files, so were comfortable with that), but it was definitively something simple.

Similar for the web forwarding, which just required a url to redirect to.

If a node should ever need to be replaced, all we'd need to do would be to start a queue on a new box but not process it, then rsync over the dataset from another server, and start processing the queue, and add it into rotation when up to date. If we'd needed stricter consistency guarantees it'd have been a different consideration.

For many types of workloads I'd pick another queuing system today, but the amount of readily available tooling for e-mail, especially once you need federation, reflection/amplification etc. does make it an interesting choice for some things.

It also made debugging the message flow trivial: just add a real mailbox to the cc:....
The function keys are behind a layer.

Because I can arrange those keys exactly in the way I want, my proficiency with the numbers and F-keys has skyrocketed since I switched to a standard Planck.
This.

California is pursuing gender equality by enforcing female presence in the board of directors (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...) and yet there's no mandatory maternity/paternity leave.
The source they cite is from Feb 2018 (https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-finds-gender-skin-type-bias-...) At least review of state of the tech is in order.
I think most people know that Asians in the US commit less crime than other races. As for why, there are probably cultural reasons.