skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>2. Most of these societies expect women to work or have their husband take care of them. Maternity leave is in some aspects as bad as or worse than in the US.

Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, looks like Korea has a year, just split into maternity and parental, and Japan has a year off for both mother and father, although the father seldom takes it. Which countries are comparable to the US?
I notice the author mentions "Nonce Buttons". Just a reminder that "nonce" has a very different meaning in British English, as discovered by Nonce Finance: https://www.indy100.com/viral/nft-company-nonce-finance-prob...
Yeah, President Novotný is said to have declared that semiconductors are a fad and Czechoslovakia will wait to develop "toticonductors" ("celovodiče").

That is price paid for a system that kept a totally dumb person at the head of the country for 12 years. And when we got rid of him, the Soviets arrived in their tanks to correct our heresy (1968).

As for China - TBH we do not yet know what happens within China. The flow of information is fairly restricted. A lot more of the economy is outside direct control of the Party, and those parts of the economy are likely to be fairly functional; they have to compete on the international market, after all. But within the Central Commmittee, I wouldn't be surprised if boneheadedness wasn't a significant problem. Many politicians are of the "dumb, but cunning" sort, even in the West.
I do not think the point is software engineers hate spreadsheets. Software engineers would approach their use of spreadsheets very differently than a financial analyst. I think the point is software engineers hate inheriting spreadsheets that are developed by others who do not use a more sophisticated developer approach
Please don’t assume that I care about internet points and make opinionated statements. For all we know we need an internal resistance that doesn’t propagate the echo. My intentions were to point out the original comments lack of contribution just to imply he has some inside view on the PI industry but can’t speak on it until their eventual retirement. I was opinionated because I think PIs are scum and the throwaway was just roleplaying.
Thats pretty creative!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012896
Trash Panda as a Service: Raccoon Stealer steals cookies, cryptocoins, and more
How does a QR code work?
Basically, the prevalence of smartphones means we can record pretty much anything at anytime. Therefore, if abductions happen with any regularity, surely at least one would be captured on camera.
> Then I learned why I prefer actual types

I do like static typing. But honestly, no other PL¹ (statically typed or otherwise) even comes close in terms of the ergonomics and joy of writing software. Nothing is quite enjoyable for me like Clojure. Haskell is great but hard, and I'm years away from claiming I achieved production-ready proficiency with it. I don't want to berate other languages, but I looked into OCaml, F#, Kotlin, Scala, Rust, and a few others. And none of them feel to me as enjoyable as Clojure.
After so many years of programming, I finally, truly feel like I love my job. Also, I never liked Python. Maybe just a little, in the beginning. Once I get to know it, I disliked it forever.

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¹ I mean languages used in the industry, not counting even more "esoteric" PLs
The HN server or moderators promote literally anything with “Rust” in the title to the front page. Yes, Neo, you’re in the Matrix.
Nice work!

You mention COPPA and GDPR but which country regulation do you cover (and in which language?). How do you ensure that the Parents giving consent are the parent of the child (and that you are not getting spoof?). How do you keep up with the changing regulations, with some country having multiple layers (Union, Federal, State, City, ...).

I like the focus on Childs, but you could also extend it to do KYC for financial institutions, the market may need a cheap and reliable solution.
If true (can't access the second link), it didn't have much effect on top stock market indexes. Most of them are either at ATH or near it.
Citation needed given the poverty and gdp numbers over there the last 30 years.

You can compare/contrast with other impoverished nations that followed the IMF agenda, and how that worked out for them.
This is not like-with-like.
Spending on health should be lumped in with taxes to get a real picture.
I don't know. People use resources for the craziest purposes. Personally, building an immense compute wall comes to mind.
Random idea:

What if the votes of each age group were weighted to account for the size of that group, e.g. making the votes of 18-20 have the same weight as the votes of 40-42, even if there may be more people in the 40-42 group.

This would prevent an aging population from giving too many benefits to older age groups, and would encourage policies that consider long term impacts more.
I once joked here about crypto showers. Electric showers are ubiquitous where I live, it's just a dumb resistance heating up water. Could be replaced with a ton of processors mining cryptocurrency and heating up the water as a side effect.

Are you telling me this sort of thing already exists today?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
If lower levels of the stack used them then more people would use them.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/trickles-tocs.p...
https://thelackthereof.org/docs/library/cs/continuations.pdf
Ask HN: Recommendations for Project Based Courses
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Looking for courses with depth in technical fields (graphics, OS, embedded, robotics, programming, web etc) that result in a meaningful and tangible project. These courses can be paid or free but really looking for quality and depth.

I view these as a form of entertainment and excited to learn about whats out there.

As for an example: https://threejs-journey.xyz/

I believe a good format for submission would be:

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Thanks!
Palemoon on linux uses the gnome keyring. You have to auth against that to get access to your saved passwords.
I'm sure that isn't in any way Pinkerton astroturfing.
When I was still a kid, I was completely looking forward to where a mobile phone could be an all-in-one solution for carrying stuff. I didn't know how it was going to look, but I wanted it. Now looking at how maliciously neglectful big tech companies have been with data over the past decade, I don't want these companies handling anything regarding official documents.
I use my mac touch bar in the exact same way actually using BetterTouchTool.

Much more ergonomic, I can't say I'd want to have a separate keyboard next to my laptop...
Shame we have the "debt brake" preventing any serious investments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_brake_(Germany)
Exactly this. I just assume my credit card will be stolen or leaked. Nearly every credit card has zero liability protection too so there is no use in worrying, this is why I use credit cards.
Own hosting, pinning, and checksum checks are defenses against network-based attacks and compromise of the package repository.

They do nothing against trojans like these. You will be running your own pinned checksummed version of the malicious code.

If you want to stop malware published by the legitimate package author, you need to review the code you're pulling in and/or tightly sandbox it (and effective sandboxing is usually impossible for dependencies running in your own process).
> it's obvious now that the West needs to start acting

China's drive to reduce dependence on imports of high-tech goods is a reaction to the US' attempts over the last few years to use this dependence against China.

The US has used its central position in the world's financial system to force other countries to stop doing business with certain Chinese companies, such as Huawei. This can be a death sentence for these companies. Huawei can't buy 7nm chips from anyone - including Chinese companies - because those companies are afraid of US sanctions.

China has recognized that it is vulnerable to this type of economic aggression, and is taking measures to insulate itself. I expect to see China, Russia and other countries targeted by sanctions build up financial systems that bypass the US dollar, and for China to try to reduce dependence on high-tech imports.

This all goes back to the aggressive foreign policy that Trump initiated, and which Biden appears to be continuing.
If I had to hazard a guess, there would be an app for each ID, with Wallet (or your platform's equivalent), aggregating them all. US citizen? US Gov app. Have temporary or permanent residency somewhere? Another app developed or sponsored by that government.

(i am a beta tester in a state digital ID system rollout)
> It will stifle the US crypto industry and push it into friendlier jurisdictions.

And nothing of value will be lost
I doubt that there will be a major, irrecoverable housing crash in South Korea within the lifetime of anyone who grew up believing that their children will support them later on. In the meantime, retirees who own nothing but an expensive apartment can reverse-mortgage their homes for a stable source of income. The bank, not their children, will inherit the property.

Two reasons why I don't think there will be a supply/demand mismatch:

1) Housing doesn't simply stay there once it has been built. Koreans seem very eager to tear down "old" buildings (anything more than 30 years old), so it's going to be fairly easy to control supply if demand goes down.

2) The number of people per household is steeply declining. Even if the population drops to half of the current level, if there are only half as many people per household, the total number of housing units needed will be largely the same. Smaller units will become more popular, though.
You may enjoy the concept of the "tour of duty":
https://hbr.org/2013/06/tours-of-duty-the-new-employer-emplo...

http://www.theallianceframework.com/about-the-book.html

Thinking about my career (and others) this way has helped me remove a fair bit of stress when making job, role or project changes.
"The only way to justify my job is to convince people things need to be changed" is a cancer in Google. It's why they renamed the Android Market the "Play Store" as if that name wasn't fucking ridiculous.
> Rebuilding a modern generation of modular nuclear power plants would be a good idea.

Never gonna happen in Germany. The last nuclear power plant in Germany will shut down for good at the end of next year. Last year the share of electricity generated from renewables was 46%.
Very interesting also for insight into "what were they trying to do?". In several cases this was actually "facilitate printing bell labs technical papers without paying a printing company". Also interesting that the first part of Unix to be developed, and it was done as a stand alone project not with the goal to become a full OS, was the filesystem.
I try not to think about this too much. It's staggering and embarrassing to think of. Baseball, basketball, lipstick, the list goes on.
>That’s the crucial caveat that I think many missed regarding my call for a global moratorium: it is a prohibition on the commercial trade—that is to say, specifically the for-profit exploitation of society at large, which is the raison d’etre of the insecurity industry—rather than the mere development, production, or use of exploit code.

I don't see how prohibition would solve the problem here, people would just sell it in [insert rogue market].

Raison d'être is not trade, it's demand, and demand doesn't care about the DOJ.

Also, exploits aren't just an arbitrary good, but a tool of power themselves, so effective prohibition seems even more absurd.

What am I missing?
It is easy to forget, maybe because it was relatively brief, but disaster occurred a little over a year ago both in the markets and the economy. The aggressive action of central banks and governments made this pain relatively short lived for the average person.

The cost of that action: maybe just a deferral of the pain? It is entirely possible that we traded a medium length “shutdown” recession for much more painful inflation or lit the fuse on some other crisis that we aren’t even aware of yet.
Thank you for saying the things I didn't think I needed to elaborate on :-)
> I really wonder why union votes are necessary, and think the legal framework should be changed

It is not necessary per se. Here in Czechia, you need just 3 employees to start a union and there can be multiple unions in the same company.
Software engineers especially can take on side projects to supplement their income. Maybe a bit less focus on the day job to reflect the below market pay. Keeps things in balance.
It will be interesting to see how climate change affects the area.

There is a possibility of a significant economic decline in the US caused by climate change such that the US will not be able to help Israel anymore just due to lack of resources.

Most of the countries in the region will be swallowed by the desert and that may include Israel. Even though Israel is at the forefront of mitigation technology, it does not seem like it is enough from what I have seen.
Prison labor is the rule rather than the exception. In many states, prisons are also run by for-profit companies.

Occasionally it's mentioned on some show like Jon Oliver, but there isn't the political willpower to solve this clear abuse since it would cost more money.
In the same sense that a set of C binaries that uses libc is a monolith?
Airtable is pretty, but lacks simple functionality that spreadsheets have had for 30 years (like aggregates across rows). Airtable is more of a replacement for Access than Excel.
The more value you make a target the more money is invested to break it. Physical documents require significant physical abilities to steal, you actually have to be in physical possession of a document.

In the digital world the databases are accessible from anywhere in the world. Significantly larger attack surface, and we know for a fact no software, especially Apples, is going to be secure enough.

Governments have shown they cannot be responsible with even social security ID's. I hope they do not draw Inspirstion.
Ironically enough, looking at the current state of WoW Classic, he was 100% correct. Given Blizzard in its current state, you don't want whatever nostalgic offering they give you, because it will inevitably be butchered.
In my province (Alberta) I'm allowed to carry digital proof of insurance for my car instead of the standard pink sheet. The app has a mode that displays the insurance info on the lockscreen while locking the rest of the phone to the police (or whoever else needs to see it). So there are technical solutions to the first issue.

The second issue, I completely agree, I would rather the system be an addition to existing IDs rather than a replacement to them.
That’s a good point, but I’ll just add that not doing an immediate same-day sell when your options vest can be pretty important too. In theory, I’m in favor of diversifying for the usual reasons, but made the most money through procrastinating about it.
Yep, every story pointing session is basically just think of a Fibonacci number and round it up. Finishing early makes your scrum master leave you alone but finishing late makes you and your team look bad and "unagile" and then you get even less done next sprint because you are stuck in meetings. The scrum master always wins because nobody is ever doing enough Agile.
>Clever, and certainly feels like a design flaw that should be addressed.

Solution: use fTPM (integrated into the CPU)
Agree. Also hard to beat the ability to create pretty reports as well. This is why many financial forecasting systems have connectivity to Excel to allow for the creation of reports.
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If you go to China, you'll see that American and European brands are everywhere. These companies are making massive profits in China. The trade is by no means in one direction.
I don't understand, this seems fairly straightforward. It's an announcement for a group that is forming and why that group is forming.

It's even mentioned that the launch is largely symbolic, as the work is already open source, but that this is a sort of "call to arms".

Seems pretty easy to understand.
Cubans do use bitcoin: https://www.coindesk.com/cuba-protests-bitcoin-donations

It doesn't matter if you use VPN with your paypal account, you can still be locked out of your account and your funds frozen. This is not true of bitcoin. No one can freeze your bitcoin, no one can prevent transfer.
Google actually has simplified the process. It turns out that multiple rounds of interviews didn't lead to better-quality hires and just serves to piss people off.
Renewables are one option for massive investments without massive long term costs. The important thing is to subsidize them upfront rather than subsidizing their income stream or you get high electricity prices.

However, the idea of stimulus makes basic assumptions that the economy can sustain a higher level. That economic article of faith may inherently be flawed in many cases.

Another option for developed countries is rather than trying to stimulate the economy instead focus on increasing efficiency. Japan’s workforce increased 1% in the last 22 years. Long term stagnation should be expected in countries like Japan with stagnant and aging populations. Even 1% growth assumes the economy will double every 70 years. Relative stagnation isn’t inherently bad as long as the economy is still doing all the things an economy should be doing.
Humanity as a whole is still learning to cope with the Internet. We're still learning that it has beautiful and disgusting things, many hiding as the other.
Do any of the spreadsheet lovers here use anything other than Excel?

I want to like LibreOffice Calc but it's just too slow.
> But if you can't pay off your mortgage in a reasonable time frame (10-15 years), "owning" it doesn't give you any security, at least against sudden job loss.

If you're still paying your mortgage, do you really own your home?
> The West's advantage is its alliances.

What's the practicality of that? It's not like the rest of the US is dealing less with China because it's less allied with them in the ways that really matter like business or trade.
It's not an ultimate deterrence to invasion. MAD is a theory, not an iron law of the function of the universe. If there's one thing World War II taught us, it's quite possible for modern life to continue despite 8 figure casualties, and quite possible for industrial output to increase even under the most severe conditions.

Australia is hard to invade because it's a separate continent, not solely because it would be protected by nuclear weapons. It's all the other normal stuff related to the challenge of conducting opposed landings over long distances that would make it very costly to attack. The nukes are a plus but they are not magical. All modern nations have tons of expendable population. It's politically convenient to present nukes as the ultimate deterrent but it's not backed by empirical evidence. The other issue is that due to test ban treaties we really do not know how currently existing stockpiles of such weapons will perform under real conditions. We could have vast stockpiles of antiquated garbage. We just don't know.
Nuclear Gandhi
I'd be interested, too.

I once read in some article that CPUs have the same power consumption as equivalent output of a nuclear reactor, based on size, of course. So the 1 inch of a CPU takes as much energy as 1 inch of a nuclear fusion output from a nuclear reactor. Again, I don't know if this is true, but if it is, that's a lot of heat energy, given the number of computers in the world.

But maybe I remember wrong, this was probably 15 or 20 years ago that I read this.
If I remember correctly, the bonds may only be sold by the government to a fixed list of banks and those banks can then sell them to the ECB or the general public.

The level of indirection serves no practical purpose but is ideologically justified with the argument that banks are more likely to consider the market when deciding whether to buy the bonds or not even though they can just sell to the ECB without any losses.
I don't use Vue either. It's also a bit too opinionated IMO.
You can always call eval without ever mentioning eval in code:

__builtins__.__dict__[''.join(chr(x^y^(i+33)) for i,(x,y) in enumerate(zip(*[iter(ord(z) for z in '2vb63qz2')]*2)))]("print('hello, world')")

Maybe there are ways to detect all of the paths, but it feels like a tricky quest down lots of rabbit holes to me.

There are also some fairly big packages that use eval(), like flask, matplotlib, numba, pandas, and plenty of others. Perhaps they could be modified to not use eval, but it might be more common than you expect.
looks like some people just trying to capitalize on rust.

there's nothing here.
I've never heard of these libraries. Anyone know what they did?
Most grid components have that capability, but often the desire is to not have something that looks like a spreadsheet.
A two-headed hydra is an excellent way to improve proper decision making in a crumbling company.
So what do you think concurrently means?

For the record, the quoted explanation you disagree with fits Esterel and other data-flow languages perfectly, and nobody will deny that they are (synchronous) concurrent languages.
That's true but switching family to secure solutions which doesn't require any maintenance say like Signal itself is turning out to be impossible.

I'm talking from my experience in India, WhatsApp has embedded itself deeply in the lifestyle, It is not just a messaging app but 'The gateway for Internet' as smartphones are the first computer for the majority.

So they see a personal connection to it, It has disproportionate level of trust leading to severe misinformation/disinformation issues; Especially alarming during pandemic w.r.t vaccination.

Everything from Govt. messages to banking messages arrive on WhatsApp. I've given up trying to convert people to secure solutions and so I have sandboxed WhatsApp in a VM to receive WhatsApp messages via email[1].

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/send-and-receive-whatsapp-message...
Isn't that what those millimeter wave scanners at the airport were originally designed to do?
Cryptocurrency is currently causing more harm to society than good. PoW is a large reason for that, but even PoS will have huge negative impacts as it is mostly used for speculating and illegal activity. It doesn't solve any problems other than ones that are better solved by VPNs.