skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps find an employer who wouldn’t treat you like a slave if legally allowed?

Are you wealthy enough to stop working entirely? If not, you (and most of us) are a slave to the system. Yes you can choose to change employers, but you cannot choose to stop working if you want to eat, have a home, electricity, etc.

Employers are not your friend. They don't pay you because they're "nice people".
NPR, The Guardian, Ars Technica all lean reasonably left. I’d appreciate you sharing your more conservative news sources.

https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml

https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss

https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index
Code-generating software can spur a cognitive revolution
Looking at the original article, it seems the author was working for a software company that was in denial about being a software company:

> The amount of customization by far exceeded the initial offering of the services, and had to be done within the constraints of each individual technology stack.
>
> This accumulated in hundreds of partially overlapping systems, wired together with brittle ad-hoc integrations.

They had a software solution and were officially spending zero dollars on software development. You can't beat that. Never mind the huge amounts of time they spent keeping it working. All of that money showed up in other places on the bottom line. Maybe a lot of it was IT, but a lot of the expense was probably people whose job title had nothing to do with technology spending hours doing repetitive and error-prone integration work with third-party systems, emailing around spreadsheets and CSV files, manually tracking down and fixing bad data, and answering the phone for confused customers. As soon as you start employing software developers to create a more efficient system, it looks like you're spending 100x more for software, on a trajectory to take a very, very long time to achieve parity with the existing system.
CloudFlare nearly shut down my account for “fraud” because I bought two domain names in a short time period while traveling in a foreign country. I hope they can resolve the mistake of handling customer administration through algorithms rather than humans, because their products are absolutely phenomenal.

Moral of the story is: if you’re going to play around with new features such as this (which I plan on doing!), set up a new account. Always, always compartmentalize.
Obligatory re-post of Aaron Swartz's blogpost: https://archive.md/KavvY

I also decided a while ago to quit reading the news everyday, partly inspired by Aaron's post. I no longer feel ashamed to be uninformed. Also, weird side-effect, but I find that I'm much more humble when engaging in political discussions with colleagues now and less inclined to go on a rant.
Lack of empathy abounds in this profession. I am increasingly convinced lack of empathy is over-represented among developers. It's a controversial thought, and feel free to shoot it down. But the article posted here is just one of countless tales that have been posted here. Examples of abrasive behaviour in developer circles are too numerous to list (in real life and online).

There are many people in the computing field (alive and dead) with many accomplishments to their name but utter devoid of empathy and social skills. Despite that, many of these figures are idolised by other developers, or their behaviour tolerated.

It's not just a lack of empathy towards fellow developers, lack of empathy is even more marked when applied to "non-technical" users who are often patronisingly viewed as clueless idiots.

So yes, my anecdotal experience of developers (online and working in person with colleagues) is that lack of empathy towards other developers and users runs through this profession.
Major changes introduced in GStreamer, enabling minimal, custom builds
I agree, but like you said, PhDs are valued more in terms of career progression and prospects for those working in research and academia, and if you don't get on that PhD train, you just kinda stall.
This reminds me of a great scene from "Halt and Catch Fire". The lead engineer, Gordon, is supposed to be making dinner for his kids and putting them to bed while his wife is away, but he notices a small leak from the kitchen sink. He then drops all plans and next you see him under the sink. Marital problems ensue.
If you're carrying a phone with you, then you've got a tracking device anyway.

If not, then I applaud your commitment to your privacy, in a world that is beginning to assume you have a smart phone all the time. Otherwise, it just seems a little odd to worry about one kind of violation while voluntarily engaging in a much, much more invasive one.
As an employee at a dot com I despised unlimited PTO. I would rarely take PTO, working through all major holidays etc while others took months off.

The hardest working most dedicated people will get punished by an unlimited PTO policy.

As an employer I offer 20 days/year base +1 day for each year of service. Our official policy is to only allow 10 days to roll over to encourage people to take vacation. We monitor people's vacation and work with them to schedule time off.

The hardest working most dedicated people dont realize they need time off so we make them take the time off.
That's a huge misconception. But I guess it would be better for Russia if you continue to live in your dreams.
I don't see how more employees aren't absolutely enraged. The announcement tweet[0] is filled with congratulations and only a handful of "why intuit?" tweets. Nobody mentioning lying to employees.

I'd be furious, personally.

E: It appears employees are getting stock and/or payouts after the deal closes. This article is either outdated or misinformed, or both. [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/benchestnut/status/1437514331059630089

[1] https://twitter.com/benchestnut/status/1437869751091535875
Nature doesn't care, life will continue to exist. Humans deserve nothing, we're only given a slice of time. Life on earth is both beautiful and merciless. We're involuntary actors in a fractal universe.

I do hope that we can develop effective methods to combat climate change so that we can enjoy clean water and a roof above our heads for a bit longer. It would be a shame if our civilisation disappears without a trace, lost forever to entropy. It would be nice to leave something behind, even though our existence is probably less meaningful than we tell ourselves.

I'm not unhappy, I feel blessed for being here and now. The only thing I'm fed up with is people blatantly lying, without repercussions. Big corporations have fucked up the climate by lying and they want me, the average citizen, to feel guilty of my carbon footprint.

We don't deserve these lies.
Razer says its new mechanical keyboards have ‘near-zero’ input latency
> There is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent individuals from choosing to participate in it.

Governments in authoritarian countries have shut down bitcoin mining operations and arrested people.
Running Gitpod in Azure AKS
> I don’t understand what are you trying to challenge here? My claim that people think that, or their belief that this does not happen?

> I don’t know how can I prove that people think that. You just need to be in the gun community and talk to people who would never put it in writing.

I wasn't trying to challenge anything, just presenting my own anecdata that I personally have not run into gun ownership issues even with my own mental health trials. Nor has my brother, who like another commenter got put into a 72-hour involuntary hold and continues to own and purchase firearms without issue. Contrast this against your own, opposing anecdata from your trainer.

I'm well familiar with the belief and that people live with such fear, I've heard it plenty at ranges, gun stores, sporting goods stores, from colleagues and in bars. Recently, my girlfriend quit her job and her father was near frantic in his insistence that she not cite 'stress' in her resignation letter as that alone would supposedly start some rube goldberg slippery slope mechanism to her losing her right to own guns. Again, to me this feels like such an overblown fear of the evil eye of big government boogeyman and near incredible, which is why I was asking for stats or reports to try to put some numbers to the stories. I certainly won't discount that guns are, on occasion, taken away from their rightful owners without proper due process; but are there any DOJ, FBI reports, etc?
Apple quietly retires the top-spec iPhone SE
Access your VSCode environment from any device (code-server and Inlets)
Hopefully somekind of total package, no libraries required.

ls -alh /usr/bin/sbcl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 304K helmi 28 2018 /usr/bin/sbcl
Ask any writer you know about substack, they have mind share that the competition will struggle to catch. It's a moving target remember, first you have to launch, then you have to get a load of a-list writers on your platform, then you have to figure what new thing is going to get you users. This will take you at least 6 months maybe longer. By then Substack should be at least 6 months ahead of you maybe more.
What Psychology Tells Us About Self-Awareness
Afghanistan became unwinnable the minute we lost sight of our goals.

We went in. We displaced the Taliban (temporarily). We destroyed Al Qaeda training sites. We built universities (that remain operational, for now). Etc. etc.

Any form of "leaving" is going to feel like a loss. But the big question is: why were we still in there to begin with? At least in the Philippines, the USA was sending governors over to... you know... govern.

We never even got that far in Afghanistan. We went in, killed a bunch of people/destroyed some sites, and then sat around for 10 years wondering what else we should do. Then we killed Bin Laden in Pakistan, and then still didn't know what to do about Afghanistan (and at this point: President Obama was constantly running / promising that we'd leave). We did build up a large chunk of Afghanistan: improving the airport, building universities, educating their population, hoping to win the local support of the people. But the local support never happened on a scale large enough for lasting change. Furthermore, it seems like large segments of their population didn't want to change, so we were making enemies while doing these actions.

Our next use of military needs to have clear and defined goals: something more than "lets hope those guys over there become our friends". If we focused on purely "destroy all of the Al Qaeda training grounds", that was mostly over in the first 6 months of conflict.

Or, if we are going to try and befriend the population / change it within, we need to be ready for a 40-year occupation, similar to the Philippines (WW2 was in the middle, but it was going to take at least 30 years). These things take time. It was a known fact that Filipino stick-fighters (Kali / Escrima / Arnis) would assassinate US soldiers during the occupation... it wasn't hunkey dory, nor was it a "clean" occupation: atrocities were committed on both sides on the regular.

And the Philippines had the benefit of the Katipunan (largest revolutionary force) basically accepting a peace in 1902. (Other groups, such as the Moros continued to fight until 1913). Imagine if the Taliban signed a peace treaty in 2006 or so and started working with us. So even in the early occupation, the Philippines was going more smoothly than Afghanistan.

Maybe a peace with the largest national identity (ex: Taliban) was necessary for any lasting change in Afghanistan? Was it necessary for us to fight with them for so long? I know they were begging for peace in December 2001. Why didn't we accept those terms back then? Was there any plausible path to peace with the Taliban that could have occurred earlier?
Back when sending emails was about 1 cent per email, my company wrote our own campaign email software to save tons of money. Each large email provider has its own rules about sending rates, backing off, soft bounces and hard bounces. Not getting your IP address blocked for breaking a ruleset that you don't know about is the hardest thing. A few year later MailChimp was becoming more popular and their prices where dropping; we switched almost everything over immediately and life was much easier.
Nothing so complicated. Compliance departments just start sending reports of all transactions greater than $600 on a monthly basis just like they do with SAR's and large cash value withdrawals.

I'm having difficulty seeing how this isn't a 4th Amendment violation, or something that'd have to be gated behind a legislative statute.

Make no mistake. The U.S. financial system is one of the greatest "soft power" projectors on the planet. It is most certainly not being utilized in a way that helps you.
> I'm not from Scandinavia and the vast majority of US politicians look like interchangeable parts to me as well.

USA citizen. What's hilarious is that 10 years ago, I would have readily agreed with you. Both parties were too deeply beholden to special interests and corporate interests. There were some policy differences, but not that much, really.

In the last five years, however, one party has gone completely batshit insane. Norms, precedent, common decency, acceptance of basic facts, acceptance of basic common sense... these have all gone out the window. And been replaced with cult-like unwavering loyalty to a single man.

The other party, though still frequently dissapointingly inept and incompetent, now has my unhesitating support. It is not even close in my mind anymore.
Check https://handshake.org/ it has the potential to overthrow DNS and CA while also providing real ownership to names.
They also care so much about the environment that they release almost identical phones each year with no ability to change batteries, plus make it as hard as possible to replace batteries. Any corporation which promises social Justice is a farce exploiting issues as pawns.
This is possible with a mostly Java application (assuming you're willing to venture into user-space network stacks with either a JNI bridge or shared memory with a C/C++/Rust). You only really people go out of their way for this when doing HFT or very high throughput networking apps.
Sometimes they are, but (mostly in large cities) people sign up as election monitors to prevent it. Sadly, most of 90 000 polling stations are not monitored by independent observers.

The main way to control elections now is not letting opposition candidates to get into the ballot. For example, on this elections many candidates were rejected because they are "linked" to Navalny's organisation that was admitted as an extremist organization by the court. Some people are rejected because the signatures they have collected are deemed invalid. Obviously you cannot win if you cannot get into the ballot.

There also is electronic voting (voting over Internet) which is difficult to monitor. It is also worth noting that while you can vote over Internet, you cannot collect more than 50% of required signatures for being added to a ballot this way.
I work in content, so I need to know what’s going on at all times. I read the following news sites and aggregators every single day:

Forekast, trends24, Google Trends, Google Finance, Drudge, Slashdot, NYTimes (personal favorite and the only one I pay for), Digg, Reddit, Boing Boing, Engadget, Gizmodo, HN, NPR, 503 engineering blogs, Newsbreak (local news), Bogleheads, and Kottke.
I think for many there has always been an assumption of this. Saudi Arabia has funneled money in the past to terrorist organizations opposed to Israel and the West.
So how would I be able to use a new device to authenticate using an existing account. How would I be able to do that if the original device was cast into the fires of Mount Doom?

IMO biometric auth will never completely displace passwords unless it can beat the user experience of a password manager.

But, as it may be obvious, I really don't understand how the biometric stuff works.
I can easily think of a number of measures that would make it much harder to participate in the bitcoin market that governments could implement without much trouble.
Not sure the chance is zero. Since Los Alamos is a company town, you might be able to convince NNSA that it's in their best interest to create a community network for LANL enployees. Jill Hruby (who runs NNSA) is a reasonable person and she's from New Mexico. Can't hurt to ask.
I wonder how many places have the geology for these massive stone walls that can be carved and ... folks saw it and thought "Man we should make this really big sculpture!".

My imagination makes me think that it's a pretty obvious thing to do for any number of reasons and that there have been quite a few that have been lost to time.
This isn't correct, though. If I decide to start an anti-Bitcoin political movement, I can get leaders elected who can ban the use of Bitcoin in the USA. Sure, some motivated folks will use VPNs and the like, but cutting the general public off from Bitcoin would be devastating. Then who will be crying?
Well, yes, that question would be asked, as the current state, that the majority of US citizens have grown up with, is now considered normal by them.

Reasonable enough, but many people have access to information about how the world outside those borders operates - which is why free healthcare, minimum wage, and other changes, are now being a bit more actively discussed.

Anyway.

> We ask what you hope to solve by removing gun ownership.

What's on offer is a significant (order of magnitude) reduction in the number of violent gun deaths. [0]

No one's trying to sell this to the USA.

OTOH various agencies within the USA are certainly trying to sell the idea that this is a bad thing. The budget differential of the two groups is enormous - consequently it'll almost definitely never happen.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/05/7435796...
Unless the CEO literally owns >50% I don’t see how it means ‘nothing’. Voting blocs come and go I imagine, that’s definitely something.
>The difference between 10 million and 10 billion is a factor of 1000

Mathematically, yes. Practically, so what? 10M is a number that could provide all I could reasonably want for the rest of my life. 10B puts a target on my back, and for what? What does 10B buy me that 10M wouldn't? A life of isolation and extravagance? I can't say that I would turn down the chance to find out, but I'm FI already, and maybe it's lack of imagination but I already have trouble spending my modest discretionary budget as it is.
Ownership of Chemicals That Exploded at Beirut Port
One of my most common spelling mistakes is physical mistypes on the keyboard, yet no spell checker seems to account for keyboard layout and locality of keys, or for something like my hand being one position off on the board but typing all the keys relatively correct only positionally shifted.
In English, maybe; in Russian, I frequently find myself reaching for the nonexistent “morphology but not synonyms” operator (as the same noun phrase can take a different form depending on whether it is the subject or the object of a verb, or even on which verb it is the object of); even German should have the same problem AFAIU, if a bit milder. I don’t dare think about how speakers of agglunative languages (Finnish, Turkish, Malayalam) suffer.

(DDG docs do say it supports +... and even +"...", but I can’t seem to get them to do what I want.)
Tesla will ensure you are a good driver before giving you Full Self-Driving Beta
Keynote: Q&A with Chris McCord – José Valim – ElixirConf EU 2021 (video)
Which goes back to the original point: gun violence is a geographically limited phenomenon.
I've discussed the topic of "aphantasia" (the inability to form mental images [0]) with programmers at various jobs as well as with non-developer friends. It's certainly anecdata, but it's always been curious to me that I've only ever heard engineers identify with this condition -- and more frequently than the understood likelihood of it within the general population would lead me to expect.

So, again, not a known neurological effect of programming, but an interesting correlation I've observed between many of the best programmers I've known and the condition of aphantasia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
The idea of PWAs is that you make them once and they'll work on all platforms. The reality doesn't quite live up to that idea as this thread shows, but to me the idea to have single-platform PWAs still seems so odd that I would not interpret it that way. Still, if that was what was meant, then sure, I think I agree.
I think I remember that I started with something called TSX11 / SunSite... Is there any HN'ers who see what that was ?
> What does 10B buy me that 10M wouldn't?

A private jet.
First one that comes to my mind is Decidim (https://github.com/decidim/decidim, https://decidim.org/)
In the past I would have fully agreed with this idea in general, and it still has a ring of believability. But, there hasn’t ever been more evidence that this is not true when it comes to extreme politics than the last year. Getting more misinformation in your diet does not increase your chances of seeing any truth.
>It's not legacy code until the day Apple definitively axes Intel models.

You can't run Xcode 13 on any Intel mac OS machine.
So why not a website with an opened-sourced git so it can't "go offline" ?

Was there any other motivations to go electron, maybe to learn idk
Mobile is such a huge percent of market share so I doubt if one desktop distro changing the default browser moves Firefox more than 0.5%.
After a few tests it looks good but it reports some domains as registered when they are not (for instance kostikaable.com or kostikaition.io are marked registered but do not seem to exist when I manually run a Whois). Maybe the tool is running onto some rate limiting thresholds?

Also when there are a lot of domains to check you could check them in parallel, otherwise it gets quite slow to wait for the results (but that might be an inherent limitation of the Whois servers).
It's Vista all over again.
Your brain has different failure modes to your fingerprints, though, and your brain in itself cannot [yet] be used involuntarily in the way that your finger[-tip] can, and as a result of factors like these it's harder to implement distress protocols in biometric authentication systems.
I thought it was pronounced pseudo, thinking it's a joke. You're not actually the super user, you're a "pseudo" super user.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 314K Feb 5 2020 /usr/bin/sbcl*

What is the size of your hello executable? I tried stripping it, but then it started SBCL's REPL for me. Perhaps I could strip something specific, but I did not have the time to mess around with it yet. But yeah, perhaps that executable contains SBCL along with other stuff.
I wish in these cases @dang or another moderator could change the title to be less click-baity.
NYC food delivery workers face a ‘harrowing world’
I'll tell you what, it'll aggravate any latent imposter syndrome you may be dealing with...
> Besides, arm who? Arm us, Russians to do what? Destroy our own country like e.g. Ukraine did?

Ukraine is by no means "destroyed," it is reinvigorated, it's renewed. It went from a post-soviet satrapy into the modern world. I want Russia to follow its path.

> I really hope that our people are not stupid to fall into this trap.

Are you perhaps a Putinist?
A critiquing/problem-aware mindset can rightly point to risks and inappropriate excess. In that sense it is part of healthy self-regulation.

If you let it take over, the ensuing negativity and Weltschmerz might paralyze you.

And true, most criticism (whether justified or not) comes to nothing if there's a lack of regulating entity that could do something about it.