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> both sides of the aisle have are irreparably entangled with big tech and cannot be trusted to prosecute not just fine them a paltry some that is insufficient to correct their behavior

When did so many on Hacker News become so pathetically fatalistic? I expect this from spoiled teenagers, not hackers of all people.
Without fail, there’s always someone who literally bends over backwards to defend these sorts of actions. I never understand it, do you expect some sort of payment or something?
Authorization is one use case, e.g.,

"Can this user do this thing given these constraints?" or even "Show me all the things this user can do given these constraints"

Our team is solving for this use case. While we focus a lot on abstractions, APIs, etc. that are appropriate for our use case, under the hood everything is driven by an embeddable logic language that we write in Rust, called Polar: https://docs.osohq.com/reference/polar.html
As someone who stopped using fish, I found fzf to be more useful than fish’s history completion so it became less tolerable to have to type `env` in front of the bash oneliners our test runner puts out.
Of course you have the right to say no, but businesses and governments have the right to limit where you can go since your actions will affect others.
Really disgusted with the level of hard-left propaganda being pushed onto HN nowadays.

HN has always tilted left but ever since covid happened it has turned into a megaphone of junk science, and radical left talking points.

Can we please please please keep HN only for tech/startups? Can we turn back the clock?
Cloudflare I agree, but "give us $10000 or we increase your AWS bill by $20000 per day" sounds like a viable extortion scheme to me.
its going to get weird thats for sure... but pretty sure that started before inflation
The nature of web3 makes this model difficult of not impossible
Good advice I think.

> ...Like I said, I don't know how helpful this is.

It is.

> I don't know how helpful this will be, but the strategy that has worked best for me is: attach yourself to "connectors."

> Connectors are extraverts who have a large social circle and enjoy facilitating connections within it.

And... you may become yourself one of these connectors before you know it.

One advice: don't be pushy to these connectors and don't make them feel you are using them. They want to spend time with people who gives them (back) some "energy".
The problem is when an open source project is owned and controlled by one large player. It's much healthier to have diverse stakeholders with different interests, none of which is completely in control, as is the case with Linux.
I think willing to look stupid is easy, because you already figured it out. So you know you are not stupid and you are kind of showing off in a weird way.

The one step forward is willing to be stupid. That is you know you are stupid but still not try to hide it. And most of the time it'll just be that: you are stupid. But once in a while you discover something deep.
True, this is a good outlier example.
I don't understand the distinction you're making. Influencing lawmakers and regulators to change policy in your favor is exactly what lobbying is.
I, for one, thought the point was pro-business virtue signaling. The Guardian seems consistent.
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Dunno, rutabagas are mostly called yellow turnips around here. They're all brassicas in the end.
They do both look bad now (raw XML). However at least in Firefox, there used to be some basic styling.

Remember the little blurb in the header about how "this RSS feed doesn't provide its own styling so we've added our own"?

It seems to have gone away now too.
Some aspect of this may come off as offensive, but frankly there was a certain amount of sexualizing gaze I had to deal with from both sides of the aisle that made things like meetings rather unfocused, and I don't think that'd change if I moved jobs (btw I'm not interested in "playing the field" or some such). Being able to elect to only pass on my voice in meetings is so much more beneficial for clear, conducive discussion for everyone instead of having to negotiate the unspoken politics of desiring gazes when we're in a place of business. There are enough people think they absolutely have a right to let you know how interested they are, and frankly, one simply shouldn't have to negotiate that at work (and enough people demonstrate they don't realize how bad they are with implicit/explicit rejection; not to mention the side effects of other people picking up on this phenonmenon that creates visible, needless resentful behavior). The minute you speak up about this, everyone wants to act like its not happening or that its your problem somehow ("don't you like it? isn't it flattering?"). But this is exactly how harassment and escalations of such happen for anyone.

There just isn't a good solution for "opting out" from this behavior in-office, so remote work has been a great boon in this direction in particular.
Just pay the $13 a month for a premium license and get over it already.
I think the original comment is fair, and comparing your attempt to working solutions online will reveal the complexity of bugs that can arise from hooks.
> I don't think there s a static linking going on there, else it would be impossible to use Electron for closed source software.

no, the closed source part can stay closed source but relinking against a custom version of Blink must be allowed.

Just run "strings" on the code binary: you'll see symbols coming straight from Blink like this one: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/72ceeed2ebcd505b8d...

$ strings code-insiders | grep HTMLFormControls
HTMLFormControlsCollection
Ask HN: How do one-person software projects deal with sales tax?
I'm building a small project that I hope to make publicly available for anyone to use, but I need to charge a recurring fee for those who do end up using it to cover my costs which grows roughly linearly with increased usage.

My project is classified as a software service, so it's a taxable good in most tax jurisdictions. I'm currently incorporating Stripe payments, and Stripe Tax is fantastic for automatically getting the correct tax rate, but I wonder how one (literally one person) would deal with registering, filing remittance to pay sales tax, which I believe is legislated at the state level.
No, there's an equal number of people* on the opposite side of those bets. If there was an imbalance between people thinking the stock is worth more than the current price and people believing the stock is worth less, then that would cause the price to move until it balanced out.

*Technically an equal number of dollars
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> Elected representatives who are meeting constituents do not get stabbed to death here.

Except Gabby Giffords who got shot in the head. The would be assassin then shot 19 other people at a constituency meeting...... our MP getting killed didn't affect the average person, your MP getting shot lead to 19 other people being shot.

"Giffords was shot in the head during the 2011 Tucson shooting, which occurred at a constituency meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona."

"A man ran up to the crowd and began firing a 9mm pistol with a 33-round magazine,[36][37] hitting 19 people,[38] and killing six"

You're making a lot of excuses for your country by taking a very narrow view of everything I said. I was always told Americans sing the national anthem in the morning at school to brainwash the kids, this clearly worked on you.
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We need a ban on targeted advertisement.
The shareholder lawsuits will go nowhere according to the business judgment rule, unless the board is engaged in illegal behavior. If Google chose not to collude with Facebook or lie to their customers about providing the best price, shareholders would have no cause to sue.

Now that this has come to light, they may be more likely to sue if it’s deemed that information about project Jedi was withheld from shareholder reports and that information was important to understanding Google’s returns in banner ad auctions.
Because HN is reddit now
Yet. As soon as data is stored/archived, it can be used later for any purpose. Even if the original company has no desire to do so, acquisitions/mergers/sales/trusted-third-parties could.
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In addition to outsourcing ... its primarily the "Just In Time" way of Inventory management which is the problem. Now at least all governments need to wake up, bring back critical manufacturing back and also maintain strategic inventory.
> tough policing

This phrase omits the key issue: Crime, physical abuse, and political suppression by the legal system (including law enforcement officers), unrelated to reducing crime. When police arrest or shoot, DAs prosecute, and courts jail innocent people, it doesn't reduce crime. And criminalizing harmless activity, such as using marijuana, increases crime (including by creating a black market) and does nothing for public safety.

If we're going to be 'tough on crime', why aren't we tough on people in power or on ethnicities with power. How is that related to reducing crime?

> One option is to accept that hey, the government can't really stop all this crime, so let's not investigate or prosecute that much. This is the approach taken by the latest crop of liberal DAs.

That's not the approach, only the false characterization by political enemies. The approach is that the behavior I described above has nothing to do with reducing crime; it is criminal and should stop (this seems so obvious that it doesn't bear explanation). And that mass incarceration hasn't worked - the war on drugs was ineffective (and arguably a means of political oppression of minorities) - damages communities socially and economically (when large segments lose parents and felons are unable to work productively), and of course is harmful to its victims. let's find out what works and implement it.

Some things that work to reduce drug crime are sites where people can obtain and use drugs safely, decriminalization of drugs (especially harmless ones such as marijuana), and treatment of drug addiction as illness (which is what is already done to drugs for wealthy people). Also, providing services to young people, including activities, quality schooling, mental healthcare and counseling, as well as means for a hopeful future, do a lot to reduce crime.

> And it's been a disaster for local communities.

Do you have evidence of that? Crime is generally at generational lows, though shootings have been up during the pandemic. Can you show a correlation between these new approaches and increased crime?

Critically, people in those communities don't agree: They've long asked for these approaches and vote in large numbers for these DAs. It's people outside those communities that, bizarrely, try to overrule them and impose these things on them. That looks like political oppression to me; what other business do these outsiders have?
My only beef with drinking is it makes you so fat so fast! I wish I knew it was worse than eating bars of butter and buckets of cooking oil.

It doesn't solve problems but stops the pain. Frees you temporarily from thinking and deciding things under the influence of pain.

I don't get modern medicine. Grief, loss, loneliness (long term), stress and more mental/emotional ailments are found to be detrimental to human health, even causing most non-cancer chronic diseases. I would really like to see a study that somehow shows people surviving long term who were about so self-medicate with tobacco or alcohol, instead of survival rate that only takes into account the substance's harm.

Alcohol and cigarettes harmed me but they also helped me survive. It's not a black and white clear cut thing.
There are many with serious medical issues that have blossomed with digital meetings. They can attend meetings without leaving their (home) office which is setup with the accommodations they need.
> keeps competitors weak by being the best

Not "the best" per se.. Rather "good enough" and part of other tools the customers already use, while keeping them free so it becomes a matter of having to spend extra $$$ for another product.

Take Teams for example. It's a pig of an app IMO. Slow (takes almost a minute to start on my otherwise-fast M1 Mac), extremely high memory use, constant errors "Oops something went wrong + cute pic of ice cream", a mess visually and not dense enough UI. They focus all their time on adding new features rather than optimising. They also focus very strongly on the "for everyone", trying to be a jack of all trades, master of none.

Slack does a much better job at team collaboration IMO. Especially for tech users, it's fast, shows a lot in small screen space and isn't as heavy (though I really miss the IRC bridge!). But Teams comes for free with O365 and integrates fully with that ecosystem. So no hassle with integrating with your ID Provider etc, it's just plug and play. So if you'd want to have slack at work you'd have to make an unreasonably strong business case for all the extra cost and work.

Another example: Sharepoint. I doubt you could find anyone who would consider Sharepoint best at anything. Yet it's still used heavily in favour of other options, because it's again free if you're already in the MS ecosystem, and it integrates with all the other tools like OneDrive and Teams (both basically just layers on top of Sharepoint). So even if you're not using sharepoint, you're using sharepoint :P

I do agree they are the best at the VS Code niche. But usually this is not their game, they go for 'good enough'. Maybe it's because their developers dogfood VS Code so they couldn't stand it being slow :)

For example, VS Code is highly optimised and doesn't suffer the performance drawbacks that usually come with electron. They have optimised the hell out of it. However they never bothered to do the same with Teams, probably because they own that space anyway.
I do thing that it's a bit more than replacing the style attribute with the class attribute using a billion classes and css rules that needs to be removed later on, but not much more. You need to know a lot of CSS anyway to understand what tailwind is doing.

Raw css is not the perfect solution either, I personnally prefer SCSS but I hope to see better solutions.
Ok makes a hell of a lot more sense now. Thanks for pointing that out.
It seems different when we're just trying to guess what the actual colors were, since the artist is dead and the painting is destroyed, and we only have a black and white copy + textual description of the painting.
The software is still open source. If you want the premium feature for Hot Reload, then it’s like $13 a month for a license for Linux/Mac/Windows. Everything else is fully supported for free.
I'm not sure I see where the article talks about poor time management?
I absolutely despise Chrome. It nags me into Google's ecosystem and it just feels wrong to use a window to the internet owned and controlled by the biggest bully on the internet - Google.

Chrome is the reason for many failures of the web experience. Support Firefox, it is equally as good IMO.

I'd like us to not see a day where we get "Only supported on Chrome" warnings.
WOW, it actually works. Amazing.
They have to do that whether they are being evil or not just to prevent competitive intelligence and other damaging info from leaking. So the systems are there
How can they capture 92% of the CO2 generated by burning coal for less energy created by burning it, creating steam, running the steam through a turbine which then runs a generator, through a switching yard, and out to the world? The Carnot limit is far less than half, and yet this can get most of the Carbon back, with a balance of almost half of the energy? I did the math on this in the thread about this last week, and it seems like over-unity, a big red flag.

The need for the worlds supply of gallium and a lot of silver and other chemicals signals more red flags.

HN Story 8 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28873458

My response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28874831
a decade...how many ppl work at google for so long?
> I'm not sure fining a company billions of dollars and putting executives in jail is the outcome anyone really wants if a 17 year old uses Tinder.

Jail, would be disproportionate, but, those giants are perfectly aware that kids under certain age have absolutely no idea of the value of money and how much it costs to bring it home, then spend it carefully so there will be some available for less important stuff. So you show them ads of the latest cellphone or pair of famous-rapper-sponsored shoes that cost half of what their parents bring home in a month, and they'll want that crap no matter the cost. This is no that different from targeting very old people with phone calls, among which some can be lured into buying unnecessary stuff, sign fraudulent contracts, or worse, just because a well dressed drone rang their door and spent the evening talking with them to conquer their trust.

Quite frankly I'm disgusted by those manipulative people, and tech giants dwelling in the dark side to maximize their profits make no difference.
Kinda funny that a noted hard-lefty admits to inflation but doesn't admit to why.

Could it be that the left has pushed a false narrative about covid for close to THREE YEARS now? Forcing businesses to shut down. Forcing people to walk around like zombies with masks on. Not allowing people to go to work?

In other parts of the US things might be approaching "normal" but here in the Bay Area it is still full-on East Germany and the Stasi are everywhere.

Violently forcing people to inject themselves with drugs which numerous European countries are now banning?

The left is pure violence and is the sole reason we have inflation.
Did you replace the substances with other more positive habits?
A stock can be sold short, meaning you receive cash from your broker now, and you promise to give them the share at some point in the future. This is pretty much a negative view on the stock because you’re hoping you can sell to open at $120 and buy to close at $100 and keep the difference for yourself.

Short interest is the number of shares in all the short positions that have been opened but not closed yet, and it is a bearish indicator. It doesn’t necessarily mean that MANY people think the market is going to underperform though, it could actually be just a handful of hedge funds with massive positions.

It also doesn’t have too much to do with the long term performance of a company. It’s probably better to interpret it as a view on the share price rather than on the long-term performance of the company. (interpreting any financial ratio or metric in isolation is tough)

Another interesting implication of high short interest is this idea of “Days To Cover” which is short interest / average daily volume.

In situations where days to cover is very high, shorts can find themselves unable to close their positions, even though the market is moving away from them (aka up). This leads to a short squeeze - famously with GME this year.
Think about the effect on your career of being ugly.
Time to buy more crypto and to contract debt?
In both cases the customer has no access. (or a very limited one)
I love that site. I’ve fixed a few classic bikes with its help.
I've been with RunBox since 2012 because of Norway's internet privacy policies. I support them not giving into to extortion. If I don't have email for a few days, or a month, big deal. I remember how to use a phone to pay bills.
If someone influenced lawmakers by promising to pay them a lot of money if they voted in their favour, that would be different, would it?
One possible reason for me not thinking APL is a good notation is that it seems to avoid assigning names to things. I believe good names are a vital tool for a thinking notation. In my bilinear upscaler example, I was initially struggling to understand the code I had found on the web. The variable names were all things like "x1a", "x2". I changed them to things like "srcX" and "weightX". That helped a lot.
I was referring to the "class struggle" theme.
How do you prepare for hyper inflation? Nevermind, I just realized how many Bitcoin speculation posts that question would return. I was looking for something more tangible.
Explore some groups! College is a great time to try some new things and develop new interests. It's typically easiest to develop friendships when there's some pretense of a reason to get together, which really can be almost anything. For me that was outdoor activities like camping and climbing, but it could easily be music groups, language partners, cooking, or literally anything else. Many campus groups should be open to newcomers with interest but no experience in whatever they happen to do.
Adding "using library X or language Y" helps in discovering the content during future searches. It also drives people to checkout the code to see if some parts are reusable. There is nothing wrong with mentioning the language and I'm happy to see submissions for other languages and frameworks also mention this these days (Go submissions are really interesting). It helps discover use cases that you might not have thought possible in that language or framework.

Compiling prolog to abstract code and running it on a VM written in Rust? Yeah its probably close to the language's target use cases of Rust but it lets people see if such functionality is reusable as a library (in this case found out its not) and how its implemented.

I don't know what's with all the Rust hate these days. It's just another language nothing to get fired up about a tag line appended to the title.
I'm not sure anyone really enjoys working with Visual Studio anymore. It was compelling, back in the day, when I was doing desktop apps. But for web development I just don't think it has any real edge over other tools in this space.

In my experience it's also a resource hog. I have to quit and restart it every so often to keep it from bogging everything down.
> Which employers are the “nice company making nice things and you’ll be able to sleep at night” tech companies nowadays?

Stripe, maybe?
Is there any proof we’re actually headed to hyperinflation with USD? Wouldn’t that collapse the entire global economy in a few months?

From what I can tell is this just Jack shilling for BTC?
Just noting that fish supports the `var=val cmd` syntax starting in 3.1, so `env` shouldn't be necessary.
This is wrong, many employees rich with stock options and other compensation, plus large salaries
VSCodium is a build that does not include any of the proprietary bits: https://vscodium.com/
> has paid for their gross violations of trust and privacy of the entire world.

Sorry, but who are you to speak for the entire world? You may not like facebook and google personally, but it is far streach to think you know to represent one country let alone the whole world.

For one thing, your are not speaking for myself: both google and facebook are some of the best tech I enjoy using every day, and they have and are improving mylife daily. They did not violate my trust in any way.

And for your allegations, can you provide any proof for it? Even out of respect for the community, so here supporting material not just words, in the air is what appreciated the most.

What I don't understand, is how a tendentious hateful post is not downvotes here on HN?