skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference, this is simply not true. You can ring 999 for fires (which generally pose a much greater risk to property), you should call 999 after a serious traffic accident regardless of whether someone's life is in danger and you can even phone 999 if you're alone and have been stopped by a lone policeman (I learned this one recently from a criminology teacher). I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience; of course, it has to be an emergency, but being threatened certainly sounds like that to me!
Who cares where in the company money funding it comes from. It's normal for a company to reinvest it's profit from other products to build new ones.
@scrubs: i hear and feel u. Four points. 1. I agree about the aesthetics of the URLs -- grotesque! The URLs were provided in explicit form for reasons of transparency (aka trust/lessness) -- sometimes aesthetics is orthogonal to being transparent. 2. I suppose your background isn't TCS otherwise, we wouldn't have the debate about parenthetical expressions. 3. If you read the piece closely, you might realize some extensions of Ken Thompson's Turing Award Lecture (which in itself should be a must read!). 4. Thanks for taking the time to vocalize your sentiment.
I had the same thought, but:

> ...while 25,000 calls were made to Childline and 20,000 to Samaritans.
If anything, remote can strengthen US's monopoly on global talent in the short-term.

The friction for US companies to attract global talent is now even lower. Now you don't even need to apply for an H1B visa to be physically in the US to work for a US company.

However, since the talent is not physically based in the US, this can be a great thing for countries everywhere in the long-run. GDPs are created remotely for countries around the world, and the knowledge these global talent gain by working with US companies will be dispersed around the world.

Hundreds of ecosystems will bloom around the world, leveling the playing field.

This is a great thing.
Ruby code can run for a decade after deployment as well...
Apple is porting Android to iPhones? Neat!
Don't get cocky. In Europe you literally can't get a job paying 200.000€ per year as an individual contributor, except for US companies.

I'd be very happy to be proven wrong and for the respective position to not be a beyond-senior-contributor thing (so maybe 0.0001% of jobs out there).
I suspect it will only be displaced and you will still be able to enjoy it near you.
Do you have sources on those employee numbers?

Also, even if Apple had an equal number of employees and worked as fast as Google, of course they wouldn’t be able to catch up. Google has a head start. But it’s not like Apple isn’t leagues ahead of where Google was in 2011 by now.
What's an _external_ IAP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti...
I think this could win with a supreme court with judges who have a looser interpretation of the constitution, which right now is not the supreme court we have. The majority of the justices right now have a stricter interpretation and would not see government buying data as "search and seizure."

The better solution would be to have laws legislated. However, unfortunately, there is so much gridlock because congress members are just chasing after Ws for their respective parties and minimizing Ls.
Some people are even using google street view to do this - not sure what the licensing rules if any are there.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29156388
Developers pay to Apple, not consumers.

There is an ongoing competition for the last 20 years, where we are today is the result of that competition.

Developers ran away from Symbian, webOS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and RIM to Android and iOS.

Developers want to develop for platforms with great APIs, hardware and great distribution.

Consumers want to stick on platforms with active developers.

RIM, Nokia, Palm and others tried, burned billions, but the market (via consumers and developers) has spoken.

It’s no easy feat for new entrants (Google & Apple) to dethrone existing players sitting there for decades.

But they’ve done it and turned others into history and a business lesson about innovation and how changing the status quo can disrupt existing markets.
Sometimes I've had a pr merged. Sometimes I've had stubborn maintainers that think that their project should not follow common domain standards for /shrug reasons.

And then many other times I honestly don't have the knowledge to be able to contribute into large third party systems and it seems very rare to get an issue resolved without submitting a pr.

And lastly sometimes it's hard to judge if unexpected behavior is really a 'bug'. Similar to the last point, it can honestly be hard to tell the difference sometimes.
I think they make a fairly good point about when and how communication between the developers broke down.

That exactly did you find 'self righteous' about it?
@zemo: Wow! I'm impressed; that's a strong synopsis.
Happy that at least some people understood some of the value.
Good. The government shouldn't be getting in the way of companies trying to make great products and services.

It seems like if you are too good at playing the game people will want the government to slap you with things like anticompete / antitrust to try and give you a handicap since you are too good at being competitive.
I've learned something today :) Thanks.
Then the linked article has it wrong, though.
It's hard to say Fukushima was a case of "doing it wrong." You can only protect against a certain level of natural disasters. Even if you get totally paranoid and put the plant deep under earth you can never be sure an earthquake doesn't damage it. We just can't be 100% sure.

On the other hand, can we afford not doing it? We don't yet have clean and efficient energy storage technologies that would allow us to switch to renewables completely. So if the alternative is to burn coal and worsen our already bad situation, the nuclear risk seems much smaller.
It's a valid point, but it's not the whole story. When there is too much of a gap between the local scene and the global scene, there is an isolation effect.

But it doesn't mean these engineers live in their remote bubble. There will be a halo effect of showing the way to local talent, we've seen when subcontracting html integration to a remote shop. Once the contract and legal framing was established, it was easier for us to ask their junior member to do administration tasks or other basic data entry tasks.

The other path is for these higher level engineers to move directly to high level positions in local firm. You'll see a junior engineer by EU standards move to a CTO like position in a local company or startup.

All in all, I think the local part still tremendously benefits from having highly competent remote workers.
One huge factor for me: assuming you stick to v4, you can use UUIDs directly as identifiers in public contexts without leaking any business-related info and without having predictable keys.
But the author gave a project idea where most of the project was figuring out UX concerns of non existing users. It is a horrible project no matter how you view it. If you do UX then you need users to actually test what you write on. If you don't do UX then this project is very easy. Sure these students might not have done it in 4 hours, but not because they would get stuck on whatever the author talked about, but because they would try to look up API documentation for whatever OS they work with or bugs in their URL detection code.

And since the author teaches software engineering classes and not UX classes I assume this would be a software engineering project and not a UX project. Building out a lot of UX features without users is an anti pattern, better write a bare bones implementation first (start from command line, help first users set it up and see how they like it) and then work from there. For a hobby project that would likely be the end of the project, and a good student could get it in a few hours I'm sure.
Totally agreed. I found myself mesmerized watching the short video [1]; wow cool tech, nice views... but there are serious ethical implications for the engineers working on these systems.
Let's not forget that our work as technologists does not exist in a vacuum.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4T6Vr4a1hY
> When I do routing I can route by walking, transit, driving etc. It seems to know every train / bus route and stop and even schedule.

Not only that but they seem to route through the "most popular" or "most attended routes" crowdsourced by their unaware users. Meanwhile others just calculate the "best time" or "shortest path" routing.
That's why you join a small company that doesn't ask for anything, maybe a small web design shop. Then within a year you find some other company, maybe a middle ware company or consulting shop. And after that, since you now have 2-3 years of experience, you aim for the big boys.

Basically a sort of on-the-job-training-degree, just that you get paid for it :-)
Yeah, but the financing options usually have a fixed period, unless you go with hardware subscription. Costs are hence capped.
I don’t think this is JavaScript specific. It’s like saying “BMW cars in Paris stop working if you pour sugar in tank”.
> Arguing that generics are in "the basics" is a little disingenuous, don't you think?

Not really. Type polymorphism exists since the 70's, it still blows my mind that people consider that they are ‶too hard to understand for developers″, or that ‶their implementation is not very clear to language designers″.

> Go has been wildly successful without generics

JS have been wildly successful despite its many fundamental flaws, success is not an indicator of intrinsic quality.
That's disingenuous - 99.99% of Anrdoid users have no idea what an "APK" is. Sideloading might as well not exist - nobody but a tiny subset of nerds would even notice.
This makes a really bad impression.

Built for devs? It looks like the exact opposite to me.

The layout has a focus on flashy design and no focus on content. Devs like content.

They talk about "superior privacy" but when you open the network tab you see their serps send queries all over the place. Just on my first serp, I see queries to serpapi.com which is owned by "SerpApi, LLC", to bing.com which is owned by Microsoft, to scdn.co (Spotify?) and to other hosts. As a dev, my impression is that they make no effort at all to keep their users data private. What I see is the complete opposite.

The approach to force the user to install software. Devs know that there is no technical reason for it. And how dangerous and privacy violating this is.

Then the reasoning in the replies here. They say it was a "tough choice" to force software down users throats, but it is a good way to gain market share and helps competing with Google. So their values are growth first, users second. As a dev, my reply is: Leave me alone already!

And it gets worse. The founder here on HN gets the top comment spot fixed with no way to reply? How did they socialize their way into HN to get this special treatment? This is offensive to devs. Devs like to see competition on features. Not on social trickery.
Launch costs. Kites work well enough when the wind is blowing but a lull, or even a quick change in direction, can see them crash to the ground. Then someone has to launch them again. I cannot see them ever being practical outside of those very rare places where the wind literally never stops.
A house at about 3.5 the yearly income is cheap, yes. Historically it was quite a bit more.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
By themselves do you mean how they tricked a bunch of "volunteers" to do it for them with google photos gps metadata scraping, google maps local guides, and Ingress.
> I bought an Arduino board (sorry if that's totally kiddie to you)

Not kiddie at all, AVR microcontrollers have been used commercially for ages and they have some properties that can be nice, e.g. they are fairly simple cores, they operate at 5V and their output pins can sink ~40mA, so you can easily e.g. drive a MOSFET gate.

The Arduino ecosystem is huge and it's great to get things up and running quickly.
Nuclear is the only clean option, we need to spend a lot more money making it safer and cheaper.
So? In any decent programming environment, checking if a string is a URL is a one liner
Okay, but why is everything wind-related so impossibly big? What's the physics behind needing blades so big that they can't fit into a cargo container? Instead of several very large turbines, why not 1000 or 10,000 of them?
If you haven't looked into it yet - Google Apps Script [0] is an incredibly powerful system when combined with Google Sheets. You can integrate lots of business processes and external systems (rest,soap,databases etc) together and integrate with classic spreadsheet functionality, we use it a lot in our business!

[0] https://developers.google.com/apps-script
> How effective do you think that is?

In the short term, very. In the long term, as in once the kids are off to college and so on, who knows. But, overall I think much more effective than the households/kids with unrestricted access.

> your kid and effectively ostracizing them.

This is an interesting one. If the kids are educated as to why a certain action is being taken, as opposed to just No then kids can accept the policy and be fine with it. Messaging such as Signal or iMessage is allowed, but I just don't understand as to why kids have to share million selfies each day. So anything out of the Zuck-factory is a complete no-no.
Bottom line, I'd rather ostracize kids in the short term than cause longer term psychological harm.

> If ten million parents have a social media addicted child, you have a policy problem.

I never said don't do policy, but that is not a substitute for better parenting.

Let me ask this, will the same parent who allow their kids unfettered access to social media allow their kids similar access to porn websites? I'm pretty sure they won't. Which is why it's not either/or, it's both. This is why I said that the narrative is incomplete.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29167629
I can write an OS in just 2 hours. Just a few lines of code which can be booted straight on the hardware an sit there doing nothing. It is an OS? It is. It is useful? It is not.
> 10-15 years ago it would be possible to have disproportionally large salary in eastern places like Prague, but that's history now.

It still happens but you need to go further East, like Romania, for example.

But Romania is far more disorganized compared to Czechia, so there are downsides.
There are designs that are perfectly safe. i.e. the pebble bed reactor.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
>And sensitivity to issues of fairness is hardly an extreme position.

There are 2 ways to explain this: (1) the extreme left doesn't exist, or (2) the article is downplaying the extreme left.
Yeah! I was surprised to see it is still under development after so long! Pleasant memories tied to all of it. :)
Discussion is happening on a newer submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29166355
The paper focuses more on reading. OP focuses on editing.

Both are very different mindset. The second is supposed to make the first enjoyable and fluid. When editing you need to keep the reading location (kinda “cursor”) and move back to some sentences to test the “fluidness” of the flow. When reading, you don't need to do this anymore. I suspect OP prefers short line length to avoid the cognitive load implied by “finding” words back and forth during the editing step.
“Buildings made with fungi could live, grow — and then biodegrade”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-mycelium-fungi...
Harpo: A tool for creating mnemonic secret shares
The point is not that the vulnerability is a trait of javascript but to make a demonstration on how different unicode characters can be used to create a vulnerability, exemplified by a piece of javascript.
There’s nothing “evolving” about it. People don’t want targeted ads, never did, and if companies don’t listen we will stop being their customer (or in fb’s case their product)
> The question is whether “doing it wrong” (Fukushima) outweighs the benefits of “doing it right”.

As of 2021, nuclear powerplant accidents killed less than 2 people per year since 1970s. As of 2018, nuclear powerplants produced 10% of energy.

WHO estimates that climate change causes 150000 deaths per year.
Apple had a firewall around telling customers about cheaper options because they only wanted to collect revenue between two easy-to-audit sources - app purchases and IAP.

Now, they will likely go after commissions to pay their commissions when they are collected externally.

This judge's ruling may wind up costing some developers a lot more money.
It's the same for most IT companies.

The actual core business, secret sauce, top level management stays in the home country (in this case the US), and the remote offices get the grunt work and crumbs.
I've often felt the difference between a junior developer and a senior developer is that a junior developer believes anything that isn't in-the-seat, headphones on, IDE cranking isn't "real development".
Much cheaper than nuclear
we are getting closer to it, slowly but steadily. But it is still a substantial way to go. Putting all hopes into it is definitely the wrong decision.
Is there a reason everyone is losing their shit over a chrome extension?

Lot of uncivil and condescending feedback here.

Anyway I tried it on mobile, works quite well. The UI is better than google at a glance.
How can you do UX design based on data, but without a proper feedback channel and at least some AB testing?

Most gnome users seem to use extensions that let them revert back to the old ways things were working. How about that as "real usage data"??
A true Orwellian word indeed.
Rust has a lint against this kind of attack + you can explicitly disable non-ASCII identifiers if you really want to
The Dominant Media has an exaggerated role in this when they whip up paranoia for ratings (really no different than Facebook prioritizing angry posts in your feed — eyeballs get ads).
1. That feedback is not really as high quality as asking an insightful question.

2. Doing this burns trust, especially if done deliberately.
I'm a proponent of nuclear power, but only if it is properly regulated!

Regarding the bad track record of Japan, I'm wondering if it is very serious for them to go on the way of extending the life of reactors that were maybe not properly maintained...
In Scala it's possible, but only at object creation time.
It's almost a microcosm of the issue.

OOH, Google can do what they want. Why can't they campaign for or against stuff, enlist their customers, and such. OTOH... Google are the gate to online information. Google "lobbying" is not like a normal company lobbying the public.
Apple is not forbidden from changing their contract language to collect commissions for purchases made outside of IAP. It would require new developer agreements.
For what it's worth, I installed it with my zsh plugin manager without any issues. A simple case of adding it to the list:

zinit light-mode for \
zinit-zsh/z-a-as-monitor \
zinit-zsh/z-a-patch-dl \
reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin \
larkery/zsh-histdb
Don't stimulate this. It is a legal grey area and actively discouraged by the OSM community. It's just too close to directly copying from Google Maps, which is infringement of their IP.

Morally speaking, any information you derive from a photograph taken in a public area should not be encumbered in any way, but Google's pockets are a little too deep to risk a lawsuit for OpenStreetMap.
SpinLaunch completes fi1rst test flight of alternative rocket
Hospitals and Prisons wouldn't even need payphones. They all have Internet, and could just screw IP phones to the walls. Would cost them next to nothing.
I think purescript can compile to go
I've lived in various places at various times, what specifically are you asking about?
That's not true. The local newspaper didn't have control over the paper maps people had and tourists bought, They didn't control the phonebook, they didn't handle your mail, they didn't track every store you entered and article you opened.

I think you gravely overestimate the power that local newspapers had.
> Sorry, your price link is contradicting you

.32 is in my book far from "almost 2 times" .19

> Germans already are having the highest income-tax and social-security costs of the developed world

Nope, the tax burden is way higher in France: 46.2% of GDP in 2020, while Germany is at 37.5%

Secondary source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
Like a dollar
You look at your own town in a completely different way; it's refreshing.
https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/subsidized...

For 3rd year and above
>$12,500-No more than $5,500 of this amount may be in subsidized loans

For sake of this example, let's say they let you take out this much for all 4 years. That leaves you at 50k. This assumes your parents can't take out a Plus loan.

Your very unlikely to be able to get 200k in undergrad loans without a co-signer. If you don't have a co signer your effectively capped at 50k.

This is a story about grad student debt. This is a story about, at a minimum 22 year olds ( normally a bit older) deciding to make a choice. You can make a ton of life altering choices at 22.

If we just got rid of loans for grad school, we're taking away an entire life path. For many taking grad school loans leads to a much higher paying career. You don't hear stories about someone who takes out 100k in grad school loans, but then lands a job paying 145k.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/payin...

>The median earnings for full-time, year-round workers holding bachelor's degrees was $66,536 in 2019, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. With a master's degree, median earnings for full-time employees jumped to $81,636. With a doctoral degree, median earnings were $113,578, and the amount for individuals holding a professional degree was $127,487.

None of these people in this article were forced into blowing $200,000 on a degree which isn't going to help them make much more money. The best thing about America is people generally do have a lot of leeway in how they live their lives. And the dark side of the European system is many people just can't get into any type of college, I've met these kids attending community college in America since the European schools wouldn't take them.

By far my biggest disappointment with the current administration is not pushing more for free community college, that would nudge people in the right direction. I went to community college and I worked and that's how I paid my living expenses.

I was working full time, already making 100k a year ,when I finished my BA at a CSU.

Let me ride this tangent for a bit, in California you have two state school systems. You have the UC system, which treats college like a vacation with a hint of learning. These schools are actively hostile to anyone with a job.

Then you have my alma mata, the CSU system. There you'll actually have flexible schedules where you can work a full-time job and still attend school. Of course UCs are viewed as more prestigious. Adults have a right to make choices. Everyone who attended this USC program wanted to plaster USC on their resume. They all had the option of attending cheaper schools.

It's not nearly as simple as looking at a few extreme cases and deciding to forgive a trillion dollars in student loan debt. I'd agree more regulation is needed here, but in general people need to take more personal responsibility.
Yeah, let's just switch to Cosmopolitan Identifiers: https://obua.com/publications/cosmo-id/3/ :-)

But yeah, it would break existing code, sorry.
This is exactly a continuation of what happened to art in general in the beginning of 20th century when modernism was (forcibly) introduced as opposition to classicism. Started with paintings and performances, continued in architecture...