skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I don’t have any good citations just IRL lawyer friends. Should be easy to google the rules though. IANAL but The rule is basically that law firms can only be owned by lawyers. The idea being (i think) that lawyers have a legal responsibility to their clients and that’s be corrupted via existence of shareholders (or, shareholders without legal responsibility too).

Regarding your theory, I think it’s bunk. There has been a consistent trend to centralized big companies throughout American capitalism long before the 80s. Just look at the history of GE. In fact, the growth of index funds actually indicates a shift away from big corps (or at least big corps with disparate business groups) because investors can pick and choose markets better without relying on conglomerates to do that for them.

But it should be obvious that massive urban centers are not due to US laws… because we have 1k+ years of cities before that with good documentation of life and laws in those cities.
Are you saying that you had 2 job offers and almost a third, or are you saying that on three separate occasions you almost got the offer but did not? Either way, what specifically did the recruiters do badly?
I completely agree with the UI criticisms. I love JetBrains, but brrr. On a fresh install, it's a throwback, and not in a good way.

Thankfully the Material UI extension exists. With this enabled, it's actually one of the best looking pieces of software I use. It still ignores system themes, but the colors are customizable and the UI elements look fresh and slick.
It's rendered by your browser so you get properly subpixel-hinted text instead of the horrible, blurry, compressed screenshot effect a video or gif gives. Also it's more convenient to generate than faffing around with screencasting software.

Edit: well, not (lossily) compressed in the case of a gif but not as nice as text properly rendered for your display.
There is no technical reason why Apple Watch can't work with other devices, except intentional Apple lockdown forcing users to buy iPhones. I see nothing similar with the gaming platforms.

Apple Watch can't even be turned on without an iPhone. Have a look at PineTime - an open-source watch that can work with anything you want, or by itself.
Yes and no. E-bikes start at 2-3k EUR and the norm is 5-6k. Obviously you can buy a road bike for 15k EUR as well but most will gravitate toward the 1-3K EUR range.
So this is what Cantrill has been talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbBzSSvT_P0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuvp-e4ztC0
In fairness, a car represents more than 10x the manufacturing effort. A 10k fancy road bike is going to be much easier to manufacture than the equivalent small 10k hatchback.
> Also, I don't think that there is a scientific method to discern which name is white sounding,

A common way would be to take a sample of the population of interest, submit the names to them, and have them identify if the names are “white sounding”, “African American sounding”, etc.; its the same way you scientific evaluate population response to anything (like the study question of how people respond to different names.)

There's also the method of identifying names that are statistically more common in one community than others as typical of that community.

There's a few other possible (and still scientific) operationalizations of the trait in question, and while it is important in doing a detailed evaluation of the research to understand which operationalization was used, this doesn't somehow make the question fundamentally unscientific.
I remember "going on the Internet" (with a capital "I" back then) as an activity. It felt like walking through a forest with its vast ecosystem; a colored, rich variety of life, an intriguing mixture of things both alien and familiar, tiny niches all around and a delightful surprise never too far away. Nowadays browsing the web feels more like a walk in the concrete jungle; bland, bleak and teams of people paid to promptly rectify anything improper
A review of the first year of the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series consoles
PostgREST seems super cool.

I'm curious so know if anyone here is using it in production, for a commercial project?
Isn't Chrome supposed to be based on Chromium? Why does one need to ungoogle it?
True! but that's not how assemblers were invented. Assemblers were around since the sixties at least.
IIRC at least chrome can be.

With that said, I would prefer cloud services to act as dumb storage for encrypted block devices

I think Mega was the only one that supported that
Japanese gov proposed rules on the browsing data handled by third party
Relume Library
Bill and Melinda's Trust has locked up the majority of farm land in USA. The peasants are screwed. The middle class is gone. People think more monoculture with machines is the answer. Technology will never supplant nature, but it might cause a collapse & reboot. You can't eat AI, you can't eat a digital twin market model.

Local food economy is the real economy.
Just to clarify: I agree that it's not a very good chain lube in general (and I don't use it myself anymore after having tested it), but I'm also not going to distrust people applying it as such because depending on the situation it is actually usable. Also see sibling comment.
I've worked with several event sourcing systems and was even seduced into implementing one out of sheer hubris once. These problems are ever present in every ES project I've had the misfortune of coming into contact with. It doesn't even mention the worst part that comes afterwards, when you realize after all of that pain that it is only used by a single person in the company to generate a noncritical report comparing a meaningless KPI that could have been manually done in four hours by a different intern every quarter. By the time the tooling is up and running enough to make a stable system, no one will trust it enough to use ES's landmark features except for a few developers still coming off the koolaid.

99% of the time when ES sounds like a good idea, the answer is to just use Postgres. Use wal2json and subscribe to the WAL stream - if you really need time travel or audit logs or whatever, they'll be much cheaper to implement using WAL. If you need something more enterprisey to sell to the VP-suite, use Debezium.

Event sourcing sounds so awesome in theory and it is used to great effect in many demanding applications (like Postgres! WAL = event sourcing with fewer steps) but it's just too complex for non-infrastructure software without resources measured in the 10s or 100s of man years.
Wanna kill Dockerhub completely? A mutating admission controller for Kubernetes that would mirror an image the first time it saw it, and the. swap out the Dockerhub image URI for the ECR one would totally cut our reliance on Dockerhub.

If you don't build it, we might build it and open source it ourselves.
Tesla Model Y Switches from Intel to AMD Ryzen Processors
Book lines are not indented at different nested levels while code is. So, unless your line limit is 72char+indentation, it makes little sense to follow this deeply cumbersome policy which will result in developers making single letters for all variables and 2/3 letter function/method names.
Teflon is the material of the gods.
Yes I took the squid game message to be “we’re gonna shock you with all this gore but at the end of the day it’s not far from real life. Well maybe not for you as you are rich… after all you can afford to watch this”
Hi Akouri, we are the same - we only need digital signatures on an ad-hoc basis, so we use Signable: https://www.signable.co.uk/

You pay per document, there's no monthly fees.
A bit off-topic but : ‘Arcane’ knocks ‘Squid Game’ off the top of Netflix’s most-watched chart https://www.nme.com/news/tv/arcane-knocks-squid-game-off-top...
Why not Turbo Pascal?
There are signing bonuses in the UK. I think you will be very unlikely to get it immediately on signing though - it's usually within the first couple of months of employment or with your first salary, something like that.
The terminology "vector processor" refers to a completely different type of architecture.
Using it for SIMT architecture would be confusing
A lot of the examples look creepy. In my opinion, it is the evil/serious/focused eyes, which do not correspond to the big smile. I believe this tension between contrasting expressions seems dishonest.
Having used the Balmuda toaster, I am willing to bet it is better than the 1940s sunbeam toaster.
This is my preferred way to navigate too. I was already in the habit from using Sublime Text, and it's actually not too far off from the Spacemacs UI either.
Remind me of Black Mirror on that point.
Dang. Please remove the shadowban from my account so I can post anonymously.
It's certainly non-negative. Enjoy your status.
The Apple ][ with Integer basic had a better one which had a built in mini-assembler. Very fun and useful. It was a real shame it got pushed out by the bloated Microsoft Basic. ;-)
Cluster filesystems are designed for this - Ceph, CXFS, Isilon, Gluster, I'm probably forgetting one or two more. (Notably, not ZFS.) It used to be a much rarer need, but with the advent of VMs all over the place, it's a need that the market hadn't seen fit to produce a quality cluster filesystem that also has Windows and macOS drivers, in addition to Linux & BSD.
We can be in the club with integers. Consider 0 for example.
That's how I learnt x86 assembly using MS-DOS and "debug" - which was a program that came with DOS. The proper assemblers at that time were Microsoft's MASM and Borland's TASM. With no access to those, the only option was to use the one bundled in DOS. Fun times, where you had to compute relative addresses of JMPs, based on the address where the JMP instruction sat. And then, you could even write to a particular cylinder/sector/offset on the hard disk and replace the boot sector with your own code.
I am a former recruiter and wrote an article about this years ago. One of the main issues with third-party recruiting and the recruiter/candidate relationship is that their interests aren't aligned.

In perm hire recruiting, the recruiter is typically paid a percentage of the candidate's starting salary. That means the recruiter and candidate are aligned in negotiation - if the recruiter can negotiate a higher salary, both the recruiter and the candidate are beneficiaries.

Therefore, the more the candidate makes, the more the recruiter makes. Win/win.

For contracting roles, a recruiter is a middleman and trying to maximize their margin, defined as the difference between bill rate (what the client pays the recruiter) and pay rate (what the recruiter pays the candidate).

There are only a few ways the recruiter can maximize margin.

The most obvious is to negotiate the bill rate UP and/or the pay rate DOWN. A less obvious way is to simply try to make sure the candidate with the lowest pay rate gets the job. So if I have two candidates and one is asking for 100/hr and the other is asking 120/hr, if I can get the 100/hr candidate into the job, that means an extra 40K in the recruiter's pocket for a year (based on 2000 hour work year).

I'm admittedly oversimplifying a lot of things here, but the typical recruiting model is not aligned with candidates for contract hiring.
Serverless the Savior
Toyota Says They’re “Pro BEV” and the BZ4X Has the “Right Range”
Alas, I was unable to find an aerosol can of Ballistol with the straw for focused spraying.
As they stated themselves, the risk to kids from Covid is almost completely negligible. The argument of long term effects are speculation and there is no real basis to believe that.

To be honest, this whole text sounds extremely paranoid, bordering on a pathological condition. Being protective of young children is all good, they can be lucky that parents are that engaged.

People that project or build stigma around these health issues aren't worth to be around with. Imagine how freeing it would be to blow their sanctimonious self-righteousness back into their faces. A conflict, but a necessary one at some point and you don't need to escalate it of course, just state your opinion. But setting a border is necessary, otherwise we would keep getting more and more restrictive policies.

People quick with judgement are not out to keep everyone healthy, they do it for their own reasons in the vast majority of cases. At some point you have to return the favor.

> really do need to update our policies for a COVID-endemic world

The same rules we had before. Health is primarily something you need to care for yourself (public healthcare is another question and very sensible but doesn't touch this argument). Living with the disease is accepting usual day to day risks. For younger people it is basically an irrelevant risk. Older people need support, but it cannot be with the ridiculous rules of today and scrap your testing idea right there. Important stats are how many clinics are under huge pressure from cases.

If you socialize in any capacity, you take a risk of getting infected. I tease people that gave me a cold, but blaming them is stupid, everyone has spread a cold to someone at this point, mainly without even noticing.

What about the people that don't even have symptoms? Do you have a right to restrict them? I don't think you do, but you are free to not engage with them to minimize your personal risk. In my opinion the data for kids, regardless of the Covid variant, would warrant to let them live just as before. People susceptible to the disease need to take precaution themselves. Perhaps society is obligated to pay for their medical attention, I personally believe so, but the risk is plainly not large enough to keep everyone at home. At least not after this wave and winter.
I think one major problem is that "Event Sourcing" can mean subtly different things to different people.

> The idea of a keeping a central log against which multiple services can subscribe and publish is insane.

This really doesn't mean "Event Sourcing" to me, it sounds like enterprises that have decided Event Sourcing == Kafka (or some cloud-hosted IOT-branded variant) and treat the central broker/coordinators/confluent-cloud crap as "the central log"

To me, the fundamental idea is that changes are recorded in a meaningful format, not the result of changes; What I mean by "meaningful" is important: I don't think SQL statement replication (as implemented by popular SQL databases) constitutes "event sourcing", because the only part of the application that typically consumes this is the SQL database, but if you're storing JSON in a log (or better: some useful binary format) then you're probably doing event sourcing.

With this (perhaps broad) view of Event Sourcing, I would say I have been building all of my database applications for the last 30 years as "event sourcing", and I've never had any trouble building applications (even large ones!) using this model: It lends it self to an excellent user-experience simply by letting the UI "in on it", and the article seems to recognise this:

> Event sourcing needs the UI side to play along

If your user makes a change, and for whatever reason that change takes time to do, it is better to tell the user you're going to do it and then do it rather than wait for the HTTP request (or TCP message or whatever) to "complete" the transaction online because network always fails and bad error messages (the default!) cause users to do stupid things.

But when you use Google Cloud's UI, you can see how nice this can be: You make a change, you can look in the event log to see your changes, you can see if they've been processed or not, and you can examine and share the results simply by sharing the results pages (instead of having to make screenshots or other ghastly things).

I think for many applications this is worth it, but there aren't good tools for event sourcing (in my opinion) so it may be for a lot of applications (especially the ones I don't work on) the juice just isn't worth the squeeze -- but to me, this suggests value in developing those tools, not in ignoring this amazing thing.
Chinese Company 'Moore Threads' Announces Full GPU Development Capabilities
Reminds me of Common Lisp with slime.

https://dev.to/kmruiz/working-with-your-running-program-an-i...
It's a shame that modern debuggers don't have mini-assemblers included like the original Apple II. Having a REPL would be real nice. For one I wouldn't have to type 90 (NOP) into memory windows to blank out code like non mortal ASSERTS.
Just curious, how does it compare to Hasura? Looks pretty similar but without the ui
I have used WD40 plenty of times to clean and lubricant rusty locks, in my opinion it works better then most other lubricants out there. And No my lock did not had manual about right lubricant.
HN usually adds the year in the title if its is not from the current year.
The author is still active, here.
The author is not really a lisper, just a normal polyglot, who happens to like lisp.

Beware that the standard libffi was written for Visual Basic. Which has one of the easiest FFI's. Did I write that? Forgot.
They deserve a break after continually stepping on those damn things.
They probably have the money to retire from the consulting fees
The 8 bit Atari design team had a lot to do with the amiga computer. The 16 Atari st series shared a CPU with the amiga, but otherwise was very different.
Yes, and? He is 100% correct. I lost the last shred of respect for Elon after his Thailand photo op.

Disgusting person.
So what pronoun should a non-binary person use?
> I'm somewhat surprised an organization of Slack's scale didn't have a consultant on the level of "I designed DNSSEC" on hand for this

If it takes a designer of DNSSEC to implement it, then how should I, a peasant implement DNSSEC for my infra?
Meta's Giphy Acquisition Set to Get Blocked by Regulator
Really insightful. Can you recommend any resources that discuss this?
The github links don't work, are the repositories still private?
Ah, my Atari days *swoon*. Learning 6502 assembly on an Atari when I was 14 made me the person I am today. ahahahahah

Atari 8-bit and Commodore machines (and Apple II as well) did share a common 6502 CPU, but the coprocessing chips for graphics and sound are really what separated these machines. Apple's capabilities were far inferior, but it also was released years before the others. (If I remember correctly it was 1977, 1979, and 1982 for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and C64).

Atari developed three specialized chips for these computers; two for graphics and one for sound, building on what they learned from the original VCS/2600 machine. Programming these machines is primarily a matter of mastering these three chips.

Unlike the 2600 game machine, there was indeed a frame buffer on the 8-bits, and Atari engineers did some really neat tricks to make interesting use of display memory, allowing programmers to display things differently in horizonal strips down the screen, trading off memory usage, pixel size, number of colors, and text display. As a kid playing lots of Atari games back then, you quickly noticed patterns in how the screen was always laid out -- scores and status along the top or bottom, fancy graphics in the middle.

Commodore's entry a couple years later was suspiciously similar in capabilities, but in a massively cost-reduced form. A big leap in sound tech, but a step sideways or backwards in graphics. In junior high we sat at different lunch tables, emotions ran pretty hot on our nerdy brains back then.
I agree, just look at the chin of the blue background face at 7:00. They've just dug a deeper valley.

But it works so well for stills that I could imagine it taking over fast fashion catalog shots: the nameless manufacturer/designer back-end provides basic pictures (with a lighting reference ball conveniently in frame), front-end brand/store chain/online shop composes in a cgi face from their brand identity library if they don't feel like keeping the of supplied.
I don't know anything about anything and am one of the very few people here who never founded a $xB fintech, but this strikes me as weak:

> The ecosystem is small and we wouldn’t be able to invest in and acquire companies if we didn’t have a reputation for good behavior

If you're in a position of power (and money), people will return your calls, regardless of rumors. This is true in all fields, from recruiting to publishing to VC deals, etc.

This is also a line of defense used by serial abusers who always (always!) claim that because they have had successful consensual relationships, there can't be cases where they abused the other party.

> over our decade of operation

Also weak. "We've done so many things. Seen so many people. It's been a long time. I don't recall. Things were different back then."

- - -

That said -- weak defense is just that -- it doesn't mean offense.
My favourite WD-40 anecdote is how it saved a maiden win for the McLaren F1 at Le Mans in 1995

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
It's not just Chrome--all Chromium based browsers should be avoided if we don't want to end up with a single browser engine monopoly.
This seems a little far fetched. China can bring overwhelming force to bear on Taiwan. Without the US being involved, it would only be a matter of time before the PRC had near total air superiority. And they also have medium range missiles.

Taiwan is serious about military defense and they are well prepared. They have been for a long time. But China simply has far greater numbers and they are very highly motivated.