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If your addiction to distraction is comparable to that to cigarettes all bets are off, buying some overpriced gizmo will not help here since you'll just sneak off with your phone or tablet or laptop to get your fix. The solution to this problem does not lie with technology, it lies with behavioral changes. Technology can help, sure, but buying yet another device just for this purpose does not - it runs against the same problem as you pointed out around cigarettes: "just don't touch your phone/laptop/tablet/desktop/fridge door/'smart' TV/in car entertainment system/whatever other device you have around which can be used to browse the web. If you really can not refrain from grabbing those things I'd suggest moving to the backwoods somewhere, even if only for a few months. Somewhere without network connections (i.e. leave that Starlink dish at home), preferably even without electricity. Live off the land, fish, hunt, do whatever it takes to get back to the essentials of existence. If this sounds absurd realise that plenty of people do this every year when they go out hiking, camping, canoeing/kayaking, sailing (although technology has made its inroads there) etc.

So, just install a nix and either add a single-function login which goes straight into a page-filling no-frills editor or use a tiling window manager without any window decorations or program launcher to get the same visuals. Add a restricted account if you need a bit more hand-holding to keep from checking your likes or twit-regurgitations or fill in the blanks. If you're hobbled by using Windows or MacOS you can achieve the same by creating a bootable USB-thing with a minimal nix configured to your liking. No need for new hardware (you're sure to have a suitable USB-fob around after all), no need for more consumption just to achieve less distraction.
> They aren't doing it right now.

The US most certainly is.

> block freedom of the press

police shot out the eyes of numerous journalists during last summer's protests. Assange.

> anex peaceful territories by force

Puerto Rico and Hawaii are active colonial occupations (as is the entire country, both those are particularly obvious examples)

> deploy military force against civilians

see again the responses to protests last summer, and the routine murder of thousands of innocent people abroad.

> push other democracies to overwrite their history

favorite activity of the CIA, besides child prostitution and trafficking

> commit genocide

The ongoing erasure of indigenous Hawaiians (with the navy literally poisoning people _right now_ with a gas leak they have no intent to fix), highest prison population in the world, continued suppression of Native Americans on the mainland, etc etc
> “Bribery and kickbacks are pernicious crimes that stifle Silicon Valley’s culture of competitive innovation,” said Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds. “Michael Kail used his highly compensated Netflix position to siphon cash and valuable stock options from his tech vendors, the same vendors whose Netflix contracts he signed and whose technologies he pushed his teams to use. Such crimes come with a cost, as reflected by the prison sentence that Kail will now serve.”

So the person took bribes and hurt other tech vendors and the corporation. Sure. But suppose you hurt the organization and partners by being incompetent at your work. Or having bad judgement, or being lazy, or a million other things. Would it be okay to send those people to prison?

"Pay-to-Play" isn't illegal. I don't even know what it is. Coke pays to have their beverage in AMC theaters. Is that pay to play? Is Pepsi more worthy of that slot? "Money Laundering" is incredibly broad and can be applied to a lot of things.
It doesn't align with their marketing terms: "Never have a data breach", "Core benefits: Zero Data Breaches", etc.

Promises like that, with liability waivers in the fine print, are always worthy of suspicion.
This is already a thing in the US.
Is "fuite" french for fleeing?
A large part of this is: resist social pressure.

Great advice if you live in a highly homogeneous society. Or even in 1970's America. But like many things, it's time to hit the brakes. Yes, application of these principles leads some people to free themselves from, say, their parents' unreasonable expectations. But others are empowered to engage in much anti-social behavior -- behavior that is gradually eroding our communities.
> What is actually going on?

Nobody actually knows yet.

> Is this a pivotal moment unfolding right in front of our eyes without us seeing it?

Yes I think so. I see parallels with the early days of the dotcom boom (mid to late 90s) when there was a mad gold rush by "entrepreneurs" for anything Internet or Web based, and a bunch of nerds (including me!) were scoffed at for twiddling with some computer and network based nonsense that was just glorified letters and phone calls and bulletin boards.

I think the current web3 craze needs its version of the dotcom bust for the fundamentals of the tech to be truly allowed to shine through, away from the current blaring foghorns of the snake-oil peddlers and scam artists and rug pulls.

At present, all web3 offers is various communities that come together around some sort of a totem (monkey pictures, lion pictures, "buy an old document", "play an mmorpg", "have a cryptocurrency-based TLD", whatever), but all these sound quite un-compelling to me personally.

I have no idea what form the core of this "web3" stuff will ultimately take, and I don't think the nascent Google or Facebook or Netflix or Amazon of this space exists yet, but I truly believe there's something in the works, that is being obscured by an unfortunate amount of noise.

Edited to add: I own exactly 0 of any cryptocurrency or NFT or ICO and don't even participate in those communities, and am in actual fact quite more anti-web3 (in whatever its current form is) than my tone above would indicate.
Not to derail the conversation, but Hedera really doesn't belong with the others because the foundation behind it can revert/censor transactions on the blockchain at will. I'm not saying it doesn't have a use case, or that it's not going to be successful, just that it doesn't really belong in this conversation.
I mean, there's also only one winner in French presidential and national assembly elections, and we have a lot more than two big parties.
They said they range from mediocre to positive. We don’t know what the bar is where they work, but it seems they’re just barely meeting it. Imagine if they actually worked a whole week, every week!
It is a very slippery slope. Would you feel the same if it was a genomic sequence of a novel respiratory virus? Would you say it is a plan for a bioweapon and hence must be forbidden?
I would go one step further and say that the counter-movement is the visible effect of newcomers discovering that separation of concerns was a bad decision for the simple apps they were building.

Or maybe more accurately, discovering that it's often simpler to separate by concern at the component level, than at the app level.

We all ride the pendulum until we find the shade of grey which works best for us.
Can't wait to try this out! I always wanted the ability to see the tasks that are currently running or waiting.

In the screenshots I can see that tasks have descriptive names. Does anybody know how to set the name for a task? tokio::spawn doesn't take a name parameter. Does it require `tracing`?
My brother is really big into crypto, and convinced my dad to get $1k in ETH. Over thanksgiving, they were hanging out talking about crypto, and my dad said he wanted to mess around with swapping tokens around and layer 2's but didn't want to touch his principal. So he opened AAVE, deposited his ETH, and got a loan in about 5 minutes flat. I thought that was pretty cool? I've never taken a loan for anything but student loans but I imagine it would be infinitely more difficult and time consuming to get a small personal loan like that from a bank.

I definitely agree that a TON of the crypto space is super scammy, and think it's an absolute shame, I don't blame anyone for being scared off.
I think everyone has their own implementation of usePromise; it’s weird to me that it isn’t included out of the box
I've felt for a long time that this would be an obvious move. I know that many people, myself included, like the Kinesis Advantage design, but wanted a split design like the Freestyle. I've even seen DIY versions.
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Agreed. I focus on being a parent, and it's 10000s times more fulfilling than anything I could do on a computer.
How do crawler approaches like this handle SPAs that have a multi-step onboarding flow before getting into the actual heavy-hitting areas that need the most testing? (e.g. where you may have to click through several things before even hitting a route change)
All rented out? Seems like an easy win on the PaaS market (and make enough profit on them).

Just remember to put some customized adhesives telling what laptop is rented to what customer.
The contract developer releasing the code is the problem, not verifying that is what is running. When a company open sources some code, we assume and trust they are not keeping a separate, evil branch running in production unbeknownst to us. If Facebook “open-sourced” their entire platform and infrastructure tomorrow, the hard part is not verifying that this code is what is running. The hard part would be getting Facebook to do this in the first place. Your use case (of the developer open sourcing their code already) is not the hard part.
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Go for news sources that are less reliant on ads for revenue, and more on subscriptions. That would be the Financial Times.
Was your father the president of US and your mother the first lady of US? You should get the point by now.
The starting point of this discussion was specifically how to pay.

My initial comment in the thread addressed specifically that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29573768

Your own first comment rejected the claim that access to information was a problem, I addressed the additional concern that informational quality and relevance matter.

Compensation for that role still falls under my first comment, linked above.
For what it's worth, my experience is the opposite. When I read the map and know the whole path ahead of time I'm far more likely to get it right the first time compared to using an app in the city that tells me to turn right 200 feet from the intersection when I really needed that information 200 yards from the intersection. Or sends me on some weird right then left then right thing instead of realizing I can just go straight.
>Sogou for its pinyin IME

What does it mean?
I don't think SF's situation is indicative of civil society.

This is very specific to crime issues of the Bay. There are places in the world where I could leave my wallet at a restaurant, walk away to go to the bathroom and it would be waiting for me when I was back.
“With those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2”
> I underestimated the restrictiveness of the OS

This may not be something that is made clear in reviews, but it’s hard to see how someone could read HN and not see hundreds of comments about this.
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>I will state this isn’t normal for large enterprises, at least at that scale. Most software vendors are happy to invite buyers to Warriors games, which is a lot cheaper than the 0.25% dilution.

Salesforce or GitHub selling seats to some random company sure don't.

Large software vendors like Microsoft, Siemens (their software dept), IBM, and more, have routinely bribed all around the world to win government contracts.
> a Haskell expert

I'm not a Haskell expert, I just dabbled with it and liked it.

> The selling point of Rust is (very, very) roughly "C++ without the bad parts, and some more good parts." Given the demonstrated utility of C++ (and demonstrated pitfalls) this is manifestly appealing. Avoiding memory safety related security holes alone is huge.

The selling point of Haskell is that it's a Functional Programming first language (see: "Why Functional Programming Matters"), has a better statically type system than C/C++/Java which makes whole classes of bugs common in those languages harder to write in Haskell (so if writing correct code is a priority, that's your use case), and memory safety related security holes are harder to write, just like with Rust. Laziness (or non-strictness, whatever) is also a big if controversial selling point (why: read "Why Functional Programming Matters").

If you like slightly less opinionated (or non-strict by default) languages, you could go with OCaml or Standard ML instead.

Why would you prefer Rust? Why don't you ask a Rust advocate?
I've been waiting a long time for this and getting hyped at their Twitter drip feed but damn preorders open December 20th for potential delivery in MAY.
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There's a Settlers of Catan reference in the docs
It's an implementation detail, right. But in most cases, it's implemented as immutable. With some exceptions, but developers are very upfront about that in those cases.

But even if developers implemented their contract with the possibility of updating, the most important detail here is that only those developers can do that.

Not AWS, not Apple, not Google, etc.
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We're only going to see more of these types if incidents, right? As platforms[sic] farm editing tasks out to third parties (presumably to wash their hands of any sort of liability) there will be a problem of lowest-bidder-wins which results in sub par work.
There could be much more and the case only covered what could be proved.
> This is not violating a law; it's violating a license agreement. Contracts are not law.

Following legally-valid contracts outside of any legally-valid excuse is law, which is why breach of contract is a cognizable legal cause of action.
I wish "software engineer" meant something.

There are CMU/MIT grads using the tittle alongside 3 month bootcamp grads.

I also have to wonder, with the owners of Tik Tok really being ByteDance (字节跳动) if the dissrespect for IP really isn't cultural.
Nuclear weapons aren't all that complicated, it's the enrichment that is hard. It's a large scale industrial process that requires a well equiped specialized facility. We can detect these activities from space, that's how big we are talking.

You can get a rough idea of what is needed from Wikipedia. They are simpler machines than a automobile engine, at least in the sense that there are fewer parts involved.
> The individual right to keep and bear arms is a natural right of all free people.

Gun advocates are always going too far. It's not enough that the Founders specifically and narrowly intended the 2nd Amendment to be a check on tyranny and intentionally exclusive of self-defense, it has to also include self-defense due to popular and intellectually dishonest misinterpretation. No, a right to keep and bear arms is not a fundamental and inalienable right, so it is not a natural right, it is instead by definition a legal right subject to the laws of the State. It can be repealed. Self-defense is a natural right which can not be repealed nor is it subject to the laws of the State, which is why including it in the 2nd Amendment is superfluous and in fact dilutes the power of the 2nd, bastardizes it, transforming it from a self-less right to an intensely selfish, egotistical and psychological entitlement, making everyone less safe.

It is ironic that Right of center dress themselves in such a way, as an advocate of rights, while at the same time dismantling the US Constitution's Bill of Rights. This is an assault on the Constitution, not advocation of it. First we lost the 4th Amendment protections, because police are entitled to search you and your car. Then we lost habeas corpus. Then we lost the 5th Amendment. Then we lost the 2nd Amendment. The words have not changed, they are just misinterpreted or ignored.

There is patriotism, but it is quite distinct from the insistence by many if not most gun advocates for anarchy. Gun advocacy is not patriotism, it is more often psychological entitlement than not. We can only hope there still exist advocates of the 2nd in it's original unadulterated intention, who would selflessly sacrifice their lives to protect others from tyranny, should the need arise, as opposed to the idiots who will shoot and kill others while claiming heroism for haphazardly protecting property.

Best example in modern history of a proper exercise of the 2nd Amendment is armed Black Panthers surrounding a courthouse. If you can't align yourself with the principle, you are no advocate of the 2nd Amendment.
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My read is that ctdonath is equating infomration at nil marginal cost with food or fuel at nil marginal cost.

I believe the absurdity is self-apparent.

If that's not their argument ... then what they're trying to state is less than clear.
I think I added #4 after your comment. Which is essentially my response. It seems like a very weak measure, at the cost of privacy considering it's the worker's personal device... If our solution is to require separate devices anyway, then spyware seems like a waste of time, they should be providing secured hardware/OS.

On second thought, this _is_ the answer... they are making a compromise on security, it's an economic decision. Maybe it makes sense from a business perspective: check some boxes, get a bit of security (not much) for almost nothing - but as you can probably tell, I think it's both pretentious and disrespectful.
They both have a single relevant implementation and for haskell in particular it's a complex behemoth. Haskell has a specification in theory but a sea of extensions exists. Ocaml does not have a specification. Ocaml lacks good docs and is moving too fast. But the most significant thing in my opinion is the community, which is heavily research oriented.

And that's fine, we need research languages and I'll gladly continue to write software in Ocaml, but I wouldn't want to pick it for a project I'd want to be well engineered.
This entire thread is why gun control constantly keeps existing as an issue, you two people who should be political allies are now splitting hairs over relatively minor issues compared to the cost of healthcare and wage stagnation
Use a VM (local or in the cloud). I do this for each client. If they have certain software, such as VPN, RDP launcher, etc., it gets installed in the VM. If they wanted an agent in the VM, I would add that also. This protects my main system from their software and, once the project is over, I can easily archive or delete the VM and not worry about a corrupted or compromised local system.
I gave up on all these frameworks and just use Cron and Make and Python
It does, for example, the provision regarding
>(B) the United States is a fundamentally racist country;
Could be interpreted as preventing proper discussion about what caused the Tulsa massacre
I have no clue about Purdue, but many large universities with significant numbers of international students have things like recruiting offices abroad, etc.
> it has become a commonplace joke, saxony==nazis. I believe it's unfair.

This is why: https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2021-09/ergebnisse-b...

Blue is the party AfD, which is under surveillance by our (historically, rightwing extremism ignorant) inland intelligence agency,... for their extreme right, anti-constitutional and antisemitic views.

Many places there are basically a "no-go area" for PoC. Not even Leipzig and Dresden are really safe. The police continuously makes headlines for right wind sympathies/connections. Btw. it's one of the least culturally diverse places in Germany.

Oh it's also a hot spot for antivax folks and their numbers are insane.

Saxony deserves every bit of disdain it can get.
The way you compete with cheap Asian labor is protectionism. You will never build up that sort of industry with Chinese industry and cheap labor (and CCP shenanigans) as competition. America became an industrial power precisely because of protectionism. The US would never have stood a chance against England, France, and others (China is an interesting counterexample perhaps because they leveraged American greed to build up their industrial base, but that is not something everyone can replicate).

You need a system of tariffs to prevent competition from abroad from killing the baby in the crib. This was certainly the argument made by Friedrich List. The only reason the US loves to promote open markets elsewhere is to remove friction for American exports and cheap labor.
> Those in favour of web3 typically come from the right-libertarian camp

While I agree, those groups are perhaps over-represented in web3 discussions, I don't think it's accurate to say web3 supporters are 'typically' right-libertarian.
The work "likely" is doing a LOT of work there. Contemporaneous examples in the GDU, Czechoslovakia, and other form Soviet satellites transitioned to democracies in a more or less bloodless fashion.
This is nothing but a platitude that attempts to shame businesses for not meeting some idealistic vision of how the world ought to be.

There's no hard rules about what wages should or should not be, as with any other market price. A business will pay however much they need to attract and keep the labor they need. If no one wants to work for them they need to increase the wages they offer, which may in turn result in higher prices for customers which is also an undesirable outcome. If what they provide is of enough value that customers will continue to pay for it then the higher costs can be absorbed, if they don't, they will fail. If they can't attract workers they will likely also fail. Delivering value at prices people are willing to pay while still covering costs is ultimately what keeps a business in business.

I sometimes wonder if minimum wages are a net benefit at all as it creates several distortions. Some laborers aren't worth paying a minimum wage, they wind up earning nothing from not having work instead of what their true worth is and being able to build up skills. I think it could also remove some negotiating power from laborers. Businesses can peg their wages at the minimum and balk at those asking for raises, they pay the legally mandated price for that tier of work after all. Try to find a new job and you would also find other businesses doing the same, not paying an iota more than legally necessary instead of a more fluid labor market with people switching jobs for marginal gains, driving wages up. What may more naturally be a range of prices, both higher and lower, gets compressed to the minimum, unless that minimum is so low as to not have any effect on wages at all because no one would willingly work at that price.
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Make them provide you a laptop. Then only do work for them on that laptop.
> You still have not told us: What problems is Haskell best for?

Let me be honest here and say I don't find your tone helpful. "You still haven't told us" makes you sound as if you're in a group, critiquing from the tribune. This isn't helpful for honest conversations. There's no "us", there's just you, and I don't owe you any explanation.

That said, I provided plenty of links in my answer above, which address at least some of your questions. Have you read them? The site https://www.haskell.org has plenty of testimonials that you could also read to figure why some shops and people have chosen Haskell.

Maybe you could send Simon Peyton Jones an email, he's one of the friendliest guys in the software industry. I don't think I've ever read or heard him say anything dismissive about any other person or technology.