skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Illinois “Protecting Household Privacy Act” Takes Effect
At the crudest level, what do you suppose would happen if the U.S. Treasury/Federal Reserve suddenly decide that every dollar-denominated account of $n got a "stimulus payment" of $2n?
So, I left a huge job to work on my own stuff. Specifically, I'm working on infrastructure for board games: http://www.adama-lang.org/ using a new language and new SaaS platform.... I'm definitely shaving the Yak here.
And that's how your old boss used to talk people about getting more money. Kids cost money. Mortgage costs money. Food costs money. And the biggest money trap of all is retirement. If you can't afford to retire from your current job, why stay?
Same here, Rust and/or Golang with a Nim syntax would be my favourite.
hummus with:

- veg

- pita/bread

- crackers

- cheese

- fruits (olives, dates, apples, pear)

easy, riffable, modifiable (add olive oil, garlic, lemon zest, fresh pepper, jam). Pretty healthy.
New Intel chips won't play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation
Also PBS released "Building the great cathedrals"

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/building-the-great-cathe...

Full-video: https://watchdocumentaries.com/building-the-great-cathedrals...

Too bad I wasn't able to find the english version of the
OPs link in German. Looks good.
edit: I was wrong, see below.

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I have since misplaced it, but there's a book on the history of the computer wherein a conversation with Babbage was quoted. He was asked something like, "So the engine is the perfection of the executive?", and he agreed.
That phrase, "the perfection of the executive", has stayed with me.

The "executive" in this sense means the "part of government that enforces law, and has responsibility for the governance of a state." ~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government)
In other words control. Babbage and his interlocutor saw the computer as the perfection of control in the political sense, and I think we're seeing that unfold today before our eyes.
And it makes the license non-opensource.

Plus, the usual "no warranty" is strong enough to protect the authors anyways.
Sounds awful! In our city movies are $5/person on Tuesdays (any movie, including brand new releases) and is only a few minutes drive. So just wanted to say this is not the same everywhere :)

Personally I find the quality of the cinema projectors to be lacking, but I still enjoy going.
Unfortunately not true in my experience – the flow that I hear of happening a lot nowadays:

* Employee is happy (enough)

* Recruiter reaches out saying "we'll pay you your_current_comp * 2"

* Employee thinks "hmmm that seems **ing crazy, I wonder what's going on"

* Checks resources like levels.fyi or their network and realizes that they could _theoretically_ make (current_comp * 1.5), and probably pretty easily make (current_comp * 1.5)

* This leads to bitterness in some cases, or frank discussions of how to get paid more in others

I don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing fwiw but it requires employers to anticipate comp issues as benchmarks change.
Right, but this subpoena isn't doing that. The 'inadequate response' in the title of the post is referring to the companies' response to congress' request for data, not saying the companies' response to the speech on their platform was inadequate.
Only if you keep the market alive.

Arrest the dealers and administer the drug to addicts for free at clinics? I think that would be an interesting approach.

I'm not a policy expert. I used to agree with you, but I think part of the issue is trivial access to drugs (see the tenderloin). It's harder for addicts to quit when it's very easy to get the drug (whether that's via dealers or legalization) and the city helps to enable you (hotel shelters, etc.) I understand the good intent and compassion, but a lot of bad policy on the left starts with good intent and ends with unanticipated bad consequences. Cities with arguably crueler enforcement don't have these issues (San Mateo). SF attracts addicts because they know it's lax and drug access is easy. Pair that with NIMBY housing policy and it's very hard to get housed and off of drugs.

I'd argue the SF approach to this has been a failure, London Breed's recent speech on the topic is something I agree with. The equilibrium we're trapped in is bad. We need to force a choice and that choice is likely either treatment or prison.
Probably not based on size. But it is notable that this automated moderation collateral damage doesn't ever hit corporate channels such as those owned by ABC or Viacom -- even when those channels are smaller in subscribers and viewership than independent channels.
there's a whole dark art of writing prompts for chat ai in order to make it behave in a sensible manner. the reason is that gpt doesn't have any context at all besides whats i n the supplied text. If you don't tell it exactly what to do, it will guess randomly.

For example this chat prompt gives much more matter of fact answers, in my testing:

"the following is a conversation with an AI assistant. the assistant is helpful, clever and friendly. it uses Wikipedia as the reference.
Human:Hi!
AI:Hi!
Human:<your question goes here>"
Working at Apple as a contractor sucks, I am starting my new gig next tuesday that lets me do 100% remote as a fte so I get all the benefits I miss out on at Apple since I don’t live where they want me to.
It depends.

Depends on country(culture), company(culture), team(culture), and the managers opinion on these type of things, as well as her/his maturity in role and life.
it seems to be true (
I don't agree with the sentiment that TLV is optimal, but the assertion that people are constantly reinventing ASN.1 is most definitely true!
I searched for antix antifascist and came across this post: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/anti-fascist-antix/#...

>>antiX is not anti politics, it is anti fascist politics. Politics is everywhere whether you like it or not. Put simply, we do not tolerate politics or people spreading hate/prejudice/violence against people because of their skin colour, race, religion (or none), gender, sexuality.
Ever heard of the McCarthy hearings? We went from "everyone we don't like must be a communist" to "everyone who says people cheat at elections is spreading misinformation." This pearl-clutching over "misinformation" is tiresome and pathetic.
> how can any of this be legal? aren't there laws prohibiting such actions from PayPal?

laws are only as good as the legal enforcement.
Even that might not be worth it. Most major league sports in the US are subject to blackouts (which I think is utterly ridiculous when the venues were closed due to COVID: it's not like I could go see the game live if I wanted to). Worse, and insanely, the major league sports apps I've used enforce blackouts even when you're streaming over the Internet.[0] That's right: for $122 per season, you can't watch all your own baseball team's home games. I can imagine the content licensing contracts they have which prevent them from allowing it, but as an end user, I couldn't care less. The outcome is that it's a terrible deal for the people who'd otherwise be their best customers.

[0] https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/subscribe/offseason
>>> expressive and extremely concise. And it is suitable for writing some changing application logic with more maintainable code

Assuming you won't write large code bases, I fail to see why would I use this instead of Lua.

(I have been running a SMS gateway for the last 15 years. Full code base is Lua (Openresty). Gateway configuration is also Lua; several hundreds of Lua code per configuration file)
It's interesting that you never saw something like this (landscape/hellscape) with OpenStack. I think it really drives home that Kubernetes isn't a platform in the same way, you use it to build a platform.
no one is really doing the kind of work i do anymore
How credible is this, in the long term? Can i use it to build the next Dropbox with unlimited file storage and give it away for free to my users?
https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition

I have been very happy with this product. I would have preferred an AMD Ryzen system, but the design and configuration characteristics of the Framework product are excellent.

This is where laptop design should be going.

Disclaimer: Am fussy about screens, keyboards, ports, and longevity. Significant past product experience with IBM, Lenovo, Dell, Asus, Acer.
This. It's a different game right now. As an employer it's very hard to take everyone's salary up 20% because that's what they might get elsewhere. So you don't. So people leave. But this won't last forever.
US doesn't have a corrupt government like mine :). Under ideal circumstances this might be the case. But here you can build wind farms directly on bird migration paths without any counter measures. It would only become a problem if there are mass bird deaths you can't cover up. Environmental impact studies in my country are a joke.

An article (in Turkish) substantiating what I'm talking about: https://www.sozcu.com.tr/2021/gundem/kuzey-ormanlari-simdi-d...
Today was my last day.

I moved to the UK for a pretty awesome job. These last few years have led me to re-evaluate my priorities, and I'm moving back home to be closer to family and old friends.

Many of my international colleagues (especially European) have made similar decisions.
I have heard it from a "sovereign citizen". They seem to use it when wanting to talk about themselves (flesh) inclusive of their various personhoods and corporate entities. I imagine that traffic cops find it unsettling for a lone driver to say "we" are going somewhere, as if there are other people somewhere unseen in the vehicle.
> If you had a problem you needed solving would you rather have Elon Musk on the case, or any of the last 4 American presidents

I mean, it depends on the problem and alignment of interests, but if I had to make a blind choice knowing only that it was a public policy problem then any of the last 4 American Presidents (though Trump is a close call), any of their major party opponents, any of the top 3 primary opponents to any of them in the season in which they were nominated. Also, any of the members of the US Senate, and any but about dozen members of the US House of Representatives, and any of the 50 US Governors, any of the chief executives of US Territories, and most mayors of major American cities.
Something cannot be a disorder unless it causes harm. Things that are not disorders and are out of the ordinary can be considered adaptations and can be advantageous.
Well "free speech" is a concept, context can be "${country_constitution_str}" or as in "humanitarian values"
... a failed analogy to human driving, it seems. If we can drive successfully with just a camera input, then surely the AI ought to be able to accomplish the same, right?!?! It seems this "first principle" point has governed everything that has come afterwards, with (quite literally) deadly consequences.
This feels like an organizational twin of an old idea of personal relationship, which is called "weak tie".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties
It should be fixed now, sorry 'bout that!
Yes you should publish your code.
> You will likely have a better customer experience at literally any other retailer.

That hasn't been my experience here in the UK. A big benefit of Amazon is the customer service in the sense that it is very simple and quick to return something, and most often free. IMO that's a big reason why they own online shopping: They made people feel safer so they were more confident buying from Amazon rather than somewhere else. Competition has been trying to catch up ever since.
Jesus, I just looked at this article's bullet points for the factors that we evaluate in an instant when considering leaving a job. And where I failed every line. :\

I knew that I was looking for something else but I hadn't consciously realized it had gotten that bad.

Am I happy with my job?
Do I like my manager? My team?
Is this project I’m working on fulfilling?
Am I learning?
Am I respected?
Am I growing?
Do I feel fairly compensated?
Is this company/team going anywhere?
Do I believe in the vision?
Do I trust the leaders?
Can you provide more details on the use cases/workflows, the users etc? I could be suffering from confirmation bias, but I've assumed this would work in many places.
I appreciate the clarification, my understanding of this stuff is pretty superficial.

Putting it that way, I can see why someone would appreciate that Rust guarantees safety by default, instead requiring you to opt-out explicitly when needed (with `unsafe`), versus the opt-in nature of RAII - for greenfield projects, anyway.
Ukraine’s official websites hit by cyberhack amid high tensions with Russia
I want to caveat this whole thing by saying that I'm not a supporter of abolishing the police in case someone thinks I want to take funding away from law enforcement.

"It is no wonder why folks are drawn more to Option 1, which is about a bajillion times more approachable, but which doesn't preclude also working on Option 2 at the same time."

I think it does. Option 1 solutions of the world often mitigate the visible problems like whack-a-mole. It reinforces the effectiveness of option 1. It also creates a whole system that ends up protecting itself.

Lets say you hire 100k people to start fighting thefts. The underlying problems that produces thieves are around, so they continue to steal. Option 2 supporters say "Fund social safety nets." Option 1 supporters say theft has gone down 50%, hire more crime fighters. The thief catchers say "Protect our jobs." More money goes into fighting crime and not social safety nets.

At least with regards to crime, we've been at it far too long to know what works and what doesn't. Crime reduction is far more correlated with social stability than increased law enforcement.
Also, for folks who are renting. With the cost of housing going through the roof this is also a driving factor that makes people reassess location/job and if they want to be renting the rest of their lives. Cheaper location and 30% more can go a long way.
(2010), I think??
I definitely appreciate the arm-chair assistance: I'm unfamiliar with the Luxembourg jurisdiction, so your pointers are great - we will discuss with our lawyers.

From what I understood, Luxembourg's consumer laws are more loosely defined than that of other EU jurisdictions - which makes the type of T&C that PP has established easier to maintain.
I'm not sure that the modded firmware even includes the actual low-level read routines. Isn't the whole thing split up to load them into the drive's RAM after every power cycle? If that's the case then the modded firmware alone is arguably not a circumvention device, and neither is the drive once it's powered down. :P
Poor Management, being left to rot while being managed by proxy of Jira.
The rhizome will set you free.
Surely you must agree that there is some point where individual trumps community benefits?

The hard part is deciding when. It is extremely easy to postulate hypotheticals if utilitarianism has no limitations.
Completely misleading and eye ball gripping “article’ …
I think the old generation really bought into this, but the new generation knows it's a load of bull.

The poll makes it pretty obvious that compensation is the biggest reason folks leave, and it's the thinking of the old generation who doesn't know how to retain talent (they do, but they keep throwing pizza parties / sending out merch instead). It's a real "it can't be helped" mentality around retention.
You may underestimate how many US ISPs are behind NAT and don't give out IPv6
I did not even expect that my post here will raise such a storm and collect so many comments and reactions. Thank you all for your support, I hope it helps to reinstate my channel.
That there's four tag classes is not really a complexity. That there's IMPLICIT and EXPLICIT tagging is.

Using IMPLICIT tagging yields encodings that dumpasn1(1)-like tools can't really give you much insight into.

Using EXPLICIT tagging yields bloat.

The answer is to use non-TLV encodings where possible and to use tools that can refer to the schema ("modules") to decode and pretty-print arbitrary things. dumpasn1(1) is just too simple.
The hx-post/swap and similar are pretty small and simple to write for yourself though, so you don't need to include the full suite of htmx. If it was me and I only used those bits I'd probably write them myself or use a library that only focused on those things without the whole DSL.
Yeah, Arcade's selection is very lackluster. I have it as part of my Apple One subscription and I personally enjoy it, but I'm not much of a gamer and I'm pretty sure most serious players would rather have Game Pass.
If your "shields" went down because you had a negative workplace experience, but then you found out that you could double your salary once you started looking, I think it's totally fair to consider both the toxic culture and the compensation your "why" factors.

It's easy to use something like compensation or new challenges as a post-hoc rationalization for making a move too, even when the real reason you started looking is perhaps different and requires some introspection. As an example, you might not start looking because you want more money, but it's fairly socially acceptable to say "I left because I was made an offer I can't refuse" as a justification when you do actually leave.
Yup. Why use the operating system's async I/O system when you can simply burn a thread and do blocking I/O? </snark>

Been down that primrose path, have the road rash to prove it. mmap() is great until you realize that pretty much all you've avoided is some buffer management that you probably need to do anyway. The OS just doesn't have the information it needs to do a great (or even correct) job of caching database pages.
Another partial explanation I've heard (and that rings somewhat true starting in the early 1980s): early personal computers were very attractive to people on the Autism spectrum, and those who spent their time programming them and hanging out were known as unpopular computer needs/geeks in school.

The social association between computer programming and social ineptitude meant that a lot of folks (men and women) who would have been great programmers didn't want to get involved.

But since Autism disproportionately affects men, the nerd groups were predominately male, and thus the new crop of programmer applicants from the 80s onwards was disproportionately male.
not listed here but some guys owned old ATARI computers on which they implemented Minitel servers with a toll free phone number. Some were famous for their HP48 calculator community (and were in relationship with HP to organize HP Party)
Most famous names were RTC ONE and PULSAR. They were really a pre-internet community with forum & chat. Crazy people at crazy times and exciting time in my life.
Leverage. Boomers keep retiring. Immigrants stopped coming (especially the talented/educated/smart ones).

Demand is high, so workers can have higher expectations. Everyone is moving up or moving out.
This post doesn’t explain how we lost women in computing. And I’m not sure how this describes evidence of “pushing out.”

I think programming is awesome and that any discrimination limits the value that comes out of programming. It’s bad and should be designed out.

I’ve only been doing this for 30 years or so and there have never been many women. That’s not to say that I didn’t work with some smart women, but there weren’t that many. Maybe 1-10%.

Maybe there was once a time when there were higher ratios, but I’m not aware of them. And I missed it in this article. There were (and are) great women in technology. But just because there’s not an Ada Lovelace today doesn’t mean she was pushed out. Just that she was a once in a century genius that hasn’t repeated in any gender.

Obviously it would be great if we had more Lovelaces and Hoppers, but to expect people of this caliber to reliably repeat or think that’s some signal of bias requires some more thought than this article presents.
Of course it would be possible for the application to verify that and disable decryption.
Appreciate your conversation!

I see and appreciate your anxiety about lawyers---their cost, the pain they exact, the helpless feeling that comes from handing over fate and control to an alien professional. But I also think you vastly underestimate how much non-lawyers can and do for themselves. Just because a dispute relates to a license, and license is a law thing, does not mean that everyone has to hire lawyers. Not hardly. No more so than most debates about open license compliance or terms of service violations entail crease-and-desist letters amongst JDs. It's part of why it's so important to write licenses in language people who aren't lawyers can feel comfortable reading. (And criticizing!)

I find it really hard to imagine a developer or small company using Big Time hiring a lawyer for every sale. That isn't the case for companies that "sell exceptions" to noncommercial or copyleft terms, and I don't think it would be the case with Big Time terms. Lawyers often are involved in license negotiations, which Big Time requires in some cases. But companies starting out regularly do all their own procurement. I've published several guides and forms that solo and small-shop developers have used to make sales on their own. You don't need a license from the state to negotiate your own software deals.

I also rather doubt that the average firm choosing to release its software under Big Time would be a Fortune 500 Goliath with a phalanx of lawyers. If you see the legal landscape as unavoidably Goliath wins, David loses, I suppose all four permutation are plausible: big licensor small customer, small licensor big customer, and so on. But even when you are small and they are big, consider the amount of effort large companies put into complying with open software license terms. If small-fry open software maintainers had zero leverage, big firms wouldn't bother, and they'd get away with it. We see the opposite: the bigger they are, the more likely they are to have people and process for compliance. It can't just be down to the size of the fighter...
> the permissions granted are so severely restricted as to make this license essentially useless

Indeed, also there're things like "By reading this sentence, You have agreed to the terms and conditions of this License.". That can't hold up in court! How can I know in advance what the rest of the conditions say before agreeing to them?

Then again, I am not a lawyer either.
Terrifying - I was EBV positive 4 years ago. It does not mention an association between EBV severity and MS, but I was very symptomatic and had post viral fatigue for around a year. I had no idea about the MS association!
> Vaccines do NOT prevent you from getting it or spreading the disease.

Do not think of this is binary "protect or does not" that is never the case. There are no absolutes. it's not ones and zeros, it's probabilities.

Vaccines _greatly reduce_ the chance of you getting it or spreading it, or being hospitalised with it. That is undeniable, do not obfuscate it with technically-true but actually-misleading statements.
More discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29933481