skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increase in quality of education is something different than push for college degree just for sake of it.

Mentioned polarity in Poland, comes not from lack of college education, but from extremely poor understanding of economics, lack of basic personal budgeting skills, lack of critical thinking, vulnerability to cheap propaganda and manipulation techniques.

High school material at best.
Does Sega own any arcades in the US? I've always seen a lot of new Sega machines - is that not an important business for them?
This is exactly what university students in the U.S. and abroad have been faced with. Most engineers with a paycheck simply don't get the problem. Competition is higher now than ever for entry, companies do not want to hire graduates, they do not want to invest resources into them. They want the maximum amount of short term profit possible. Build things fast, sell them, next project. We are racing to the bottom and the natural result is the U.S's software dominance will be gone sooner than later. Just like manufacturing we are seeing an exportation of work en mass.
The left does indeed solve inequality, by making everyone poor. Such is the sorry history of communism.
Ranger and Emacs dired are my goto's, but I'm not sure about fuzzy file searching, since I archaicly still manually find for stuff.
Given the ruling that's doubtful, as there is no reason why it should be outsourced. "Datensparsamkeit"/Data-frugality is also part of GDRP, and completely besides the point of google fonts not being a service, nor conspiracy.
I really like there's no need for a build file. The file hierarchy and filenames holds that information for you. Neat.

Another tool that I think does not get enough attention and that I really like is Xmake (and Xrepo, its package manager companion).
What is great about it is that the build file is a lua file so you don't need to learn another DSL and you can very quickly get to work. It also claims to be just as fast as ninja while not requiring you to learn either Cmake or Meson.
https://xmake.io/
You jest, but “stand up a government” is a primary barrier to entry to being considered a “fiat currency”, which makes sense given the drawbacks of trying to qualify as a currency without one.

A banking-grade currency would have reversed the WETH transactions and prohibited new ones. Ethereum has refused so far to do so, even though it’s in their power to hard fork. Whether or not you view them as a currency, that’s not the sort of behavior that engenders a perception of financial trust and safety in their work.
Xmonad has been using the the Zipper for this for decades: https://wiki.haskell.org/Zipper
Distilling this down to a technical arguement, and going back to basics, this level of resolution is pretty not relevant to 99.5+% of music listeners.

If listening in the car, over Bluetooth, or on headphones, you are going to need tens of thousands of dollars to preserve that signal and not destroy it. RFI, EMI, and current leakage on the power line is going to render anything above Redbook (standard cd quality) useless.

Speakers have a bad frequency response, but can be very detailed, so they aren't going to be an obstacle to hearing high-res audio.

But the room is. The room is the undisputed kicked to this arguement.

The room acts as a "wire" from the speakers to your ears, and there are fundamental problems with overcoming this "wire".

Most people don't even try, and just ignore it altogether.

For example, there is the ASRD, attack sustain release decay. Without sucking up the bass energy which is omnidirectional, you will only ever hear the attack well, and even that is sketchy. The sustain, release, decay will be drown out.

Then there is the timing aspect. Any sounds that reach the ear within approx. 20ms will obscure the detail retrieval from the original source. That's a 20 foot bounce. So you need a LARGE room. Most people have small rooms, and ALL their "first reflections" are within that 20ms range, and even lots of "early reflections"

So yeah, room geometry and physics render high Res audio irrelevant for everyone but the highly obsessed audiophile.

The normies that aren't into audio have no clue, none at all, so they argue about high Res music when it's the LAST thing that is going to improve their musical experience.
found this article via the new-ish aspect-ratio css property[0], which was found via this hn discussion about avoiding layout shifts with web fonts[1].

apparently, you can specify aspect-ratio with attr(width) & attr(height) now, and that will keep images responsive (assuming width & height are set on the img) while also reserving space in the document flow until the image is actually loaded in place:

img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
aspect-ratio: attr(width) / attr(height);
}

neat stuff!

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/aspect-rati...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30129571
still have not matched its amazing functionality and UI

This isn't because people just ignored or forgot Hypercard - similar tools just evolved in many different directions and many of them were much more popular than Hypercard. FileMaker, Access, Visual Basic and their ilk come to mind; the current crop of 'no code' tools are also distant descendants. A key difficulty isn't replicating the UI, it's coming up with a tool/system that's both accessible to non-experts while also providing a smooth 'power curve' to the more sophisticated features of the platform. Without that, motivated beginners quickly run up against the limitations of the built-in functionality or a big jump in conceptual and practical complexity.
Accountant here: Recommend using Beancount with version control on your data so that you can take snapshots at various points in time.

The notion behind "accountants don't user erasers" is that like a blockchain, you're creating a trail of evidence. If all of the data is mutable all of the time, its evidentiary value is low (for example, the IRS gives more weight to "contemporary" evidence than to records constructed or altered after-the-fact).

Another reason to freeze, snapshot, or close your books is to not lose the support and detail behind any financial statements you've produced. Imagine getting a business loan based on your Balance Sheet and Income Statement but later being unable to reconstruct how those were produced.

Generally, accounting systems use a system of cumulative, immutable journal entries. If a mistake is made, then a reversing or adjusting entry is made.¹

There is merit to text based bookkeeping, but don't create a world that is so free form and mutable that it loses it meaning and connection with the real world.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusting_entries
Cool stuff, I love material science and engineering.

Makes me think of the universe-as-a-bubble theory.
No, the price of real estate must rise to enrich you. Can't having rising real estate price if you don't restrict housing.

It is in part an incentive problem.

If you institute a land value tax, we would reward the richest person around, because he makes the best investment, but he would also pay the greatest amount of taxes, because he bought the most productive or most desirable land.
But the entire premise here is a "letter of the law" thing. Online account bans are pretty clearly not within the spirit of the GDPR restrictions on automated decisionmaking; note how the guidelines you linked, despite providing quite a bit of detail about different kinds of automated decisionmaking and rules around them, don't mention account bans at all.
Ironically, I think you're letting your view of academia distort your own thinking here.

The mechanism isn't that complex. Anywhere resources are limited can lead to outcomes where an unequal society is worse off than an equal one. If I have a finite supply of doctors, for example, then the wealthy will be the ones who receive care while the poor go without.

The wealthy also tend to set up systematic barriers to ensure that the resources they fund serve them alone [1]. In the US, this is probably best exemplified by public education: schools are funded by property taxes, so rich districts have better schools, which in turn further increases home values (a process exacerbated by policies that prevent construction of cheaper, higher-density housing---policies supported by, naturally, the wealthy). Schools in poorer districts are therefore worse off than they would be if wealth weren't as concentrated.

Even if you take the perspective that, net, an equal amount of dollars is going toward education (or healthcare, etc.), it's fairly obvious the marginal benefits are different. A second violin teacher isn't as meaningful as adding a calculus class; elective cosmetic surgery isn't equivalent to treating diabetes.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir...
And the rest of the time it's illegible scrawl and has no place in basic education.

Even [0], the US declaration of independence, is horrendous to read compared to this 8 year old girl's handwriting.

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-declaration-of-independenc...?
I’ve been at and seen plenty of places where a growing layer of middle management was paying for itself by outsourcing engineers. Outsourced engineers very often need much more management and company directors either lose touch or decide to run the company in ways that justify raising their own salaries.

It’s not that the cost of engineers is unsustainable, it’s that aging companies tend to want to take power and decisions away from engineers towards management and accomplish this with outsourcing.
I’m not in any way American. And I’m not talking about buying iPads for students.

Too hungry to study? Fund school meals. Are free school meals stigmatising? Fund them for all students.

Teachers not good enough? Pay more for better ones.

Gang violence competes for mindshare? Fund proper, attractive activities for kids in the age group so they can do something better.

You can’t solve problems by burning money but you can spend money to solve problems.
it's notable that the missing time period is longer than the entire time period since, including basically all of known evolution. immediately prior to the discontinuity, there is only very simple life, and immediately after, life is significantly more complex, but also highly constrained, as after a mass extinction.

i just like to think about this sometimes. it brings me a deep sense of peace
I don't think they can right now anyway since the cache is segrgated by origin to prevent leaking cache timings.
Apologies for the confusion - what piqued my curiosity was a response you had further down in the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074537

Specifically:

> The software downweights any story that has been on the front page for more than 15 hours, unless we specifically tell it not to (which we might do if the community was particularly enjoying it)

and

> ...but then moderators will notice it and push it below the front page.

Since this is a kind of editorial action from the moderation staff, it would be interesting to see how this is applied.
Oosterscheldekering virtual tour (360 degrees)
There is some level of reverse engineering that went into ACO from what I understood, because even with documentation on AMD's ISA, some edge cases remain. But not sure how much of that is affected by the firmware blob.

It would be nice to have an open firmware, yeah, but is that really preventing making efficient drivers or using them efficiently? For the most part how hardware operates is more or less understood.
Software Freedom Conservancy uses it for their non-profit accounting. They have published their workflow here: https://github.com/conservancy/npo-ledger-cli/blob/master/np...
Gosh, I hope it's possible to maintain mental acuity by will alone.
Trust is necessarily to work in groups.

I see too often companies giving individual bonuses on productivity, that creates a "if you fail I win" mentality. Punishing people for mistakes is also quite common. You end with colleagues that can't trust anybody, everything is a competition against the guy sitting at your side.

Punishment and reward systems make "office politics" toxic and a game for opportunists instead of a forum to get to the best decisions.
You could institute Land Value Tax. Don't need to double property taxes and disincentivize construction, but the tax on land will be much higher.
There was the CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) established in Seattle where they explicitly seceded from the United States. In doing so, they pushed out all the police and set fire to the police station while barricading the doors with the remaining police inside (fortunately, the police escaped). The CHAZ rioters also occupied and vandalized City Hall.
Loved this post
I take the chance and run my hand on the inside. Gloves should usually work well too, though I use fingerless on road.

For off-road riding (cross) I pinch flat almost exclusively so I don’t bother checking around. It is pretty obvious when you smack a root or rock.
A Beginner's Look at Indian Cosmology
> lol no. Commercial EDR software sucks whether it is Crowdstrike or Carbon Black or Cylance.

That's like saying commercial firewalls suck. Do you mean the UI perhaps? They all allow you to specify detection rules like with ids and fw but the out of the box stuff is good enough to catch APTs but obviously not perfect. Althougj out of those I can only recommend crowdstrike falcon, defender ATP is also decent. Red teamers have bypasses for some, it's a cat and mouse game but can you find one instance where an actual threat actor intentionally evaded an EDR?
I don't think it proves envy false as a cause. It just means envy is of a piece with status anxiety more broadly. I doubt that anyone of any historical period would be shocked by this.
True, it's a hard niche to fill, and yup, slightly confusing even. We'd aim for development companies within the US that have some "outsourcing" presence around the world, but have not tapped into Eastern Europe yet. What we're really looking to do is help developers get connected to the US companies and get paid better and not be looked at as contractors, but FTE with benefits.

An example - in Serbia and Slovenia you arrange a net salary, and the company pays the taxes/insurance etc on top of net salary (usually around 50-60%). So for a senior salary in Serbia of around 4k euros. you're looking at the company paying around 6-7k euros. For a contractor (as a sole proprietor) you can make at most 50k euros a year and then you pay benefits that are minimum 300e. If you go above that you pay 10% tax on profit + 15% personal income tax. You can choose to still pay yourself salary and 50-60% on top of that, and you will most likely not pay yourself a big salary, but take the profit and pay the 15%.

What we would try to accomplish is:

- Not have developer as a contractor, but as an FTE

- Create a pipeline of US based companies

- Bump the salary for devs for 25%-30% -> pay the taxes/pension (30k+ more)

- Take a 15% of the annual salary (20-30k)

- Provide cheap senior/staff/principle devs that are cheaper than the same devs, but same or similar quality
Sounds like you're worried about what happens if you embed and tightly couple a lot of your business logic to something you don't have full control over? That's a totally valid concern, and probably one of the reasons we've tended to move away from these tools and towards doing everything in stable programming languages.

It's a classic set of trade-offs - quality, features, stability, security, price. There are lots of solutions on the market offering one configuration of those trade-offs.

If it existed today, some people would push for HyperCard to support mobile apps, multi-user access, web-based and native apps, all of which would make the solution 'worse" for others.
Bridson also wrote a book - Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics

https://www.routledge.com/Fluid-Simulation-for-Computer-Grap...

The first edition was really good on the nitty gritty implementation details.
I saw this first hand last Spring when I was visiting family in Mexico. One of my sister's friends there is a web developer and we really hit it off. A native born Mexican, he told me about how he works for a tech company out of Utah, but through a locally owned company. He then went on to explain that this is the nature of his entire company and that this is a popular trend in the industry there. I honestly couldn't be happier for them, not sure he could have made that good of a living doing only local work.
> It is a totally different thing if one is delivering 'web application'.

Why? I think the unspoken alternative to boring is gross negligent incompetence.

It really doesn’t have to be that way. The web is 30 years old, JavaScript is 25 years old, and the mature DOM is 23 years old. Surely by now somebody can figure out how to dynamically add text to the screen with less than 10mb of JS taking less than 10 seconds to execute.

As a counter point I have written an OS GUI that is 2mb unminified and loads in the browser in about 55ms (give or take 5ms) including full state restoration. That’s pretty fast. Looking at various benchmarks JavaScript is now executing as fast as Java in many micro-benchmarks.

If this stuff is really that fast why we do we tolerate such incompetence writing frontend code? It’s like incompetence is built in by default as the standard expectation and everybody hires accordingly.
Calling Grindr an “LGBTQ+ App” is a bit off the mark. It’s a hook-up app for gay men. Nothing wrong with that — used it myself back in the day, it’s one of many — but that moniker seems needlessly fussy.
My understanding is that this function was in her dotfiles, so by virtue of fixing it there it was fixed upstream.
Not just hiring, I've been asked to move there last year. It's the new "outsource to india"
Language/education/infrastructure barrier in Latin America, for some countries at least. Situation is improving as of late but a large skill gap both in terms of education and foreign lang skills (English). Hiring in India was painful for some reasons, but everyone spoke English and education was top level due to intense competition.

Most of Latin America is only roughly overlapping with US timezones. The western most countries (Ecuador for example) are basically EST time, but Brazil is closer to GMT.
I didn't know the Founding Fathers were communists. Learn something every day!

(Actual communists used slave labor on a mass scale, that was the true purpose behind the gulags.)
Someone asked me whether our software had taken the word "Stripe" out of the title here. The answer is no - the submitted title was originally "Ask HN: Stripe-issued card merchant fees?", but the submitter later edited it. Our software doesn't take the word "Stripe" out of any titles, or do anything like that to titles. It does take out common linkbait patterns (and sometimes screws that up), but there aren't any proper names in those rules, nor anything YC related.
And some people still think it's a good idea to raise taxes. Quite baffling really.
Which is a great argument against lumping people into groups based on race.
What's the boring-est way to run Jekyll locally? My main problem with Jekyll is that it required installing (and keeping up to date, I assume) a Ruby environment.
Oh yeah, because of all the great Eastern European alliances Russia is known for. /s

While that would suck, why on gods earth would democratic Germany align itself with Russia? Looking for another Berlin Wall? They really loved that the first time.

There's no fear of either an alliance, or invasion, thanks to American and other Nato troops. But continue live ingin your ivory education tower - that's what we fight for after all.
If you outsourced to French engineers you would have to accommodate all of their rights and work styles which don’t exist so much in “developing economies”. A French engineer probably would not be online at 6am and 11pm on the same day to attend meetings and solve problems for their American managers. Eastern European, African, or SE Asian engineers would though.
Actually 650b is used when the tire width is less than 50 mm (randonneur and gravel bikes) and 27.5" when the width is over 50 mm (mountain bikes). Jan Heine and Kirk Pacenti reintroduced this size.
there's also a similar period between 1850 and 1920, and 1850 and 1900 in sweden. IIRC (i could be wrong on this) even the nordics with their progressive redistibution policies aren't actually decreasing their gini coefficients, it's just static.

Also IIRC the US improved it's gini coefficient for the one year 2009? 2008?; a lot of rich people suddenly got less rich until they got bailed out.
Absolutely - every experience matters. In Southeastern Europe - you get what you pay for. We would definitely not try to hire anyone with less than 5 years of experience, thoroughly vetted before even talking to the US companies and/or submitting a resume.
I think it will vary based on where you are in the talent pool. Tech talent distribution is tri-modal [0]. The demand for the kind of people who can comfortably be part of the rightmost peak (and even moreso, its right tail) is increasing rapidly. As tech gets better the leverage high performance individuals have gets bigger, not smaller.

I'm less hopeful for people in the leftmost peak or middle peaks. For decades tech has been slowly eating its low-end. Think of all the webmasters of the 90s made obsolete by sites like Squarespace, the work has more or less been completely deskilled. I think that trend will continue.

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
Yeah, the GDPR has done a lot of good already. The lawmakers clearly knew what they were doing.
It isn't. But doing it with a snarky one-liner containing nationalistic flamebait is.

It's not hard to criticize something like "the FBI's abuse of power" in thoughtful, substantive ways. Plenty of HN users do that while staying within the site guidelines. From a moderation perspective, the issue here isn't the FBI or any other divisive topic—it's simply comment quality.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
another datum in the "you can fix everything if you can control your environment"
> Its also one of the reasons that despite private planes being one of the biggest contributors to climate change nothing will ever be done about it.

Aviation as a whole is responsible for 3.5% of climate change [0]

So while the impact on a per-person is very high, it's a tiny amount compared to the mass impact of international shipping, heating, and even commercial planes.

[0] https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2667/...
This is the genius of what the top 1% in the US have accomplished: they have convinced almost half of the population to take their side, against their own interest, by making them feel they are part of the upper class when they are actually not, or think they will somehow get rich shortly ("temporarily embarrassed millionaires") or that redistribution is for the weak, who do not deserve it and should work harder.
Tried it out, but the problem is no catch-all / aliases, and with the family subscription you're limited to 6 accounts.

Also, you won't be able to sign in into Windows / Office with me@domain.com, you'd still need to use the outlook.com / live.com / hotmail.com address, which feels unnecessarily complicated.
Shouldn’t admission be based on entrance exams/test scores so everyone excels in what they have aptitude for…is that what meritocracy is about?
Agree with your note on the "class divide" label - e.g. at the moment the USA shows a bigger class divide in the notes than India for instance, which still implements a caste system.
Pinkbike has a good article on rim width [1]

[1] https://www.pinkbike.com/news/rim-widths-comparison-test-mou...