skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a moment in the film in which hilter interacts with an unemployed labourer, and in that interaction he imbues this guy with a sense of purpose, hitler has told him he is a soldier - a soldier with a shovel, it's nonsense, but it is carefully crafted nonsense.

Well, maybe not total nonsense? The same kind of thing seems to have worked elsewhere too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
> Its macros have to be given at least vaguely Julia-like syntax

That’s true with Lisp as well. The point of homoiconicity is that your DSL looks like your parent language.

That said, Julia supports string macros. See for example “APL.jl” for a macro of to compile APL to Julia.
> it seems that the protests are essentially peaceful, citizens living in these cities are in support in large numbers

This is not true in any of the relevant cities; it is an extremely vocal, and very small, minority of people who are in support, and I can guarantee you that most of the few people who do support it would change their minds if it was their neighbourhood people were honking in all night.

Note that over 90% of Canadian truckers are already vaccinated, and similar percentages of the large urban centres being harassed are vaccinated as well. Most people are entirely against these "protests", and will be happier when they're over.

> Furthermore, it can be effectively argued that forcing workers to get vaccinated or lose their jobs is inherently discriminatory

It cannot be effectively argued, because it is not discriminatory; "people who refuse to believe in medical science" is not a protected class. If you need to get a background check to get a job, that is not discriminatory. If you need to have a license to do a job, that is not discriminatory. If you need to be vaccinated to do your job (not just COVID, but otherwise), that is not discriminatory.

> and perhaps even anti-freedom.

Freedom has limits. You don't have the freedom to endanger others.

Freedom does not mean "I get to eat my cake and have it too"; it means you're able to make a choice. Do you want to get vaccinated and do your job, or do you want to refuse to get vaccinated and leave that job so that you aren't endangering others?

What these people are protesting is that they made their choice and have to deal with the consequences of that choice. If you don't want to get a driver's license, you can't protest that you should still be allowed to drive a car; if you don't want to get a passport, you can't protest that you should still be allowed to travel internationally. The rules and restrictions are clear and up-front.

Also: I have friends in Ottawa, and am hearing multiple reports of people being harassed or threatened by these "protesters" (many of whom are acting more like terrorists, trying to intimidate everyone around them) for something as simple as wearing a mask.
I'm hoping Julia gets its killer app that can launch it to the next level like Rails or Numpy. Julia has a lot of pleasantries, but not enough to pry me away from what I'm productive with. There's certain amount of switching cost that needs to be overcome.
The paper calls into question the existence of a supply/demand curve and as such is relevant to all of your points. Supply/demand is not sufficient to describe elasticity of labor in all cases. For example, in the quoted article:

“…concludes that 'wage elasticity is unresponsive (or inelastic) and that very large increases in wages would be needed to induce even moderate increases in nurse labour supply', adding that the 'weak role of wage increases in promoting nurse supply is also supported by recent qualitative studies..”

I misread your original comment regarding uniqueness. I now understand what you meant. The situation for doctors in the U.S.:

It’s a field that requires highly motivated, highly intelligent people to go through the process. There is a high opportunity costs involved due to the 10 - 12 years of required training at little or no pay. A massive debt is incurred to become a doctor. The people entering the field have the talent and ability to do something else that has high pay or is otherwise rewarding.

As such, attracting people into the field must take into account the ability to service the debt. Suppose starting next year all graduating med students were forevermore saddled with a $1 million med school tax upon graduation in form of a debt to the Treasury at 5% interest. Salaries for incoming doctors would eventually have to rise to take this into account in order to attract talent. Clearly the large debt incurred in order to become a doctor has some effect on the salary necessary to attract talent.

It's not like schools decided to charge far beyond what anyone would pay, and later the wages rose to pay for that debt beyond what people could previously pay. It's more that as wages rose, due to demand, school increased prices to capture what the market would bear to provide those skills.

It’s the case that this model of how things work is too simplistic. There’s a dance between the different forces at play. Each of the forces involved evolves over time and they all adjust over time to each other. That is the proper modeling of such things.
The ones replying are mostly the ones that want to respond to the same conversation over and over again.

The majority gray zone just doesn't care about eg. Crypto and are boostered, depending on their country rules.

What's left to talk about? The more interesting subjects that are new(s) and more applicable here.
> That's... not an especially worthwhile goal for a competitor.

But it is. Because otherwise we're just embracing monopolies. We can't switch to X because it doesn't accept our input as well as the "main" implementation does.

You can only beat BIND, or Postfix or Excel if you at least understand what they understand.
Laptop:

- Uninstall software that I don't want (i.e. McAfee)

- Install software (e.g. antivirus and anti-malware programs)

Browser:

- Install extensions (uBlock Origin is usually first)

- Run an internet speed test
The problem with browser monoculture is that it will erode the authority of the spec over time. Having multiple independent implementations of the same spec means that developers won't be able to merely code to one browser and treat it's quirks as gospel.

A good example of what happens if you only have one implementation is Flash Player. People programmed to the implementation and not the (non-existant) spec. So any reimplementation of Flash Player is largely an exercise in chasing after implementation bugs in the Player that badly-developed movies rely upon. Even Adobe's official internal documentation on SWF and AVM2 is woefully incomplete, because the actual "spec" is the proprietary source code of the player and whatever tribal knowledge had been accrued from decades of maintaining it.

The sole implementation in this case (Chromium) being Free Software does alleviate this a little, but the spec is still more of a suggestion than a reality.
Do the polls have how many support the protest? If 20% do, then that would be 200k residents in the city. I consider 200k, or 20% of the population to be a large number. Still a minority, but a large minority.
> Keep in mind that in Canada a lot of the media is state owned and operated. So the media coverage might reflect more on what the ruling party wants the people to think of the protests.

Sure, there's the CBC but the rest of our media is not state owned, so that's a weird claim to make.
Yet apple always aggressively pushed their native app platform over web protocols, which would allow much more privacy.
I recommend the Blowback podcast. [0] It really puts the role of the media in starting, or at least helping setting the stage and muster public support for wars, into perspective.

[0] https://blowback.show/
What do you consider a "proper keyboard ui"? A shell with the full discoverability of a blinking cursor?
> Also, people need to understand that Firefox is not the reason for Mozilla existence, Firefox is one of the tools that Mozilla has (and depends on) to fullfil its mission.

No. This is arguing that the tail is wagging the dog. The only reason why people care about Mozilla at all is not their social projects, not the fact that they released a VPN, or the fact that they maintain Thunderbird (OK, fine, for some it is). The reason they care is because Mozilla is developing Firefox.

Subtract Firefox from Mozilla, and you get zero or less. And yes, we realise that Firefox is the last remaining independent browser - which is why it's alarming that they are focusing on anything else when the market share is so low. Their ship is sinking and they are debating whether the orchestra should play Bach or Mozart on the way down.
Does Victor Mono have nerd font support? Bc Iosevka does
Fringe theories stack
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6 River Systems is making fulfillment faster by building solutions that power winning warehouses of the future.

The team I am responsible for is building a new mobile app for associates to use within a warehouse. We're building a greenfield app using Kotlin against an existing backend.

We are hiring Android developers. Apply here: https://grnh.se/87a133ce2us
> Get a CEO/upper management that are in it for the passion, not the money, and cut their salaries (bonuses tied directly to increase in Firefox market share).

They fired the CEO that knew what he was doing. Personally, I think Mozilla is getting what they asked for.
"I think of them as new kinds of computers, new kinds of legal systems, and new ways of achieving reliable decentralized consensus. So I think they’re most analogous to advances in computing rather than some kind of monetary event."
I would love to do that but unfortunately every organisation I've been in demands that I set them at the start of the year. Then at the end of the year I can reflect on all the goals that were no longer relevant because plans change and being able change is agile.
I don't know what the answer is with these protests, but criminalizing them isn't the answer. I'm an active leftist and do a lot of mutual aid and protesting. I've been beaten by cops and had them deploy munitions against me. Giving cops more latitude to deal with this protest movement will mean that they deploy even more force against me the next time I'm politely asking that they stop murdering people.
Good luck with that haha. It's weird, it took two years, but at this point I can't really imagine having to be in an office for more than three days a week. Granted, if I had a FAANG tier salary I'd stop complaining.
I mean humans are humans and I think wanting to be a police office attracts a certain type of person where the per capita of "nice" goes way down vs the general population.
I really like diagrams as text for simple diagrams where you don't care too much about the formatting. I think Figma is better if you really care about the formatting. I just discovered this the other day, but you can create mermaid diagrams in Notion by adding a codeblocks and selecting the "mermaid" language from the dropdown.
Cool project. The cities feel very old-world, it would be neat to have more modern grid-style layouts too.
In no particular order, Docker, Visual Studio Code, Git, Gimp, Chrome, Build Essentials, Go, R all come to mind immediately. Most dev work I do now though is container based thanks to vsc.
I wonder why I've never worked for a company where the managers shared a task board with us.

If you plan on answering with a 'because our tasks are too hard to quantify' I would like to remind you that some people on this board implement hard to quantify things every day, so please make an effort to give realistic counter examples.
If doctors already make more than enough to pay off their medical debt, what would change to make them start accepting lower salaries..

If med school were free then salary required to live at the required standard would go down since the need to service the debt would no longer be there.
Highly recommend Fantasque Sans Mono for a realistic take on the "comic-style" coding font - https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
I have a similar shopping list and very little that satisfies it.

General commentary:

- A laptop or e-ink tablet can run other voice comms (Jitsi, Zoom, Skype, etc.) These are also generally more capable systems and convenient to use when seated or established at some location. The dividing line between present-gen phones and smaller tablets (beginning at 6") is ... slim.

- SMS is itself not secure and highly problematic. As much as I'd like a dumb phone, I'm not sure I'd trust it to even SMS. Voice comms alone, or support for a secure encrypted messaging system. SMS itself seems too limited to allow an encryption extension, though xmms might suffice.

- Splitting the phone and the hotspot functionalities is an option. That's an additional service, but might be preferable.

- For the phone, I'd prefer a monochrome display, preferably e-ink, with a backlight or frontlight for low-light conditions. Hardware keyboard similar to the Blackberry, Palm Treo, or Palm Centrol might suffice.

- The Psion Series 5 may well have been the perfect mobile communicator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5

Otherwise, a B&W candy-bar phone along the lines of the Nokia 3310, or a flip phone like the Ericsson T28 or Motorola Razr would be a welcome sight.

The feature I'd most appreciate in any of these for the present which wasn't available in their initial deployments is strict whitelist-based call acceptance. Any unknown numbers roll directly to voicemail or are rejected entirely.
Microsoft’s real estate value is probably negligible relative to their annual revenue, no?
Thanks for posting this. What a fascinating read.

> one early inventor wanted to use 26-wire cables, one wire for each letter of the alphabet.

I’d love to know how he thought that would work. How did he plan on knowing the order of the letters? What about spaces and other punctuation?
СЛОВКО – Ukrainian news media bought Ukrainian alternative to Wordle
I'd love to believe that, I'd be glad to find out I was mistaken. Do you have a link to, like, a video of Joe Rogan or Joey Diaz (I looked it up) saying that it was a bit? The search results I'm getting are all media outrage pieces.
I love having to file taxes documents for every transaction I make. Great currency
> an instance of Safari Webview,

there is no "Safari Webview" -- GP is being pedantic but he is right here. WKWebView is not Safari, anymore than Chrome was Safari before it forked off into using Blink. WebKit != Safari
which companies are paying 1m to managers?
Is being well-connected a bad thing? I don't get it. Surely I'd trust people with lots of great connections over someone who doesn't — it shows that they're great at soft skills, networking and being a decent human being.
Becoming "your own" domain registrar without having to deal with ICANN was another interesting one to me (after checking into how all those .eth domains popped up).

It was exciting when I first looked at it and then I realized that this was actually not "democratizing" anything so much as ensuring a new class of folks would be able to create new centralized "everythings" in a new environment outside of the current system - without the benefit of the years of testing, regulation, and (sure) cruft that our current systems have because they're subject to political forces (which is actually a feature).

Maybe starting the wild west over again is a good thing? My money's on "not really" at the moment.
I doubt most people want to switch phone ecosystems over a browser. I love firefox and use it everywhere (linux, windows, freebsd, etc) including macos, but iphone overall is a better experience for me as a mobile OS so I stick with that.
Well yeah, it's not like we lost a hockey game or anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_rio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_rio...
Because it isn’t just in those countries reporting this and they have objectively much more freedom of the press compared to Russia?

Also, Russia state media tends to lie… a lot.

Like a lot, a lot.
And how many countries has the US invaded already?
as one who is NOT affiliated with ISC Bind named program but actually read a lot on DNS and wrote user configuration front-end providing closed-net DNSSEC, hidden master, bastion, split-horizon, and private root server settings to named.conf and its zone (text-based) database files, my take of the definition of nameserver and DNS resolver is this:

nameserver is a term used by DHCP and host resolver to be the server that provides a fully resolved (one that did all the resolving or asked others to do some resolving) upon receiving a DNS request before sending the final answer to the requestor (often the host via resolver library (as often guided by /etc/resolve.conf). The nameserver can be a forwarder and by its stated function not have a recursive mechanism. Nameserver is more about the first step for a host to obtain an answer to its query.

DNS resolver is not the common term to use but refers to a generic DNS server configured to do a partial or full recursive (depending on whether they also have some primary zone(s) locally) with a goal to contact an authoritative server for each zone (parts of the domain name separated by a period). A DNS resolver would not necessarily be the first server that a host would request.

Of course, caching might provide one of its zone answer sooner, if enabled and encountered an answer previously within its expiration period.

Any error, typos, mistakes are mine and mine alone. This is my off-the-cuff answer.
>There is a huge intersection between people who are often saying they know how to fix Mozilla and those using non-Firefox browsers. If people here who cares about Mozilla would volunteer, and also use the browser, Mozilla would be in a much better shape

I have to agree with this. You see everyone on HN talking about the importance of Firefox in the fight against Google's monopoly but yet when you read comments about anything web related many (maybe most) commenters say they use Chrome (Someone should do a HN Poll).

There is no excuse to use anything other than Firefox if you claim to care about things the open web, software freedom etc.
Canada is now regulating crowdfunding and crypto under Terrorist Financing Act
CEO Lets His Employees Work Whenever They Want–From Wherever They Want
I think I found a bug in your calculation link. When I click on it, it shows me some kind of button telling me to login with something called the Facebook or Google? Has it been hacked in some way?

ETA: thanks, Airtable works.
Well a large part of the problem with a fork is that you don't see a lot of random drive by contributions. As a possible contributor myself a couple times, firefox is a development nightmare because it doesn't have a good autoconfig system that lets one download the code and start being productive quickly.

Then like chrome, i'm betting most people can't actually built it in reasonable time on their laptops since it burns a good 64 core machine with 128G of ram for a hour or two. Screw up said configuration, and your in for another rebuild loop. It can take days just to get a working development environment.
I worked remote in 98. Depending on your location it wasn't quite that bad. I had SDSL at 1.54 mbit in those years and it was workable. You could get ADSL here then too for a bit more download at the cost of upload and overall connection stability. Granted, I was doing gamedev which had smaller assets than a film, but you could manage a bit more than just a terminal a lot of places.
Firefox on ios is pretty handicapped vs on Android. Like most things it's a tradeoff. Also the javascript engine isn't nearly as fast as the one for Safari on ios. That said I still use firefox there because i sync everything on firefox, also because of the built in night mode which is close enough to darkreader for my usage.
The logical case against the legitimacy of BLM protests is primarily predicated on evidence. Specifically, that while police brutality is definitely a problem in the US, there's no evidence that it disproportionately impacts people of color. When you look at the actual data, it seems that police like to brutalize and kill innocent suspects in a relatively colorblind manner. There are even a few outlier studies that suggest police actually show greater restraint with black suspects, although those studies do have some methodological issues.

It's effectively one of those "reals before feels" situations for those of us who prefer to view politics through a lens of actual data rather than baseless emotion.

Nobody batted an eye when Daniel Shaver's murderer was cleared. The protests should have been explicitly anti-police-brutality, not race-baiting nonsense.
Thanks for the insight, would appreciate any recommendation on where I can read more about this.

I'm curious what would attract market makers to this sort of exchange if it exposes them to more risk. Unless they can charge a premium for taking on that risk. But then why would traders want to pay more when they can get better prices (from tighter spreads) on today's more popular exchanges?
I think it's too late for anything to save them now, but integrating a social overlay on the entire Web, built directly into the browser, is one play that I think might have kept them relevant if they'd started at least a decade ago and really nailed the execution.

It'd have to be something that gives you a reason to use FF over Chrome or Safari or IE/Edge. A social approach has "virality" to it. "Oh we're all posting on this Tweet in FF-Social, that's why you're not seeing the replies. Go get FF and join in. Here's the invite link for our group."

Some add-ons and (earlier) wrapper sites tried similar things, but I think FF is one of the few companies that might have wanted to try this, had (at one time) the critical mass & goodwill to pull it off, and had the right vehicle for it.
I feel like I'm the only person who hates ligatures in coding fonts, but I agree that these whitespace ligatures are (mostly) a good compromise.
> It's a very arrogant view to think they are all wrong.

It is also correct. Every European company using FB/IG are acting illegally. It is only illegal if you get caught. So, just like speeding or overloading your truck using FB gives you an advantage until you are caught.
You can't buy out an open source project. If Google bought it out and started messing with it, there would be an immediate outcry and Firefox would end up with the community fork winning out, just like it happened with MySQL and OpenOffice.
> You don’t manage people [...] You manage problems and projects and enable people to do their jobs well.

This is, like, the definition of managing people. Let's call a spade a spade.

> People are not robots you control.

Control is not management.

> they think their reports are their subjects to lord over.

Bossing someone around is not management.
Any idea where can I see it in action? (maybe some Youtube channel where someone streams himself coding and is using this method)
And are You sure that You was able to properly distinct between methodology and man himself doing the magic? (I'm asking because there are people that can make anything work through their sheer brilliance).
Does this presume that all Jewish people are white? I suppose it's probably a safe assumption in the US where the overwhelming majority are Ashkenazim (European Jews).
This is spot on. Everyone who is confident and correct in their ability to consistently beat the market for decades is obscenely wealthy. The math is really straightforward. Even a paltry initial investment will compound massively over the years if it has a high ROI.

Some people do have this ability and in fact have become very wealthy, but there are many orders of magnitude more people who think they have an edge but have just had a lucky run.