skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all social services, including police and fire safety, were privatized

I think enforcing the law has been a government function from the times the first laws were laid down. Fire services were a private function, and this actually works fine in sparsely populated areas where fires are not likely to spread in temperate climates. The only reason fire services are public is because of the inherent risk to everyone that a fire poses in a dense, substantially flammable, city.

If a fire affects you and only you, then why not cover it under normal, optional, property insurance like every other disaster?

This is generally the model of government intervention I support - intervene when the actions of one group of people directly affect others. This covers regulation around rights of way, fire services, environmental protection, waste management, water supply, pandemic/disease control, police, and the military. It however does not cover supplying the personal necessities of life like food, shelter, clothing, medical care, entertainment, companionship, sex, fulfillment, etc.

These are fundamentally individual needs, and I therefore hold that meeting them should be an individual responsibility. Any cooperation to meet these needs should be strictly voluntary and consensual, not compulsory. I think this is where, to greatly simplify, "the left" and "the right" fundamentally disagree. For instance, in spite of the now well-studied and crushing effects of loneliness, it would be absolutely tyrannical for the government to mandate friendship. Similarly it is tyrannical for the government to mandate participation in public health care/insurance. Let people figure out how to meet their needs for themselves, and let them figure out how to cooperate voluntarily. Charity is exactly the virtue of helping those in need, but mandatory charity is indistinguishable from slavery.
> Require employees be paid and treated fairly.

The problem is this isn't well defined. Somewhere maybe in the 1980s greed became good and the responsibilities of corporations shifted from being a fictional person that could benefit society to a thing that was in it for shareholders only. This is a cultural shift borne by MBAs and thinktanks, not something that can be pinned down to a specific incident.

As usual sunlight is the best disinfectant. It needs to be clear who owns what and who did what, and journalists need to go and look at cases where things are not in the interest of the community. There need to be records of whose interests are represented, who owns what, and who knows who.
Zuo: A Tiny Racket for Scripting
NAFTA was a symptom of globalism more generally. What we ended up with is selective globalism.

Want to import cheaper drugs from Canada, that's illegal! Yeah sure they might have been produced in the US in the first place but it might be dangerous!

Want to get a degree in a country where the price of education is lower? We won't honor it.

Want to hire the services of a Kenyan clinic doctor who has experience in everything from treating runny noses to gunshot wounds? Illegal he's unqualified according the the national doctors union (AMA).

Yeah you can get cheap crap from places that hire children to work in their factories, but the stuff that is really expensive we are 1700's Japan all of the sudden.
It's hard to have respect for the copyright/patent system we've constructed in the west when it's frequently abused and often favours large industry players over "little guys". There are some advantages to the wild-west remix culture you see happening with Chinese goods. There are also plenty of inventions that are so trivial/obvious that they should not have had patent protection in the first place[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
I was recognizing the potential problem with per capita numbers only for the purpose of specifically pointing out that they aren't misleading in this case because the same thing is there in the per-GDP numbers.
Could you imagine trying to aim something at a moving planet from light years away and while also shooting it at that speed and not having potential a huge number of things affect it's trajectory via gravity? I love the conspiracy theory, but unless it could course-correct during flight, the odds seem insanely low for it to be a alien test probe
"In summary, macOS does not behave like Windows or Linux."
People are animals most of the time and only rarely are they humans capable of higher order thinking, rationality, planning.

If a dog bites you, what use is it for you to blame the dog? It's just an animal. The more judicious use of time is to manage the situation the best you can. Avoid the dog in the future.

Someone disagrees with you, are they acting as an animal or human? Is it on an important issue? Is there any merit to their argument? If no to both just avoid the animal.

If you are disagreeing with someone, are they responding as an animal or human? Same, engage the human, avoid the animal.
Sure, but think about this: that little side project now has about 100x the traffic it did when my bill jumped.

That still isn't much traffic (at all) in the grand scheme of things, and Cloudflare's lowest paid tier deals with around 80% of the bandwidth. Still, it's not hard to imagine that bill blowing up to several hundred pounds per month had I chosen not to act. That would translate to several thousand pounds over the course of a year. I don't know very many people for whom such an expenditure, particularly if it's unnecessary and avoidable, would be something they'd regard as insignificant.

Putting it into everyday terms: it could have grown into my second largest outgoing after my mortgage. That doesn't really seem proportionate or sensible, so why wouldn't I look for a better deal?
> American government is a uniquely incompetent form of government.

Objectively untrue by any serious metric you'd like to go for, and in particular government-run health insurance programs (Medicare chief among them, but also the VA) are notably well-run and have low incidence of fraud while maintaining remarkably low overhead.
Tweet is dated November 2021.
from OP:

> we had good health insurance, we had a guaranteed minimum stipend, we had the right to actually take vacation during university vacations, and a certain number of sick days. I knew from talking to oother students, that before the union contract, grad students with assistantships didn't necessarily have these things (it depended on department), and sometimes literally got no vacation or allowed sick leave at all.
Because it's structured as WASM popping a normal event on the event queue of the normal JS main thread. There's no 'now run JS on the WASM thread but with DOM access'.
> The author makes a big deal of lack of snapping. Frankly I've never seen the utility of it on OS's that do have it, infact I've always felt it more of a hinderance than a help (gets in the way, tries to snap when you don't want it to).

It may be useful for users of large external monitors, allowing to make better use of the screen real estate. Then again, Macos lacks per-application menu bars, which means you cannot do a lot of tasks without focusing the app first, so IMHO lack of snapping/advanced windows management is not as big as a deal as it would be under Windows.
I'm very interesting in the architecture of systems similar to Amazon SQS. Interestingly I couldn't find much discussion on such systems. I guess it's because SQS is such a typical iceberg system that has sophisticated designs to provide dead simple APIs: having a queue that supports competing consumers and simply scales infinitely (in the eyes of users) with users provisioning capacity is no joke.
If you don't like something about your job/org, speak up and let management know.

If nothing happens, try to spearhead some change. It's your job! Sometimes the lower levels can see value that upper levels can't.

If you can't change it, cope.

If you can't cope, then leave.

Anything you want to say in an exit interview, you should have spoken up about already in step 1.

If there's something you haven't spoken up about, then it's probably for a reason. Just leave it. No need to be a martyr for your ex-colleagues, as it's only perceived. You have no idea the complexities of running a multi billion dollar tech organization.
Tit for tat seems to be the strategy.

If the company treats you well, treat them well. If it treats you and others poorly, return the favor.
https://support.microsoft.com/hr-hr/topic/how-to-move-the-wi...
I think it's both. I'm usually able to find decent stuff by searching "best on netflix" with some modifiers, but I almost never find new stuff I like by scrolling on netflix.
It happened because under FDR there was a wage freeze. That's one of the tools a President has to fight inflation, last used by Nixon.

Companies had to include extra benefits beyond wages to compete on hiring. One of those extras was health care.

That's the original "design."

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/469739-the-employer-h...
Lots of languages have nested lists that can be used to represent the structure of an HTML document. This feature is not unique to Lisp. That’s all my original post said. It’s unclear to me which part of this you disagree with.
Interesting detail I wasn't familiar with, and very unfortunate. I know I wouldn't have been happy to be put in that situation :(

It was published on Nov 11, 2021 so perhaps consider a (2021) tag in the submission title?
I totally get the window switching thing, especially if one of the windows is minimized. In that case, hovering over the window using Cmd + Tab will not open the window. You have to press Option while simultaneously letting go of the Cmd key.

The only other major thing is how terrible Finder is out of the box. There are ways to make it less terrible, but it's still far less than ideal in usability.
Nice job, but the demo rendered extremely weird on my mobile device. Some weird jankiness forced half the site off screen. Hard to see what's happening.
Most artist markets feel the same as Etsy, the majority of stuff is made in China too.
Restore from off-site tape backup. The kind of service where you ship them ~dozen new tapes in a lockbox each week and they ship you the oldest dozen back. It's supposed to be the "if all of a data centers happen to burn to ashes simultaneously" option. If you say "give us all of our tapes, asap" and then have some pour souls swapping them out as fast as the data can be read... it would probably take a few weeks.
Federal mandates and tax incentives are created in the halls of legislation. This was mentioned above, albeit concisely. You even mention "massive tax breaks for corporations" which really only happens with intense pressure (backchannel or otherwise) on Congress. We call that "corporate lobbying" today, just as we called it back then.

Recall the intense pressures on FDR from both sides. Eventually the unions won some important concessions, but the corporations still had sufficient representation to ensure the system calcified into one that continues to funnel capital upward.
Their point is that nowadays carbon from dead plants and animals generally gets recirculated, but this wasn't always the case. Back before the enzymes to break down lignin and cellulose existed, when trees died the carbon they had extracted from the atmosphere didn't recirculate. And if we hadn't started digging up fossil fuels and burning them, that carbon would have remained buried basically forever. So where the oil comes from does matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Fungi
system76? sounds cool can it run excel and apple music?
Yeah I am manager. I am pretty honest with my employees. One of my normal sayings is "you have to look out for #1 " (#1 = yourself its not a Star Trek reference)

That said i never say things like that on comms. And usually preclude them with things like "this conversation never happened" etc.

But i feel like part of my job is to give them career and life advancement advice and if that means leaving my team...so be it. That said ive made it pretty clear my style (on a few fronts, this being one of them) may not be all that common. Things like encouraging people to use their PTO, even for mental health days to prevent burnout etc. I do find that style engenders more trust and generally a less combative interaction. I have even had some tell me when they are looking for jobs. I usually tell them not to make a habit of telling someone at work that type of thing.
Etsy is occupying a niche of semi-customized trinkets, a minority of which are hand-made. This isn't a space that Walmart and Amazon seem particularly interested in.
Every major sea voyage of the past had a cat or two, they were necessary to keep rats from eating all the food supplies.

Apparently the cat on board the expedition that discovered New Zealand immediately upon reaching land jumped out and grabbed a small flightless bird (then a brand new species discovery) and dragged it on board to eat.
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The counter argument, is that relying on benevolent government to ensure a desired outcome is just as naive. In both cases, the holders of power are people. You're just trading one person for another.
As a decades long Mac user, all these points are fair and worth reading.
Apple, hope you’re paying attention.
Gonna add a bit of my own difficulties with this:

I've come across many sources that speak so highly of these mentorship relationships, and even go as far as to recommend how to contact them and follow up and whatnot.

It all sounds easy in theory, so romantic even, but in execution, I've found it to be much more complicated than that. How does one actually present themselves positively without coming off as desperate? And what if we are desperate (which often is the case for clueless people like myself)?

I understand the notion of "When the student is ready, the master will come." and how it makes sense. But isn't it the clueless people that need the most help?

What am I missing here?

I certainly miss the days of grad school when I had advisors and a committee and entire buildings of people to network with and discuss everything. The moment I stepped into the "real world"; damn, was I clueless. I remember going to job interviews, following the advice I've been given from endless books and articles, eager to impress, but in retrospect most likely just made a fool out of myself. / end of rant
VB code monkey using VS2017. At least it pays the bills, no stressing. Been on this gig nearly 10 years.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/kjartanmuller/status/151346261603...
Thanks for the encouragement. In person people are far more likely to tell me not to bother, and I'm not going to pretend it doesn't affect me. I think everyone reacts to their real-life friends' expectations and assumptions.
Populism is the response, not the cause.
Hey Nick! I remember you showcasing this in the audio dev community. It's a paradigm shift in the way audio software is written. Congratulations on your launch and I wish you success!
Could you accomplish the same thing in a ground based lab with a fan blowing air up at ~80 degrees? If airflow is used for orientation, then the test subject should orient to be parallel to the direction of airflow as it is falling.

All for Science, of course.

(The 80 degrees thing is there so they don’t hurt themselves when they reach the ground - hopefully being only 10 degrees off vertical will be recoverable).
Mr Derrick seems to have gotten triggered by all this, which looks nothing but the unfortunate side effects of the US tax/legal system, and in that regard I'd guess it occurs often enough.

In the other hand consider that Mailchimp employees probably fared much better working on a digital all online product and getting their above average salaries than the average person, who actually lost their jobs, savings and health insurance due to covid
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i used to be totally fine with the macOS desktop manager experience.

then i went in hard on i3.

now, macOS feels ungainly.
This is a fair question. The answer is that most malware behaves in ways that are deterministically detectable. For example, 93% of malware uses install scripts, which must be declared in the package.json file and are not possible to hide from our analysis.

From recent research:

> We found 93.9% (3,412) of malicious packages had at least one
install scripts, indicating that malicious attackers use install
scripts frequently [1]

When malware authors adapt and start doing fancy dynamic stuff, we might not be able to figure out exactly what they're doing, but we can detect the usage of obfuscated code, dynamic requires, and other signals of compromise.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.10165.pdf
Most of us consider murder to be self-evidently wrong. The intersection of "right, and causing murder" is very close to empty for most definitions of "right".

Your question makes me wonder what your definition of "right" is.
Wow, thanks for your interest! I haven't maintained QuaverSeries for a while as I kinda feel that there are some issues on Tone.js that cannot be fixed in the foreseeable future.

For the topic you are interested (C++ audio engine as WASM), you should check these two:
https://github.com/frantic0/sema-engine
https://github.com/micknoise/Maximilian

For those language you mentioned csound, supercollider, Chuck (should add Faust here), I think these languages focus more on different music programming philosophy. Of course, SC is probably the most famous for reusing its audio engine for other high-level langs like the Tidal, Sonic Pi you mentioned. Also, SuperCollider's scsynth can run in browsers now:
https://scsynth.org/t/webassembly-support/3037

If you are interested, https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/ is an ongoing work to port Tidal to browsers. Perhaps at some point it can be connected with Glicol audio engine.
> Package management

This always floors me when I have to use a non-Linux computer. The difference between package management on Linux and other OSes is shocking. Dnf, Yum, Pacman are all so convenient and straightforward.

I can't understand why Windows and MacOS don't have anything official that fills this gap.
Indeed, and the change that hurts me when I try to use a Mac is the fact that there are things that I can't change. I prefer focus-follows-mouse and no-raise on-focus, and those are apparently structurally impossible in macOS.

"I can't change it to work the way I like it" is a totally legitimate complaint and Linux has a strong advantage in this regard.
Or just some variant of "time for a change and this opportunity came along." Which whether or not it's the case with you, holds true for a lot of people who have been at a place for a while.

>The goal should be for you to part on good terms, not to take a last shot at them, which will only make them hate you.

Absolutely. Any satisfaction from bomb tossing in an exit interview or twitter thread is short-lived and the consequences may not be.
This is Apple UX in a nutshell. Hidden power tools are not intuitive.
The wildest part about this service outage to me is that Atlassian's stock is up 10% over the past month.
Maybe not exactly the same, but I'm dealing with artifacts of a bad LSD trip even years later. I wish I hadn't done it.
Depends on the scenario. I know personally of several examples where key people who had little say in a company, but were key technical roles, simply resigned. Resigned publicly, and drained other talent with them. First it was the better talent who had the most options, and then it was everyone else, like rats off a sinking ship.

This reminds me of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by Albert Hirshchman [0].
The gist is that you have two options Voice or Exit.
Voice means staying and fighting for things to change. It having any effect is predicated on the ability to Exit, to opt out of the situation and leave.
Staying and fighting means you may push for change. But quitting and bringing others with you means that you may force change.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%2C_Voice%2C_and_Loyalty
might be unrelated with overall strike but one thing that I never understood is their double standards towards sellers in certain categories, specifically my friend who saw CBD oil being sold on their website, tried to do the same but was rejected because it was an "prohibited substance"

then he listed those existing listings and they were removed but not all, just the ones he pointed out.
There was a point in time when FAANG offered the best compensation packages for engineers (Netflix was one of them) - so that's where the term originated from but while it's outdated in many respects (Microsoft is not included, Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet etc etc) it's still sticky for some reason.
If the code is managed manually and not by package.json, I would consider putting such code in a "vendor" or "third_party" directory instead of putting into "node_modules".
covid vaccines?
If a loyal employee had a health crisis that insurance didn't cover the company owner would write a check.

Not that this didn't happen. But I should add that it wasn't any benevolent plan on the part of the owners that made things that way. It was a combination of the presence of New Deal, Unions, the threat of so-called-communism, etc and the lack of hyperdeveloped capital and commodity markets, that pushed things in that direction from the 1930s to the 1970s. And then what you describe pushed things the other way.

The point is that same owner probably supported all the innovations, because they were about the owner having more flexibility. And by the token, you can't get back to this point, probably not ever but certainly not without outside intervention.
You can't copy music onto the iphone with a USB cable connected to your computer.
How about any of the reservoirs in drought-stricken North America? Water could be pumped to Lake Mead, power generated at Hoover Dam, and then enter irrigation for farmland. Same for almost the entirety of the Snake River and tributaries.
I tried the m1 mini when it came out because I was hyped by all the m1 HN talk. This was my first time using macOS and besides the window management what I loathed was having to re-learn all the shortcuts I've been using for 20+ years, how no one mentions this is baffling to me. I tried to make it work more like "normal" windows / linux but I didn't find any good options and I always felt like I was running with my shoelaces untied.

I'll stick with my linux i3 env for the foreseeable future
>So have I, and I stopped purchasing insurance because I cannot find the coverage I want. I need a specific variant of a certain operation which is only performed by a few surgeons in the country, and the one surgeon in New York who offers it only takes Aetna for that operation. Aetna reentered marketplaces starting 2022, but I'm moving and the operation has a year-plus waitlist, so I'm SOL. It has made a ton of sense for me to have no insurance because I'm fairly young and in fantastic health, making it cheaper to just pay out-of-pocket for primary care once or twice a year.

That seems reasonable. As I said, "my use case isn't yours and I'm sure you make decisions that are best for you."

>Please don't call people liars.

My intent wasn't to call you (or anyone else) a liar. My apologies if you felt I was attacking you. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've edited my comment to explicitly reflect that.
Ocean ships have rats so they would tend to have cats even if people didn't encourage them.

With the COTS technology of cat diapers I think they could have a pet cat on the ISS but they don't want the risk that it goes wrong and they'd have to put it down.
(Neo)Vim starts up much faster than every IDE, takes up way less RAM, doesn't fill half your screen with buttons and toolbars, allows powerful modal editing with completely customizable keybindings, is very programmable, and can be used on pretty much anything that has a screen, including a phone.