skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote work means potentially a global work market, beyond borders, instead of a local one. So for certain jobs surely the risk is very real: if you are a call center operator and you live in the west you are surely far more expensive than an equally skilled call center operator who happen to be fluent enough in your language from for instance Tajikistan, so IF cross-borders hiring have no carefully written norms for many jobs they will result in a nightmare competition, at least for those who come from/happen to be in the richest part of the world where cost of living and so relevant wages are far higher than elsewhere.

That's however a complex passage we need and we need to handle at a Democratic social level because on one side we can't have some parts of the world hyper developed respect of some others, every time there is a big wide gap between rich and poor, at any level, there are social issues. So the trick is piloting the new globalized society in a slow and controlled transition instead of a sudden "great reset". The former help anybody, the latter just very few against anybody.

Seeing actual populations I think we will get the latter though, having demolished the little culture we have accumulated and spread after French Revolution, with two+ centuries of social movements most of the people act as Lebonian's flocks not as intelligent persons. In that case for those who can't be in the little rich élite or needed by them because of rare high skills the sole hope is remain as aside as possible to try circumnavigating the storm with the little damage possible. Igniting a new Revolution is not for now, time will probably be ready in a relatively near (5-8 years perhaps 10) future but certainly not now.

On contrary this is a time where we can really discuss about a new society where eligible job for WFH will be done from home to ensure better living to many people and similarly better services to everybody and that part seems to be completely ignored by most, preferring talking about disasters or opportunities like "the decision is not from us, it's pointless discussing what can or can't be done"...
Game to Intuitively Grok Kelly Criterion and Gambler's Ruin
> For common stuff, your local Craigslist equivalent is usually a better option

Which, funnily enough, is eBay Kleinanzeigen (literally: eBay classifieds) here in Germany.
Very neat! Less hacky than I expected. It looks like it all just reads in the ELF file, makes the change to the ELF data structures in memory and then writes back out a new ELF file?
That's not quite the order it happened, though:

1) Someone makes a platform, it's big and successful.

2) Private companies (banks, taxi services, streaming providers, education platforms) decide to only make apps for said platform, because the potential market of customers using anything else is too small to justify any business investment.

3) State says platform is so dominant apps are only on said platform and there's no choice - must be regulated.

4) State follows the same practices as private companies when making its own apps, for the same reasons as the private companies.
scifi as a whole has very prescient moments, although it benefits from making varied, scattered explorations rather than a single prediction of truth.
Unless there is a nuclear apocalypse and society regresses, there is absolutely no way a larger % of people on earth will eat animals they raise themselves in 100 years.
Gosh, never look at C. You'd break ribs.
> I went out and bought this as it was the cheapest bluetooth controller I could get on a same-day notice and boy I'm not happy with the quality results

Man buys cheapest product, is surprised by its lack of quality.
I find the idea of "varying the UI" to be way far form the ethical ethical dilemma presented.
I am talking about the split between West Pakistan and East Pakistan (Bangladesh). My point is that the Idea that Pakistan could be a united country based on a common religion failed based on the fact that the Bengalis found their Bengali identity more important than their religious identity.
The lessons of this article are also frighteningly true for software...
One of those is not like the other. JavaScript and TypeScript are almost interoperable. You don't have to relearn the semantics of the language to use a JavaScript library in TypeScript. It's is an extremely light superset compared to Clojure, Scala, Elixir, Kotlin, etc.
And then what? Is Apple going to receive the error log and dispatch a technician to your house to fix it?

In my experience sending crash data to software companies has never resulted in my satisfaction, nor has using some 'wizard' to diagnose an error. As alluded to above these systems are just not smart enough to actually know what's wrong. If the original programmers could create a fully automated flow to repair all error conditions then why bother notifying the user at all?
Is there a better way to build cute little canvas or browser games?
I would love to take all your money, put you back to living paycheck to paycheck and see how 'lazy' you get after the daily struggle to house and feed yourself with no way to get ahead and no light at the end of the tunnel.

It's insensitive, out of touch people like you that make it hell to be a front line worker.
“You believe in democracy, you dumb liberal” isn’t the huge own you think it is.
Creators are making so much money, we should not suffer poor user experience out of sympathy. Has anyone run the math as to how much these ppl make? Hint: a lot. CPMs are crazy high, in addition to product placement.

IMHO, in-video ads are worse than the usual ads, because they subversive and break the flow. When I'm watching a math video I don't want to hear about how Euler could have used a VPN.
It didn't read like a Twitter 37/355 thread, but it didn't sound a bit old-fashioned to me — unless reasonably formal English is hopelessly out-of-date now.
I continue to admit it’s a marvel of engineering. There are many videos uploaded every minute and the fact that they’re able to serve it to so many users continues to blow my mind.

Though I don’t think I have a specific standard, I’d have to think about it. “I’ll Know it When I See It” has historically been my personal standard.
> What's the alternative? SMS 2FA is abysmal.

There are cross platform MFA solutions that could be supported. Your guess is as good as mine as to why banks don't support them.
Yeah, I'm 2 years into my new career as a software engineer after 20 years of working in restaurants and couldn't be happier, for pretty much all of the reasons explained in this piece. I can say will 100% absolute certainty that I do not want to be a chef. People love the idea of these types of jobs, but half of them wouldn't last a month doing the actual work and the other half wouldn't put up with the lack of income
Sooo, “fetus” is a word dangerous enough that it requires a 350 word explainer article to accompany it?
I use a lot of rechargeable AAAs and AAs. For AAA, 1100mAh are pretty good, which almost up to the ~1250mAh of an Energizer alkaline. For AA, there are 2800mAh rechargeables available, which is on par with an Energizer alkaline.
Millions of covid relief dollars sent to states just to be vacuumed up into poorly funded city and state pensions.
Typescript requires an intermediate step though.

We had the Typescript vs JS debate when starting out with pianojacq.com and I was pretty strongly committed to doing it in plain JS and not to have any tooling dependencies or build step. Which I think is the one thing that makes JS at least moderately interesting: that it is a language that in theory does not require any tooling beyond the browser. Of course, the day Typescript is supported natively by the browsers that argument will die. But for now that does not seem to be the case.
Well as seen first-hand in some post-communists countries, many politicians do plan long-term - but not in a way you'd wish. They plan to build themselves into everything and suck profits from every money vein that country has. That's long-term planning too and it's happening as we speak. So yes I'm here with you, incumbents, hopefully real and not only front-ends, are still the only way we have to push for change.
This is what boggles my mind. My parents that worked government jobs, both worked in a union, both on pensions, both with state sponsored medical care, and on socialized health care now after they retired; they are both Republican conservatives.
Wondering out loud - with non-profits, the IRS can enforce that status by forcing them to spend if they have too much money saved. Am I getting this correct?

What about forcing hospitals to spend on staff if they are too profitable?

I’m being purposefully vague to fill in the holes with discussion.

Feel free to throw tomatoes at me if it’s a dumb idea. I’ve had dumber.
Scala Macros vs. Rust Macros
Which right is higher up on the hierarchy? Content creators' right to serve me adds, or my right to decide what software to run/not run on my general purpose computer. I know what I would answer to that.
This is totally logical, and extremely unsettling.
Apples and oranges comparison. How many of those breaches were from people who stored their keys safely and didn't interact with smart contracts? That's something a person is able to do. Guaranteeing your fiat is safe in some places is simply impossible.
Glitch (https://glitch.com) is the closest thing I can think of right now.
Took me forever to realize that's what I actually was, when I wasn't.
I have a special hatred for the ads which stick an additional 5 second outro after their (false) progress timer reaches 0:00

It's lying. Trying to be unpredictable to prevent you from being able to unconsciously skip ads is one thing, but lying is unforgivable.
Because the U.S. abortion debate is currently a huge news story and the NYT doesn't want Wordle to be seen as entwined in current events.
Housing supply is incredibly low and fiercely competitive, some people I've personally spoken to literally had no other choice but to "rent a hallway".
It's an excellent analogy: The triumph of beancounters turns out to be brittle and costly when, in this case track maintenance, unprofitable but necessary activities and capex are reduced. "It worked fine this quarter!"
Isn't it more that if corrupt people aren't held accountable, so too the government is corrupt - or something like that?

Regulatory capture/policy capture by for-profit industrial complexes seems never ending, each major industry taking its turn at extracting wealth - which wouldn't be so much of a problem if individuals weren't left behind or extracted enough to suffocate them towards death.
Elixir was a gateway to Erlang for me. I hadn't heard of Erlang before I started writing in Elixir, but all the discussion of why Elixir was so great revolved around Erlang and the BEAM. This lead me to Joe's distributed systems thesis and really changed how I approach writing code.

The syntax takes a bit of getting used to, but I generally prefer the language. I haven't found anything that's a nice to work with for web app development in Erlang, though; I do think the tooling around Phoenix is nicely polished.
France also has a new initiative to replace the old SSO for all gov services (FranceConnect) with a new system called France Identité, that also seems dependent on smartphone apps, so Google/Apple:

https://france-identite.gouv.fr/

The old system worked fine and will still be necessary for the people who can't enroll in the new one, like resident foreigners who won't get a French biometric ID card.

One has to dig a bit, but as the proposed workflows use a smartphone app, it looks to be dependent on the Android/iOS platforms.
I’ve worked in the kitchen, not as long as you!, and yeah it’s not easy. Most obnoxious part is service staff tend to make more money.
> For myself: I believe it is Wall Street greed and investor demands. 16,450-foot trains weighing more than 42 million pounds are gratifying someone with power. Someone who wants it all and more. I believe it is those few, who live nowhere near here, who own their own private islands and jets. This is far removed from laissez faire economics, or the neo liberal model, coming out of the 1980s.

This was an incredibly common economic outlook coming from the Midwest and South. It's both tickling and sad to hear. I do love the way this was written, and those PSR trains sound like a nightmare. When I worked the network engineering desk for a Class I railroad we took derails seriously to the extent of pulling anyone who made changes to infra to the dispatchers themselves. That wasn't that long ago either but it sounds like a lot has changed.
That makes sense, thank you for clarifying.
> “Pure” does definitely connote that you’ll be able to read all the code in the given language.

I'm not sure where the line here is supposed to be drawn, but I don't personally think looking at asm.js code is significantly harder than looking at something like compiled Typescript, and certainly it's not any harder than looking at minified Javascript. If I'm going to be debugging code, they're both going to be annoying to look at. We're quibbling over definitions so I'm not going to say that you're wrong, "pure" can mean whatever you want it to mean. I'm just saying that most JS devs I know consider (for example) JSX code to still be pure Javascript when it's compiled.

It seems a little odd to me to look at something where every single line of code is Javascript, being run entirely in a Javascript interpreter, and say that isn't actually completely real Javascript, but if the programming circles you frequent are different and think about this differently, :shrug: more power to you.

> But - want to read some awesome high performance image processing algorithms in JS? Not this.

I also wouldn't necessarily assume that every Open Source program written in only JS without compilation is going to be well suited for reading or learning from. But again, sort of splitting straws here -- my only concern is that you're probably going to be disappointed a lot if you equate "pure Javascript" with "readable".
Having spent some time living the expat life in Japan its amazing how well Gibson captures the feeling of the whole experience, while making up the actual facts. Nothing I have read comes closer than Neuromancer in capturing the feeling of being thrust into an unknown environment and trying to survive on minimal resources.
Thank you for posting this. I always enjoy getting to peruse another person's bookshelves, and this is the next best thing.

I had a favorite professor in college who taught a couple courses about modern Catholic literature. He had to move in a hurry, and donated all of his books to his favorite local bookstore. If only I had heard that he did so earlier, I would have gone straight there and asked to see them.
It's usually a false correlation as gender "equality" is usually not a cause of anything, it is the luxury of excess that allows a society to afford it. There hasn't been a modern test of where a society hasn't been forced to pretend at equality to see where the outcomes would end up, the results may even be better as productivity wouldn't be undermined to support an ideology.
I hear this argument and look at every authoritarian dictator that has been in power their whole life but they all seem to lead shitty governments not good ones.

I call bs.

I think most people are bad at leading and an easy way to get rid of bad leaders results in better governance than a bad leader that has life long power.
> I had to use libraries that had not been ported over to Elixir yet so I had to deal with Erlang

Why do these libraries need to be ported to Elixir at all?
In my experience (7+ years of using Clojure) this is caused by the misunderstanding of what Clojure actually is: it's a LISP designed for the JVM, you cannot escape the host and pretend it's not there.
In return you get access to one of the biggest software ecosystems and pull any library from Maven Central etc.

Coming from Ruby/Go/JS to Clojure was definitely harder than I expected but rather than fighting "this stupid JVM" it made more sense to buy into the idea of how Clojure is built and used.
The older I get the more I think that democracy is a moving target. These policies can be good, bad or whatever. Motivations and people's voting choices vary wildly. I think of it more as "would I like to try longer elected terms?" more than believing one or the other is better.
Reminds me of this blog post:

"The Most Object-Oriented Language" => https://blog.noredink.com/post/142689001488/the-most-object-...
Kids are naturally inclined to learn new things. They naturally want to explore. If you aid them in this exploration of the world, it’s not forcing education on them. My kids want to read labels and things in stores, malls and restaurants. They want to read numbers. I don’t force them. I never have. Each time they ask me a question I answer it no matter how tired I am.

I promise you every kid will have some subject they like. They will also ask questions. If they’re encouraged, they’ll want to learn more even if they’re 3 years old.

My kids learned about friction because I told my wife our car brakes need to be done. Kids asked what that means and I told them how brakes work. Then they asked why brakes make a car stop and that’s how they learned about friction. Next few days they point all things with low and high friction (socks on wooden floor was especially fun). One day the 6y casually mentioned to his friend that his cycle was slow because of friction and needed more grease.

Answer questions and get them curios. I promise you they won’t even realize it’s “teaching” and they’ll love it.
I get the sentiment but I'm really curious to ask. What happens if someone wants to go into politics to make positive change for a community and it's bogged down with that same process, procedures, and other bullshit?
Ways to reclaim unused page-table pages
Step one: Stop using the word Jungle.
Giant sea bugs transitioned from inedible garbage to inaccessible delicacy in less than a century.

I was recently comparing cricket flour to various plant derived high protein powders though, and I agree, I couldn’t see the point. They seemed almost identical. Maybe there’s there’s some difference in types of protein that’s not accounted for in the big numbers?
> I increasingly subscribe to the thesis that many designers and design teams design primarily in an effort to impress other designers. They don't have to use the things. They often don't even really care if the things work at all. They care that other designers - their artistic peers - are impressed.

I've been a designer for about a long time. I've done many dumb things, but never that. I have definitely had the irrational thought that "users will think I'm a bad designer if we ship this product", but that's usually because it was a bad product that shouldn't have been shipped.

I've never gotten the sense that my peers do this either. I have definitely gotten the sense that some designers want their designs to impress Apple, and Steve Jobs specifically.

Everybody wants to impress their peers to some degree, but to be clear, that usually translates into just doing a really good job. I've never had another designer show me something and say "Nobody else will appreciate this, but I thought you'd like it".
> Someone who is wholly uninterested in the credential theory of epistemology.

So nobody qualified to answer this question? That's what I expected. In medicine more so than in nearly any other field, qualified experts should be the only people to express opinions publicly, considering the potential negative outcomes.

You really shouldn't be giving medical advice on any website, Reddit or Hacker News. This is on the same level as anti-vaxx shit, I hope you realize.

This, more than Reddit, is a place where qualified people discuss topics. If you'd like to wildly speculate, that sounds more like what happens on Reddit.
And yet if you look at the state of the art in surveillance for most governments in the world (buying tools from NSO Group) it seems that many governments have given up on mass surveillance of messages in transit, and instead are focusing their resources on targeted surveillance through device hacking.

So some power has clearly been given up. Not willingly. But still it has.

And in the Snowden leaks you see that even the NSA had problems with tools like Tor and Tails.

Granted that was a decade ago, but there's no reason to believe that work by privacy activists to promote adoption of practices like SSL and START-TLS, or tools like Signal, has not had some impact on the cost and availability of mass surveillance to governments.
All that's sticking out to me is a lack of contractions and overly formal or dramatic text, but probably because it's written as a letter to someone.
Combing 10k Hacker News Posts with Text Clustering
great - somewhere in your game plan, please recognize that not everyone is going to use opaque, trained-elsewhere binary blobs as base models; nor does everyone require CNN/DeepLearning to do useful, real research or invention. Things like python skLearn, an internally built supervised model or a few hundred of them; analysis runs that are done without logging into a cloud with AUTH linked to some records behind a closed glass door somewhere..

If you are FAIR, then you let people try things without being attached to you. agree?
More like everyone in the city thinks they're the main character.
>> I think that best government is least government

Ok. That is literally an extremist view. It is too easy a mantra. Exactly how little government would be too small? I personally think the IRS should be funded, so to the FBI, EPA and military. Other people think otherwise and would be happy to do away with all those agencies. But to say that less is always better is to wash one's hands of the conversation, to abandon the hard task of working out exactly which services society wants and needs from government. Less always seems better until you actually need something.
I was much more offended by the abuse of commas.
So if I understand this correctly, shorter trains are better because when they derail they take down less cars? Or are super long trains harder to control in varied terrain? Both probably.
This is just a result of your own context and background. If you were an Erlang developer then Elixir would come naturally. If you started to learn Python as an Erlang developer and had to understand its C implementation details (via SciPy etc, which operations are implemented in Python or natively) you would make this same post in reverse. But you're taking that for granted because you are already coming from that position.
If we can create twitter circles based on URLs, or via an API, couldn't we use this as a type of Disqus/commenting platform on websites?

Or maybe an embedded twitter circle or something that is private to only those who loaded the embed? I don't know, just brainstorming but I think Twitter could definitely take on/over Disqus with something like this.
I get the feeling the person that wrote it is not of the generation many here are.

I really enjoyed the style personally (millennial...).
> I think this is special pleading.

This is an emotional, low-quality response to what is a measured comment actually providing nuance to the discussion.

The parent poster is very clearly not saying that leaving off the power switch leads to a better experience for the consumer - they're just giving legit reasons that a design/marketing team might use to justify doing so. Please don't try to cheapen the knowledge that they provided like this.