skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China overtaking the US seems a lot more likely based on sheer numbers. China’s population is over 4x larger than that of the US. So China “just” needs to reach a GDP per capita of 25% to have a larger economy than the US. This metric has been growing rapidly in the past decade or two and from a rough search, seems to currently stand around 17-18% of the US’s figure.

Of course GDP isn’t the only factor in world power status, but it sure is a big one.

Compared to the US, China also has a far larger labor force, a greater ability to manufacture things, and greater government control over its population.

Access to natural resources is similar for many things, less for some (like oil and gas) but greater for others (like rare earth minerals).
Sometimes you don’t have a choice to do the right/safe thing.

I signed multiple commercial leases in lower Manhattan, and had serious negotiations with ~10 landlords through our agent - the clause for personal/3rd party guarantee was non-negotiable for every single one.

This company had WeWork as a major investor, and I’m sure they had good advisors all around, but Manhattan real estate is a special beast.
Doesn’t it do something weird with the sessions/tabs as well? You write a command in one session, change to another session, grep for it and nothing gets found
There is plenty of competition from Korea, Japan, Europe, etc. We don't need to have network and telecom equipment from our military enemies at the core of our communications infrastructure.
Providing Humans with Interpretable Algorithms May Lead to Lower Performance
As all of these posts state, it's likely the wrong move. Of course, you could always get the employee to 'voluntarily' accept being let go for an alternative lumpsum or some other incentive. It's not the most moral of moves but if you can convince them to agree and sign something that changes the original contract...thats kind of on them.
1.0 broke making the cursor not blinking in Vim mode. Is it possible to fix it back?

Specifically this CSS snippet stopped working:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-to-stop-the-blinking-cursor-...
When Clegg left office, however, it had not.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned EditPad Pro:

https://www.editpadpro.com/

It’s old (and old fashioned) but still updated, very fast, and designed for convenience. It has syntax highlighting.

VS Code has long since replaced it for me, but if I were looking for something faster to go with VS Code in Windows, I’d put it on the list.
How could they? It would be indistinguishable from a documentary at this point.
The guild cannot allow this type of tech to exist and foster lest it become normalized and somehow eventually displace thier exclusivity for certified documents. If I was a surveyor I would want this guy crushed.
Is this based on your personal observations or can you back that up with any meaningful statistic?

I know both people that get the latest iPhone every year, and people still on a Nokia 3310(-equivalent), but the latter are in the vast minority in my circle of friends, also in Europe.

Personally, I've been upgrading every 2-3 years (not on a contract), and the phone was never broken.
Just need to point the obvious out that being 'accused of' accepting a bride is not the same as the crime. Too many people commenting are taking the bribe accusation to be true.
I doubt many users will host their own bridge. Also at least for XMPP I was not able to encrypt messages to Matrix users end-to-end or bridge-to-end, so I'd still recommend using XMPP with E2EE directly.
It always was - that’s the beauty of it.
I read this story and… I’m actually terrified that our government has just signed-off on drugs like this. Between that, and the FDA not catching Theranos, it does make me afraid of the FDA’s competence or judgement for allowing such things so loosely.
>Outer Wilds

Thanks! That looks like the kind of game I'd enjoy!
> One thing I didn’t like about UO was the ability to travel instantly from one place to another through the use of runes.

I think in concept that's a good idea and would create some interesting situations, but I imagine it would get super old real quick. There were already people taking advantage of those ideas, i.e. PKs hanging out at the cross roads, and vendor shops being placed in high traffic locations. When you started the game, assuming you didn't have some IRL benefactor gift you stuff beyond your level/ability, you usually did start as a pedestrian having to walk and use moongates to travel. I personally thought filling your first runebook was a rite of passage and gave me a sense of accomplishment.
On your note about sending signals to employees, as a candidate, if I was applying to a 10-person company with a formal PIP process, I would run for the hills. The signal that sends is that you're micromanaging and have a very CYA-culture. You're way too small to have a formal PIP process and under a dozen employees.

You're right that vesting is part of compensation, and completely wrong that this would be getting compensation denied after the fact. He's not vested yet. If he's fired today, he's not due anything.

Even among most wrongful termination suits this would be laughable.
For art performance in browsers, you may want to check hydra synth:

https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

Here is the live coding performance I did for the Algorave 10th birthday online 24h streaming where I used Hydra for visuals:

https://youtu.be/atoTujbQdwI?t=317
>> If you leave your bubble a little you'll learn a lot

I'm not in that much of a bubble. I'm currently working at a company that makes 60-120kW DC fast chargers. I've talked to many people who actually own EVs. I get that the "home backup" use case is a bonus, but it's not a key selling point and it costs more. Also, the utilities want to use your car for "grid support" by making it bi-directional which is different than using your car as a backup when the power goes out. For backup you need the ability to disconnect the house from the grid while powering it from the car, and that's additional cost that people will balk at.
Is this for Russian FSB monitoring? the post is very very low information. Who doesn't post how they got to seeing the leak in wireshark? Even twitter has enough characters for that.
> you hate your life for a day. Maybe a week.

I'm not sure why I would? TypeScript would still lead me straight to the problem via type incompatibilities; it just wouldn't perform the fix for me automatically in this one specific case
Since this makes about as much sense as designer identification cards, instead of debating practical issues as reasons why this would pass I would start cynically by checking for financial connections between Reviver and California government.

Seeing as Reviver started in 2009 and were allowed testing from 2013 that didn't start until 2017, I'd check the connections of pols or administrators who left in 2012 or 2014, too. That four-year gap makes me think that they got state permission before they had anything resembling a product, so it might have needed to be done before someone in particular left their influential job.

edit:

The press release can't stop mentioning politicians, and a list of groups who would definitely endorse anything for a check pretending that this is important innovation.

https://reviver.com/press-release/reviver-announces-passage-...

> Neville Boston, Reviver Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer [said] “We’d like to thank Assemblymember Lori. D. Wilson for spearheading this important bill, as well as our previous authors and many diverse partners for their help in reaching this exciting milestone. We are especially grateful to the California Black Chamber of Commerce, California New Car Dealers Association, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and the California Police Chiefs Association. Without their unwavering support, this wouldn’t be possible.”

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> “I am honored and humbled to see AB 984 signed into law,” said Assemblymember Lori D. Wilson (D-Suisun City). “As a member of the California Legislative Technology and Innovation Caucus, I am thrilled to build upon the past successes of the Legislature that first implemented this program. AB 984 strikes a necessary balance between innovation and privacy while digitizing the only thing on our cars today that remain antiquated, license plates.”

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> “In 2013, I authored SB 806, a bill that authorized an alternative device pilot program with the CA DMV and sparked the evolution of the digital license plate, ” said Senator Ben Hueso. “AB 984 enroots a successful pilot program and exemplifies California’s leadership in technological innovation, while maintaining the integrity of thoughtful security, privacy, and convenience.”

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> “California is home to the rapidly growing technology of digital license plates,” said Majority Leader Emeritus Hertzberg. “California has always been a place for innovation and opportunity, and AB 984 shows how we can use technology to improve compliance, offer convenience, and develop industry standards.”

edit:

More on Ben Hueso - this seems like literally the first thing he did when he got into office, which was 2013. The other thing he's famous for is: "In March 2017 Hueso was the lead author of the controversial California Senate Bill 649 which would have removed a city's ability to control where the 5G cell service antennas are placed, transferring that power to the state." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hueso
Java Lambda Expressions and Backward Compatibility
Those GDC postmortem talks have some absolute gems.
4) used their free time to burn cities down
> The UK already had same sex marriage, it was just not called marriage.

Sure, but marriage isn't just about legals/financials. Socially/culturally, civil partnerships are a "runner up prize" compared to marriage; e.g. the recent extension of civil partnership to opposite-sex couples didn't get much fanfare.

In any case, I was specifically referring to the 2013 act, rather than the broader notion of marriage/partnerships/etc. It's the inconsistency which frustrates me, to see people thanking Cameron/Tories for delivering same-sex marriage (i.e. the 2013 act) in one breath, and blaming Clegg/LibDems for delivering tuition rises in the next.

> And the only reason it passed was because of Labour

Absolutely. The LibDems couldn't do much to swing votes themselves; hence the back-room negotiations, whips, etc.

> And 10% of Lib dems did too.

True, but that's still just 4 MPs; so I'm not sure it's too statistically insightful. Still disappointing considering the whole point of liberal philosophy is personal freedom (unfortunately some like to interpret "personal" as "the corporation I own/represent", and "freedom" to include freedom to pollute, freedom to choose my own health & safety levels, etc.)

> In exchange for not supporting a bill that didn't really do what was claimed, the tories got total support for all of their economic and social policies.

To be clear, the bill which did that would be the AV referendum (which LibDems most cared about). Also, some Tory policies were blocked by the LibDems, e.g. the Digital Economy Bill.
I am using Tailscale + SMB on my mac and Infuse on my iPad. Works perfectly.
>> You know what's heavier than any plug I've seen? Gas pump nozzles.

You haven't tried some of the level 2 CSS charger plugs.
I'm replying to the attitude in the comment I'm replying to, if I meant this as a comment on GNU's approach to fgrep/egrep, it would have been top level.

The original deprecation seems ... petty? Not sure why it's a priority, but whatever.

I know there are scripts still in use that I wrote more than a decade ago that might do weird things now and I wish the maintainers best of luck.
I simply don’t believe that sufficient safeguards have been put in place to avoid violating licenses or leaking information. You can choose to, but a bet that there is “zero chance” is pretty foolish.

I’ve bookmarked this comment for the inevitable.
Depends on if the lifetime earnings decrease was big enough to cover the myriad of other negative things having a unionized workforce does to a business, particularly in the ability to remove junk employees and to pivot when a new and better way of doing things for the current business line or a better line emerges.
I'd like to see this 40 acres with free cattle for 20k. Your argument is fine, no need to embellish.
Google's Container Query Polyfill
I don't have sources on hand but iirc, previous trials of the sort have actually been failures. And I'm not talking about the inflation it would obviously cause, but just the social impact.

Basically there is usually no improvement in the situation of anyone, and just more people that decide to do nothing.
>> The current CCS standard is 500 amps and up to 1000 volts, so in principle up to 500 kW.

Yes, with liquid cooled cables, which are even heavier.
Oooh thank you!
Some are quite hilarious, like a plane with impossible shape and pieces of wings detached from the rest (see https://thiswallpaperdoesnotexist.org/i/111-abstract-grey-ho...)...

By the way, too bad the resolution is so low... maybe good on a phone but definitely not a on a 4K or even Full HD screen on a PC...
I've always thought it'd be neat to use something like this in addition to the broadway[1] backend for GTK+ to stream X11 GUI apps directly and independently for each user.

[1] https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html
What would engage everyone a bit more in how the country runs is to let everyone have a say in how the country runs.

You can't expect people to “engage” when they just get ignored and politicians do what they want anyway.
What is the employee's side of the story? Why would somebody close to vesting intentionally risk that? Maybe he's experiencing burnout or health issues? Maybe he's having a rough family situation of some kind and needs a friendly word?
> most expensive part of gadgets nearly everyone has

I think that's where your assumption might be flawed. It's the most expensive part for PREMIUM offerings on the market that command high price points (e.g. iPhone, AMD Server chips, etc).

The everyday person, globally, can't afford such luxury items.
sometimes. in construction and many other skilled trades, a union apprenticeship will cost less and get you earning more than a bachelors. my interpretation is that degrees are only the best option when your target industry doesn't have good standards for training/mentorship
> Poland and the UK are right wing.

I don't know details about UK, but Polish labor laws are quite strong (in terms of protecting the workers), which is no suprise, given that they were created in 1974, i.e. under the Communist regime (similar for public housing, education, tenant protection etc. BTW - all written by communists and not changed much since). I wouldn't be surprised if they were stronger than in Denmark or Sweden, where the policies (from what I've read) focus on helping the unemployed/laid off, but don't meddle into the employee-employer relationship as much.
Not necessarily. There are decidable theories for which there exist algorithms that can prove or disprove any statement, but run in super-exponential time.
Core US Inflation Rises to 40-Year High, Securing Big Fed Hike
May I ask some video materials which show creating of Obsidian tree with really rich using of its abilities?
Can you not run emacs as a user-level session service on windows like on standard linux, where the startup time cost only occurs once at session logon, and then all future emacs windows are just "clients", and start up near instantly?
I suspect this may be part of the case; though doesn't the UK have some master list of companies? Maybe that could be searched.

In my local experience in the US Barnes and Noble and Borders killed all the non-second-hand bookstores, and then Amazon mostly killed those, but some of the second hand bookstores have survived.

Also, do you count Goodwill as a "second hand bookstore"? They have usually two or three aisles of books, after all.
That makes sense. It is kinda like fireworks stores over state borders in a way. Technically it’s legal, but everyone knows.
From the linked article

https://blog.eink.com/reviver-creates-smart-license-plate-wi...
Glad to see all the new regex functions. I recently moved a database from AWS Redshift to Postgres on Heroku and was shocked to see how many functions like regexp_substr() weren't available. Wish this had come sooner so I didn't have to rewrite so many of my queries.
" there's a difference between avoiding fossilization and the kind of minimal, mathematical purity that we see GNU Grep trying to impose here. Unix has long since passed the point where it had that sort of minimalism in the standard commands. Modern Unix has all sorts of duplications and flourishes that aren't strictly necessary, and for good reasons."

Well, really, the type of purity many of the original Unix hands desired was that each tool did one thing well, not that one tool did everything well. Some folks would say that putting the -E and -F flags in GNU grep in the first place instead of using egrep and fgrep was the wrong direction. Now GNU is wanting to further consolidate the hydra.
# unalias grep && unalias egrep && cp "$(command -v grep)" "$(dirname "$(command -v grep)")/egrep"

1 line. Fixed. Done. Btw needs to be run as root ( as signified by # prompt above)

EDIT: see other comment in this thread from FreeBSD user that on FreeBSD grep, egrep, and fgrep are all separate but identical (copies) of the same file. So this isn’t quite such a silly solution as some might think.
Isn’t that essentially semantic versioning plus version ranges ala npm?
Because raising prices doesn't necessarily increase revenue.
OpenRCT2 v0.4.2 Released
This is so cool! thanks for sharing it Olivia

I had found this other cool project of yours from 2007 recently when looking into making generative music from generative art done with stable diffusion. Great stuff too!

https://github.com/ojack/PIXELSYNTH

https://ojack.xyz/PIXELSYNTH/
Noob trying to land remote job. Any tips from seniors?
Hi I am halfway through odin project and I am planning ahead to look for remote positions once I am done, as I have to take care of my mum. The problem is I don't have any internships currently in my cv as I am not actually from the computer background. Please suggest me anything that can Improve my chance
Wow, lots of responses, thank you everyone! I will have a look through this rather extensive list of options :D
I agree with you with the "Engineer who doesn't know how people work" part of my brain. But the "Has been around people for more than 25 minutes" part of my brain disagrees.

It's not about what the company is legally allowed to do based on employment contracts, it's about the signal that gets sent to other employees, and the signal that gets sent to prospects and candidates. Rumors are a thing, even (especially?) at very small companies, and when someone is applying for a job here three years from now and hears a new guy got fired right before his vesting cliff, that's going to cause problems.

If he's truly a bad employee the safest route is fire him today to prevent additional poor work product from being introduced, but give him the initial vest. Then, send a message to the rest of the company explaining that he was let go, but you gave him his full vest because it's so close to the time and you didn't want the appearance of that being the decision. Easy, clean, no legal challenge surface area, and as long as the employees believe you, no damage to reputation or morale.

A single employee's initial vest should not be enough to materially impact the finances of a startup even at seed stage.
I'll ask - what's your startup? As an American living in Europe who really doesn't want to move back this is disheartening to say the least. Moving here did basically mean taking a sledgehammer to my career, admittedly.
I'd prefer to qualify that a bit:

When you can get Nix to do what you want, it's wonderful.

When you hit a barrier (e.g. a program you want isn't packaged), that's when Nix is very hard to use, and requires learning.
In the state I'm in, they discontinued them several years ago. Of course, they equipped (state) police with license plate scanners, so they can check the cloud for how up to date your registration is.
Vest them, then let them go. It isn't worth the potential noise it will generate in the fallout.

As an employer, it is never a bad thing to look a little generous (I said a little) when you terminate someone. This eliminates (or at least lessens) potential liabilities, as with severance pay.
Any time a piece of software abstracts a repeatable pattern, that’s a ‘framework’.

All a framework means is that there is a coherent, repeatable model for implementing the building blocks out of which the application is built.

Even a simple command line program with hardly any functionality soon runs into the issue of having more than one command-line argument or environment-variable based configs. And a sensible, maintainable approach to this involves someone spotting ‘hey! We can abstract the bits that all our command-line parameters have in common so processing them all is consistent’. And then you have a framework. Because now ‘adding a new command line parameter’ has to be done in the standard way - you register a validator here and you add a help string there.

Building something without a framework is a rejection of patterns, or of the value of establishing repeatable structure.

Software that facilitates encapsulating chunks of functionality as standard building blocks is more maintainable over time. It’s much easier to work on a system where you can take a user story and interpret it as ‘okay, so we can implement that as a new Task type and then add a Tool to the Tool Library that lets users who have the right Role create a Schedule to run the task’. any time a system is sufficiently structured that you can think that way, it’s essentially become a framework.

Frameworks can be lightweight or heavyweight, sure, and they can be open to being overstepped or closed - and choosing when to prefer to structure your framework to make it easier or harder for someone to step outside the lines is just an engineering choice like any other.
Let them go, but as part of their severance package, let them vest.
On the other hand sometimes people need to be in the meeting but for the next 15 min the conversation might be about something unrelated to them; I’m happy they can multitask during that time without distrActing the rest of the team. That would not be possible in VR
Were the Wright brothers first? Not in Brazil
On the linked blog.eink.com page, they list the cost as $20/month for 48 months.
Accepting bribes to shut down accounts linked to a particular company's competitors seems plenty scummy to me.
never mind, took a bit of googling, but I found some info on it.[0]

Christ that's in bad taste.

EDIT: wanted to add this quote from [1]: "On 5 May, David Blunkett, one of the Labour Party former-government ministers who had supported the 'No' campaign, admitted that the £250 million figure used by the 'No' campaign had been fabricated, and that the 'No' campaign had knowingly lied about the figure and other claims during the campaign."

So it does seem like it was a testing ground for the brexit busses. Just make a bunch of stuff up.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/25/no-to-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternativ...
Because it's the 365 subscription. The standalone versions don't do that. You just activate once the same as the old versions.
China just out subsidized all the competitors, so by removing them from the market, the market will realign and new production will come online.
But then in this case the spiker is still spiking, the blocker is still jumping, no? There is no particular room for alternative states for competent players?
Thanks! It works if I start an xorg session, at least.
What? No Blazor support? No mobile support? (Joke)

I think console UIs are good for a sweet spot where you need a "just good enough" UI that you can whip up in a few minutes. I hope this meets the sweet spot.