skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like there's a very obvious answer that covers the majority of the answer and everything else is quibbling over the small remaining sliver.

The UK and other western countries were a global power because colonialism. Then WW2 happened and the US was mostly unscathed while also prioritizing long term growth through a stable democracy which led to high quality of life until the rest of the world caught up.

We can talk about immigration, austerity, trade policy, etc. But these will only move the needle slightly. The overwhelming advantages that these countries experienced won't happen again until there's another major disruption.
Yeah, I just made this as a fun proof-of-concept, I just figured that other people might also want to play around with it!
Why? Because they would prefer to keep running on the neverending promotion treadmill? I think a LOT of engineers would rather stay engineers if they could keep getting reasonable raises. The problem is that almost all companies make it impossible to keep getting raises past a certain point _without_ getting promoted.
Has anyone got this working in Electron?
Then write your own component that extends and removes the requirement. Until then, web tooling is better off explicitly acknowledging that accessibility is an explicit goal.
That last part could be said of most corporations. The difference is Apple has so far backed it up with concrete proof that they genuinely have at very least done something, even if its not as much as we'd all like.
> Doesn't it come out during the interview process if there's BS on the resume?

Oh yes. As the candidate this is also great when the interviewer says something like “It says here you’ve worked with x” and you go “I’m fairly certain that that wasn’t on there when I submitted the resume (to the recruiter), let me see that” and it turns out like the OP said, extra skill added in a different font.
I'm lowkey waiting to hear about Applet's other sister-ship, JDK

...implausible? Really?

Ha! You can't tell me you've never thought about what you'd name things if you were warped into the past and worked as a Swedish shipwright.

Like, it's just too tempting to troll 21st-century conspiracists with anachronistic ship names, of course it would be a thing you'd do.

Call this the 'anthwarpic principle' (no I don't care) and by 2022 epistemological standards, it's as likely to be real as anything else

OK, fine, downvote me, you cowards
Does Firefox support HEVC?

https://www.lambdatest.com/web-technologies/hevc-support-on-...

It appears not..
This is great, thanks! Fyi I think you have the numbers for the years reversed
Yeah, things are about to get worse. The newer generation wants equality of outcome and wealth (aka communism). They're enamored by income equality and climate which is just a complete subjectivism take over. You can do no little and you can always do more. We're here to shame you.

Asian countries have adopted what worked in the west: Capitalism and lifting people out of poverty at an unprecendented rate.

Those that complain about inequality are totally ok with not comparing themselves to someone in Bangladesh. To them, you look like a multi-millionaire. The hypocrisy is so blindingly bright, it is unbelievable.

None of the current zeitgeist has any reason, rationality and logic. It is subjectivism and post-modernism in its worst form. Biting off the hand that feeds them.
Bad ping when playing online videogames with people around the world.
> Middle mouse button click for any link.

Yes, and firefox configured to open windows, not tabs (!) Call me a luddite if you like but ctl-w and alt-tab are always to hand and better than any amount of new-fangled tabby nonsense IMNSHO...

Never thought of it as relevant to security before though.
This is pretty common in most large companies. Remember the mini-msft blog? This doesn't happen as much on product teams but in all the support functions which don't hire world class people like they do on software engg.

Basically as companies revenues grow, every cost center gets to put in a request to grow headcount. If you don't your colleagues will and you'll be looked down upon. then you take on shiny new non-essential projects and find ways to justify it. Launch it get promoted and leave. The next person comes in- decides it is crap- shuts it down and starts their own new project to reinvent the same thing . Org politics.
A concrete example of poor productivity in the UK would be that the country imported £10,000,000 worth of fax machines between 2012 and 2016. [1]

Assuming these fax machines are being used instead of PCs then one could imagine a worker being less productive than they otherwise would be.

[1] https://www.economist.com/britain/2017/11/09/what-fax-machin...
It is very important to note that in the state of New York, the trial court (the lowest level court) is called the Supreme Court. So while this ruling is notable, it is not the state’s highest court ruling on the matter. This ruling will be appealed by the government and likely reversed on appeal.
Other than what the article mentioned, HEVC also adds optimizations for 4K streaming.
Airpods is probably the worst example of a disposable product. Still rocking my day 1 Pro's, meanwhile all those cheap crappy budget ones from other companies will have already been in a landfill for a couple of years by now.
> A "heavy tweeter" is defined as someone who logs in to Twitter six or seven days a week and tweets about three to four times a week, the document said.

On any other platform that's basically just lurking.
Going to be a bad look to reverse this one.
They’re essentially both in beta, but for something like this, React needs a proving ground - hence it’s being used in Next’s beta functionality
Based on the number you're citing for the average British salary, you're citing pounds, not dollars

There's not much difference between pounds and dollars these days. 1 GBP = 1.14 USD
Launching a Stadia game was never truly one click for me. It always required several, and then you'd have to endure the same old load screens and splash screens and menus as any other platform. The load times should have been faster, and they should have had platform requirements to make it faster to jump into gameplay without nagivating menus after load. I heard them talk about deep links directly into gameplay but I never saw it, it must not have been implemented in many games. But I did see a bunch of Stadia account related clickthrough BS that added more clicks and more load time (and sometimes bugs) when all I wanted to do was play.

> It was also as easy to port games too as any Linux port would be

And nobody bothers to port to Linux either. It isn't trivial in many cases. And I believe Stadia wasn't just as easy because of a Vulkan requirement along with other platform integration and certification stuff. An unhappy medium of too many platform requirements to be trivial to port to, but not enough to actually make Stadia a better experience than other platforms.

> Online play was free

Only if you bought games at full price, trusting Google to run the service forever. Clearly a risky bet, and the risk was obvious to everybody at the time, not just in hindsight.

> more than 50 games in the subscription

The selection was not compelling compared to other platforms' subscriptions. If they had had a larger catalog to draw from, that could have helped.
Wow... That's good shit.
Well obviously it isn’t necessary to pay them ‘appropriately’ (as I assume you’re suggesting that many don’t. It may also be the case that the cost of losing a key employee times the expected number lost is less than the cost of paying them all enough that they’re paid ‘appropriately’).

But I think the more important question is: who are these key contributors? It’s perhaps easy to identify some of them, particularly those who are louder, and perhaps it is also possible to identify those who appear important but are, in some sense, bluffing. But there are also likely those who are key but whom the system for evaluation overlooks. It’s probably better for those people if they leave as they may find an employer who can better recognise their talents (and leverage them and pay them for it). I don’t think I’d do a great job at recognising such key people even among those I work closely with but maybe I’m just bad at that sort of thing.
Ok I see, sorry I forgot to clarify that I was talking about iOS and iPadOS for that statement
> Some state pension reduces the need to save for retirement

The US has a government pension. That is (part of) what "Social Security" taxes pay for.
Sounds like your solution here is that companies should stop making products all together...
Dollar amount. It’s a hit comparatively because anyone joining today would make 100s of thousands more for some roles and someone who took the hit over the last year can just go reset their stock elsewhere. Holding for tax reasons makes no sense for public companies. Vested shares count as standard income.
Why is this being done, when AV1 exists?

It's hard to see HEVC as anything else than a legal liability.
You either die a JavaScript fanboy, or you webdev long enough to see yourself walk away from the unending parade of needlessness.
I mean, isn't it the whole point of the app not to crash during an earthquake?
The thing online people hate is anyone trying to make the world better. This creates certain Schelling points. Take carbon neutrality, for instance. Google is operationally carbon neutral. So why don't they spend the extra dollar and become carbon negative? Because neutrality is one kind of Schelling point. It's a safe checkpoint. If they were $1 worth of carbon negative, it's better, but now the new Schelling point is they spend all of their excess into carbon negativity.

Anyway, lots of grumbling in the comments, but that is the nature of online fora. Presumably a CSAM scanning comment will make its way out here soon.
> I just wanna `script/build` or `yarn dev` and not think about it anymore.

Parcel might be a good fit for you: https://parceljs.org/
The argument that you were making (unless I misunderstood you) is that there are more important issues for the language than correctness or appealing to early adopters to which I made the remark that this attitude is steering me away from the language.

Zig is in a weird spot because it has a similar momentum behind it than some other languages I was exited about, it has even more hype (and is very hype driven with streams and everything) yet it has from my experience with it much more stability issues. And I assume some of this comes from a relay complex compile time system that is harder to implement rigorously than some other things.

I also have to say that I find these responses unnecessarily combative.
> Fiscal Year 2017: 23,200,000
> Fiscal Year 2021: 27,500,000

I think the numbers are swapped? Anyway, they've made a good progress.
Python is actually on the roadmap, it's next up. Is it something you are interested in? We are in the process of trialing our solution with one other company, I'd love to add you to our beta test if that was something you'd be interested in ?
Sure, but roughly 1/6th of the UK lives in London ...
>Most problems Google is trying to solve now outside their core competency and existing offerings are not, fundamentally, software engineering problems.

Their problems are mixed bag problems. First of their problems is lack of vision. No clear backlog/roadmap and UX vision of their products.

Second set of problems are software related problems as of technical debt, maintaining codebase of their software products and lack of understanding of how their algorithms actually work e.g ranking algorithms, recommendation algorithms etc.
As a former indie dev I took no issue with Apple taking a chunk of my sales. They litterally created tens of thousands of dollars of income for me for a handful of very basic utility apps.

Meanwhile over in the Google play store I didn't even break $100 for the exact same apps.
The median income in America is much higher than almost everywhere else in the developed world. It’s not just a small number of billionaires padding the gdp and pulling up the averages.
This means that the employees of said supply chain companies will come to work by bicycle and will eat only food made with organic fertilisers?

All this greenwashing brouhaha makes me regret the times when all capitalists were greedy capitalists, not hypocrites. You can successfully fight capitalist greed, it's much more difficult to fight this, whatever this is.
I agree with your father that batch processing (cards) is a drag.

I was in school and working in the computer lab when we switched from batch processing (cards) to a time shared system with terminal labs. I was part of the team that wired up the campus and connected the campus to the ARPANET (precursor to the internet).

As we rolled out the terminal labs, each CS class was either assigned to batch processing or time sharing. Since I was part of the lab, I could schedule my classes to be time share only. I was only stuck with 4 classes not in the time share lab. 2 were batch processing. For some reason my LISP and AI classes used a teletype interface. It was not as bad as the cards, but still weird. Some classes allowed me to use my personal computer (TRS80) and work at home.

At the time my uncle was a programmer. He said that there was no future in CS and I should switch majors. I could already see the wave coming and ignored the advice.
Decarbonisation is so utterly not going to happen to a sufficient degree by 2030.

And if Apple were to succeed, under our current political systems, it'd just mean, they'd have made their customers pay a premium to push carbon emissions to cheaper companies/products/sectors.
> 52 weeks parental leave is for the mother only and is only at statutory pay after 6 weeks (about £150 per week). Paternity leave is 2 weeks at statutory pay.

It used to be that mothers were entitled to maternity leave which broke down as:
- 6 weeks at 90% of your average pay
- 33 weeks of statutory maternity pay (£156/wk)
- 13 weeks unpaid

Now parents can opt for shared parental leave, effectively sharing that time off entitlement: https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay
>GCP could be shut down

I'm I dumb for assuming that google must use GCP internally? Therefore making it pretty much immune from being shut down. I guess they could go full internal tool with it?
70 hrs/wk is for a rare work emergency.

100 hrs/wk will send someone to the Emergency Room.
Kyrie Irving isn't a firefighter.
Obsoleted Apple products are not unlocked and become e-waste. You can't repurpose an iPad 1 , as far as I know.

How much of their scoring takes into account the generation of e-waste?
Firing people for a vaccination status will probably be remembered in a very dark light, both legally and morally.
Does this mean that only the CM4 version has wifi? What about the LTE support they mention on the front page?
The further issue with a lot of this is that it was presented as having been validated as preventing spread from the beginning, which now Pfizer has stated did not transpire. It was pretty evident by early summer that it was not in fact doing that. It's a big piece of the narrative for forcing/mandating the vaccine and it's gone. Anyone questioning it immediately were lumped into the far right regardless of their reasons. It was bad medically and bad politically.

The reality is it was needed to help comfort and calm the populous, it provided some efficacy, but ultimately should have been a personal decision. There's 0 chance we won't see lawsuits for the foreseeable future and honestly i'm still on the side of personal choice.

You're right too, the vaccine never was on the level of "real" vaccines and we knew that, hence why they changed the legal definition to make it fit.
There's also https://sendfiles.dev/ for browser to browser transfers. You could also self-host an FTP server (or something more modern like NextCloud) and open a port on your router to let users download (and take it a step further with a dynamic DNS provider in case your IP changes). I agree that it shouldn't be this hard just to transfer a file.
We needed a study to tell us this?? Anyone who's tried to hire should understand this implicitly.
Is carbon the best goal for them? How are they doing on clean air and water?
Was I wrong about the torrent stuff or did the downvotes come from
web-developers who want WebRTC to be always available by default?
Back pay? Seriously? I thought people weren’t happy about executive power through judicial means, but I’m seeing that same group of people celebrate this.

Also note: the NY Supreme Court is actually the lowest court level in NY. Articles like this are being misleading on purpose.
You can generally say that about most companies. The economy is one big feedback loop, and every disruption reverberates to everyone participating in it.
> Why is this being done

To play HEVC files.

> when AV1 exists?

In case your files aren't AV1, or in case you don't have the hardware to play AV1.

Not a mystery is it?
Advertising margins are very high and cloud margins are very low, so the expectation that their cloud platform will grow and the expectation of high margins are sort of in tension.
Good grief :(

I guess, also users to agreeing to mutually star/follow each other would be a bad development.
Well, then may be it's important to note that we are talking about two different industry niches and practices from one of them are not a good match for the other. And may be we even should come up with some kind of names for these kinds of "tech" to avoid mixing one up with the other.
was wondering what that meant
Some Games I've been Working On
DATABASE
==

The ultimate programming game. Solve challenges or just
start from a base and make your own levels.

Challenge 0: Boys Suck (Development)

Challenge 1: Girls Rule (Development)

These challenges start with broken systems. In the Boy's
version, you can't even login due to an error in an
initialisation file. In the Girl's version, the disk is full. Fix the system, somehow, and you can have all the
data and tools that are on the system.

Challenge 2: Borked Haiku (base)

Pulling DATABASE with Git from 192.168.0.42 doesn't work and
causes the system to crash. Still works but use at your own
risk.

Challenge 3: DATABASE for Adults (Security)

There's a folder called private/ and the contents are NSFW. You don't have sudo or su. Can you see what's in it?

Challenge 4: Golem Node (Sharing)

Golem is a distributed supercomputer, but doesn't work in
some VM's. Make it work and join the swarm.

Also available as:

DATABASE for Girls (base)

DATABASE for Boys (base)

These are for creating your own levels. Keep going until
you break it. Package it up with a story of how you broke it
and publish.

The ultimate games. Infinite in extent and perfect for
training. Once you crack the code to get in, you have a
wealth of data and tools to play with. Source included in
Girls and Adult versions.
The article is light on examples, but it talks about an 'alignment' which requires special tools because of:

>Newer cars have advanced driver-assistance systems, which can keep cars in their lane, detect blind spots, and avoid collisions—functions that require a car to have a firm grasp of where it is in space. That requires repairers to calibrate the sensors and cameras in a car underpinning those advanced systems.

I can't speak for all of those systems, but things like 'electronic stability control' (required in 2011) saves an estimated 2000+ lives every year. Fuel injection is obviously a huge advantage over carburetors for reliability, fuel efficiency, and squeezing more power out of an engine. Even relatively simple systems like these require numerous sensors, computer-units, and aren't easy to diagnose/fix for a shade tree mechanic with basic tools.
> Does is(sic) also work with DRM?

> That’s where the catch is, unfortunately. The biggest drawback is that HEVC with Widevine DRM is not supported at this point, only clear, unprotected content. It’s unclear whether Google has plans to add support for this in the future or not.

That was my first question. I hoped against hope that it wasn't a trojan horse for some new DRM.

Surely they are going to add Widevine support at some point, but I can't help but rejoice a bit to hear that the latest/greatest coding doesn't support DRM. Even the possibility of a DRM-free future is a wonderful dream.
I know a contractor who started a gig and it was over a month before he was given a logon, let alone a computer.

That started the contractor looking elsewhere...
I don't think they are actually mad at Cloudflare. They just see the last in a very long chain of "refusal to do business" and think it's all cloudflare's fault. It's a lack of reasoning problem - they recommend using other hosts/cdns/etc but never question why their favorite hate site isn't up and running on those alternatives right now. It makes a certain amount of twisted sense though: if they subscribe to a notion as silly as "melanin is the root of evil", they probably have other forms of magical thinking - like "cloudflare killed the site by not keeping their business even when alternatives I recommend exist".
I had one of these in high school, they were great little devices, very portable for it's time. The keyboard on it was really nice. I bought a barcode scanner and wrote software to help my mom manage our kitchen inventory, which she thought was very nice and never used.

Kept it into the early 2000s, the serial port was still very useful for connecting to network hardware and embedded systems.
Is it “totally unethical” when published like this? (Not a security expert so I honestly don’t know the answer)
Gigantic performance improvement (and battery life) because it's (only) for when you have hardware decoding.

Why would there be legal liability when it's just passing through to the existing hardware decoder?
React Inspector – Power of Browser DevTools inspectors right inside React apps
While there are many jobs that can be automated.... there's far more programmer roles going unfulfilled... and there's no one to actually create the AI to do any of their job. The job of programmer is quite safe, but it's all about understanding which programming languages will be in demand for the next 10 to 30 years which is a long time for a career position.
However the results match previous data on modified Sinovac. Unfortunately similar lack of difference.
The problem of going to the toilet all the time seems to be related to the bad habit of selling drinks by the bucket in theaters.
On one hand, that's great for anyone watching HEVC content in Chrome.

<rant>On the other, I'd prefer to not see further adoption of HEVC and instead see increased deployment of VP9 and AV1 wherever possible. Let MPEG-LA and the other HEVC patent pools+holders... well I'll leave the rest to your imagination. Future looking, no one should even touch VVC/H.266.</rant>

Unfortunately the above rant does not address the gap in hardware support between HEVC and AV1 for efficient accelerated decoding. Codec support is a difficult game to balance. I'm hopeful that by the time AVC/H.264's patent pools fully expire later this decade we'll all have moved on to newer and better (non-royalty patent-unencumbered) things.
How far back in history do you stop counting advantages? What about the Ottomans, the Romans, the Egyptians? Did they not also use wars and slavery for their own gain?
I always enjoy reading about Zig advancements. I haven't developed anything substantial in Zig yet, but I'm very optimistic about the future of the language.

If you're curious to see a large Zig codebase, two significant projects are Bun [1] and TigerBeetle [2].

[1] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun

[2] https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle