skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I'm curious to know if, when counting employees, the WARN Act includes employees located outside of the United States, as I know that non-US Twitter employees are also included in this. I'm guessing yes, since California Labor Code 1400 (a) says…

> “Covered establishment” means any industrial or commercial facility or part thereof that employs, or has employed within the preceding 12 months, 75 or more persons.

Next, it's worth noting…

> Liss-Riordan sued Tesla Inc. over similar claims in June when the electric-car maker headed by Musk laid off about 10% of its workforce.
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> Tesla won a ruling from a federal judge in Austin forcing the workers in that case to pursue their claims in closed-door arbitration instead of in open court.

I don't know if California's implementation of WARN would cause things to be different. Reading Labor Code sections 1400-1408, I couldn't tell one way or the other.
Strange, when I looked before I didn't really see anything but I could be getting mixed up with the Bip. Well I'm going to be all over that this weekend!
It improves on it because the barrier to entry is much lower for apps to integrate it, and the ecosystem for LCP is arguably already much larger than for Adobe Adept. There are multiple mobile apps, the thorium reader on desktop, and more.

As for LCP being around in 10-20 yrs, the idea with LCP (excluding loans, of course) is that you don't need to be online or require a remote server to validate/access ebooks you've downloaded. You just have your "password", that is used to decrypt the book content through LCP, so as long as you still have any app that supports LCP, you still have access to the publication. I think it's the best compromise that will exist in reality for publishers that still want DRM. The entire system is open-source except a small key derivation function.
EFI must be a separate partition, right. But why should /boot? Mine is just a directory in the root filesystem.
So this is probably a bad policy almost irrespective where you are on the socialist/capitalist-disdain agenda.

It hardly makes any sense at all.

"far too much wealth transfer from companies to investors,"

It's their money, and it's absurd to keep it locked up in some arbitrary place - it's worse than 'neutral' in fact.

Companies will respond by paying dividends, or parking the money in less efficient entities.

There really is no upside to this policy.
Docker compose? Compose your dev environment docker with other containers you need. Means you need to communicate with them over a local virtual network though. But that is probably OK for most things?
Wow, I'm currently in Korea and I did not expect Naver to have projects like Lisp implementations at all. Their services (map, search, ...) are very common here, but from the outside it looked more like a boring company.

Great write-up. They also mention Tamgu, another language they developed, with native Korean language string support (`ishangul()`, `romanize()`).
User-Agent Reduction
Buying things in a foreign country, or where a seller hasn't integrated the card type you want to use (particularly a problem for small/local websites). Sending money to a friend internationally. Avoiding having to give someone your bank details or credit card number.
Oh, interesting, cool! I appreciate the advice -- I am definitely not making use of all of the features.

And thanks for the software! I've been using it on all of my non-Apple devices for a while now. And my mom has been using it on their computer for a fair bit as well. It's been a total lifesaver on a couple of occasions and streamlined a lot.
That's why I don't the shift to blinding white backgrounds for light theme either. The old Win95 grey windows were best.
From the buyer's perspective: hassle-free unsubscription, seeing all my subscriptions in one place, no need to create accounts on random seller sites. And yes, I'm willing to pay a couple of %% to anyone who can fulfill those needs, not necessarily PayPal.
A repository being public does not mean that it's open source.
You can, but you probably have to call up your bank during business hours, wait on hold for a while, and then get given the runaround for a while. PayPal you just push a button and it's done.
NK geographically really is the perfect place for an insane dictatorship.
Shouldn't good investigative journalism just tell you what's true regardless of whether it makes the subject look good or bad? I don't mean that every story must convey the totality of the subject, but the body of reporting should try to resemble the subject - some good, some bad.
> Getting the car from there to the nearest Amtrak station will require you to hire a locomotive with crew

I know long haul battery-electric trains don't make sense [0], but if it's a short distance, would it be feasible to have inbuilt battery + engine just to get the car to the Amtrak and maybe as backup power?

> (some tracks require a second car coupled to the locomotive so crossings & signals work correctly)

Obviously it wouldn't obviate this technicality.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qcxyyllQ4
How is Linux "rotten"?
This reminds me of Hiber[1]. Hiber launched in 2016 with the mission of connecting the 90% of the world that didn’t have access to connectivity. They were working on HiberBand, a protocol to communicate ultra-low power for remote IoT solutions. It sounded very promising and futuristic, a bit like a mix between Starlink and Swarm of today.
At some point Hiber pivoted away from a connectivity-only business model. You could no longer use them for general purpose IoT connectivity, instead they focused on building end-to-end solutions. Hiber today markets itself as an "off-grid asset monitoring" solution focusing heavily on the oil industry.

I suspect there is some underlying issue with these high-latency / low-bandwidth solutions that just makes them impractical in real life.

[1]: https://hiber.global/hiberhilo/
Thank you, really! Maybe I am just in a weird mood, but that made my day, as strange as it might sound.

I don't think people, in general, are anywhere near as vocal and explicit about the things they appreciate compared to the things they actively hate or that frustrate them. And I think this applies even more so in careers and hobbies like tech where people don't seem to think of the things you make as consumable or creative in the same way they do with others (e.g., movies, videos, music, and other art); my personal experience has been that if someone is reaching out, it's—more often than not—to let you know about an issue or complaint.

So, thanks, it felt nice! And thanks for the reminder; I should let others know the same more often too.
On the python front, we seem to have already lost Guido to this new religion.
Get the /s … but sounds like it might be a conversation between generations in say 1997
GP lists some concrete deal breakers with existing DRM:

- you can only read them in [publisher-approved apps]

- you can't share them with your kids

- you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow

Does LCP solve any of these problems?
Shareholders are 100% paying this tax.

Shareholders own the company; If the company pays X% tax, it really means the 'shareholders' are paying it.

(Edit: For example the company has $200 in assets. They pay out $100 in a buyback, the remaining shareholders would have to pay the $2 out of their assets. This would technically play out in the valuation of the shares at the time of buyback.)

Moreover, it will affect companies decision making for no obvious benefit to anyone.

This is a total curve ball, I can't even fathom why the government is doing this, there is no obvious upside.

It's a really odd things that 'share buybacks' are considered some kind of negative thing. They are a re-balancing financial activity for the most part. Money goes in, money comes out and goes elsewhere etc. - this is good.

Edit: it's a bit like having a tax for taking cash out of a bank account. If the company needs the money for productive things, they probably would not be doing a buyback. The notion the gov. would want to inhibit money from moving from one spot where it's probably not being used efficiently, makes no sense. If the government needs to raise revenues, it would be far more rational to simply hike corporate taxes by some amount.
> ...then surely they will be able to find examples of such infringement to submit in their lawsuit

Perhaps that is why they are reaching out to potential class members

> if they can’t even provide examples of violating code.

This is the very beginning of a very long process. I wouldn't rule out a settlement where class members get $10-100, which is a common resolution for class action suits.
You mean they want to abolish intellectual property by allowing proprietary code fed through the AI to be stripped of copyright? Because that would be the end of copyright.
It's geohot. He comes with credibility. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
Do we have to protect ourselves?

I understand that some may disagree that training AI with copyrighted data is fair use, but protecting?

If you are scared that many companies will steal open source code and not give anything back, well, it’s already the case. If you are scared to be replaced by an IA, forbidding the AI doesn’t seem te be the right approach. It’s too late and you should perhaps start to use it and improve it instead of fighting it.
Because TSC isn't your bundler. It's job is different from a bundler. A bundler runs under the assumption that everything you import it has to find and handle. Typescript only needs to find a definition for an import.

Typescript may have a complete view of a single project, in which case yes, it should know what file type it is emitting in that project, but then it has to track "in project" imports differently from "out of project" imports and needs two different behaviors for those.

All of that gets further complicated by incremental builds and multi-project references and multi-project references with incremental builds.

Which isn't to say that it isn't technically solvable, and maybe "two behaviors" is an alright developer experience even if it would confuse so many new users, it's just that there are a lot of obvious complications in the face of it.

It's also not like they haven't been trying to work on it. Other comments in this thread have pointed to at least one Typescript issue on it. At one point Previews supported a version of this but rather than using the file-type of the current package's emit it relied on the new paired TS file types: .ts => .js, .mts => .mjs, .cts => .cjs. If you imported a ".ts" it always assumed you were importing ".js" and if you imported a ".mts" it always assumed you were importing a ".mjs". There were a lot of complications even with that simple "one experience", but even that experience was terrible, fell down in complications with Node's loader and various bundlers, and had too many bugs. So it was pulled from Previews.
We keep trying to push publishers to allow us to sell their ebooks DRM-free, it really is a win-win. Less customer support for us, more sales for them, no vendor lock-in for the customer. We offer completely DRM-free or watermarked content: https://www.ebooks.com/drm-free/. I wish every publisher would embrace it.
The algorithms are tuned to vastly extend the time users spend on a network. They are going to moderate stuff if it improves the time spent on that network.

Of course there are political reasons for which algorithms also do content filtering and censorship but the money reason trumps all: the more time you spend on a network, the more ads you see, the more time you spend on a network, the more content you produce and the more you interact with others and that produces a smell that will attract other small insects which will be served ads, will produce more content and interaction.
From the article:

"Q: What do you mean by stack-ranking engineers? What were the criteria?
A: Raw number of lines of code over a certain period (a year I think)."

Is correlation of line count and employee performance still a thing? I thought that went out of fashion decades ago.
mermaid is awesome, I just wish it had architectural diagrams.
The Effects of Climate Change on Sea Turtles
Why prehistoric herders didn’t spit out their watermelon seeds
I still use paypal to pay for stuff when I'm too lazy to walk to the other room to get my wallet. As a consumer, the price is the same.
Here in Sweden university education cost the government less per head and year than high school education (72000 SEK/a for university whereas high school costs 124 300 SEK/a).

If you look at really good universities, like say, the Independent University of Moscow, it's just a bunch of mathematicians holding lectures and giving really difficult exams, so whether the author has support for his view, it's probably correct. University should be very cheap.
Better than nothing, but it should be illegal, as it was until 1982 when neoliberals started deregulating finance. Big corporations spend tens of billions to manipulate the stock market, but when the going gets tough, they run to mommy crying to bail them out.
If I understand correctly everything is in the cloud?

So if they shut down everything you worked on is lost forever...would not want to create in such a tool!
I am vulnerable to copyright litigation for code I write, if I copied it. This is already true of anyone who is writing code.
Sure, but not without blaming the victim first. There are countless threads where the victim is accused to be wrong.
Really? I feel like I don’t know any of my passwords at all except 1Password, and the step from having 1Password fill out a form to 1Password doing auth in the background feels very natural
From Wikipedia:

“Le Corbusier remains a controversial figure. Some of his urban planning ideas have been criticized for their indifference to pre-existing cultural sites, societal expression and equality, and his alleged ties with fascism, antisemitism, and eugenics, and the dictator Benito Mussolini have resulted in some continuing contention.”

With such a public record on Corbusier, my first thought is that you need to qualify your analogy. You write that you did not mean it as a compliment. What exactly makes Ive the Corbusier of industrial design?
>Tech now is the most wealthy and powerful industry in the US.

I thought weapon and pharmaceutical industries beat the tech.
It absolutely can. Fedora uses HFS+ for the ESP on Macs because it integrates more cleanly into the Apple boot menu you get when you hold down command on boot, but the firmware handles FAT just fine.
n=2, I was on the fence about a 4th shot, but decided on a whim to get it. No side effects previously, but this one gave me full bodies aches and extreme fatigue for about 36 hours.
You are right no one knowns anything in trading.
We all know it's a technicality used for finance and separation of accountability.

In any other sane universe we'd call these shell corporations and tax avoidance schemes.
It’s funny you mention the 14th Amendment. It is a little over 150 years old. For the first century interracial marriage wasn't on the list of protections provided by the 14th.

When enough people consistently say you shouldn't be allowed to do something, we won't allow you to do it. When enough people say you should be allowed, you will be. Maybe that is cynical, but that is life in a democracy. Churchill was right about it being the worst form of government.
Cosa succede a z-library? Posso fare qualcosa per aiutare il progetto?
Spero che presto possa tornare funzionante
It replaces no other projects. Continuous profiling solves a different problem to Mimir, Cortex, and Tempo. Mimir and Cortex are for metrics, Tempo is for distributed tracing, Phlare is for collecting profiling samples over time.

Profiling is a layer below tracing and metrics in that it requires very minimal and generic instrumentation (of the runtime), while the others require specific instrumentation (of the application).

Profiles like CPU, heap allocs, goroutines, etc are collected on a continual basis, allowing you to see at any time how your application was making use of its runtime resources.
There is a lot of movement indeed in this space. Here are a few things that I think we at Nhost are doing well:

- Open Source: Nhost is open source. Some competitors are, too, and some are not.

- Infrastructure: Our infrastructure is set up to handle anything from side-projects to companies with hyper-scale. Each service, except the Postgres database, is stateless and can scale horizontally.

- UI: The Nhost Dashboard, although under development, will give us an edge in the next six months. Most database and backend dashboards look like they were built by engineers (without designers) in 1997. There is so much room for innovation.

- Tech: We're using well-used and open source technologies with little to no abstractions in our stack, from SQL (Postgres) to GraphQL (Hasura), to Node.js for Serverless Functions. Here I see competitors using either old technologies or building abstractions, forcing them to re-invent already solved problems, and forcing users to re-learn already battle-tested solutions.

- Workflow: We're not just an "infrastructure company." The goal with Nhost is to make developers as productive as possible. We have a CLI for local development and a GitHub integration that automatically deploys your backend (just like Netlify & Vercel). This way, our customers can focus on their business and users instead of figuring out development workflows. Here I see competitors either building custom in-house branching solutions outside Git or nothing.

In the end, I'm glad to see competition in this space. The winner of healthy competition is developers who can pick the services that best suit their needs. And that's the ultimate goal. To empower developers to build.
I don't think it's as simple as malice either because the people who get worked up about online debate often believe they are doing the right thing, they believe they are trying to save someone else from thinking the wrong thing. There's no malice there.
Ask a C#/.NET and he'll tell you 90% of the developers he knows use Windows laptops (the real Visual Studio works only under Windows). There are more than 10M professional .NET developers out there.
It is OK to use adversarial tone. Journalists do not have to limit themselves to fawning admiration. And before there was criticism, there was surplus of fawning admiration.

Cool companies were praised to heaven and admired, Thermos, Tesla, Uber, Google, Facebook you name it. Correction was necessary.
My guess is that is not as much about the amount of available data but how accessible it is. Scraping the internet seems to be one of the preferred ways of gathering vast amounts of, in particular, text and images.

Telling apart what's public domain or not is not a trivially automatable task.

If one just relies on curated libraries of vetted public domain content you don't get, by far, the expected amout of variability and diversity.
> Oh and the guy programmed in TCL.

That's a pretty big red flag :-)
Buongiorno,
Z-library non sta funzionando in Italia.
Posso fare qualcosa per aiutare il progetto?
Spero che presto possa tornare a funzionare.

Grazie
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring a Lead API and Billing Engineer
I wouldn’t necessarily think so. They don’t just have to pay you your salary, they have to keep you employed for 60 days, with all the benefits that gives you. That can be more than payments. In the USA, health insurance typically is a big extra.
It’s an attractor some social circles get stuck in. All my friends and all my friends’ friends are on dating apps, and all the new couples I’ve known since college met on dating apps. It is weird, and nobody I’ve talked to likes dating apps, but no one individual can really break the equilibrium.
Small data problems, where’re never the less have a really good idea of how things are causally related.
It's worth knowing that in the UK PayPal is covered by the Financial Ombudsman service. They wouldn't be interested in accounts being blocked as in this case but they were very helpful to me when PayPal made a payment that I did not authorize and then refused to put it right.

I don't use PayPal any more. Their support staff are impossibility hopeless so any kind of problem with your account will cause you a world of pain.
It’s not so much an insult as a dumb overused meme popularized from a show that ended years ago in ignominy. It is known.
The way I see it the only jobs you are realistically automating (without full on AGI) are the CRUD and pipework jobs which are unambiguously explainable without a lot of context.

The difficulty/complexity in delivering software is mostly on having accurate domain knowledge on the problem you are trying to solve and how users or other machines in that environment interact with said software.

So again, unless we hit a landmark of a very outperforming AGI I think that much of the domain knowledge in many software 'niches' will be out of reach of automation.

That is not to say that many sub-tasks/boilerplate cannot be automated.
i can sign up fine in tor but the actual downloads directed me to zlibcdn.com/dtoken/ which is also down and the tor book preview doesn't work either.
Which is a misnomer as its backed by passwords underneath, but vendors manage it for you.
Section D.3: "If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post". A lawsuit against Github has no standing for the scenario you suggest, because Github is not at fault.
Just tried a wee bit of Kittens Game. It’s like A Dark Room, but with kittens! There’s my time gone.
Other than natural sugars in fruit, my diet has effectively no sugar or sweeteners.

It's not that hard after several years of changing your eating habits slowly.

It helps that I've always preferred drinking water.
So the difference is entirely in being able to find out whether you're infringing or not?

Surely that's solvable with a EULA that passes the responsibility onto the user to search?
I can see why someone would learn Lisp as learning a different paradigm than what you are currently using helps you see thing in different ways and improves your overall ability to solve problems.

What I miss is what classes of problems Lisp helps you to solve better and faster. Why use Lisp in production?

If you want functional programming there's ML, F#, Haskell and even Javascript. If you want to develop fast, there's Go, C#, Python and so on.

I am not trying to denigrate Lisp here or to say something is better, I am genuinely asking what advantages Lisp has, what are the cases for which is it best suited in production.
What is the difference between me waiting for a single book at my library to be passed between 5 people, and me just reading it online?
Well, it’s a much better time to buy stocks than anytime last year when tech stocks were at an all time high and everyone was telling everyone else to invest in the stock markets.
By this interpretation, it is attack on free speech. He wants to prevent criticism of Tesla. Yglesias said not me.
One could argue that the whole purpose of society is to get rid of scarcity.

Creators being unable to earn income is a problem - but artificial scarcity is not a good solution, as it benefits the few at the expense of many. Imagine if everyone was prohibited from sharing news over internet because "free distribution of news harms the journalists who rely on newspaper sales" - that'd be absurd, wouldn't it?

Old-school copyright relied on the natural scarcity of paper and other distribution resources - digital age has lowered the distribution cost to zero, so the old model does not work anymore. Another model of rewarding authors is needed, one that does not rely on restriction of distribution.
Probably presenting a code editor with IDE like extensions that are all Open Source, and then gradually killing the Open Source extensions and switching them out for proprietary ones.