skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much as I would love an open standard to win here, their track record has not been great with respect to messaging. If someone (looking at you, Google) were to jump on board with one, that could change stuff.

But to be fair, most consumers aren't going to care about an open standard directly; they'll care about finding and chatting with their friends. An open standard is a great way to get there when it works, but, for example, WhatApp being a de facto standard in much of the world accomplishes the same thing in those regions.
Why does Cobalt need to be mined by slaves when other things don't?

In the context you cannot both (burn fossil fuels) and (stop burning fossil fuels). You can mine things without child slave labour, so you can both (stop child slave labour) and (have EVs).
Which 1% of the population are you counting as doing useful work? From how I see it - those doing useful work right now are compensated far far less than those doing well paid but useless work
I’m guessing but in these other countries were SMS messages cheap/free?
> The pros, cons and analysis of every alternative messaging service is fine but the simple fact remains that the vast majority of people will not switch because they have no problem with their current setup.

Hopefully people become more sensitive to privacy issues and will realize how bad SMS is in this regard. RCS doesn't seem to have standard way to e2ee messages either so I don't see that helping either.
With ad-hoc meetings, people can be overly cautious: "maybe this is not that important", "maybe my manager is busy".

With periodic 1:1s, the manager has already allocated time to listen to you, so it's easier to talk about what's going on: sometimes it's important stuff, others not that much, but there's communication.

However, it can get bad if people wait for the 1:1s to address important which should be taken care of before.
If violations to improve ESG score are a poor risk:reward gamble, what are the rewards of these other violations that "happen all the time"? Are the rewards even greater than improvement of ESG score?
Maybe you can find a gig complaining about rich people that will put food on your table.
Evaluation of mortality attributable to COVID vaccines using Qatar national data
I think you managed to fit multiple logical fallacies in a single sentence ... the person you're replying to is not suggesting they die, and there's solutions to the problem other than UBI, for example, what we already have .. social welfare programs for people that's can't work.
No, you should definitely provide for their care.
Honestly, a solid take! It’s more of an optimization problem — find the best balance of quality, proximity, and price, and you’ve got your favorite slice shop. If you’re at a friend’s or a loved one’s, that solution changes, and you begin to associate the flavor of that slice with them and their home. Sometimes it’s worth it to make a trip out to one of the pizza Meccas—Lucali, Joe’s on Carmine, L&B Spumoni Gardens, etc.—but more often than not, you’re set with your local slice.

Unless you live in Downtown Brooklyn, where there is no good pizza. Then you’re just fucked.
Cool! Happy you like it!
Yep, this is a pretty glaring flaw of any ideology that tries to reduce ethics to property. Any such ideology is using a sleight of hand by pretending as if property is a simpler or more fundamental notion than ethics. Any time you hear an argument like "you should be able to do whatever you want as long as you're not aggressing against another person or their property" you should ask them whether they think all possible distributions of property are equally ethical.
If you use a Google Voice number, you can send and receive SMS messages with a phone number that also show up in your Gmail search.
KubeVPN: VPN tools which can connect to Kubernetes clusters
This appears to be the original announcement, which links to the PDF:

https://twitter.com/PortlandCorps/status/1603140027412000768
This implies that creation itself is some kind of theft

No it doesn't. Helping yourself to resources and then asserting property rights thereon to prevent others from doing the same is a kind of theft.
Spot on. I would expect people here claiming that we should start paying rent for the air we breathe.
`make` is not a taskrunner, it is for tracking dependencies between files. a .PHONY target that isn't named "all", "clean", or "dist" is a code smell. there are many design decisions in `make` that are the opposite of what you want in a taskrunner:

* each line executes in an isolated environment

* can't pass options or arguments to a make target

* not portable to other operating systems

the author is already using node packages. purpose-built taskrunners are plentiful, and the resulting scripts will be written in the same language as the rest of the codebase instead of adding a second language.

hiding a tool behind a makefile is my pet peeve. a proper taskrunner makes common operations easy without kneecapping the flexibility of the underlying tools.
I value my privacy too much to stop texting. This person demands I subject myself to the whims of some corporate software stack in order to achieve privacy, and I reject the thesis. I don't send private information via SMS and I don't use it for two-factor authentication. Despite all the whining about 'the network effect' and 'user friendliness' I've never had trouble arranging encrypted comms both in my personal and work lives.
Pre WW1 the strict limit of humanity was how we could fertilize our crops.

The haber process made ammonium from the atmospheric and made fertilizer, and allowed WW1 to have all it's explosives and shells.
Here you go https://github.com/kubescape/kubescape
From what I understand, DI simply turns this:

public class MyClass {
private Dep myDep;
void MyClass(){
this.myDep = GetDep();
}
}

into this:

public class MyClass {
private Dep myDep;
void MyClass(Dep dep){
this.myDep = dep;
}
}

Why this needs an entire framework is beyond me. It feels like all they do is convert explicit code into boilerplate which then becomes much harder to reason about.
Less mentioned about NYC is the 24-hour egg and sausage breakfast sandwich, fresh off a griddle. This, more than pizza, was my staple when I went to college in New York.
They often suffer, of course. They sometimes die, more directly or less directly due to the suffering.

Not all of them of course - we have social systems. But those are far from a silver bullet.
A pair of old HN articles on Clearview (the font):

The feds are killing off Clearview, the new highway sign font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11039770 (29 comments) -- https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10919686/clearview-highway...

America's Sudden U-Turn on Highway Fonts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10985709 (17 comments) -- http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/01/official-united-state...
At least in my country (Spain), it is not at all age related. No one uses sms for communication. I just checked a local source and Whatsapp usage is 97% among the young lowering to 87% among the 70+ group, with the practical totality of the others choosing just calls or no phone usage.

If you know a European country where SMS are the norm, can you share which one? As I said, I don't know a single one, but they might exist.
That’s really creative!
Ah, my bad, I just assumed the new version would be in Swift.
So long as we have politicians that absolutely refuse to pass any infrastructure bills, for-profit energy companies doing things like NEM 3.0 and somehow making harnessing the free sunlight with rooftop solar a financially non-viable option, and voters that continue to support them despite these things, what can realistically be done?
That one slice in Boston though
I have a hard time understanding the emojis as measurement units here. If you u se from 1 to 5 I can easily follow, but emojis are abstract and open to different interpretations.
How useful are these security scanners?
The original source seems to be posted at https://www.flexport.com/blog/flexport-co-ceos-note-to-emplo...
Such arguments remind me of this[0] classic note from Douglas Adams.

“These politicians, eh? They’re so stupid! Why don’t they just make essential goods free? After all, we were better off as hunter gatherers! Also Spaceballs lol amirite?”

I say this as someone who supports some aspects of land reform and UBI. These sophomoric snipes at “conservatives” are just echo-chamber noise.

[0] https://gist.github.com/freakboy3742/c699f293c9b5e77ef289
you are supposed to use a typedef, not to do that.

It's like complaining you have to use _Bool all over the code. Include stdbool...
Video summary (from a Rust-focussed YouTube channel)

"We're going to compare Rust to seven other languages that you probably haven't tried. Each and every one of these seven languages gave me a different surprise that I didn't see coming."

- Rust

- Nim

- Julia

- Elixir

- Zig

- Haskell

- Lua

- Crystal

Challenge: "The program we're going to implement reads a line of space to limited numbers from standard input, and process some of those numbers. It's a simple program but one that quickly surfaces the idiosyncrasies of a programming language"

Impressions from the presenter:

- Most concise language: Haskell

- Coolest language features: Elixir's pipe operator

- Most underrated languages: Nim and Crystal

Disclaimer: "It's important to note that this isn't really a fair comparison. Each of these languages caters to a specific need. And in a sense we're comparing them in a way that some might consider surface level. But you do need to look at the surface at some point."
Are you describing "everyone is a very minor aristocrat" as an inherently bad thing?
Yep - my (somewhat dull and conservative) employer did this as well.

I was cynical, but year later I'm pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong - I think we collectively all took 15% more holiday. Not a mind-boggling change, but not the "we'll all be bullied to stay at our desks" result I'd anticipated.

Anecdotally I think the largest change is people get less precious over guarding their holiday as a precious resource, even if they've no idea how they'll spend it. You finish your week's work on Friday morning? Ask if anybody needs anything from you and then just take the rest of the day off. No compulsion to find some busy-work and protect 4 hours of vacation.
Then you definitly should check out MicroZig!

I will push my bugfixes for current master branch tomorrow or later, so you can directly play around!
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2009/3/23/computer-criminals-of...

"The 1981 book School, Work and Play (World of Tomorrow) features this beautiful two-page spread. Apparently, thanks to computers, there's no crime in the future outside of the computerized variety. The "computer criminal" pictured really doesn't appear to be running very fast. Maybe they're playing a game of freeze-tag. Or maybe that policeman's gun has special settings the author didn't tell us about. I like to believe the former, but that's just me."

The book is full of really cool images like that one of "The Future" as seen from '81
I'd take a veggie one but damn that looks good.
People are now using AI to cheat in Rocket League
I fully agree the best outcome here would be a cross-platform, E2EE standard supported as the default across a variety of platforms. (Where iMessage would be a great option if Apple would play ball.) I'm just not holding my breath...and in the absence of that the best I could think to do is explain to whoever would listen why they can take action on their own behalf and that of their community.
How prospective it is to jump on the iOS bandwagon in 2023?
Consider how mortgage derivatives relate to the underlying asset. It feels like crypto has made credit default swaps look like a child’s toy. They say it’s all on the chain, but there are a lot of chains.
>Eventually there simply won't be enough work to do for 100% of the population to do something

People always claim this, yet with ever increasing population, we continue to find work for people to do. Who would have guessed when the Earth's population was 1 million people that'd we eventually have billions of jobs.

So there is really no reason for there to not be enough work to do. If each person consumes enough in life to equal once person's work output, then every additional person will work enough to get enough to consume for themselves by trading with others.

As long as people can trade the result of their effort for the efforts of others, there is no reason we will ever run out of jobs. In fact, there's likely now and always will be things we could do except we simply don't have enough workers to do it. Each big technological change in the past freed workers from previous drudgery and opened up large swaths of working people to provide labor for the next wave of innovation. There's no need innovation ever ends.

This scaling has always worked, from societies of a few people to countries with a billion people. And there's no shortage of work still to be done.
The premise of the article would make more sense in a time before the mass population explosions you mention. Of course, those explosions could not have happened without the productivity gains from private property and free markets, along with science and other innovations.

In some sense most of our very lives are due to the systems the author believes makes us "a planet full of assholes".
...foraging and hunting is harder work than anything done by people complaining about not getting money for free from society as though the rest of us owe them our labor.
Sort animations.

https://www.hackerearth.com/practice/algorithms/sorting/quic...
Tyler Rogaway wrote about the possibility that these "cube inside a sphere" floating objects are actually a specific kind of radar reflector. There are patent drawings in the article that are worth more than 1000 words. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...

ETA: the balloons are designed to reflect radar beams from surface ships/submarines that make them appear to be performing all sorts of incredible maneuvers on radar, which is pretty much exactly what you describe here.
You could ask what's the average PTO taken. HR should know this and if they need to check, take it as a bad sign.
As far as I can tell, Google Messages defaults to E2EE when possible when RCS is enabled, but RCS is disabled by default. Which basically means 80% of users don't have it turned on.
And you need a data lakehouse so you can enjoy your data jetskis.
Waffle House is open late and the food has lots of carbs and fat.

Which means it's good drunk food available when the drunks want to eat.

I live 1,000 miles away from the nearest one, but I sure did love a late Saturday night at Waffle House when I lived in the south.

Where I am now, a "109 spicy special,"[0] hot off the grill, a single serving bag of nacho cheese Doritos and Pepsi does the job too.

[0] https://bwog.com/2007/01/how-spicy-is-your-special/
What was your old take from before reading this article?
This is one of the more insightful and wise things I've read in a while. I wish all companies understood this concept:

And we also realize a downturn is temporary. We worked hard to build our talent acquisition team, growing from 15 to nearly 40 between October 2021 and June 2022. And that team did amazing work, growing Zapier from 550 to over 800 team members in 2022. Did we really want to lose all of that recruiting talent only to spend all of those resources again hiring new people down the road?

Laying people off en-masse in response to what is 100% going to be a temporary downturn is just so... wasteful. You lose so much accumulated knowledge and experience, and then - as pointed out - have to turn around and spend even more money to recruit new people later. But with those new people you might get back the skills and head-count you had, but you don't get back the experience, tacit knowledge, domain knowledge, acute knowledge of internal processes and tools, etc. So really it's lose-lose-lose in many ways.

Laying people off should really be an absolute last resort, IMO. And by "last resort" I mean, "we do this or the company folds" level stuff. Not "do layoffs or the stock price drops by 0.03% and the investors start squawking."
I hate the damn things. If a breaker pops, it's easy. You have a box, maybe two if you live in a really huge house. Go there, look for the switch that's not quite lined up, toggle switch, done.

GFCI, you gotta figure out which one popped. If the wiring's not great, it may well be in a totally different room from the outlet that stopped working. On top of it, they seem to outright fail (get stuck in a broken state, start tripping under even very light load, simply stop working at all) much faster than breaker-box switches (I'm... actually not sure I've ever seen one of those fail? I've had several GFCI outlets fail, across multiple houses).

I get why they're good to have, but they're really annoying. And expensive.
This article quotes the letter sent to employees, which is published here:

https://www.flexport.com/blog/flexport-co-ceos-note-to-emplo...
Looks awesome! It's relatively rare to see fully completed games open-sourced immediately. I'm curious what the thought process is there, and if you're concerned about people selling low-effort reskins or other exploitative things.
Thanks! I would love to do self-hosting, but probably not any time soon. We're currently focused on making a delightful hobbyist product, and punting on all the business features for a while. We do hope to get there though!
There isn't enough 'natural' food production to support 7 billion people with foraging and hunting. The premise of the article is bad. You don't have rights that don't make sense in the current era. Today it is impossible for everyone to stay alive without highly technologically complex industries with extremely high capital requirements producing the food we eat.

We live in an era where for most people if the government runs out of foreign exchange you end up with a famine.
I think the most important point that the author makes is not whether property and the earth are common goods or not, it's simply that there's enough food for everyone.

There's enough food to keep everyone well fed. There's enough homes to keep everyone housed and safe. There's enough health care resources to keep most people reasonably healthy.

But we choose that some should starve, some should be homeless, and some should die prematurely because it allows some others to live a slightly more decadent lifestyle. Some, an obscenely lavish lifestyle. And yes, it is a choice we make as a society.

I'm not advocated for communism. We don't need a Gini Coefficient of 1. But maybe we could take some steps in the direction of sharing a bit more rather than continuing to rush in the other direction, and claiming that it's the fault of the poor that they aren't wealthy.

UBI isn't impossible or unreasonable. It just would mean that some folks- and probably a lot of the people on HN given software developer compensation lately- would need to do with a slightly less decadent lifestyle.
This is not correct for my city...
Apes are highly territorial and aggressive.
$55/$65/$85 for 2GB, 4GB, 8GB plus shipping
I see where you’re coming from and this was definitely my attitude in my twenties: do the hard work to understand the underlying concepts and not just become a code monkey.

But I must admit as I get older, I don’t have as much time or patience to devote to this and I’m getting to terms with getting good enough to make a living rather than really understand $new_technology. I think this is partly from getting old and not wanting to sink so much of my own time and mental energy on computer stuff, but also from realizing how little it matters to most PHBs/middle managers who basically hold your fate in their hands. I’ve become much more cynical after a decade in the industry and I’ve realized how much of my own energy and health I have wasted in trying to get a deeper understanding of programming concepts. It was personally satisfying for a while, but it doesn’t pay off for most people. Most orgs want it done fast and cheap, they don’t want squeaky wheels, PHBs think in quarters and only want the thing to not blow up until after they get promoted in a year or two.

Developers who deliver that kind of low cost code fast (albeit low quality) have much more stable careers, better promotions, and get bonuses.

The rest of us ruin our mental health, paint targets on our backs, and don’t get as far. But man do we know our shit.
If the choice is between a secure centralized app run by a nonprofit foundation (Signal) and an insecure, open protocol (SMS), the answer is quite obviously clear for 99% of people.
What's not too like. It's highly polished and comes with a very permissive license, which will be no issue since most companies prefer to pay for support and accountability.
Financial Engineering the Debt Ceiling
Software Engineering at Google (free book)
I'm against UBI, though I'm for easier access to food stamps in the US for anyone who wants them.

Since the end of WW2, we've torn down at least a million SROs* in the US and not really replaced them with anything comparable. In their absdnce, people have turned to living in RVs, the Tiny House movement has been born and there are too many chronic homeless, many of whom eventually end up in California which seems to take the heat for the failed policies of an entire nation.

The Tiny House movement began as an idea for how to live with less and when it ran up against the fact that it's not legal to build a house that small, rather than fight city hall, they slapped wheels on them as a hack to get around the rules.

The reality is that the US has made it illegal to build a lot of the housing that we once had in abundance and which worked well: small residential spaces in walkable, mixed use neighborhoods where life without car ownership was quite feasible and even the norm.

Cars have only been in vogue for around a hundred years. In that short time, we've whored out our urban planning processes to the worship of the car and we tell anyone for whom that doesn't work for any reason to quit their bitching and stop bothering people. If you can't drive for any reason, you are a second class citizen and how dare you get all uppity and act like you should have some reasonable quality of life without needing to either be able to drive or so rich you can hire a chauffeur to do it for you.

UBI won't fix our problems anymore than student loans fixed our problems. Student loans didn't level the playing field for the less privileged. It made them slaves to paying their debts, often while unable to get the kind of good job their degree supposedly guaranteed them.

Throwing money at this problem won't fix it. UBI won't buy poor people a basic, decent life. The kinds of goods and services needed to provide such largely do not exist in much of America and it's a fevered pitch uphill battle to try to establish any of them in far too many cases.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
I can’t be alone in being peeved at the misuse of “far right”. AFAIK no one on the right in modern US politics is espousing monarchy or totalitarianism (or at least they think they’re against totalitarianism). Obviously these terms are relative and subjective but it just seems a pointless characterization that makes a readers eyes glaze. Say “parlor, the controversial social media company”, and the writing is less biased and more informative.

I would similarly ignore a writer who suggested a pro-union group as “far left”. We’re all (hopefully) far more moderate (and aligned!) than we get credit for.
What do you expect someone living in America to do with $2 a day ??
UBI doen't have to be global, though ideally it would be,
it can have a huge good for people working in exploitive jobs or doing make-work, freeing them to contribute and volunteer as they see fit. But only if it's enough to actually live on
This right here is going to be big. Good job Steve and co :)