skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are loads of independent folk selling stuff like this in the EU just fine. In fact the modding community in the EU is massive.

The reason they’re fine is because this is a really niche audience who generally know what they’re doing. The few occasions things do go wrong, it’s almost always the fault of the person the bought it, and we accept that.

Those that do want something like this and who isn’t a hacker themselves would go via a 3rd party to mod it, usually paying them too (That scene is also massive in the EU).

The very few times I’ve had to return something has been simple enough. Full refund for an item that is either dead on arrival or they person just sent out the wrong item accidentally. Either way, we are talking same week rather than 2 years later.
Do you get the same camera experience with Graphene installed as with vanilla software?
I checked with some of my friends who had parents that lived in the Eastern Bloc, but couldn't find out anything.
To be fair I think it was actually right, right, and wrong.
I guess that's better than buying 4x 512GB micro sdcards to juggle around, trying to remember which game was on which exact card or where you might have lost one.
I run a small business and I need to collect W-9's from basically everyone I ever pay, which means I have an absurd amount of SSN's in PDFs sitting in a folder on my computer. It feels very wrong, but apparently that's how taxes work. Kind of makes SSN's feel less secure/protection-worthy than I used to believe shrug
Counterpoint: in USB-C, the crushable, breakable part with the spring is in the cable. With Lightning, it's in the $1500 phone. Yubikeys are an unfortunate edge case but normally it's a lot easier to get a new cable.
David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set
I really enjoy this conversation. Is there a way to reach out to you? I guess we will hit the thread limit soon.

There is a problem with worker's owning the business. They almost never do and aren't interested in owning it. This would also include owning the debts and possible failures
I bitch about KYC laws every time I run into them.
"Meat alternative" is not defined so can be anything that is not meat. I eat veg and eggs everyday...

They also seem to conflate this with veganism.

No doubt that this is a very oriented and poorly-written article.
> Should the government have intervened when they were hiring too many people?

It DID intervene. That's why we have the layoffs now.
> “Login.gov can handle less than 30 transactions per second,” Rettig told lawmakers. “We need more than about 1,500 transactions per second.”

Even on a $2/mo VPS that's enough for image recognition in something as slow as Python. What gives?
Why reword a comment when an enlightened HNer has already written the perfect one?
> There's literally nothing to gain from doing so.

And yet KHTML was forked into WebKit which was forked into Blink, just to name one.

OSX has forked BSD code, as did windows.

This things happen all the time. MIT is a fine license, so is GPL, but we can't just say "oh nobody is going to fork this, it's dumb!" because it happens all the time.
Pixels are one of the few Android phones that actually have some decent security features in hardware (that’s why they are the only supported grapheneOS targets).

Nonetheless, iPhones are also great from a security perspective out of the box, and the hardware is superior so I just couldn’t switch to a pixel, even though I wanted to at every version. They are unfortunately simply riddled with some stupid mistakes, like that emergency call one.
What if Tech Companies can lay off people fairly risk free now, due to the statistical data gathered from remote work tools like Microsoft Teams?

That activity data, makes it easier to distinguish between essential and non-essential workers, especially for larger companies.
How does the keyboard compare? Out of genuine interest because I'm likely to do the same.
Android mobile devices from top vendors in China have pre-installed malware
It became completely thankless to be a programmer. I don’t know if it was something about having the right balance of being in high demand plus the fun tools and culture and platforms like iOS being achievable for small devs.

Now it has become fcking drudgery; I can’t understand why anyone would want to become a developer now. You don’t get any creative freedom and just get assigned tickets and treated like a robot by 75 layers of middle management.

Programming as a creative act is wonderful. Programming as a career puts you always at the bottom of the pile, whether you like it or not.

“Oh you shudders* code?”

Being a developer is a low status occupation despite being high paid.
I've found their financial page to be one of the best free offerings around. Some of the data and its update frequency are additional monthly fees with my brokerage.

Now if only i could convince it to go to https://finance.yahoo.com/ instead of https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ when in the office it'd be great.
Why are they using Owncloud? Is sabre supposed to be more stable than Nextcloud, or what's the deal?
I've seen that rust based tools seem to be significantly faster on average than their traditional C versions. Seems to be due to using newer algorithms that make use of modern CPU features.
Maybe a couple of freebies (with watermarks with link to your site for viral growth and license for personal use), then upsell with credits. You mentioned newspapers - I think you could charge a bit more for a full commercial license for the outputs - but it is fairly trivial for a graphic designer to replicate this in photoshop in 2 mins so there is probably a limit to the max fee.

Subscriptions are good for recurring revenue but maybe offer that as one option, not the only option? A lot of people drop off at that point.

I used to do these tilted 3D dof screenshots in After Effects a lot for videos - that is a use case I would pay for, if it’s quick enough - it was always a bit time consuming in AE and also a lot of people need videos but not everyone can use AE.
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> Obviously the high wages in tech are an upward drag on all other wages, so it's logical to focus on this area.

If you're looking at it through Keynes's perspective there's not a lot of investment that the highly-paid tech workers actually carry out with their total comps, many of them just save most of it in view of early retirement. According to Keynes that's bad, it's just money left not doing anything in view of the famous accumulation.

Supposedly, the money spent on those very high comps would be better spent by the companies themselves carrying out their own investments, and if not successful in doing that then those companies should return the money to the shareholders so that the latter would carry out their own investments. In either case, there would be higher chances of accumulation.
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Not a bad play. The companies that are below the top 15 are all starving for talent and have way lower stress and often far better work life balance and not terrible pay.

The top companies are political nightmares because the pressure and competition levels make them insane.
But that's MIT not Apache
Somewhat small.

Gen 11 appears to have had some quality issues (general freezing) and Gen 12 was able tk resolve over time.

Frameworks run a tad hot on Linux as well
Not going to be popular to say, but Dont think they should be using "quantitative easing" at all.

All it did is kick a can down the road and allow a bunch of dishonest players to scoop the cream off the top.
For my own app https://screenrun.app/ that also produces outputs, I was thinking credits: eg $5 gives you 50 screenshots (or videos in my case). No subscription and people get debited only when they use the tool. Would be nice to add referrals so they could earn credits when others sign up?
In Canada, the provinces of Alberta and BC require a permit to purchase and wear body armor. That said for Alberta the law only came into force in 2015 or so. Before AFAIK there were no restrictions.

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/stat...

https://open.alberta.ca/publications/b04p8
It sounds like you imagine a totalitarian regime’s rise as a one hit move, with it rising to power and immediately abolishing laws, etc. in reality, it’s usually a slow crawl with another kind of freedom being taken away every time. With any such increment towards totalitarianism, folks like you will stress how this particular small step isn’t the one thing that enables totalitarianism.
Totalitarian rulers like Orban and Erdogan owe everything to people like you.
The prisoners' dilemma is one of a whole class of thought experiment "games" that are defined by the structure of the payoff matrix. These games are generally framed in terms of two or more "players" making simultaneous choices.

In that context, not being able to objectively see the choice made by other players making their own choice is functionally equivalent to making simultaneous choices. You can re-order when the players make choices and communicate at will without changing the payoff matrix and mathematical model.
Amazing idea - everything that disrupts slow and expensive bank models is very welcome.

I am just looking for similar service for Japanese market - a lot of small payouts/transfer - would love to use yours if you do play there
Show HN: Itera Mall – a tycoon game made in Java
This is a game I am actively working on made with Java and Libgdx.
The game is free, but closed source for now.
Every bit this. How about the freedom to ship something without having an ideological position on when/how it links against other code.
> It’s almost like the wealthy buy and forget million dollar apartments, like you and I would buy and forget a $1 pen.

Quite the opposite. They bought the apartment for 1 million, with a mortgage. They can't get offers for them. So now they can either get the apartments occupied, which means accepting the loss or go on pretending there is no loss.

But if you think this is about perception, you're wrong. Take the 2 options:

1) sell/rent/... for significantly below the "planned" value. This sets the value of the property. Let's say the property is now $500k. Now they have to pay $500k.

2) leave the property unoccupied. This costs them, say, $5k per month, worst case, and this can be improved quite a bit, especially if you are the developer of the property.

You can bet your firstborn they're going to choose option 2 for at least a year before admitting defeat.

Keep in mind that this is mostly not about individual rich people, but about large companies. Property developers and financial institutions are doing this, largely not "rich people". It's investors, not using their own money but your pension fund, who are unwilling to tell their managers what's happening. And so they all "conspire" to make this happen. Conspire should be between quotes because it's not like there's a secret meeting where they made this happen. Oh, and because it's largely your pension fund that's providing the money in here they have a large degree of cooperation from the government. The government can either cooperate or tell you you'll be working until you're 80 years old.

A solution for this is a large pulse of inflation.
Since when does ios devices have weaker hardware (besides lower RAM)? Even as per the article, years old, low-end iphones easily beat out flagship android devices CPU-wise, to the point it is not even funny. Apple is just generations ahead in CPU design.
Another tangential but related one is core architectural decisions made early on.

Apple wanted to build apps using web technology, but realized it was nowhere near fast enough. So they reused parts of the OSX toolkit, including the programming language which compiles down to optimized assembly. (and it wasn't even that great in performance due to obj-c's way of doing things, it had more runtime overhead due to the message passing system).

Meanwhile, Android always was on Java and the JVM, which, while pretty fast, isn't as fast or energy-efficient as a lower level language. If I recall correctly it took something like five years - and quadcore CPUs - before Android started to get close to iOS in terms of perceived performance and speed, and the iPhone still beat Android phones in terms of energy efficiency. It took even longer than that (again, if I recall correctly) for the iphone to even start having a dual-core CPU.

And Apple is doing it again with their own CPUs now, the energy efficiency of their new macbooks with no compromise on performance is really impressive.
One of my faves is the guy who created Homebrew getting turned down by Google even though something like 80% of the company uses it.

Or how about the time a clueless recruiter asked DHH how many years of Rails experience he had and he replied "all of them."
Yes, you can complain and it is enforced. But, it was not big companies conspiracy against the small ones.

That part is just alternative/imaginary history based on OPs ideological outlook.
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The overall economy has record low unemployment. Tech layoffs are nowhere near 1M. Any direct intervention is likely to produce bad side effects that could be actually worse for everyone. Also, layoffs can be good for the overall economy than avoiding it, after the labor allocation is suboptimal.

https://eig.org/dynamism/

https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2022/the-decline-in-employment...

I fully expect these layoffs will provide necessary labor for the next generation of startups and smaller firms that will drive the future growth, just like dotcom crash did and the financial crisis did.
I think I played Dragon's Lair just one time, and never played Space Ace; they were gorgeous to look at, let alone the fantastic audio, but I didn't find interesting games where one had essentially zero control on what the character was doing, and all it needed was pushing the right button at the right time. There were much more compelling games at the time, and I thanked both DL and SA for grabbing other players away from them at the arcade:^)

thread hijack: one game I liked a lot in the mid 80s but don't recall the name and failed to find later as retro emulated, assuming it does exist as such, is that one fantasy style platform in which a character fights in a dungeon against various creatures, one of which is a flying manta. Unfortunately I don't recall other details, but for some reasons I liked the flying manta a lot, probably because at the time I did some scuba diving with my father and always wanted to see one live, but that would have been impossible in our sea.
Erm, what? Stinky tofu is just a fermented tofu. Yes, it has a strong smell, but surely you've had fermented or pickled food before? Like, maybe sauerkraut or kimchi? Does a kimchi pickling jar smell any better? It's not some kind of mythological horror food, it's a common and reasonable dish that many normal people enjoy. I've had it as a cold appetizer and as a deep-fried hot appetizer. It's fine both ways.
There's one combining a heat exchanger and photovoltaics: https://triplesolar.eu/en/introduction/

> The front side of the PVT heat pump panel is similar to a solar panel and has solar cells to generate electricity. The backside is a heat exchanger that supplies the energy source for the heat pump. The heat exchanger-collector collects energy form the ambient temperature and additionally from daylight and sunlight.

Not sure how it does throughout the whole season.
It’s completely legal, even under GDPR. You need to have a grounds for processing personal data. Consent is the easiest one to defend, but there are other grounds available. One of those is “legitimate interest”, which if you’re using you have to consider how the rights of the data subject will be protected.

Recital 47 (point 7) of the GDPR explicitly points out that direct marketing is NOT forbidden. https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-47/

You do need to take appropriate steps to balance the rights of the people you’re cold calling against your legitimate interest however, like maintaining a blacklist of people who have told you they don’t want to be contacted, not harassing a single target with too many calls etc. If you use intent data to target your prospects you’re on more solid ground too.
How much do you know about the machinery running that single website? If you can't answer this question then the reduction in your assumption of how simple it is falls flat.

How many large orgs with hundreds of millions of users have you worked for? Derive from that experience how many people it takes to run their systems...
This might sound like a weird, blunt question, but what's the practical real world implication for an H-1B holder with a good financial situation (12-18 months of survival runway) but a family (spouse, kids in school), and who loses their visa due to losing their job? What actually happens at 60 days? Is there a possibility of just keeping quiet and hoping to find a job before their situation is exposed, or is this super risky in terms of being deported if found out? Could they head back to their home country and start a job search while leaving the family in the house/school in the US? Or are they literally risking their spouse and kids ending up in an immigration detention center somewhere? What is the likelihood of it all being OK if they end up finding a job but had a gap in their immigration status? What is the likelihood that a minor blip upends everything for an otherwise highly employable person?
People have not left the labor force in the last few months. The labor force participation rate is still on a steady upward march since the initial lockdowns.

Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you simply are unaware of the physical realities (re: limitations) of micro USB and not actively trying to mislead but here’s a real anecdote from someone who routinely repaired micro USB and lightning devices:

Micro USB ports failed considerably faster and more often than lightning. Easily by a margin of 100:1. the design of the “cage” that held the male connector would wear out, the thin center plastic would break, etc. Micro USB was and still is complete garbage.

Apple engineers knew this and thankfully put in the effort to make something better.

The rest of the industry was still trying to pull their head out of their ass and apple had this awesome durable new connector. That’s what really happened.

Now, years later people like you have either forgotten or I guess maybe never saw the comparison up close for prolonged periods but it tires me to see this careless and ignorant argument brought up time and time again.
But GPLv2-licensed Linux is also everywhere?
Palo Alto’s first tech giant was a horse farm
https://archive.ph/JTE6x
How to use and build your own distroless images
Security and efficiency are key goals in production systems. This begins when we build our application images and look for a suitable base image. So what are good base images and how do distroless images fit into this picture?
I remember in 1999 there was a project to reimplement a bunch of these tools in perl:

https://perlpowertools.com/

I even contributed a little, back then. I guess writing basic versions of "ls", for example, is trivial. But there's a lot of work getting all the tools done, with all the flags implemented and behaving as expected.

I guess there are tools like busybox, toybox, and similar, which also implement a lot of "stuff" to varying degrees of completion. From my side the biggest takeaway from those projects is the sheer convenience of deploying a single binary and installing symlinks to change functionality.

I replicated something similar with my sysbox project, collecting tools together in one golang binary with various subcommands:

https://github.com/skx/sysbox

I use at least one of those tools on a daily basis, though I suspect they're not so universally useful.
India finds 5.9M tonnes of Lithium deposits
My situation is kind of different. DevOps guy with 10+ years of experience. I've been fully remote for the past seven years, but the past five years I haven't had any choice but to be fully remote because I am staying with my family in SE Asia. Since I'm not in a position to move at the moment, I can only take remote roles.
what about the Chrysler building?
Armata – The Story Is Over
Hmmmmm.

Reading the aside

In fact IEEE floating-point math is designed to, whenever practical, give the best possible answer (correctly rounded)

Made me realize - there are not "just" four billion floats, there are four billion floats multiplied by however many levels of rounding you want to test against.

The "ninety seconds" doesn't qualify if the test harness was multithreaded. If it wasn't, a modern >30 core box (maybe buried in CI somewhere) should be able to manage quite a few rounding levels without difficulty thankfully.
I wouldn't. I'd go outside in the snow. My wife claims the same. Don't take this as negative commentary directed at the author of the article. If this works for them, great! I'm just saying that it isn't a solution that would work for me and my wife.
Moreso than all BSD combined, enjoying their contributions from Apple and Sony, among others.

Also regarding GPL versus MIT compilers, guess whose column wins out in red squares,

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20
Yes. When the planet brakes and accelerates, all the liquid sloshes about.
Ha, sounds familiar. I doubt AI will be able to automate that sophisticated process ;)

I suppose AI needs to be able to reason and we are still a long long time away from AGI according to experts.

Btw, what’s the CAT step?
it's not Thunderbird, but Seamonkey is like the old Netscape Communicator, with an integrated full "unixy" email client MUA. It's very old school.
If the company is worker owned will they start to exploit themselves? Like e.g. über drivers and gig workers?
Bizarrely, #5 in rated the absolute worst in the world is a brand of mild and boring French grandpa candy. For US readers, imagine Werther's caramels being voted as one of the most disgusting foods. Wut?
(this comment to be replaced by a link or other information as soon as I remember to put the book in my hand when I'm next standing near it)
It is no surprise this tech is from Italy. At least in Europe this is the main reason you do not find solar panels in cities.
The ideological position is the whole point of the GPL, after all. If you're using someone else's labor, it's only fair they're allowed to dictate the terms of how you're allowed to use it.
First job out of college I was given, with no oversight or training, access to thousands of peoples SSNs, names, phone numbers and addresses. I also had a private investigator locate someone from my childhood once and got not only their phone number, address, and SSN but their entire family and neighbors and anyone who had a name similar to theirs. It's outrageous how insecure everything is.
Goodwill. And the fact that people can do any number of other things to get the same effect without paying. What are you really asking?
I agree with the other comment...don't take it too hard. All the old heads here have been through this a few times before. The dot-com bomb. Then 2008. It will all come back up in time. Software isn't going away.
This was an experiment from 1949, the privatization of the railways started in 1994. They really have nothing to do with each other in this case.
I meant no disrespect to you and apologize if it came across that way. It's a weirdness (in my opinion) of English and how we adapt Latin words into our grammar in inconsistent ways.
I think it's possible that eliminating the basis step up could change a lot of incentives to do this sort of maneuver, yes.

For folks this wealthy, I doubt the difference in tax brackets make much of a difference. What's classified as income is probably such a small portion of what they get taxed on that it just doesn't matter.