skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, these too-low lower bands are negatively impacting the job market for everyone. Companies have no incentive to increase their pay if they know they'll always find someone willing to take the minimum band for a couple of years just to get into the country.

IMHO, the minimum salary required for a blue card/work visa, in any country not just Germany, should be slightly above what the median wage is for locals in similar positions as the point of skilled immigration should be to uplift the market, otherwise it's just another wage suppression scheme with extra steps that only benefits the employers at the expense of the workforce which now have less bargaining power.
(2007).
I'm glad they're going after the 800 lb gorilla. Then maybe all the 100 lb chimpanzees and orangutans will take notice.
Show HN: Envkey-VSCode – Autocomplete/type-checking for env vars in 46 languages
envkey-vscode is a VSCode extension that provides autocomplete, type checking, and peek-on-hover for environment variables in 46 different programming languages. Instead of a typeless, error-prone blob, the environment now acts like a strongly-typed object in every language you work in.

I’ve been using this extension myself for a couple weeks now and it feels like a pretty significant upgrade to my development workflow, especially when working on integrations across multiple languages, so I thought it was worth showing you all.

envkey-vscode relies on EnvKey, an open-source, end-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets manager that is focused on security and ease-of-use. It’s cross-platform, can integrate with any language or host, and can be cloud-hosted or self-hosted. Getting a project integrated normally takes a couple minutes.

More on EnvKey: https://www.envkey.com

Building and testing it has been an interesting process, as I relied quite heavily on ChatGPT/GPT-4 to cover languages that I’m not very familiar with. It helped me to develop regexes to cover the common forms of environment access in each language, as well as to produce small test cases and Dockerfiles that can run them. While it took a lot of passes and tweaking to root out hallucinations and get each language right, I don’t think there’s any way I could have built a tool like this in a reasonable amount of time. Having a single `test` command that runs examples in dozens of languages is pretty amazing—sort of like a rudimentary version of Replit that runs locally.

All the code for the extension lives in EnvKey’s monorepo here: https://github.com/envkey/envkey/tree/main/public/sdks/tools...

I’m planning to write up a blog post on this process and what I’ve learned about how to get the most out of GPT on a polyglot coding project like this. If you’re interested, you can sign up to get notified here when this post is live: https://envkey.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=623039cd8518...
I talk about political matters for ideas, education, and stimulation (mine and the other person's), rather than to beat them into taking on my position. I'd certainly walk away from a conversation long before I'm worn down into taking on their views.

I think this interchange of thought and sharing of ideas is the true essence of discourse. That other thing is more of a verbal tribal battle. I can see issues with bots swinging the political landscape in ways that cause harm, but I think there is good reason to think discourse might flourish. Fundamentally, if the competitive arguers are discouraged, whilst the curious and conversational are encouraged, or at least not hurt, then discourse itself wins.
hey Computer Reuse people ! here in the San Francisco Bay Area, multiple, talented and hardworking, committed and professional, no-profit orgs for re-use and refurbishment financially failed, painfully, despite years of effort. It coincided with the move of the masses to phones, away from the desktop. Secondly, relentless obstructionism and outright dirty tricks from the major vendors. Third, falling prices on high-spec new equipment.

There are literally warehouses with desktop computers in good condition, stacked to the ceiling, with locked doors and teenage gamers from poor areas loitering outside. Its ridiculously dysfunctional.
My RH support experience was bad enough for me to switch to Rocky Linux. I suppose people's experiences in life can be different?
Didn't they threaten to sue the cable/ISP companies for the same thing? Whatever happened with that.

IMO that's a more significant problem.
I can't see a company address, contact person or email address in the terms-of-service. Deep in the documents I see data is stored in Sweden and legal jurisdiction is Paris. Could you link to your Linkedin profile maybe
> It was discussed if a RHEL entitlement holder would then be able to share that out, however that would cause the RHEL subscription to then be invalidated as that was against the subscription contract.

Isn't IBM violating the GPL with such a contract, in particular this sentence of it? "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
so golang is a poor man's erlang?
> No one is tethering their home purchase budget to BTC.

Whether you tether the purchase of a home to bitcoin or the US dollar is more a state of mind, tribalism, etc. Both the US dollar and bitcoin have no intrinsic value. They both derive value from a human belief system - I believe they have value and that others believe the same. They are both just networks in that sense.

> Even "jug of water in the desert" is tethered more to dollars than BTC because what are you more likely to have in your pocket, and why?

This is silly. But to add to the silliness - you could have bitcoin in your brain. Just memorize your words.

> Dollars are tethered to the government taxing us in dollars, so we get paid in dollars, and our government has nukes & aircraft carriers and such

Now THIS is truly different. The US dollar has violence on its side. I concede that bitcoin is a peaceful currency - at least thus far. Hopefully it stays that way.

> Other than its usefulness as "untraceable" (what people think, but not what is true.. it is more like "unblockable") cash, and for money laundering/drugs.. it is a trading instrument for punters.

This is political bias and parroting talking points of anti-bitcoiners. While your other points are thoughtful, this is not. Why not just call bitcoin a butthead?
Well, they killed CentOS so I would expect nothing less. What would the recourse of Rocky/Alma be then?
Yep, 8 screws and you'll need to supply the power cable (for anyone that doesn't know eurorack they're just a few dollars)

https://moogmusicsupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000...
Ads while navigating?

I've never experienced that.... That would be insane...
Biden missed deadline for declassifying intelligence on origins of Covid-19
I have been using iCloud's new burner email feature recently, and signed up for the gpt pro account with it. My worries are low :)
What I'd really like would be for them to decouple the shopping/delivery of goods side of things from the streaming stuff, both music and tv/movies.

I have no use for their streaming stuff but have no option to not pay for it if I want the deliveries.
There are lots of things from 14th century English that are no longer used today. Language evolves.

Singular “they” has been considered an error for a couple hundred years.
Alternatively, everyone will have chatbots that act as their agents. It will be a huge cesspool of chatbots arguing with each other.
Could it have? I’ve never heard anyone claim good things about South Africa as a country.
Yeah but it is the situation.
I remember a roommate saying "I love math!". When I talked with her a bit I understood she likes doing solutions of easy integrals\derivatives because they are simple, relaxing, and rewarding for her - her math classes were easy and she could get accolades by just doing those simple excersizes.
Ofcourse the distance between that and a proper field of math is vast. But that was math for her.
Well, good luck with your campaign to sway the entire gaming market and change fundamental human behavior.
There are lots of things from Old English that are no longer used today. Language evolves.

Singular “they” has been considered an error for a couple hundred years.
> I dunno, usually I find databases and migrations to be the hard part.

For me, the following tools make that a joy:
- Postgres as the database, which is very predictable and extremely reliable;
- Migrations with Ruby on Rails, that have just the right balance between a convenient DSL and letting you write SQL when necessary;
- The strong_migrations gem that catches in development unsafe commands to run in production, and explains how to make them safe
Devuan and Void Linux are systemd-free alternatives. The first one is a Debian
fork, so should be very familiar to anyone with Debian/Ubuntu experience.
Ask ChatGPT to enable those check boxes and see what happens.
I try not to worry myself too much about these things, in the same way I don't constantly immerse myself in politics. within a busy life, clothes, bedsheets and pillows are easy and effective targets to eliminate
It hasn't? I remember them announcing I needed a FB account to use it. I stopped following the Oculus after that, and went to the Vive. But that has a more limited market.
There probably are, but given the level of malicious compliance the user base has been exhibiting, how many of those mod applicants do you think intend to make another "pictures of John Oliver" rule? How do you separate the legit mods from people who just want to carry on the protest?

I guess they could audit submission history, but there's a chance of that blowing up as users decide the mods are shills. I've rarely seen Reddit as mad as when they decide someone is a shill, and the vitriol is likely to make the new mods' lives hard. Especially so if they're new mods, and aren't as used to people hurling insults and maybe death threats at them (I don't know how likely death threats are, but it seems like everyone with any online visibility gets them these days).

I'm sure they could eventually find mods, but I think there will be chaos in that process. I guess the question is whether they're willing to extend the current chaos to keep free moderation, or if they'd rather pony up some money to end it now.

Edit: added "free" in the last paragraph, last sentence between "keep" and "moderation"
RHEL is dead, long live rocky
Okay, assuming that’s true, I’m suggesting that if we paid these positions better, maybe more “normal” people would want to do these jobs. So maybe you don’t significantly change the incentives for existing corrupt people, but you change the incentives for non-corrupt people to join government ranks.
The down voters just proved your point.
> Many times businesses that don't pay to be listed either won't show up on the map/in search or at best show up basically last

Well that explains a butt ton.... Keep having issues with maps showing places on the other side of the city instead of the 15 places in walking distance...
> - items are guaranteed to be packed tightly in memory, general allocators sometimes need to keep some housekeeping data next to the actual item memory

> - it’s easier to keep ‘hot items’ in continuous memory ranges, so that the CPU can make better use of its data caches

These are huge advantages. Memory managers tend to keep pools for specific allocation ranges, eg, a pool for < 24 bytes, a pool for <= 64, etc up to, say, a megabyte after which it might be delegated to the OS, such as VirtualAlloc on Windows, directly. This is hand-wavy, I'm speaking broadly here :) This keeps objects of similar or the same sizes together, but it does _not_ keep objects of the same type together, because a memory manager is not type-aware.

Whereas this system keeps allocations of the same type contiguous.

You can do this in C++ by overriding operator new, and it's possible in many other languages too. I've optimised code by several percent by taking over the allocator for specific key types, and writing a simple and probably unoptimised light memory manager which is effectively a wrapper around multiple arrays of the object size which keeps object memory in pools for that type, and therefore close in memory. I can go into more detail if anyone's interested!
That's not really at all how implementing Apple Pay works, and would not affect your non Apple customers. Also, even Apple users can opt to not use Apple Pay if it's offered on a site.
Sony has created or acquihired many of its first party studios that develop original IP specifically for PlayStation. Or they just fund third-party studios to create new exclusive games. You could argue that, if not for Sony, many of those games wouldn't even exist. In recent times, from what I can recall, the only large studio that Sony acquired was Bungie. Which is tiny compared to Bethesda or Activision, and continues to support and release (Marathon) new games on Xbox and Windows.

Now compare this to what Microsoft is doing. They mostly failed to create good first party games on their own (apart from a few gems), and are now resorting to buying up not just individual game studios but whole publishers in order to make their games exclusives to their own platforms.

What Sony is doing is creating real value to players. What Microsoft is doing is primarily meant to create value for shareholders. As a gamer, I strongly prefer the former.
Sounds almost like arguing with a conservative and expecting to convince them with rational arguments.

PS Intended as a lighthearted jab, please don't get offended.
Yep kinda like that. I call it Answer guided monkeying around :) I try and see if I can arrive at the answer using Monte Carlo simulations and then try to work around that. Often times they give valuable insights and help uncover symmetries etc that aren’t obvious.
Try using the UK Amazon site if you want to see dark patterns for Prime subscription that are much worse than the US site has.
It takes a lot to design and build a car and manage its dealerships. It takes orders of magnitude less effort for a mechanic to maintain it, and even less to simply paint and clean it.
Red Hat builds this car - Rocky repaints it and acts far more like Jiffy Lube than like a dealership. Have you ever seen how long it takes, and how much more it costs, to have your oil changed by the dealership? Those focusing on the specialty are able to deliver on it more efficiently and with less expense to all involved.
The good old trickle down.
I was not calling for violence. But having companies continually violate the law, and having no real repurcussions does create a very BAD situation. People pushed into a corner react very badly.

And perhaps companies can go back to WHY the NLRB was created, and what the before-times was like. I particularly don't want to go back to that.

And you can be reminded with a history lesson and education, and not shooting up the bosses house. You all also broke HN guidance by assuming the worst of me too.
The way I recall it explained, is no they aren't -- they aren't preventing you from redistributing (or doing whatever you want with the source), but if you exercise that right, they cancel your RHEL entitlement. Nothing in the GPL forces a company to continue providing services to you because you followed your GPL rights. Kind of a loophole I guess. (Edit: I had read through GPL 2 quite a bit back in the day, I don't know if this loophole was plugged in GLP 3, as I've only read through it a couple of times and there were some things in it that I wasn't able to draw a conclusion from. And I could also be completely wrong about the RHEL contract, that I haven't read through for quite a while).
I visited South Africa in February. You can tell crime is rampant by how every home has 2m walls with barbed wire or electric fencing on top.

Most of the country was still very beautiful, but man Johannesburg is really run down. My father was there 30 years ago and he couldn't get over how this once beautiful city could have come to this. Vacancies and broken windows everywhere right in the city center.

If you're just looking to go on vacation in the general region, Namibia is a better option in my opinion.
> So, in the USA, if I were to make $50,000 in a year producing widgets, the tax rate on that amount would be higher if I made the widgets by hand than if I had a robot produce the widgets for me?

No, you spent $50,000 buying labor vs. $50,000 aquiring machines and parts to build widgets, your taxes and the taxes on the people you bought from would be higher in the labor case.

> Or are you trying to talk about capital gains? The human equivalent of gains on the sale of capital would be profiting from a slave trade

No, the human equivalent of capital gains is capital gains, since all capital gains are earned by hunans or legal fictions representing them. But the labor equivalent is wages; earnings from production are split between capital and labor, the labor share distributed as a mix of immediate and deferred wages, the capital share (eventually) extracted as capital gains, either directly as dividends or by trading future interest in dividends for current money by selling stock, etc.

This is not, however, an alternative to the analysis of taxes impacting the production methods; the two are both different framings of the same facts: capital gains are taxed preferentially to “normal” income which in turn is taced preferentially to labor income.
Here in Canad Canadian Tire was notorious for Rewards Card pressure sign you up right there. Even roaming sales people in suits pestering you right as you walked in the door and cashiers as you were paying.

To cancel? You need to send in a letter via post. that may be changed but I'm guessing probably not.

Oh and the rewards used to be 5% of cash purchases now it's 0.5% dismal. Just a glorified spam farm for your info.
Because we have to assume not everyone can ascertain what are bad faith or dishonest arguments, or even good faith but illogical arguments. People are fallable and can be persuaded by bad arguments. So the point is, given enough time, the person will make a mistake and fall for a bad argument.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Genuine_People_Personali...
Good point; you shouldn't see exactly zero cookies. But all cookies should be "strictly necessary" for fulfilling an explicit user request.
Does it keep a local search history without logging in? Google Maps doesn't. I guess it takes too much storage. :)

By the way, most of the western world are missing out on the best navigation app which is Yandex. Unfortunately it's only available in a few countries.
When one of the companies is a convicted monopolist, yea, it's news.
That’s because the seller is advertising
Assuming they don't have filters onboard, yeah. I thought it was possible to filter out many man-days of CO2 with relatively small filters.
You might be interested in Tainter's work on Collapse of Complex Societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter
https://bit.ly/448HJVI
> I think there’s a non-zero chance it becomes the first anarchy of this present age.

Somalia seems to be pretty close to anarchy. Also maybe Afghanistan after the US exited?
It's not so bad - just don't go to dodgy areas. Everyone that lives here knows not to go to those places or to be alone when vulnerable.

Violence wise, I'd rather live here than in places like London or most of the places in America with high thug-culture populations.
No but you're close, I'm in PEI the neighbour to the north of NS.
I’m not even sure if the point IS relevant at all. The software-side difference between “the user pressed I, am I in command mode?” and “the user pressed I, did he also press Ctrl?” is not that big.

Granted, one is Shift and one is Caps Lock…
Thank you very much.

> Jessica and I have always worked hard to teach our kids not to be mean.

I teach my son to be friendly.
It sounds like this change is going to kill Rocky too, by limiting it to the buggy beta that is CentOS Stream.
The plot you posted shows a clear growth over the last 20 years.

> Also, do you really find that study credible?

I just looked for a local study. In either case, South Florida just this year had "once in 100 year" floods. At this point I would need studies to prove climate change isn't a key driver.
Thanks for sharing. I want to hear more from him. Do you have a recommended book by McLuhan to start with?
"So most times the alternative wouldn't be a fully open source project, but probably a nonexistent one."

That may be true. Or it may stall development of a truly open project, if the open core is widely adopted and people accept it as good enough until what's considered "core" shrinks (e.g. features closed that used to be open) or some other shift.
Appreciate the effort you put into this. In terms of user flow, I typically need one or two of these use cases at a time. In that case, I just type my conversion into a search engine like Google, and often use their default box.

Can you share what types of use cases you've seen people use KodyTools for?
Perhaps their decision was dictated by how easy it was to integrate with one vs the other (drivers, etc).
The Wildfire, the Hunter, and a Decade of Conspiracy Theories
Microsoft's Win16 memory allocator APIs (GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc) also returned handles so the OS could move memory blocks to new addresses behind the scenes. Application code would need to call GlobalLock/Unlock APIs to acquire a temporary pointer to the memory block. The APIs still exist in Win32 and Win64 for backwards compatibility, but now they're thin wrappers around a more standard memory allocator.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/compa...
> Devops doesn't have to be hard. Infrastructure doesn't have to be complex

That's simply not true for anything larger than a few services and a small dev team. The cloud is very complex to do right when you focus on security, performance, and scalability. And Terraform invariably devolves into a nightmare when you have a ton of resources with dependencies between them.
If your Google or Apple account is hacked then yes. If not, then no.
I think the implication is that was sustained by the cash from mining. Now that cash is less flush you can’t have corruption and a working government. It is obvious which was more important to them now.
The problem with corruption is that it gets worse in a situation like this. When there's scarcity of money and opportunity (often caused by corruption), people get even more corrupted to make sure they take care of themselves before anyone else. Which makes things even worse.

How does one even break out of that cycle? Who is the first one to say "I'll give up my corrupt riches so everyone can have a more functioning society?"
I’m not offering an explanation for the behavior, just an observation. “It’s strange that some people are psychotics” isn’t really that controversial of a statement.
This is old news among the trial watchers.

The article author has clarified (and updated the article near the end) that he was informed the email is from 2019 and doesn’t pertain to the Activision acquisition.
https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1671304215006773257

And legal commentators have shared precedent that competitive expressions by management are not necessarily “anticompetitive” per the law.
https://twitter.com/hoeglaw/status/1671267277700755460

Also, this filing is from the private case against the deal (not the FTC case) which was already denied a preliminary injunction given this email.
This is so great -- I've been waiting for this for decades. I always felt the tofurky or "impossible burger" approach was a dead end. Also I have trouble getting enough protein with a plant-only diet.

The big question of course is scale. Seems like the kind of thing that can develop an economy of scale better than the meat grown on the animal (farmers spend a lot of effort growing things that aren't salable, or are barely so, like bones and feathers). And the ultimate (scaled out) cost target is probably much better than the "traditional product" if the environmental impact gets priced into food costs.