skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I work it’s months, and fights, and maybe even several meetings. And that’s only if you fill out the correct form the exact right way. Any slight deviation and your ticket is closed weeks after you opened it with the field you got wrong.
These changes:

> the development of an Innovation Stream under to the International Mobility Program to attract highly talented individuals, options for which include

>

> employer-specific work permits for up to five years for workers destined to work for a company identified by the Government of Canada as contributing to our industrial innovation goals

> open work permits for up to five years for highly skilled workers in select in-demand occupations

and:

> the creation of a STEM-specific draw under category-based selection to issue additional invitations to apply under the Express Entry program
I'm glad you mentioned this in the comments - I was wondering if they were going to touch how applications are sandboxed and everything. I would imagine that is a large part of current 'sluggishness'.
>Also the internet wasn't as big a thing so marketing hadn't taken over computing yet.

Java it's an exception. Every company and his granma used that.
Pension, lol. Social Security is a pyramid scheme and the only condition in which it was sustainable was "infinite growth in a finite world", which isn't even remotely realistic.

I am already 100% confident I will never see a penny from it, and as a result, I'm saving and investing so aggressively that I'll be on track for my investment income to exceed my FAANG income before I'm 40.

Relying on unsustainable government wealth redistribution programs is cargo cult behavior.
Idk, I'm firmly in the "hybrid works best" camp. Face-to-face collaboration has no alternative, sorry. In jobs where you have to actually engineer instead of build CRUD web-app #2,000,001, it's very hard to be effective without in-person communication. Most people are not great at the async types of comms that are necessary for that to scale to remote work.
Ask HN: Should a SaaS interface be responsive?
Hi,

I'm building an MVP for an idea I've got(a tool to automate some parts of marketing)

I've almost finished the main part of the UI, but now that I think about it there is likely no way I can make the experience pleasant on a phone.

On one side I'm sure no sane person would want to use a tool like this on a tiny phone screen, on the other hand, I'm not sure what to think when I look at mobile vs desktop users stats in general.

Of course I can make the landing page responsive, but making the actual tools responsive doesn't make sense or even seems actually feasible to me.

Do you think it can ever make sense to build a SaaS without thinking about responsiveness in 2023?

Thanks
Show HN: EGov – pre-travel planning with real time eVisas statistics
Hi!

I'm Ayline, a student currently working as an intern in web development in a travel startup. I had the opportunity to utilize a private API and create a website called eGov. This app gather datas such as approval rates, processing time or uptime of different eVisa government pages and allows visitors to report incidents and build a community powered platform about best and worst performing government sites.

Beginning with basics knowledge of ruby on rails I started the app evolved along with my skills. I used sidekiq and redis for the background jobs, I learned how to connect a REST API and build a webhook listener. The CSS framework is Tailwind, efficient and easy to learn. Finally I discovered MRSK, a new deployment tool, a little bit complex to set up but becomes handy when configured properly.

I have a lot of features ideas to add to eGov in the future, but I would be happy to hear about yours if you have any.

Thanks for your feedback!
god damn what a BS article (imo) none of the points make real sense
So what? The average user is going to assume that it can’t be run (which is a good thing, as we don’t want people to run random unsigned binaries they find on the internet), and the tech-savvy ones will find a way.

It’s not like Apple is stopping you from running it. 1 quick google search and there you go. It’s a good design, in my opinion.
>Plastics are made from by-products of oil and gas refining; many of the chemicals involved, such as benzene and vinyl chloride, are carcinogens.
This is like arguing that table salt is dangerous because one of the chemicals involved, chlorine, is a chemical warfare agent. Despite the title of the article, they don't provide much evidence of plastic actually poisoning people outside of plastic recyclers and textile workers.
No one's gonna use steganography but nerds.
> Chances are excellent Rubio might be doing this to try and draw attention away from several state supreme court rulings striking down bans on transgender care and drag shows incepted and championed by republicans.

Mostly, those have been federal trial courts (and some, like the Florida drag ban one, also preliminary injunctions preventing enforcement while the case proceeds, not final rulings striking them down) not state supreme courts issuing the rulings.
Yes the stock Mail.app is excellent and what I use, but try convincing somebody who is not a computer professional to get a Mac...
Personally I think there needs to be more studies on all the plastics shedding from clothing. Maybe there is? But I usually see the focus on ingestion. We all inhale plastic microfibers every day. Is it worse then ingestion? Is it mostly inert? Or are we slowly degrading certain functions in our bodies?
I'd have thought that fluorine, like oxygen, is a strong oxidizer (fluorine being even stronger), and so fluorides, like oxides (e.g. rust) would be extremely stable, among the most stable compounds possible. Unless I'm forgetting the other side: Maybe the other half of the compound is not a strong enough reducer? It's a hydrocarbon though, it burns well in oxygen...

That said, even oxides do break down when heated. Like, that's what smelting is...

Hm...
Is the global production so low because of how rare it is, or because there's not many uses, so the small amount of gallium produced as a byproduct of aluminum production is sufficient for current demand?
If it takes that long we'll all be dead before the effects show up.
Introducing OpenAI London
This is like the third incident in the last year. Indian government seems to be sleeping at the wheel. ITT the surprise inspection is absolutely a must. The government should step up, the negative consequences for people and industry are very bad.
At the risk of continuing an argument. I don't just disagree. It's untrue. Opinions as to the nature of reality have long been falsifiable.

More accurately, your first two sentences are more like Union mission statement repetition that doesn't reflect observable reality.

For example, the largest unions in the US can be consistently observed to be political on issues that can't be plausibly connected to the benefit of their members. Unless one were to reason that the interests of their members lies with virtually all partisan political issues. But then we are dealing in a semantics shell-game and not reality.
Try out for the NHL, MLB, NFL, or NBA. Those are part-time jobs and minimum salary is in the $720k (MLB) to 953k (NBA) range. Don't waste your time with the WNBA or MLS, they start in the 5-figures and there are no stock options and the kombucha in the break room isn't very good.
>On the other hand, machines are faster than ever before while doing more than ever before, and apps are more flexible and change more quickly

I suspect this would fall apart the instant you try to rigorously quantify it. Put an actual number on how much faster machines are, and put an actual number on how much more useful stuff is happening. I cannot imagine that all of the slowness could be accounted for. I doubt you'd even account for 10% of it.

>A few milliseconds of UI latency will bother almost no-one.

No, this mindset is a death sentence for good software. All it takes is a few people at each level of the stack making the same excuse. Five milliseconds here, three milliseconds there, ten milliseconds, surely nobody will notice. But it all adds up (or worse, it multiplies in some cases).
It seems that we've long since reached the point where most professionals should be spending most of their time training for abnormal conditions (and the rest of it handling them), but instead we have a rising managerial class whose primary function is to find people to fire: those who haven't produced a visible result in the past couple of days or so.
It's not borderline, it is phishing.
Of course. But it might mean that the 77% of the population that is born in Canada is more accustomed/acclimatized to immigrants. They are not a weird/rare thing, and so they are accepted/liked by a bulk of the population.
Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)
> What should FDA do if upon said random testing there are concerns?

Destroy or return the entire batch, depending on the level of concern.

> How can they and/or the manufacturer trace the causes without documentation?

That shouldn't be the FDA's concern. The FDA's concern should begin and end with the quality of the actual drugs that are entering the US supply chain. The drugs are things in themselves and can be tested as such -- without regard to where they came from or exactly how they were made.
I've been thinking about doing exactly this at my place. I was thinking about Linux and Java. What other formats do we need to worry about? I'm thinking Windows?
"0 years old" does seem weird... some part of that is probably because we seem to refer to children in their first year of life as "X months old".
The iron giant is amazing. Bird is a genius.
Which features? For instance, Kopete had far more features than Slack and Discord combined and using 10X less resources. With inline videos, videoconferences, inline LaTeX rendering and who knows what.

Ironically Spotify and the rest of the Electron turds barely cover the 10% of what we did with Amarok and KDE3 with Kparts and using 10% of the resources.

What we are seeing it's people using damn 18-wheelers with less features than a tricycle.

Opera for instance was propietary but it even had a Torrent/Email client while being usable even under a Pentium 4 at amazing speeds.

Now try that today with Vivaldi.

More IM. Pidgin. Bloat it to the extreme with 4 or 5 or even 10 protocols being run at once while adding lots of plugins such as services for Google Translate, inline videos or HTML parsing until it uses ~512MB of RAM. Still it runs far snappier than Discord, it uses 4X less RAM and a simple Athlon/Pentium III can drive literal thousands of conversations in parallel.
I used these (and actual clipart books) to help put together my school Yearbook in the mid-90s. Now the origin of the word "clip" art is somewhat lost (similar to what the icon often used for "save" actually looks like).
How are you different than Posthog (another YC comoany)?
It was designed to scan photos on device and upload reports as a condition of having iCloud Photos turned on. Since iCloud Photos is turned on by default on iPhones (and more or less has to be turned on if you have a photo library that’s larger than your local storage) it would have applied to the vast majority of users, even those that didn’t even realize “iCloud Photos” was a thing they cared about.

Fortunately Apple has abandoned that plan and now supports full end-to-end encryption for iCloud Photos. It’s still opt-in, but hopefully that will get easier in the future.
I've known a lot of German Shepherds (>10), and while they tend to be incredibly protective of their owners and their home, they don't seem to have the externally-directed aggression that I've seen from pitbulls. YMMV of course.

Also, FWIW, the only dogs I have been bitten by were a Chihuahua and a Pomeranian.
Cameras are owned by councils and used to catch minor crimes like dog fouling.[1]

Your local police own several hundred cameras directly. [2]

Your police can request access to any public facing camera at any time. There does not exist a right to decline. No warrant process exists. [3]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/may/22/localgovernm...

[2]: https://www.dyfed-powys.police.uk/foi-ai/af/accessing-inform...

[3]: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
That's possible??
Which chess openings lead to the shortest games? What about the longest games?
Show HN: Tool for Maintenance Teams
The minimum I would accept is $100k CAD. I currently make about $170k USD ($225k CAD), so that's a pretty steep drop that I'm willing to deal with.
What plasticizers, chain extenders, flame retardants, fillers, stabilizers, colorants, reinforcements, blowing agents, antistatic agents, and lubricants are used with PLA?

I'm not asking to play 'gotcha' with your comment, but because when I've attempted to do my own research on this, I find it easy to get information on the polymer itself, but the polymer is never used by itself in a product. As far as I can tell, most polymers are not actually useful without a cocktail of additional chemicals added to them to change their physical characteristics. From my research, raw polymers tend to be extremely brittle and frangible, completely unrecognizable when compared to the products we use made from them.

And those additional chemicals are extremely difficult to find information on. Like when they're used, what they are, etc.
Looks promising! I’ll give it a thorough test. Been working on my own recipe clean up tool [1]. Does your app all the scraping and parsing on the client side?

[1] https://pretty-recip.es/
Not right now. I'll write something up when I have a few minutes.
A bad batch of a drug or precursor does not conform to standards is no good in a safety-critical industry. We are looking at generic drugs, it's not like you have a batch of polyethylene from the pilot plant which does not conform to any standard, and you send it off to SE Asia for use in cheap plastic toys.
"There are an awful lot of people who feel that simply because this is Linux, they have some kind of right to get it for free. Unfortunately, they don't." -- Where in the world did they get that impression?!
Not everywhere. In portuguese, for example, is called Aniversário. With roots from latin annus(year) + vertere (to come back), meaning what comes back every year. There's no reference to the specific event of being born. Only that it's something that happens every year.
I agree that ORMs are bad, but disagree in that I think that SQL is also bad--it has this bizarre natural-ish language syntax that is inconsistent and often difficult to reason about, with a huge number of keywords (including many that are noise-only). I would welcome a simple, modern alternative to SQL. I think the fact that people keep building and using ORMs is evidence that SQL is difficult to use.
Isn’t that picture better than what art historians imagine humans were doing anywhere on the planet?
Looks like API access is only available at $1k/mo.: https://ahrefs.com/pricing
China’s AI firms might further lose chip access in new US ban
If it's important -- either for typical use or as a differentiating feature -- to use this on a phone I would go with a mobile-first UI that can scale up to desktop rather than a desktop UI that somehow needs to compress itself down to fit in a mobile UI. I would check out the work Ionic has done with the mobile-first/PWA approach.
Well, in ORM's defense, it auto-generates the "data transfer objects" from the schema for you, so you don't have to. You can save minutes of typing in exchange for years of painful maintenance.
If anyone else is curious, they're talking about this video (happens at 5m42s):

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-o9MqN86eE#t=5m42s)
If we’re talking about people aged 35, (1) doesn’t seem to fit. Maybe (2) is the crux.
Well, they can't make unannounced spot checks easily without the cooperation of the host government.
Defense-in-depth, especially at both the beginning and ends of the supply chain. All US pharmacies (retail and otherwise) should be required to capture a random sample of 0.1% of stock to the FDA for comprehensive mass spec characterization processed at federal labs with data released to the public openly. This data must be correlated with complementary point-of-production batch sampling. The data should agree, and would annihilate cheating, scamming, negligent, and incompetent manufacturers from harming patients.
i think by "magic prompts", what the previous post meant was that you knew all the possible commands (e.g., "Music, playlist alpha").

in theory, you could just look at a manpage for the speech api and know every keyword. there's no manpage for siri/alexa so you don't know what the commands are -- you just have to guess and when it works it supposedly "feels like magic"
This is a bit like saying asbestos may be a hazard in walls but I just can't seem to get the knack for not lighting my house on fire :(

I say that partially as a joke but also it does sort of sound a bit absurd, in the sense that your cooking techniques are just sort of wrong if you are repeatedly burning food to your non-non-stick pan. You need an oil or fat on your pan to provide a buffer or to bathe the food in liquid.
As pointed out elsewhere. My comment wasn’t really on outlook itself. There are other things that bind me to MS ecosystem.

I’m sure that’s true for a lot of people.
snarky gen-x attitudes can be fun, but i think these days there's a high of a risk that they'll be taken the wrong way.

but yes, this is the lament of the senior developer or manager. the ideal is that people have the freedom to explore, and that they feel good for figuring things out, but that ultimately they're subtley shepharded such that they don't fall into infinite gravity wells or crash the ship along the way.
In one of my tries, I got a 3D model for the Geo guesser puzzle. Anyone know what/where this is: https://imgur.com/gallery/7r13Et9 ?

Edit: I had saved the url, but I don't know how to use it - https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m...
Related observation from 2017: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
That rings a bell :-)
The social consequences of cars was "white flight" and decimation of inner cities. Super bad. But hardly a reason to avoid cars. The real cause was lack of public transportation to suburbs which is a failure of policy.

Same with airbnb, blame lawmakers for failure in policy and try to change that. Avoiding the technology/system won't change the supply/demand economics.
Theres no need to generalise and dehumanise a whole group of people like that.
Hello hackers!

We're thrilled to announce that Shuttle has reached its beta phase! After an incredibly successful alpha phase with over 4,000+ users, 4,000+ deployed projects, and 3,100+ GitHub stars, we're excited to share this major milestone with our community of developers and contributors.

Shuttle, a Rust-native cloud development platform, revolutionizes backend development by streamlining code development and infrastructure management directly from your code. Our goal is to provide the fastest backend development experience for Rust.

During our closed alpha phase, we experimented with different approaches and made a breakthrough with the use of macros for resource provisioning. With just a single line of code, developers can access everything they need, simplifying infrastructure management.

*Why should you give Shuttle a go?*

Navigating complex consoles and writing extensive YAML files for infrastructure configuration can be daunting, setting up and wiring all the infrastructure is a time-consuming and error-prone process. There is also a steep learning curve that can detract individuals and teams from focusing on core application logic. By utilizing Infrastructure from Code in a cloud development platform, we can address these challenges for the quickly growing community of Rust backend developers and teams.

Rust, known for its safety, concurrency, and performance, is an excellent choice for creating efficient and reliable applications. Incorporating annotations into the main function allows you to leverage code generation and resource provisioning, streamlining your workflow and minimizing manual infrastructure management.

This approach offers several benefits for various use cases, such as rapid prototyping and easy scaling of applications. Using Shuttle, you are simplifying the integration of development and operations processes, promoting collaboration and reducing the potential for errors since you are getting compile time insurance that you are getting the right infrastructure.

--

We've got a lot of exciting things in store and are very excited to what the near future brings.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts!
Wow that's a big jumble of racist nonsense.
I recently-ish switched to Ubuntu and tried to give their weird gnome a try, but it just became a nightmare of addons and then the addons started conflicting or something. Anyway I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not smart enough to use a desktop environment.

For my laptop, I’ve used i3, polybar (to get pretty bar at the top), rofi (a fine launcher), autorandr (detect and switch to my monitor and turn off laptop screen when I plug in), and… a random Arch Linux forum post to get automatic accelerometer based screen rotation going.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243005

I bet there’s a fancy tool out there but this script seems to work after a little customization, and it is only a couple lines, so it can be understood!
"The word 'Plastic' needs to die." ... "its terrible to stereotype them all into one category."

I disagree, because, that's like me telling you "The word 'Cancer' needs to die." etc.

That would imply you'd be required to tell me the specific cancer you refer to when you say "you aren't going to get cancer from PLA or Teflon" etc.

General terms exist for a reason.
Yeah I redid the whole thing and copied before the last step. Successfully created a 211 character password.
If that were the case, wouldn't the "Sense of Congress" be that UAP programs are hiding corruption and fraud, rather than "to integrate any recovered exotic technology into the nation’s broader industrial base"?
I would take Tangled over Moana any day of the week. Moana looks fantastic and the music is good, but the story of the movie left me pretty cold.
Do you consider single use plastic bans to be excessive and authoritarian?
> give their goal of breaking e2ee have some emotional societal weight.

Breaking E2EE is their goal. CSAM is the McGuffin.
Curious. They develop a feature, receive tons of opposition, go quiet, now they oppose it?

Waiting for this to inevitably pass and for then to get to play the good guy card.
Multiplayer? Is this a game?

How extendable is this? Can I add my own blocks? And is this a commercial project with open core, or a truely open source-project?
I think most people can understand that re-runninf quality checks to fudge the results and destroying records as soon as you realize inspectors have arrived is pretty bad.
> Especially as there is a wide variety of potential problems, and you can't easily test for all of them.

Such as?

Most quality issues in drugs -- purity, composition, dissolution rate, presence of mycotoxins, etc. -- are very, very easily testable.

What's more, most of the things that are not easily testable would not be picked up in a facilities inspection.
How the I-95 Bridge Reopened Just 12 Days After Fiery Collapse
Just adding promotion

- d8N#
pawn moves and promotes to a knight resulting in checkmate (it can happen)
Argonne Aurora A21: All’s Well That Ends Better
I don't get it. Is this Redditese for a form of protest?
Can your elaborate on your trigger here?

Why did you feel that the phrasing minimized it enough to miss the point?