skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t something akin to swift UI work well in this situation? I can understand that not having a “component” class to inherit would make building custom components difficult, but if most layout and skinning can be accomplish via functions then you can sidestep the issue for most cases I think…
Let me repeat what I have already state elsewhere : the only way the privacy nightmare ends is when we thouroughly regulate the personal data market out of existence - meaning going one step further than GDPR and just forbid any use of my personal data except in the context of fulfilling an actual purchase or specific request by me and for communicating with me to the extent I allow it. All other uses are banned.
Yes, the grandparent comment also describes the common immigrant experience on a team where the others are native speakers of the work language. It’s not intentional prejudice, but just the wrong kind of accent can leave you excluded because the others start to feel that verbal communication is “harder” with you around.
Shipping one binary is much easier and I don’t even want to solve the problem of shipping deps as separate artifacts
The current placement of our legal mores vis-a-vis a post Social Media world is incongruous.

It is a crying shame, that we don’t have MORE information, given that everything is on a data base.

If we want to have the least intrusive moderation, we want to actually change minds, and have an actual working “marketplace of ideas”, you need this information.

The concern about a bad actor who decides to impose “transparency” is fatuous - they are going to do it anyway, and they are going to do it exactly the manner you are concerned - with an eye to stifle freedoms.

The point of free speech, is not served by preventing transparency. A market overwhelmed by manipulations, virulence, spam, monopolies - isn’t a working market place.

Transparency will help with figuring out what interventions work, and how effectively.

It would be a way to figure out whether social media is a boon or a bane.

Thats the kind of estimation that ends malign arguments hiding behind an unbounded, flexible definition of free speech.
Yes, and what you'll find is that the output of your work product will become magically disconnected from your pay. Management will love your ideas because they came from a consultant. Ideas which come from within the business cannot be trusted, but consultants are expensive, and therefore they are both intelligent and also correct.
Absolutely. It's just about getting into a firm that isn't doing staff augmentation and is building out things for companies. While you will be paid well, it's worth noting that the code will be shit. Worse than code sometimes. That's why the company is outsourcing. I once spent six months just cataloging all the repositories and dependencies a company had. They needed to move to the cloud but they literally had no idea what code they had. Everything worked and so they just never touched it.
I believe for H1B they have to post the jobs and demonstrate no qualified American could be found. I've seen companies do this quickly and quietly to satisfy the requirement. I wonder if there a way to identify these opportunities and take advantage of the low applicant pool.
Tried threatening the President recently? Or making art of counterfeit currency? Or encouraging someone to commit suicide? Or print some child pornographers? Or put up some normal pornography on your property?

The US is full of restrictions on speech and has been for its entire existence.
Considering there are only few actors (the social media, search, internet infrastructure companies) the coercion is unlikely to stop due to a court decision. The government and the legislature have a lot of leverage, up to an anti-trust action, and instead of threatening emails or public statements they could do it with off the record conversations, which are much harder to sue against -- the public wouldn't even know. The more questionable is the position of a company regarding anti-trust, title VII, {something else I can't think of}, the more leverage the government has.
I believe the recommended[1] way to deploy Talos to Hetzner Cloud (not bare metal) is to use the rescue system and Hashicorp Packer to upload the Talos ISO, deploying your VPS using this image, and then configuring Talos using the standard bootstrapping procedure.

This post series is specifically aimed at deploying a pure-metal cluster.

[1] https://www.talos.dev/v1.5/talos-guides/install/cloud-platfo...
At what point can we finally admit there is a coordinated war on against freedom of expression online?

The platforms censor on their own accord, the government pushes the platforms to censor even more, the legislature is talking about ways to make the platforms censor more yet.

It seems they're afraid of the situation where anyone can publish to anyone regardless of content. Our efforts should be along these lines, on the most popular of devices.

TikTok doesn't even let you access bio links in a normal browser, and you can't copy them. You can get banned from TikTok based on what you have listed in your bio link webpage on a different service.

Instagram doesn't linkify URLs in comments or descriptions.

Apple doesn't let things in the App Store unless they're firmly PG13. This is what killed Tumblr and ruins the photography site 500px's native app.

There are whole domains of URLs that you can't even send in DM on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, or Discord.

Personally I delete my accounts on these and use Signal exclusively, but how do we solve for the society-wide censorship problem?
He qualified it saying it was a hunch… I don’t see where he pushed it as a truth
I expect Python to be more stable over the coming decades than PHP.

PHP had a lot of breaking changes in the last version. Changes which got pushed through despite being quite controversial. I fear that this trend will continue.

Python had breaking changes in version 3, but at least those made the language better. PHP's recent changes were unnecessary and counterproductive.
Oh man, but you're not missing out, you're alienating, you're not excluded from back channels ... you're being targeted for being expensive.
Totally agree but this is improving. SST makes life super easy compared to the Serverless Framework but managing it on your own really sucks.

That said, even with SST it’s hard to beat PHP (or other languages) for DX.
Uber Working on TaskRabbit-Like Service in Potential Expansion
https://archive.ph/Rf41h
My Kia does this too, but the consent screen goes away after a while if you don't do anything.
I'm going through you series now. Very well done.

I thought I would mention that age is now built in to SOPS, thus needs no external dependencies and is faster and easier than gpg.
Easy solution if you're building from scratch --- create a vector image first.

This way you can scale as you want and create bitmaps as needed at any size.
China claims ownership of the Taiwan Strait
If only that was the case! Cars have their own cellular modems and ship off your data without any end user involvement.
It’s not as if it’s directly attributable to an H1B but if a group has eight Indian people on it chances are they’ll converse in their native language from time to time and it’s quite possible they’ll have a group chat and a close relationship (given their shared similar circumstances). Not difficult to see how an outsider might feel excluded.

That said, that same group often faces exclusion in the wider company (and coming together is often in reaction to that), so it’s kind of miserable for everyone.
In theory yes, but not in practice. Job roles are often downplayed. The basic mechanism where titles, roles, and pay are kept in sync because people will jump to new jobs breaks down in the H1B system.
I’m not familiar with the US visa rules, but aren’t companies supposed to demonstrate that they can’t source talent domestically before bringing people in on visas? This seems odd and damaging to the US economy. And I say this as a non-US person
> can you point to a single death from cannabis, anywhere?

I mean...yes?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-mother-ple...

I think they were talking about the psychoactive effects you can end up with, that can basically trigger issues in some people with underlying schizophrenia or bipolar.

https://adf.org.au/insights/cannabis-mental-health/
Daydream: American companies are allowed to replace well-paid American workers with ill-treated, ill-paid H1B workers all they want...with the small caveat that the highest replacement rates and worst ill-treat/-pay rates must occur the C suite.
Okay thank you, that took me some time to understand, even after reading your comment I thought they typoed the date, but I'm not used to the American date format.
They also can’t easily quit since if you lose sponsorship you may have to return to your country of origin.

It’s not “confiscating passports” level but it’s definitely exploitative.
"Show Dead" would have to be enabled in your profile to see the remaining 9 comments. Bots cycle through accounts. The patient bot owners warm up the accounts first. This one did not.
There's limited concern if you had a good master password right? I've changed everything important long ago but still plenty of small stuff I wouldn't love leaking.
Here's how it works in practice: You create a job posting that's buried on your careers page and has so many very specific requirements for an underleveled role (because it's custom-made for the H1B person you want to hire) that no local worker can possibly meet them all. Then you half-heartedly phone screen a few people to check the box before throwing up your hands and saying, "We tried and weren't able to find any local workers; we have no choice but to hire an H1B!"

This could all be fixed by making H1B visas an auction system, but all the H1B legislation changes I've seen have been half-hearted at best.
Maybe Joseph Kong's books?

Designing BSD Rootkits

https://nostarch.com/rootkits.htm

FreeBSD Device Drivers

https://nostarch.com/bsddrivers.htm

Playing Games With Kernel Memory ... FreeBSD Style

http://phrack.org/issues/63/7.html#article
U.S. Government Is Monitoring All Global Entry Members Daily
> go has proper flag parsing as part of the standard library and C doesn’t

That's the whole point. Every single command line program needs command line parsing. Go helps me get the job done, C forces me to write my own parser, or find some third party one.
Why "not supposed" to say out loud? Sounds simply as a problem of the only X on a team of Ys. Cultural (and other) differences can be hard, it is just a fact of life.

Think of it as being in the shoes of a lonely non-American in the country of Americans, if that is any consolation.
There's a little arm that extends from the dash and scrapes a few skin cells off your neck, HHGTTG style.
A PERM (permanent labor certificate) actually requires prevailing wage for a specific job position at a specific area. Just go check this website: https://flag.dol.gov/programs/prevailingwages
I would imagine that making threats through 'off the record conversations' (which can easily become on the record) would look even worse to the courts than their current strategy.
Have seen age pop up here and there, but haven't spent the cycles to see where it fits in yet, so I just went with what I knew.

Will definitely take a look though, thanks!
> Laravel IDEA

Is that a fork of IntelliJ or did they just usurp the “IDEA” branding from JetBrains?

A framework-centric IDE seems silly. Like mini cupcakes.
I much prefer being warned about unused variables and explicitely having to silence those warnings on a case by case basis though - especially when refactoring (one option is to use a wrapper macro MAYBE_UNUSED(bla) macro, or GCC's __attribute__((unused)) or the C++ [[unused]], or the C23 [[maybe_unused]].

But of all those options, "(void)bla;" might actually be the least clutter (and at the same time the most compatible).
Free Elementor Template Kits
Process had probably already set sail before the layoffs.
This seems to be gradually changing in the EU.

Although it's not required, according to [1] 95% of canned or bottled beer sold in the EU now includes the ingredients, 88% the energy, though I can't see a figure for full nutrition labelling.

I see ingredient and energy labels on all the Danish-brewed beers I have, but only the ingredients on a couple of others.

A non-alcoholic beer, of course, has the full nutrition information as it isn't exempt.

https://beerwisdom.eu/
I miss infinite series :-/
So basically FAANG has finally discovered what the entire rest of the IT industry discovered 20 years ago.
Depends on the ‘consulting’ - are you giving strategic advice to the CTO’s office at a multinational? You could be making millions! Are you augmenting an SME’s team as an IC? You can make a little more than an employee after accounting for all the things you have to pay for that tend to be included as an employee.

You tend to need some really awesome work experience to get the former while the latter is fairly easy to walk into.
Streamer in Japan Gets 2yrs Jail Time for Uploading Let’s Plays, Anime Spoilers
Isn’t Monero’s value proposition essentially this? I think swapping it to Monero for this purpose is common.
Me and many other people commented here when the whole thing started that layoffs in a time of record profits and cashflows were basically a strategy to keep salaries low. At this point I honestly don't know how innocent one has to be to think that everything is an organic coincidence and not an orchestrated move.

Companies colluding to make the life of workers worse and boost their profits, that has never happened before in the history of humanity.
> the Coast Guard and Navy are supporting response and rescue efforts, while the Marines are providing Black Hawk helicopters to fight the fires.

[1] https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/08/09/coast-gu...

I understand the impulse to make these comparisons, but it's apple to oranges. 1000 CIA analysts and artilary shells won't help Hawaii. I'm sure more could have been done, but pretending it's nothing also won't help anybody.
> [...] so does Russia since the rest of the world including US allies like Japan, South Korea, Australia, NATO countries depend on their lovely black gold to have functioning economies.

Have you been following the news for the past two years? Russia's sanctioned up the wazoo. No NATO country is buying Russian oil. India is now their number one costumer.
The rollout of 5g has allowed many many more connected devices per tower. Id say they are related.
3 Republicans just saved California’s magic mushroom bill
> H1B at big tech is modern slavery

that's putting it too far - they are free to leave or quit as they wish. Unlike the true modern slavery of which is migrant workers (like described here https://www.antislavery.org/world-cup-2022-the-reality-for-m...), where their passports are confiscated, etc.

H1B is exploiting the rules for cheap labour. It does benefit the H1B holder - since they would otherwise not have signed up. The losers in the situation are the local workers who expect to be paid higher, but is out-competed by these foreign workers.
Like wine, which is apparently full of all kinds of additives.

Some wines are, some aren't. The problem is it requires a lot of research to find out which is which. The fact that the EU has let itself be bullied by the alcohol lobby to not put ingredient and nutritional information on alcoholic beverages is truly shameful.
These don’t really sound like examples of a war on expression, nor are they really related to the government making questionable requests of private companies.

Instagram isn’t obligated to render text in their app in a way that you’d prefer.
> Several car brands also note that it is a driver’s responsibility to tell passengers about the vehicle's privacy policies.

Whoever makes these policies must get a chuckle knowing people will never do this.
Just like in C, where every buffer overflow bug is the programmer’s fault.
In the menubar I can click on Help->Describe->Describe Key or Mouse Operation... and then click on Tools->Compile Project to get information about what Tools->Compile Project does. It's easy to learn about the various tools available to me in a way that I find severely lacking elsewhere. Is it the coolest thing you can do in Emacs? Probably not, but it's something I really appreciate.
Absolutely! If at all possible, go managed, preferably with a cloud provider that handles all the hard things for you like load balancing and so on.

*Sometimes* however, you want or need full control, either for compliance or economic reasons, and that's what I set out to explore :)
and made millions of dollars
> which I'm pretty sure beats both Julia and Mojo

Sometimes "showing the code" is not enough. Show me the benchmark.
Yeah? Last time I installed Microsoft Windows -- I was genuinely giving it a chance -- it asked me during the install if I wanted to see ads.

Well, that's like asking me if I wanted a recreational root-canal, so I answered "no".

Boot into the OS, and the task-menu-bar-thing is spinning with X-box ads and all sorts of other crap.

I dispensed with that shit immediately, and gained a nice little extra disk-space for my /home dir.
PHP dev since 5.0 here. I think the severity of these breaking changes is overstated.

I’ve been able to keep several large business-critical projects up-to-date for years, even up to PHP 8.3, with little to no breaking changes encountered.

PHP 8 didn’t really break adding properties to objects dynamically, it just deprecated one bad-practice way of doing so. I remember worrying about this before upgrading, across my entire project with 40+ Composer direct dependencies, there were zero instances of this deprecated approach being used.

With other breaking changes there’s plenty of notice given (years, even). You can control where and how deprecation notices are logged, there really shouldn’t be any surprises at upgrade time.

“Old PHP” made it easy to write buggy or unpredictable code. Modern PHP feels more like writing TypeScript vs JS, there’s real safety and a much better developer experience now. PHP is having a resurgence for good reason, yes, it’s (marginally) harder to keep up with, but with proper tooling (PhpStorm, phpstan, etc.) the DX is leaps and bounds ahead of where it used to be.

I thoroughly enjoy writing modern PHP. I don’t have to worry about the language doing unpredictable dynamic type casting unless I want it to explicitly. The flexibility of old PHP is still there, but it’s much harder to shoot yourself in the foot accidentally.
It depends on the company and I would bet my life’s savings that if a discrepancy exists at Google, it is not intentional. I have many American friends, friends on TN visas, and friends on H1Bs and we are transparent about our pay (to protect each other from poor business practices). Being involved in the process there are so many legal barriers and red tape and people take it all seriously.

H1B holders will get paid less over time due to not being able to leave companies at the drop of a hat. A similar but less significant effect holds for TN visas. I have not once seen any significant pay discrepancy for two comparable software engineers at the same company based on visa status.
Sounds like a great business plan. Join the layoff news cycle to avoid criticism and get rid of old or innificient employees. Maybe that's why zuck and Sundar are at the top.
The website is more aspirational (as a public Todo list/roadmap) than descriptive in many ways. It's more of an investor-presentation than a developer-overview.
Yeah but it's excessively easy. Rules most likely have changed since I was myself on an h1b 10+ years ago, but iirc all you had to do was show a job posting up for a certain amount of time without being able to hire.
You should see his marriage proposal.

Joking aside, I worked for a big corporation once where our project manager's emails were literally blank, with the actual message in an attached powerpoint.
Managers attempts to empower employees often fail, lead to unethical behavior
I don't know the full story of what led him to jump off the golden gate bridge that night. However, as an educator, as a woman who works in tech, I can see very clearly how a young Black man could feel really pressured and even maybe unworthy in a high stress, predominantly white environment like Netflix far from his family with little support. For someone so young.

I am deeply upset by what has happened here and I hope that Netflix and the tech community will mobilize to take a hard look at themselves and think about how we can support young people, and truly support diversity in our organizations, not just in numbers, but providing actual support.

This is about mental health.
This is about race.
This is about equity.
This is about immigration.

I want answers from Netflix and I want answers from the Tech Community.

I want to know what happened in that office and in the San Francisco Bay Area that made it so Yohanes was not fully supported in his new job.
And for this to be addressed.

I do not accept that this happened. I do not see things working the way they should. I demand answers and change from Netflix, the tech community and policy makers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I for one, am not going to let Netflix blame this on mental health problems in our country. The problem is starting INSIDE our teach companies and we have to take a hard look at how we do things.
As far as I can tell, the reason hierarchy and elites are prevalent everywhere is not because they make a system more efficient- it’s because they make a system more expansionist and violent. When you put someone in a position of power, insulate them from the consequences of violence, and give to them all the benefits of violence, you get a more aggressive and expansionist society. So over time the peaceful egalitarian cultures just happily exist and the violent hierarchies attack all their neighbors, and guess which one tends to predominate.
I came here to recommend Set -- it's a fantastic game to play with kids older than about 7. It requires serious thought rather than just spotting things (not that there's anything wrong with Spot It!) And generally kids have an advantage over older players.
See my reply to ftyers. It's very easy to get around the rules.
if you want to pick who you want to work with, maybe start your own company

and then you will probably figure out yourself that you need the H-1Bs
I believe that, in many places, tech jobs are exempt from such restrictions.
I think they somehow think Kennedy was against the deep state the way Trump is supposedly against the deep state.
Not really equivalent, as in a public space you have an expectation of being filmed (at least in the US.) Facebook isn't claiming anyone in those photos has agreed to anything, the law generally permits it unless the copyright ownership stands in the way. Your presence in any of those photos does not create an explicit grant to rights outside of the implicit grant created by the copyright holder that posts the photo.
I don't see proper flag parsing, I see an argv hack.
Yea I did but after using it quite a bit over the last 24 hours since the SDK came out I’ve already seen far worse lol
They can always reason that they can't hire market rate.
My dad bought a new Renault EV last month. The first thing the salesman asked him:

Salesman: "Do you have a Google account?"
My dad: "Yes, why?"
Salesman: "It's mandatory for purchasing a car with us."

How is that even legal?
Of course: The limits of those restrictions aren’t set by a democratic process, either.
C23 finally relaxes that rule:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2510.pdf

(although some C compilers already allowed it in non-pedantic mode)