skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, everybody checks the scope of access tokens. I mean who doesn't? That would mean that some of our security architectures were impractical.
Previous discussion from Beta 1 announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36070261 (154 points, 60 comments, 3 months ago)
Relevant chapter from the book: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrate...
No because that's not even a consideration. The bar to passing a law like this isn't some greater good market analysis, it's whether it's it literally possible to do because the mandate is for companies to, maybe drastically, change their behavior to stop making trash.

Like what even is this, do you like the rampant corporatism where laws can only be passed if it doesn't affect your profits too much uwu? Won't you of those poor corporations flooding the market with garbage?
> None of what I've done is out of reach for anyone else.

"Disabled workers do not exist"
Ah, there we have it (a few comments down):

>Simonson designed Proxima Nova, his fonts now owned by The Type Founders, a private equity-backed entity.
Union's do much more than just negotiate things with your employer. They lobby elected representatives. They donate money to political groups or candidates for office.

I have more dimensions to me than just what I do for a job. The collective aggregate desires of all my coworkers is likely to diverge from me in areas that I care deeply about. I don't need a situation where I am "forced" to support those things with my money and labor. I already have to do it with my taxes in some occasions. I don't need another one.
> At least that’s not a practice that’s caught on elsewhere.

Including elsewhere in the USA.
Whenever unions are strong.

(Was that a rhetorical question?)
> and front end devs

You act like devs have any say in this, it's always UX and PMs
How do unions help with those?

- Do unions enforce remote work?

- Do unions enforce an offer letter to turn into actual employment for someone who isn't even a member yet (they haven't signed anything)?

- Do unions make people have a better handle on their mental health and do companies with unions have lower rates of burnout in their workforces?
Scientific libraries categorise into *several categories*.

They effectively use hierarchical tags, with the set of tags very carefully curated.
UFC, NASCAR, golf, tennis, WWE don't have unions.
Regulation that is not thoughtful and enforceable is not good regulation.

Spam was made “illegal” more than a decade ago in the US and in the EU. It did not reduce the amount of spam. The same thing with GDPR: only honest and good actors suffer, while dishonest actors or megacorps like Google get an advantage and because of this advantage they manage to grow their business.
It’s absolutely incredible to me how much animosity unions have in the US and how self defeating the typical programmers attitude is (maybe this is just selection bias for HN?) — and I say this as someone who’s definitely not a laborer. But if I was one, I would hope I wouldn’t vote against my own class interests like it appears developers often do.

Luckily, even speaking openly against my own interests here is zero risk, I feel Americans are too far gone in their position against unions for it to ever be an issue for me personally.
> Uh, I'm pretty sure the best employees in any field are worth 10x what the worst employees are, whether you're writing code, assembling a car or gutting fish.

Or presumably anything else (because you said "any field"). But why?

It seems like the less skill or expertise something takes the less ability there is to deviate from the average. In which case unions, if most useful for low-skilled labor like OP described, are most useful for industries that tend to outsource their labor to other countries. And thus reduces the need for unions. Seems consistent with the decline of unions in the US.
"They don't get to insert their brands into our brains without our consent."

You consent by going to free youtube.

Big ads in cities are more difficult to avoid, but then again, someone wearing a sports shirt of his favourite soccer club is doing advertisement. Someone wearing a cross for his religion, etc.

I don't think drawing a arbitary line and saying "this is mindrape" and "this is legit" is really working.

That being said, I do want to paintball big ads and alike.
Yes, but what is the point adding to this comment chain?

Just saying random things in response to a comment is not the typical HN norm.
Security holes will be hunted down and exploited in whatever is popular.

That is a law of nature and no amount of shaming will change it.
Why has a useless cold medication been allowed on shelves for years?
But it seems like Simonson and "The Type Founders" are the same person, too.
I know people who used to wear glasses for fashion (i.e. they didn’t need them and chose to wear them). Contact lenses are also a choice for many who wear glasses, but many prefer the latter due to cost or convenience.

Maybe you haven’t worn them long enough, but you do get used to glasses to the point you forget you’re wearing them, leading to events like showering in them or searching for them while they are in your face.
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Here, though, the OP is using Adobe Fonts.

https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/proxima-nova

> Licensing Information

> The full Adobe Fonts library is cleared for both personal and commercial use.

> As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for: ... Website Publishing: Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website

Either Adobe has a license, and the foundry is fucking up, or Adobe doesn't have a license, and Adobe has fucked up. In neither case should this be OP's problem.
There are two other theories that cover the same set of observations.

(1) Followers of Howard Odum and Charles Hall would say this was a turning point of the Energy Return on Investment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment

when there was the peak of conventional oil production in the US with the monetary angle that the system had to change so the that the US and Europe could import large amounts of oil..

(2) Integration of China into the world economy which could be dated to Nixon’s 1972 visit and of course has big monetary impacts, like the above, the answer to the situation was the US having increasing trade deficits while also having substantial inflow of financial investment which made the former possible. (e.g. when money “went” to Saudi Arabia it never really left the U.S., or went to the U.S., because the Saudis kept the money in U.S. bank accounts)

People generally interested in periodization would also be aware that something happened in 1968

https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Last-Time-Chris-Harman/dp/189887...

which manifests in numerous ways, for instance I used to think “Gee there were a lot of books published in 1968” and sure enough I extracted publication dates from the OPAC at an academic library and sure enough there was a definite peak at that time.
I would completely tear down the ad-driven status quo in favour of people paying for things. People shouldn't have to punch in their credit card info to access a youtube video and they shouldn't need to sign up for a subscription to youtube or any other site in order to access individual pieces of information. Payment should be only for content consumed and should be frictionless and consistent across all providers.

It's a pipe dream now, with the exploitative business models and consumer addictions well established, but there's an alternative history of the internet where this could have happened.
So they just made the rust plugin paid and I am supposed to be "excited" about that?
Related:

Homepage of Marcus Hutter:

http://www.hutter1.net/
This is more or less what's happened in my country, which is a popular outsourcing destination.

Contractors enjoy lower taxes and any attempt at ending these privileges failed, because otherwise the brain-drain that's going on would be much worse.
Unions are democratic organizations. If those things are important to you, you can speak up at a union meeting
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The language is insanely familiar to anyone whose done Python, but that is fair. My understanding is that it does not deploy officially to those platforms due to NDAs or something like that. If you look you will find Godot versions maintained by maintainers that do in fact run on all the missing mainstream gaming console platforms (the switch, etc).

It's actually free, the license is MIT for the editor, so you can download the code, and change just about anything. You can also code native plugins in any other language. It has a build that supports C# and unlike Unity (idk if they ever fixed it) it supports modern C#, which Unity at the time did not support.

I would argue if your only concern is GDScript, you're asking for the C# build, but really GDScript is mostly Python-esque, I would be shocked to hear that anyone who knows basic Python cannot use GDScript.
>Nobody "needs" to watch a YouTube video. Maybe they want to watch one.

Youtube's giant selection of people demonstrating every DIY repair topic (car repair, appliance repair, iPhone battery replace, etc) you can think of -- that's available nowhere else -- has literally saved me thousands of dollars (no exaggeration).

I guess one could twist that into "you didn't really _need_ to save thousands of dollar$, you just _wanted_ to."

Youtube is much more than frivolous music videos and you're too dismissive of how it helps people.

EDIT REPLY TO: "Doesn't justify their advertising."

I wasn't responding to the advertising business model. My issue was the "nobody _needs_ to watch a Youtube video" is way too dismissive.

>There's always other sources of information. There's always better sources of information.

Not always. Last week, I needed to replace an oxygen sensor on my truck and wanted some guidance on how to do it. Yes, a pdf of a vehicle service manual has diagrams etc but that book doesn't show a video of someone actually doing it. I need to see somebody actually put a wrench on the the bolts and unplug the sensor cable. I watched 5 different mechanics do it and I'm glad I did because there are some tricky issues that my inexperience would not have solved on my own. Vimeo and other video services didn't have this car repair content. Only Youtube.
100% advertisement, not hiding it, just wanted to share my friends website :(
Reading the Adobe site for the font (https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/proxima-nova#details-section+p...) it says:

The full Adobe Fonts library is cleared for both personal and commercial use.

but farther down it says :

to purchase additional licensing and services, including:

Self Hosting

Sooo which is it? I can see how that would be confusing.
Math books can be a hit or a miss, but Game Engine Architecture is an amazing overview of all the major systems in a game engine. You’d also be doing yourself a disservice if you didn’t read something like OpenGL Superbible (that book filled in so many gaps in my knowledge and made graphics development so much easier).

As for the rest of your comment I absolutely agree. I wouldn’t discourage anybody from trying to write a game from scratch, but if you want to focus on art style, level design, game mechanics, and being able to easily ship to almost every platform, then I would definitely encourage you to use an engine like Unreal or Unity.

OP made it sound like Hollow Knight could’ve been a great game if only they didn’t use Unity, but I don’t believe that. It is a great game, full stop. It’s like people that complain about electron (which I also tend to agree with) irregardless of whether the final product is any good or not. VSCode is great, in spite of the fact that it was written in Electron. And ultimately, the people buying your games really won’t care how it was made, they’ll just care about how it plays.
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Hm, nah it's good. I like to use the best tool that's simplest! Sounds like xfce does the job :)

Now I just need hardware to run it on local. Can you suggest some? M1 ARM is out...so what should I get?
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One has to consider the impact on dynamism. It may not matter to many but it would be something management would have to consider before entering into new areas for development.

I think unionization would impact expansion and research areas —the big bets where now if something doesn’t work the company either reorganizes the team or lets go of a team. With a union companies would operate more conservatively.

That would perhaps provide stable jobs for current job holders but limit growth for prospective job holders.
> community support structure

...what do you think a union is?

I feel as though you're imagining the Big Bad Union that big companies love to describe. A union can be in whatever form you wish it to be. If software engineers wish to band together to form a union solely to improve their health insurance then they could just do that.
You could argue for disability protections instead of unions if that's your true position. Arguing for a .01% case to make a 100% rule is disingenuous.
>Hence there is much less of an expectation of longevity / relevance than with other tech goods.

These kinds of arguments are hollow. Especially in gaming, if you make a good console with good games, people will want to hang on to them and play them for literally decades. But even ignoring that specific aspect of gaming culture, it really should not be up to some top-down, self-serving analysis about what most consumers should expect. Otherwise it's just a race to making the least consumer-friendly product so you can make legal/political arguments about consumers obviously want to buy expensive garbage which they expect to break beyond repair in a few years at best.
Keyring is another component, specifically for passwords.

GOA is for storing account information: e.g. you configure your Gmail/nextcloud/whatever account once, and then all apps that need it can access it. So your Geary, Contacts and Calendar (separate applications) do not need each to implement account management and account specific auth flows -- not just passwords, OAuth is all the rage nowadays. And I, as the user, do not have to keep tokens in each app current.

It is also not 'entire gnome shell`. Just the required components.
> What measures can we possibly take?

We build technology.

The number one example is of course uBlock Origin. It shows people a better world with no strings attached. So good it should be built into browsers. It can't block ads in videos... Yet. How long until someone makes an AI video filterer that deletes ads from video streams though? Have the AI watch ads so we don't have to. Given this technology, how long until augmented reality glasses with adblocking builtin start showing up?
The same way everything works: trust
OP here and author of the blog.

I instrumented and data logged my new heat pump water heater, also known as a hybrid water heater. It saves about 180 kWh of energy per month and reduced my monthly power bill by $23, while also dehumidifying and cooling the garage by 5% RH (Relative Humidity) and 2 degrees F.

Reach out with any questions
Granted the are costs that are often overlooked but that can also be mitigated by choosing installers with a good track record and offer a good warranty on their work, not whoever shows up on your doorstep, and by investing in better roofing materials.

The solar panels should still be productive after 25-30 years even if they're less efficient, and they should have paid for themselves by then. If you're like me, at installation time, the roof was overdue for maintenance anyway.
I like those experiments
Thanks for sharing.

I have heard there is much effort to use BGP data to build GeoIP database.
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Finally, Google made a way to make emoji kitchen in Google Search <3
>I guess this is where Americans start discovering how badly paid the UK as a whole is

Holy moly. In the US you have to earn just over $240K USD/yr to break the top 5%. At least you don't go bankrupt when it's time for elder care.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/how-much-money-you-have-to-e....
Laborers need a union because their work is not differentiated. Anyone can dig a ditch. Most people can put grocery carts away. With a little training, most people can even drive a bus. Because of this, market forces drive businesses to treat them inhumanely and pay them so little money that they can't support a family on it.

On the other hand, engineers are highly differentiated. I'm a DevOps engineer. I'm probably one of the most highly paid engineers in my company.

I can assure you, the market is not something that I'm afraid of. Engineers do not need a union. If they get good at their jobs, they are highly differentiated.

I'd go further and say that unions would be detrimental. I remember my sister working at a grocery store and having to pay union dues cut and it would cut into her paycheck. A necessary evil perhaps for that field, but in ours would be overhead and cost that didn't need to be there. It would probably just make me poorer.
Jobs aren't all technical skills. You can be the best coder in the world but if you're a colossal asshole you're not going to get put in charge of other people. If you show up to work drunk or high, you're definitely not going to advance.
When I was all about the bling in the late 90s, I used Enlightenment. When I wanted to get stuff done, I used KDE. XFCE bored me. Flash forward to 2020, when I wanted to get stuff done AND have a nice tiling window experience, it was i3+XFCE all the way. Something about having nice stability without huge RAM-guzzling (and battery depleting) processes, just makes life more pleasant.
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Oops, I missed the dot after the "f". The title makes sense now, thank you.

Edit: although that's probably the first time I've seen this abbreviation, it's always either "Cal." or "CA".
Please don't spam your own projects.
https://ensa.fi/papers/geolocation_imc17.pdf has some ideas.

Using RIPE atlas probes to get RTT to the IPs from known locations is close to your idea and probably the best anyway.
This sounds like a great deal for the maintainer, who is also a busy person and does not want to answer the noob questions.
That's probably not the right lesson here. Perhaps you should read "I Moved Your Cheese" [0]. A short summary is here [1] - I highly recommend it.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Moved-Your-Cheese-Someone-Business/dp...

[1] - https://www.bkconnection.com/static/I_Moved_Your_Cheese_EXCE...
I'm wondering if it was a carve out that was easy to give, doesn't water it down too much and is helpful for other politics:

* Sony produces semi-conductors and movies (Sony Pictures, Columbia, Tristar)

* Microsoft is big in enterprise cloud (ie: government)

* the impact of people being forced to upgrade their phone because they can't fix it, is probably larger than people being forced to upgrade their game system because they can't fix it

Note: I 100% agree with you. I see video games as the same as all other consumer electronics which were included, but I can see if Sony/Microsoft came complaining, it's a good bargaining chip/favor for other initiatives.
If the US had actually been serious about nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq, they could have done it. Instead it looked more like an extractive neo colonial project.
Yeah, this is the proper emphasis. If people owe $250k in back taxes -- which is a lot -- then by all means they need to pay then. That's only right.

But, this should be framed less as "going after millionaires", and more as "going after people who owe a lot of back taxes".

So, I'm reacting less to the actual action by the government (which seems fair), and more to the title. "Millionaire" meant one thing when "Monopoly" was released; it means something else today.
Adobe has really slipped far. They used to be a wonderful company.
The answer seems pretty straightforward. The web design firm has a license *for their own commercial use*, they do not have a license they can extend their *clients' ongoing commercial use.*

You can design a site for your client using Proxima Nova, but your client, as a commercial entity, needs their own license to continue using it in the market as they gain value from its use.

Edit:

Found this in the Adobe Font Licensing FAQ (https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/font-licensing.html#act-...), issue settled:

> Does my client need their own font license to use the designs?

> No, not if you are creating graphics or documents that have rasterized or properly embedded font data, such as a PDF, JPEG, or PNG.

> However, if your client needs to have the font installed to edit your design, they will need their own license, either through a Creative Cloud subscription or as a desktop license purchase.

This is clearly a case of the second option.
American scale and polarization make it impossible to have moderate conversations around social tools like unions.

A union doesn't need to be a mediocrity enforcing, all-encompassing beaurocracy.

Programmers don't need a union to ensure fair pay or minimum hours. Our concerns are different, and a limited union can help.

Eg:

1. Programmers need to be given 6 months heads up before big change in employment situation. (RTO, city change, etc).

2. On call hours on weekends need to be compensated as overtime.

3. Unused vacation must be compensated as overtime by year end. This also means that unlimited vacation policies should come with miminum compensable vacation days.

4. Standard minimum maternity & paternity leave policies. Also, additional compensation if layoff occurs after notice of mat/pat leave or soon after mat/pat leave.

5. All meetings from noon-1pm should have compensated food.

6. Any meetings after 11pm (of contracted timezone) should be compensated as overtime.

7. If an employee has to live more than a 1 hour rush-hour commute from work AND a company cannot find nearer housing for them at some standard rental amount, then the commute should be fully paid for.

None of these are unreasonable and all will benefit everyone. You can have students get union membership in undergrad. Universities can enforce entry permissions to career fairs on union compliance.

Now, absolute power corrupts absolutely. As vital as unions are, limiting their powers to valid areas is just as vital. That portion I still don't have figured out.
I don't get the outrage here.

Basically, this Web design company used a proprietary font to make a website for a client, that they then included as a self-hosted font file for the website that they deployed. They only had access to this font through their Creative Cloud SaaS license, which almost certainly doesn't let them take the proprietary IP they have access to and resell it in a package to anyone that pays them.

I don't think it's unreasonable of the owner of the IP to ensure that their IP doesn't effectively become freeware just because they signed a bulk license with Adobe. It would be like, because you licensed your song to Spotify for a per-play fee, that would mean anyone can rip it from Spotify and use it in an ad without a license?

It also doesn't seem onerous for the web designers to ask their clients to buy a copy of the font that they specified. I've had to do that for websites before.