skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IT here is also a priviledged sector, in that it's in most cases an employee's market - few people in IT have their job or the wages at risk, layoffs are rare, etc.

There are some unions for IT personnel, but they aren't very popular or well-known.

There's also the mandatory employee representation (called the Ondernemingsraad in Dutch); every company over 50 employees is required to have one of those. But again, this is rare in IT companies. In part because a few companies I've worked for, IT providers / consultancies, use the 'cell division' tactic (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celfilosofie), where a company is divided up into smaller cells of at most 50 people, either by geographic location or specialism, each operating as their own company (on paper).

On the surface this is clever because it means the colleagues will be able to know everyone, or a department is specialized, or a company's finances is more secure. But underneath, it means no cell will ever become large enough to require employee representation. On the surface there is no need because everyone is paid and treated well, but at the same time, another one of these was sold to investors and has shifted course, buying up companies across europe now. I think employees would like to have a say in that, but that's not good for the owners / shareholders.
while some are negative effects of other activities (smartphones etc.), some are just in decline because their usage is in decline, which is ok.

I haven't used the library to check out a book in years and I rarely write something by hand except to take notes. And despite me having taken post-graduate level pure math-lectures, I will struggle to solve an equation system that involves concrete numbers instead of variables that also don't cancel, i am just astonishingly bad at mental arithmetic.

I disagree for some, like "inability to conduct a scholarly literature search on a topic (other than coming back with 8 blue Web links)" and "inability to read a daily newspaper or weekly news magazine to stay informed about current events". Some don't care and some do, so they either research or try to be as lazy as possible. I can imagine it's always been this way.
I rather came to a different conclusion yesterday: I want to write less, but more beautiful code. Simple, elegant and powerful. And getting the job done. I am kind of sick of useless boilerplate, wrapper, workaround, ductaping ...

The magic feeling when something simple and elegant works faster and better then the hacky mess, this is to me the magic of programming. Not writing useless software for the sake of it. It is fine if most side projects don't go anywhere, but I think I rather wrote too much useless code in my life, which was draining and for me keeping the sparks fly was achieved very strongly yesterday, with simple, elegant and useful code. A work of art I am proud of. I want to do more of that.

And when I am done coding, I rather go outside and do something else.
Wasn't able to find a single article mentioning use under opressive regimes. It does seem to be the most popular ransomware crypto now though so there is that
Did I miss something in the article? His only evidence that he was banned because of python (supposedly a ban on dealing in live animals) is that some other guy on Linked In who also advertised for Python courses was also banned and he claimed, without evidence, that it was because of the live animal constraint? This is not very convincing evidence.

It definitely sounds like something has gone wrong, but OP is jumping to conclusions on pretty thin evidence. I'm also conscious we're only hearing one side of a story here. How many people have come to HN to complain about being banned from Stripe only for it to turn out they were running an illegal crypto casino or whatever.
> Meta won’t be seeing any of my money, whereas companies like Google, who seem to employ at least some humans in their advertising department — will

That is a convoluted way to say you'll do business with companies that accept your business. Google is known for fully automated bans on your full account, not just the advertising part.
Hey, I just want to drop by and say thanks! My dad started teaching me programming when I was six years old, using VB6 and a big lesson binder he brought home from work. I wouldn't be where I am without that, and the visual component and instant feedback were so important to making programming accessible and exciting to a little kid.
Something like that was tried with usb 1.1, 2, and 3, being white/black/blue. But many manufacturers got very loosey-goosey with it.

I'm sure it'd be worse as soon as a common spec for this popped up for USB-C.
> whereas companies like Google, who seem to employ at least some humans in their advertising department

What? Google has humans? Where?
>Back then, few people had the mindset of, "if they own my data, they own me." But we're starting to see it take hold.

Really? You're being either very generous or very naive here, because even back then it seemed blindingly obvious that it's a bad bloody idea to trust a tech company of nearly any kind to safeguard your data securely or honestly. Then double the paranoia when it comes to your genetic information. For somebody working in the tech space in particular to have not been be cynical about this is plainly absurd.
I thought custom ASIC's were done when you have some computation that takes many instructions to implement in a CPU, for example for Bitcoin mining your computation might be "Find the sha256 of a fixed-length input and tell me if it begins with at least 32 zeros." The main benefit of using an ASIC (as opposed to an FPGA) is you can hard-wire the circuits, the FPGA has to use generic hardware (super-flexible LUT's and a super-flexible routing fabric) and you pay for all that flexibility with speed, power consumption and area.

I guess the main benefit of the chiplet idea is that you can get a really fast, low-latency connection between the CPU and FPGA? What kinds of problems can be solved with that architecture, that can't be solved by just putting the CPU and FPGA as separate chips on the same circuit board?

Or is it cost and design simplicity, you can have a lot of chiplet elements on the same chip, and the customization is in which chiplets you want ("give me a chip with 4xFPGA and 6xCPU") and how they're connected ("CPU A should be connected to FPGA #4, CPU B should be connected to FPGA #2 and #3")?
And in the EU it is probably why they have free healthcare, high minimum wage, work weeks of 34-38 hrs, welfare, 8 hour work days, overtime after, high proportion of part time workers, and highest productivity per hour in Germany.

But yeah, unions, hate what you gotta hate. I personally hate long hours for bullshit pay.
Noting that the newer books require additional modules to get around the KFX encryption

Even then I’ve found around 5% don’t decrypt
Microservices require distributed debugging; distributed debugging requires distributed tracing. Just imagine, as I've been trying to push forwards in my own Ph.D. work, that you could debug a process across microservices. This is why we want this; possibly, done a bit more resiliently and thoroughly than the original OP.
Exactly - In this case by tat I mean things like Harry Potter drinking flasks, Hunger Games calendars, and vaguely book-related trinkets that can be sold for under £5.

(The kind of high-margin items that you didn’t come to the shop for and most people won’t buy anyway.)
That's assuming he wants others.

It's possible this has been filtering exactly the right people he wants or needs for the job given its constraints and objectives.
Or just use Freetube.

https://freetubeapp.io/

And no, it's not a porn provider.
These days I find I spend more time finding an actual pen and paper that writing what I needed
I highly doubt that any of this will hold up infront of a court. For intellectual property not just the result is important but also the creation process, and there is enough work going into the data science here
Can't answer the latter questions as I'm not OP, but you could start finding a colo here if you're looking at the cheaper end of things:

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131

Also just googling "[major city name] colocation" will usually find results, though be warned pricing is often "call us" vs. stated upfront.
Are there no left-wing thinkers in that rather extensive list?
Rust and Go weren’t particularly good names either. At least if you wanted people to be capable of using them as search terms. Yes, yes, you can use “lang” but still.
I mean I don't recognise intellectual property either so I really don't mind lol. It's mostly the means that bother me.
For example:

https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210313783/programming-rust...

Bad news is that the O'Reilly site's page for the book is now (as of around start of 2023) sending people to a subscription, though:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-rust-2nd/97...

They used to send people to Amazon or Ebooks.com first:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221128145404/https://www.oreil...

Longer term, I don't know whether they intend to keep Ebooks.com and Amazon as options at all, for those who can find the options.
I consider myself a security-conscious person and I'm not sure I would've spotted this. Another reason to use uBo with zero regrets.
> Palmer Penmanship Method

Is the author at least 70 years old? Or was his parochial school behind the times?

"By the mid-20th century, the Zaner-Bloser Method was the most popular style of penmanship instruction in the US, while interest in the Palmer Method had been declining from the 1950s" says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser_(teaching_script) and "When the D'Nealian Method was introduced in 1978, it quickly became popular and led to a significant decline in the use of the previously leading Zaner-Bloser Method" says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian .

The author was born in 1950 says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Queenan_(author) so most likely just behind the times.

> As for the stately, elegant penmanship of the kind I was taught in grade school, just forget it. Beautiful handwriting is a thing of the past.

For elegant penmanship, see Spencerian script at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian_script , where you'll also read "President James A. Garfield called the Spencerian script, "the pride of our country and the model of our schools.""

Before then was English roundhand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_hand .

The Palmer Method is a less elegant script so people could write faster and compete with the typewriter.
Copy and paste will only get you so far. If you are a hiring manager, just ask them to walkthrough and explain their process and thoughts.
What's the plan for the protocol on top of UCIe? Any support for CXL? I see you also specifically mention Chisel, so I suppose it's not a total shot in the dark to ask if you're supporting TileLink (ideally TL-C) over UCIe?
I had a quick look at your site.

From the "Terms of Service":

> Unless otherwise stated, Samorastnik d.o.o. and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Formaviva.

Where's the "otherwise" for people that post music on your platform?

I was actually searching for your legal status (which kind of legal persona you are and in which jurisdiction). I couldn't find a thing on your website.
'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
You can always just hammer software together and just clean it up later, when you know what you want/need.

There's some weird logic in cleaning up code, especially that of others. You curse and wonder what the hell they where thinking, but on the other hand, they got the thing of the ground so...
It's in decline because it's inefficient and almost everything connected to text is done on the PC. When I wrote in cursive after school taught it my handwriting was slow, cumbersome and ugly. Now it's just ugly. And switching from ink to ballpoint pens solved the blue hand problem.

I admire how some people can draw flawless cursive letters but calligraphy doesn't seem to be my cup of tea. Would be nice if computers had support for it, though.
Related:

Gen Z never learned to read cursive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884213

What Is Killing Cursive? Ballpoints. Probably: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37571180

The importance of handwriting is now better understood: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37909756
Applying stereotypes to a person is not the same as saying a phenomenon exists (in this case they said nearly-exclusively) in country. By way of examples:

"Americans are fat" is a (negative) sterotype.

"Americans get poor value for money in healthcare" isn't.
How does that work in court if the employer shows all of them being low performers or problematic in other non-union related ways?
> Isn't this a statistical catch-22? If being in a union increases the odds of getting fired… well, then there's nothing to discuss because that's illegal.

Extreme example: suppose a company has 100 employees. Four of them are in the union bargaining team and they just happen to all work for the widgets department because of an accident of history or randomness etc. The widgets department has 10 people overall.

Now the company decides for business reasons entirely unrelated to unions, that thanks to GPT they don't need so many people in the widgets department. So they fire 8 people from widgets. Assume further that they went out of their way to protect the union bargainers: of those 8 people fired, only 2 are in the union bargaining team. (That means that the remaining 2 widgets people are both union bargainers.)

Even though the company went out of their way to protect the union bargainers, statistically they only laid off 8% of the company, but 50% of union bargainers. Would that be illegal or even unfair?

(In the real world, I am fairly sure that union bargainers are concentrated in some departments. Mostly because it attracts certain kinds of people, and different departments also attract certain kinds of people.

But, of course, I have no clue what the reality inside of Bandcamp was like. I'm just speculating about hypothetical examples.)
And also apparently nothing to base their decision on since all the data is apparently deleted since it’s over 180 days old.
I roasted 850 landing pages in 2.5 years. Here are the 15 most common mistakes
It's open source by their definition, that is source available (open). Everyone always thinks the term open source is protected in any way while the entity that has established the commercial usage aspect is the Open Source Foundation. And noone is forced to abide by their ideology

FOSS meets the commercial usage requirement much better. Otherwise the term FOSS would be redundant.
One thing you might not have considered is that some notion of "dissatisfaction w/ job" would increase both the likelihood of you wanting to join a union and your employer wanting to fire you or lay you off.

Edit: also, another confounding factor that hasn't been discussed is job role/department. Layoffs and union membership are definitely not evenly distributed across role/department, but there is not enough info in the article to know if the layoffs were targeting specific roles or uniform across the company.
This article is actually in response to that video by NightHawkInLight, the method used in the video is however different from the one explained in the article, at least that is what the first paragraphs say, I did not read it completely.
Joking aside, I am surprised how fast invidious and other open source projects run, and how slow runs youtube.

Does algorithm need to think about which advert to put?

Is it because JS/CSS is so bloated?

Is it because everything corporate runs slower on firefox? Maybe youtube just runs faster on chrome? Dark design?
Libre Silicon – Free semiconductors for everyone
The US has an ultra-employer-slanted legal system, where a workplace changing hands can have the new owner firing all employees then deciding whom to re-hire, rather than needing cause for any termination, and being required to act with minimal good faith, to hold a session hearing with candidates for termination to allow them to make their case for keeping them in employ etc.

But, hey songtradr, here some ideas for Bandcamp's new name!

* Banned Camp

* Boot Camp

* Sudden Death Camp

* Union Busting Camp

* Camp Greed

etc.
My girlfriend also got banned from advertising on Meta for literally no reason. It’s been also a year since she last advertised her Facebook page (she’s a gerontologist).

They are probably banning most smaller advertisers and sticking with the largest ones.
Some skills similar to those would be great abilities to have still, and way more environmentally friendly and self-succifient than our current dependencies...

But the comparison of those with the parent's list, as if to imply the parent's items are equally useless or "deprecated", is indeed very troubling...
Being one of the biggest publishing softwares gives a giant responsibility to prevent this.

I am convinced this responsibility isn't taken up by the community or by organisations behind it, seriously enough. Simply because the current status continues to be abysmal. I have many practical ideas how many issues could be solved, most are put forward and put down almost monthly in the community.

The current status is resignment: "well, we are big and this is how things are". No! Things could be better, more secure etc. But for that, things do have to change.
Democratising IC Design
Matthew, Mark, and Luke tell largely the same story, with several important differences. If you only read one, my favorite is Luke. It has The Magnificat (aka Mary's Song of Praise), and it's awesome.

John, meanwhile, is very different vibe on the story of Jesus and is cool in its own way.

I'd also recommend Acts, personally. It is a history of the very early church and written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke. Very proto-communist/anarchist in places, imo.
Terminal emulators don't support it
A while ago, In some nostalgic trip I've made a Spotify playlist of classic and classic-like tunes of the earlier sound (90s and Early 00):

https://spotify.link/FidWchdd1Db
I use qweborf. Just right click "share this over http". Then it has some settings where I can put a password.
European budget airline staff get rather annoyed if people are messing about and slowing down boarding.

There's only minimal cleaning during the day. Mostly just collecting litter and putting magazines etc back in their place. Ryanair planes don't even have a seat pocket; the safety card is a large sticker on the back of the seat in front. After an inbound flight, boarding can start just a few minutes later.
Another reason to use ublock origin / Brave shields. Thanks for another article to send the adblocker complainers. THIS shit is what is killing the net, not adblock users.
I'm doing this right now, writing the dumbest, unmaintainable crap, because I don't know what I'm doing (writing a fun "useless" app with tech I know very little about), but yeah.. it's working! It's productive, even if grueling. and I'm learning a lot in the process. Fun stuff :) Luckily I do know how to clean it up later and refine it (and make it more maintainable/extensible), but I'll do that when I actually have something working. I can definitely support this approach as it's been very productive for me in the past, too (especially when trying new stuff).
Just installed, working GREAT! Thank you. Now lets do one for the scientific journals.

"Supported" sites include :)

Foreign Affairs
Newsweek
Reuters
The New York Times
The Washington Post
Barron's
Bloomberg
Business Insider
Forbes
Fortune
Harvard Business Review
The Wall Street Journal
ZeroHedge
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Chemical & Engineering News
Discover Magazine
Interesting Engineering
MIT Technology Review
National Geographic USA
Nautilus
New Scientist
Popular Science
Science
Scientific American
The Scientist
ESPN USA
Sports Illustrated
Medium (custom) domains like (opt-in to custom sites for unlisted)
Better Programming
Towards Data Science
America's Test Kitchen
Axios
Field & Stream
Harper's Magazine
National Review
Outdoor Life
The Atlantic
The Christian Science Monitor
The Intercept
The Daily Beast
The Daily Wire
The Juggernaut
The Nation
The New Atlantis
The New Republic
The New York Review of Books
The Reface DX can perfectly reproduce all sounds from vintage 4-op synths (TX81Z, DX9, DX21, DX11) but isn't directly compatible. However there's a solution to convert sounds for the old machines to the new one :

https://refacedx.martintarenskeen.nl/
Or Prospect https://prospect.org.uk/, a non-aligned (they don't give money to political parties) union of "scientists, engineers, tech experts and in other specialist roles".
Smoke signals environmentally friendly? Fun.
>- inability to solve an equation system or to calculate the zero points of a polynomial

Often overlooked skills in the modern world...
Are you saying anything I didn't already point out in this paragraph?

>> You might want to ask yourself "Do I really believe that, if I thought I might be about to get fired, that would have no influence on whether I tried to join a union?"
Why can't they also want to make conditions better? Why do people have to accept that conditions are bad, tough tits, deal with it? We would probably have not half the safety regulations we have today and people would be dying a lot more on the job.
Seems like it's creating a problem for libraries.

Libraries to Publishers: Please stop abusing our readers so much.

Readers: The library helps me pirate, muahahaha.

Publishers: I rest my case.
I don't think literally everything else is true. They give their employees some of the best benefits.
https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io most hilarious thing I have seen on the internet for a long time. Gold!
Semiconductors used to be a very hot area for startups, but SaaS is a much easier one because:

a) There is a huge fixed cost to developing a chip

b) a start-up can usually only afford to develop one innovative block. They must then obtain the right to use many off the shelf IP blocks (CPU, interface blocks, radios) to make a complete chip product. The economics of this mean that large semiconductor companies, who have a large portfolio of blocks that they don't need to pay licence fees for, are at a huge advantage

c) As chip products have integrated more and more features on a single die, these factors have become more and more dominant

For these reasons, for some time now aquisition by a big player has been the only realistic 'exit' available to startup founders in the semiconductor area.

In theory, Zero Asic's approach could mitigate all of these, which would lead to a much more active chip startup scene.
Bye-bye bandcamp.
Headless Hashnode
For Musk, it slowly crystalizes out, the x is not intended and is not relying on communication between its users and the world in the style of Twitter.

I would do that if I would know and see details of my envisioned app of everything and the concept shows that users will use other features than doing solely twitt-out ers & ahms.
Big stores that sell DRM-free e-books:

- https://www.ebooks.com/en-uk/drm-free/

- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

DRM-free audiobooks:

- https://libro.fm/

- https://www.downpour.com/

Other lists and tips on where to buy DRM-free:

- https://libreture.com/bookshops/

- https://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/where-to-get-ebo...

(Here in Norway we've so far been lucky, I've yet to see e-books with DRM. There's ebok.no which does watermarks, but that feels acceptable.)