skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What did they break? I've been a Firefox user since forever and I don't recall any breaking changes on desktop for the last 15 years or so (really since they deprecated xul). Now on mobile you might have an argument, but Firefox on android was bad before the recent redesign and is by quite a margin the best mobile browser since.
Social media companies don't make much profit on selling stuff to users. They make profit on advertisements. If what you're saying is that younger folks see less advertisements because they buy less things, I can assure you that is not the case.
Just as there are people who think that Portland (and Seattle) are close to some post apocalyptic wasteland after the BLM protests a few years ago.

I've heard non-hyperbolic claims that BLM torched "entire city blocks".
Anecdotal, but my Gen Z and his friends abhor and avoid FB/IG like the plague. From my perspective, FB is rapidly losing the interests of the younger generations and increasingly looking like a right-wing retirement community.

Do we have a reliable source of user data that shows the breakdown of each social media platform by age group?
Neither article nor the PDF explains who is considered provider and who is not. Please point out where it says "only on if it was your product and was sold to a customer". I did not find it.

There's a reference to "Decision No 768/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008", which does not distinguish for-profit activity at all. Just "all poducts on market and all who manufacture and distribute shall conform".
If the consumers don't pay for it (not under a commercial agreement with the OSS provider) and are not monetized (with tracking data or ads in the OSS), it's pretty clear the OSS provider isn't liable.
Is that rare? I naively thought that all electrical infrastructure could flow in whichever direction there was need.
Restricting who can profit from work you created sounds reasonable to me. I don't have any problem with that aspect of copyright.
I am aiming to help get companies HIPPA compliant and aware this next year, both changing tech stacks and educating. Would like to connect with any resources / checklists / firms / anything that could help me help others understand.

Contact in profile if willing to chat.
I briefly contributed to Blot (its code is Public Domain [1]). David keeps working on Blot constantly, and it's pretty cool to see the progress changelog with direct mapping to git commits [2].

1. https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot

2. https://blot.im/news
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number of guns is at an all time high

every statistic related to Americans owning guns is rising, including new owners in 2023, diversity of owners, number of households with guns...
>And they tried more complicated alloys, for instance they developed Corten steel, the biggest example of which is probably the US Steel building in Pittsburgh. It's a steel where it's 'rust' essentially works as a protective layer.

Also worthy of mention is the New River Gorge Bridge. [1]

And the recently-collapsed Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_Gorge_Bridge

[2] https://www.carboline.com/solution-spot/posts/pittsburgh-bri...
That behaviour is morally beyond bankrupt and racist. Doesn't mean the people involved were or were not experts in their fields so.
maybe the pessimists are just more likely to comment?
It seems a bit different. Blot keeps pulling changes from Dropbox/Google Drive/etc, so you don't have to upload the folder manually.
Thank goodness. I was wondering how to achieve this when I first started messing around with xrandr back in ~2016 and saw that the rotation option wasn't limited to the four orthogonal directions, but would get a black screen any time I went for something unsquare. Didn't know you had to mark out the edges.

Another fun xrandr feature is not needing to have your display areas touch at the edges, so you can make your screens space accurate and lose your cursor and parts of windows behind bezels. You can have them overlap too, so you could have part of your screen shown on multiple displays.

I'm glad this functionality wasn't hampered by questions of necessity.
The article is wrong. It is only the case if the consumers are paying a commercial license or are monetized via ads or tracking.
Nope, the question was whether or not the YouTube app played video without ads and allowed downloads. It does both.
Also, Falcon 9 now uses subcooled LOX (at 66K) to increase its density.
Yup, this is me. I have poor impulse control, so if shopping is easy my impulses take over and I buy stuff I want but don't need.

If the place is crowded then shopping is annoying and hard, and my impulse says to get the things I need and leave. I'm more likely to leave without things I need (eh, do I really want to trudge back across the store for milk or can I just deal with black coffee?)
Depends on your home country because if there’s a tax treaty, it would supersede the laws.

Sometimes it’s phrased that any income from your home country while you’re in your guest country is only taxable in your home country. Other times it’s just credited against your local taxes (which could cover everything with a lot of paperwork, or could still leave you with an amount owing to cover the gap).

Sometimes even locally earned income is tax free, but that’s usually only for students.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24106213 - Aug 2020 (141 comments)

The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173173 - Oct 2018 (28 comments)

The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6520678 - Oct 2013 (63 comments)
>Features that are buggy or inexplicably complex is not fine.

really depends on so many factors that this isn't a good general sentiment. Sure, if this is a professional grade tool targeting corporate, it better be polished or have excellent support for when stuff breaks. If it's some small scrappy tool handling a complex task with all kinds of edge cases I can give some leeway to the UX and even some very esoteric use cases.

vector graphics comes immediately to mind. I won't be too griped if Krita as a FOSS has some subtle bugs. I can at the very lest throw out an issue to at least bring awareness. I'd be much more miffed if Illustrator had some issue given how closed up and hard to contact Adobe is if you're not a million dollar business (not to mention Adobe's general philosophy of how they approach software these days).

Attitude is a factor, but I do take into account the problem space when evaluating feature completeness.
That sounds like a lot of transport and staffing, but how does it compare to the numerous hands and steps that products pass through in the normal grocery supermarket supply chain?

Obviously they're handling more product at each step, but there are so many more steps and so many more miles, I could see it swinging either way.

My favorite thing about a farmer's market is that I'm talking to people with direct knowledge of the product and its production conditions. I can ask if the recent weather affected it, or what the outlook is like for the rest of the season, and usually get an intelligent answer. If something's advertised as organic or pesticide-free or whatever, I can get specifics about exactly what that means as it applies to this precise crop, not just a set of certification criteria that cover a whole industry.

And if there are ways to preserve that directness while making the market more efficient to get more products to more consumers without compromising the things that make it special, I think that's absolutely worth looking into.
Given that GitHub is a Microsoft product now, this would actually fit well with the company’s history.
I’m horrified that this sort of thing is necessary to efficiently query a modern database. (SQL Server in this case.) It feels like something the query planner should be able to do itself.
Apple being the least tenured certainly breaks the notion that companies with better public images do better at retaining employees.
Most of your examples are talent pipelines for the top leagues. Regardless I think you made my point for me at the end:

> They ALL know that the most driven talented players they can get at their level is what will make them win.

This is not how normal employment works. Sports are competitive by nature so the difference between a 60th percentile player and the best player is the difference between winning and losing. But for most businesses, the difference between the best frontend developer and the 60th percentile frontend developer is close to zero.
Having places at 30 year highs is irrelevant to measure the overall trend--- when the US overall is 40% below the peak in the last 30 years.

We're not quite as good as the 2014 low, but we've returned to the 5-6 per 100k band that we've spent the majority of the last 30 years in (9 years above, many far above; 5 years somewhat below).
No. I messed up with some time ago, as far as i remember, calendar subscription gives you a caldav:// URL (maybe webdav or something I don't remember). This is somewhat a industry standard. Replace caldav with https and you can GET the .ics file of the entire calendar.
The pointer to the root tree node is stored in the last committed metadata page. A read transaction starts with the reading of the metadata page. Reaching the partial written pages is impossible as the writer has not committed the latest metadata page yet. The transaction is committed when the latest metadata page is written as the last step.
> now I can firmly say the big bang never happened.

You really can't. And aren't. If you could, you would be, and people with credibility would be listening and taking you seriously. They would have to, because seriously composed arguments aren't ignorable by individuals who understand and care about the subject matter.

This is the purpose of mainstream scientific work: to take serious arguments seriously and to dispense with those that don't hold up.

Being a contrarian with crackpot theories is far easier, since the only people listening are people who don't know what they are talking about, and so all you get is false validation in response to any output.

In general, if a theory isn't endorsed by professionals in a field, it's because the theory is wrong.
I don't think it's entirely fair to conclude that because someone doesn't leave a company, they don't want to leave. If ConocoPhillips is the only employer in a small town or the only one paying above minimum wage and you have a family to support, you might not have a financially responsible option to leave if you work for them. It is useful to see median tenure data by company and industry, however.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417484 - Dec 2021 (419 comments)
> (...) are easy to learn, but seemingly unhelpful in the grander scheme. Nobody seems to completely adhere to the rules. As a result, these small patterns never seem to lead to clean code.

Good. That is very useful state of mind to be in.

Because these things do not produce cleaner code. They are tools to solve problems.

Coders are like photographers. The ones who like talk the most shoot walls head on and then peep at pixels and mostly discuss hardware. The ones who know how to make good photos do not care about who uses what kind of camera. A camera is just a tool to capture light field.

Clean code is what happens in your mind and as a result of your mental process.

Patterns, composition, inheritance tricks, and so on -- these are things you add to your toolbelt to use it when it is needed. You should continue adding tools to your toolbelt to be able to solve wider variety of problems and have more alternative solutions. But on its own, more tools do not mean mastery and do not lead to clean code.

If anything, more tools without knowledge how to use them leads to less readable code. This happened to me for the first half of my career..

What get you to mastery is by building taste for simple code and ability to self reflect on your work. Taste for simple code means you know why code needs to be simple and you know how clean code looks like.

Self reflection is trying to be objective and judgy about your results. When you write the code, you keep refactoring until you like the results. You write a module, then you polish it until there is nothing else to remove and it does exactly what it is supposed to be doing. You do it long enough and you will have experience to start it closer to a clean result. You may never get to be able to write clean code on the first try but you might get better at having much cleaner first approximation.

Ideally, you also take some responsibility longer term for what you produced. You compare your initial ideas with how they fared over time. You learn some things you thought smart weren't so smart at all. You learn what works and what doesn't work in general.

There is one more way and this is mentoring. I do pair programming with people where we design and implement solutions to progress. Lets me get to know the person better and the person gets to observe the process which can be a huge shortcut in the process of learning to write clean code.
Carl Ledbetter has sold thousands of shares of Cloudflare stock in 2023
https://web.archive.org/web/20231229014350/https://www.nytim...
This is also decent and less, well, colourful. Just dated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbL8opM6TM
Unless you mean the random tabs when an extension e.g. tampermonkey gets updated and shows a change log I don't think I've seen what you mentioned. Definitely nothing "all the time".
See the movie "The Mouse That Roared". Having seen the results of Germany and Japan being bombed and rebuilt by the US, a small fictional country comes up with the brilliant development plan of intentionally starting and losing a war with the US. Spoiler alert: they end up having to deal with the tragedy of accidentally winning the war. As I recall, part of it was they just assumed their generals would lose, so the generals weren't in on the plan.
I recall being taken aback to receive a dead tree rejection letter in the mid 2000s (the only interaction had been me emailing my CV)

The recruiters that meet you in person, talk a big game and then complete silence annoy/confuse me the most - possibly they get commissions for signups?
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Yeah, it was strange seeing Apple have shorter average retention than Amazon. Maybe Apple is just much much better about keeping employees from publicly complaining.
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No it’s not have you heard of e verify? https://www.e-verify.gov/ If you make employers use it or dole out real meaningful fines the problem would mostly go away
I’m not sure about the methodology here… Apple has a huge retail workforce that almost certainly plays a role.

ETA: Sort of analogous to Amazon’s warehouse workforce.

I couldn’t find it in the source, but I assume they’re only counting people who _have_ left these companies? Otherwise growing companies with a higher percentage of newer employees would be heavily penalized.
Most shells are connect back, ie the reach out to a known address to deal with NAT, etc
Probably different with Velcro, but in the case of Google wouldn't the term "google it" which just really means "search it on the internet" be extremely helpful? Helpful in ways very different from velcro or gilette (in many countries generic term for 'razor')
> My main reason was this: Spotify has been paying artists £0.003 per stream.

Fair enough

> Another reason [...] I [...] will listen to the same 3 songs over and over

Ok, personally I like variety and discovery new

> I wanted to own my music again

You can do that and subscribe to streaming services

> I downloaded a 13-minute long Taylor Swift megamix, and CAN YOU DO THAT ON SPOTIFY? I didn’t think so

Actually that specific mix is on Spotify...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4X56PaJmkNIfEHieJBMK2h?si=...
She needs to go. 100% of the money should go to engineering and (actually skilled and focused) product people.
Yes but something fishy about methodology. Wells Fargo & Comcast on the list for high retention?
> Originally you said I am obligated due to my education

I originally said "It’s not as if the only benefit we enjoy is the education system that we did not utilize.", i.e. education is just one of many things we all collectively benefit from in an organized society. You used your alternative education path as a reason to claim you have no obligations to society, so I focused on that claim, but education (even the self-delivered kind) is just a single example.

> Because it isn't false

You can't justify an argument by claiming its truth or falsity. Assume I disagree with you, but would like to understand why I should agree with you.

> I am not obligated, I am educated.

Doesn't this create a huge issue if everyone decides to believe this? If the world collectively stops caring about the importance of educating the next generation on the basis that they themselves got theirs?

Where does the lack of obligation end? i.e. are you obligated not to steal, not to respect laws, etc?

> Where is my obligation exactly? What "obligation" does any animal have?

Obligation is a word humans made up to describe something that most cooperative animals do without the capacity to explain to themselves what it is they are doing.

Cooperative species that haven't developed language exhibit behaviors that are automatic and expected in what must be the set of traits natural selection arrived at. Humans are unique in that we've invented words to describe these social interactions. There are plenty of reasons to believe/understand that cooperation and certain principles of fairness, mutual respect, reciprocity, etc. are more adaptive for the survival of the group/species and coexistence with other groups.

It sounds like we disagree fundamentally one one key point: participation in society imparts implicit expectations on the participant. My core issue with your stance is that it is untenable if chosen by everyone, i.e. it doesn't scale.
Not sure it had to be a state operation. The attack could have been done by just a handful of guys with practically no funding. The pipe is not that deep underwater and would not require much incentive to blow.
A few that have come up recently:

* an intermittent fasting tracking app

* A Pomodoro timer app

* So many apps want a subscription (!) to remove ads

* Picker Wheel, an app that lets you spin a wheel of random choices

* several apps that let you "access" a video library of exercises

* Canva, Figma, Adobe, LucidChart, most design apps

By contrast, Ableton and most DAWs still have a completely reasonable one-time payment model, and then upgrade / expansion packs to fit your needs.
> If only organized crime [...] were affected by this

They are. That's why they continue to invest in the development of cryptocurrencies. Without any bank tracking, the likes of Monero wouldn't exist.

> this is about Total Informational Awareness and control of the peasants.

What are they going to do, with the list of my direct debits...? There is nothing to be gained by knowing what 90% of people do with their little pile of money. It's the 10% that matters - the ones who are most likely to be engaged in crimes and tax evasion.
I recently switched to Wipr [0]. It’s dead simple to use, and will auto update its filter lists in the background. It’s a one time purchase, not a subscription.

Adguard [1] is a decent free option.

I also use a Pi-hole [2] on my network. That blocks ads in apps (not in the browser) like Letterboxd for example.

[0] https://kaylees.site/wipr.html

[1] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html

[2] https://pi-hole.net/
Of course it's a regional thing. There's many examples from around the world. For many in Britain "hoover" is synonymous with vacuum cleaners, and "tannoy' for loud speaker / public address system.
That cheap green German electricity is currently > 40 cents per kWh.

Last I checked that was with the subsidies (in use most places right now) that buffer the Russia-induced energy crisis. These are running out, partly because the way all the different subsidies were being hidden was unconstitutional.
Happily mine is a ResMed so I don't need to make that choice.
I agree FB is unused among GenZ, but in my anecdotal experience Instagram (and to a lesser extent, threads) continues to be relevant, alongside Snap and TikTok.

Heck, let's run with TikTok for a second, ByteDance made 110 billion[0] this year. Does anybody use TikTok more than GenZ?

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-20/tiktok-ow...

Edit: Also, IG seems more popular among girls, which could explain the opinion of your kid. I found an article from pew to corroborate this that also shows that IG is very much still relevant:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/24/teens-and...
How is this supposed to be reassuring that you can return after 11 years? Or even after 1 year? Are you joking? Can you imagine telling the whole of Luxembourg that they have to just stop existing for 11 years? Or just Antwerp? In what mad world is this supposed to be uplifting news or an argument pro nuclear?

Especially with far safer, cleaner and cheaper alternatives already there and being rolled out in months instead of years....madness.
Is forward declaring available in C? Seems like it would have the same effect as declaring a pointer.
Russian thinker Galkovsky believes that it was the UK which has used Socialism# against all its affluent competitors.

The reason for this being, UK has quite stable political system for centuries, so even if it gets part of its own venom, that would not be nearly as destructive.

The USSR did surely assist in that, but it was too ham-fisted to serioulsy influence developed countries.

# If that sounds hard to believe, remember who paid Marx to publish Capital, hosted International Worker's Association and who published Communist Manifesto (and in what language).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workingmen%27s_A...
You tell a fun anecdotal narrative but in other cases those workers show up unannounced and threaten to separate families if they don't allow entrance even though of course that's unconstitutional. You can't reduce it to a single story here.

- https://www.propublica.org/article/child-welfare-search-seiz...
- https://www.propublica.org/article/dcfs-illinois-investigati...
- https://www.propublica.org/article/some-constitutional-right...