skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIUC, whereas previously companies could deduct salaries in year Y from revenue in that same year Y, now section 174 allows deduction of only 1/5 of those salaries in each of the 5 years [Y,Y+1,Y+2,Y+3,Y+4].
I didn't say they're lucky.

I said they're not suffering, in the true sense of the word.

I am beginning to suspect the coddled and entitled readers of this forum are quite ignorant of what it really means to suffer. A trip to India or any other third-world country would quickly change that attitude.
What's that North Korean flag doing there in the cover image?
This has bitten me before; now my pihole has this line in its dnsmasq configuration

server=/archive.is/archive.ph/8.8.8.8

so that even if I'm using cloudflare dns for everything else, it will query 8.8.8.8 for those two domains
Timezone support, no date ranges (eg from-to), date formats are a mess (mdn: "At the moment, the best way to deal with dates in forms in a cross-browser way is to have the user enter the day, month, and year in separate controls, or to use a JavaScript library such as jQuery date picker."), often rules are needed (eg only weekdays), non gregorian calendars, ...

A good date input would cover at least like 80-90% of use cases in my opinion. From experience it's currently more something like ~40% or so.
I spun up my own Archivebox after archive.org wouldn't let me archive some news stories and I heard about them removing other content. Instead of calling the Internet Archive the wayback machine, I now call it the maybe back machine. IA is a centralized service and subject to the government and other powerful pressures any centralized popular service faces. If you want to archive something that might now or in future want to be erased by people in power, you should decentralize it to somewhere like an archivebox. This is especially useful if you are writing a book with many citations.
It is very much like interactive theorem proving(like LEAN[1])

yellow blocks on top are your premises

teal and dark-red blocks on the bottom of the solution-block are your goals(dark red block is your current goal, to which you apply rules)

First level can be solved in the following way:

1) replace conjunction (q and r) with q, r[rule 3]. Current goal becomes q

2) replace q with (?s and q) [rule 5]. Current goal becomes (?s and q)

3) apply your premise (p and q) to solve current goal (goal becomes r)

4) apply your premise (r) to solve current goal

5) congratulation!

[1] https://lean-lang.org/
Like the other commenter said, campaign finance reform. But also, I feel like Americans don't even discuss what other improvements they could make:

- No more gerrymandering

- Mandatory voting(You can still vote for nobody, but you have to go to a polling station)

- Voting always on a weekend

- Strict rules about how many polling places per X many people

- Preferential Representation voting system instead of first-past-the-vote.

Look at how Australia does it.
I know the answer is “because neolibs,” but I think at least one politician might want to campaign a little on how companies are replacing US employees with cheap labor abroad. I don’t even need to take a side on the matter. Objectively it seems they’re dropping the ball rather hard.
Intel pivoted because they couldn't keep up with Asian RAM makers in the race to the bottom.
no, of course not, watching documentaries is a waste of time that makes you actively less informed than you were before watching them; your irrational knee-jerk response to the word 'fujitsu' is a perfect example of this
This response is annoying as hell. They provide no more info? Coqui was basically the leading free text to speech model out there. Do the community a solid and at least say something of value
Where do we buy them?
Is there a reason why body damage on an EV would cost more to repair?
Ask HN: What are the best sites for finding software development contract roles?
Hi, HN! I was curious as to where everyone finds contract positions. I'm wrapping up my first full stack contract, and I would like to search for another.
Do you know of any founders with these superiority complexes built upon some ideas of how great their career and field is? Like PhDs were at Google? Or Engineers were at IBM?

That's the foundation of a good company until some MBA type comes and takes over. Then it is not about the work you do but the metric you are judged upon.

And the metrics for Google Assistant are not great. And neither are the metrics for a lot of google projects. But the team and fascination behind their technologies are the only roots keeping them from being X'd.

This is why Android and Chrome will continue to be heavy handed. The current CEO came from over there and started/led the team. But things like Google Search will always be judged by the numbers and metrics, not by the ideas of connecting people with info.

(I ranted. But to answer your question, go to place that is a darling of the power broker.)
Well, I think most enterprises are more concerned with liability than anything, and as long as they can blame any breaches/security issues on Microsoft, that addresses most of their concern.

Also, people aren't enterprises. Microsoft doesn't treat people like they treat enterprises.
Unfortunately this is effectively useless as you need to submit your employees one by one to get this exception. I know of an employer ($4bn revenue) who said this is simply not feasible.

EU bureaucrats are just stupid.
It's already 404-ing.
They didn't need anything, but they did get something from Apple. Originally, you could only boot Mach-O images on Apple Silicon, which needed workarounds from the Asahi team, but then Apple added the ability to boot raw images (whatever that means exactly in this context), which Asahi, but notably not Apple itself, is now using.
That is a great solution for local copies. Archivebox is on a web server to make the archives available to anyone on the internet.
This is what a GST/VAT is, but far less disruptive. Taxing transactions that don't actually exchange ownership would be bonkers.
> Losing an at-will employment position is suffering?

Yes. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/updates/upd-11-18-21.html

At-will employment has nothing to do with anything. Losing your job is a very stressful event.
Yes! We had Diablo 2 Battle.net bots that were IRC clients. :) Fond memories.
What? I just see stars

Have you seen a doctor?

No, just stars
Oh, by "on the internet", I meant internet services. Sure, it cost money to get connected!

So I read the argument above as being about internet services; not hardware or connectivity, that would make it hard to understand.
One can blame politicians and corporations all they like, but the simple fact is that >50% of the country (and significantly more than that when accounting for skewed political representation) does not want the system to change, because to them any alternative is "socialism".
Welcome back to the club. I've been using Emacs continuously for almost three decades, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've used it to read mail for almost as long as I've used Emacs. I tried Gnus a couple of times for Usenet but stayed with slrn because of Emacs's lack of multithreading. I've never tried Gnus for email because VM has always met my needs.

VM (and ancillary tools, like Personality Crisis and mairix)

* does a great of job displaying HTML messages. For the very few that it doesn't, one keystroke sends the message to my web browser running locally.

* sends URLs I select (all from the keyboard) to the web browser

* opens images and attachments

* auto-adjusts the From: line of outgoing messages depending on the recipient

* archives messages to various folders using various criteria

* searches my archived mail at lightning speed

Of course, I can write Emacs Lisp code of my own to extend any or all of the above.

VM isn't perfect. I'm sure that I could do all of the above with Gnus, and quite possibly am missing out on other features that VM lacks. Overall, though, I really feel like I have a superpower for email handling with it.
I've always described i3 as like being efficient in vim. Once you've learned the hotkeys and settled on where things live it just gets out the way and muscle memory takes over.
Oh yeah, I'm a terrible person, no doubt about that. Doesn't change the argument one bit, however.

(See how your attempt at shame failed? That's why shame is not a useful tool.)
Perhaps this is why the canonical designed clock/watch face comes form Swiss Railways:

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

There was a huge uproar when Apple used it in early iPhones. Also, TIL, trains in Switzerland always leave stations on the full minute mark.
So you're just contesting the meaning of the world "virtually"?

Sounds like a "fun" discussion. Enjoy!
What is a Command Bus? [video]
In this video, we'll take a quick look at what a Command Bus is and how it is similar to a bridge connecting land together. We'll explore how the car is a Message which progresses through a Message Bus (which is what a Command Bus is) encountering different segments we can think of as Middleware until it eventually reaches the other side.
Yes!! I'm super excited about this. I always implement flipflops with a monostable circuit and a Redstone block. The copper bulb will make building out large circuits soooo much easier.
>But $3M fine for getting caught playing KGB seems like zero deterrence to the next unhinged tech executive

there was also prison time. FTA:

Several of the executives and employees were arrested and convicted on federal charges. One executive, security head Jim Baugh, got nearly five years in prison. The company's CEO at the time, Devin Wenig, was referenced, but not by name, in federal charging documents. He was never charged, but did lose his job. In addition to Baugh, former head of security, the convicted eBay minions are:

David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, who was sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022; Stephanie Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, who was sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022; Philip Cooke, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement in July 2021; Stephanie Stockwell and Veronica Zea, a former Manager of Global Intelligence and a contract intelligence analyst, respectively, who were each sentenced to one year in home confinement in October and November 2022. Brian Gilbert, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
> The acts of intimidation included sending live insects, a foetal pig and a funeral wreath to the Steiners' home in Natick, Massachusetts.

If someone I knew claimed that eBay execs were sending them things like this I wouldn’t believe them. It’s like something from a TV show.
"No-strings giving" is transforming philanthropy
I never said the EU is a country (nor does it need to be to fulfill my point), but as an economic block, if it wishes to compete with the US in terms of economy and innovation, it needs to do better in terms of labor mobility, and the current status quo is holding it back.

I hope my point of what I originally meant is clear now and you don't need to explain anymore about why the EU is not a country like the US.
This. I see this as purely an attempt to influence AWS in lowering the barriers of migrating between clouds. But also makes sense for those who want the option to test the waters with no downside.
Just vote them out. The medical system is the only issue that matters. /s
The key to fighting pseudoscience is empathy
That's obviously not-legit. /s
thank you, i didn't know about the thinned-array curse, and now that i understand it i agree that it would not be useful for this
The headline doesn’t say much and the text doesn’t say much more. It could be that such debtors are the majority solely because the number of uninsured has dropped.

For instance, if in 2000 there were 2000 debtors with 100 of them being insured, and in 2020 there are 200 debtors with 150 of them being insured, this headline would be true. Which would be ok if the story shed light on this, but it doesn’t.
HN surfaces a lot of good ones. Sometimes friends recommend stuff. Or I search for things I'm interested in.

Then once you have a hook into your topic, it usually cites 30+ other papers that may be worth reading. You will never run out.
> I am beginning to suspect the coddled and entitled readers of this forum are quite ignorant of what it really means to suffer.

I am beginning to suspect that readers of this forum don't know how to read, considering I called you out on this fallacy in my original comment. Here's a lesson about it: https://s28543.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2020/04/F...
It's very convenient being able to fire remote workers for cause if they won't RTO. It's a lot cheaper than actual layoffs.
That's in the game plan for 2024, no question. My new home came at the cost of doubling my commute distance. An EV charged by my own rooftop would be better for both the planet and my own bottom line.

Edit: Any chance you're in the US? If so, what EV are you driving?
At least one great barrier is the reactionary response to anything associated with 'liberal', including anything that has to do with climate change. IIRC there's a correlation between politics and EV purchases. If even Musk can't persuade other reactionaries ...
The absolutely best (and most impactful) thing you can do as an individual is to _not pay the damn debt_ to the hospital.

The illusion of impact by writing to your congressman is really just that, a proverbial carrot in front of the donkey of democracy.
That document doesn't seem to want to load for me, so I can't really comment on it one way or another.
> so the next generation is growing up with coding being a basic literacy skill.

meanwhile gen z have no concept of file browsers or the command line, they've only ever dealt in apps.
my apartment building in Boston (part of AvalonBay Communities) installed Latch last year, and I can't agree more with this article. sure, one 7 digit code isn't difficult to memorize, and I obviously memorized the code for the door to my unit. but in my building alone, there's one door to the main lobby; a first-floor main entrance; another first-floor entryway that requires opening two distinct doors sequentially; and, in the adjacent building where the gym is, there are at least three doors to enter the building from outside, plus a second door to the gym itself; and EVERY DOOR HAS A DIFFERENT CODE. it's an absolutely terrible system
Isn't the whole thing a scam? Top (legislation) to bottom (little gripy socks, as per another commenter).
Gallows humor, we' be dead without it
HTML5 was definitely a mixed bag. On the on hand, it gave us cleaner markup.

On the other hand, now we have auto-playing videos on every other page.
I need a support group for this idea. Can't seem to accept it and walk through some doors, abandoning the other paths. It's sparked a major depression in me.
i mean, i hope people remember that slack had an irc bridge and it was awesome. i used to use irssi there was no linux slack app.
New CS Grad Dilemma: Seeking Advice
To anyone reading this (it's kinda long): I graduated last month with a degree in Computer Science. During my time in college I had some work experience - a couple software engineering internships with the same startup and a data science role affiliated with my university, but no return offers. So I figure the next step is likely getting a job. And in thinking about what I’m interested in, I’be narrowed down my options to 3 sectors in tech I could attempt to pursue:

1. Consultancy/Enterprise focused companies: This appears to have the most abundant opportunities (because I think the qualifications can be pretty standard, nothing too crazy).
2. Fundamental/applied science jobs: Examples are organizations like NASA, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, etc. I’ve always been excited about these kind of places, the work feels more rewarding, and I like a culture with a less business focused drive and more science/research focused stuff.
3. Big, known tech: things like FAANG and others.

The option I wanna pursue as of now is mostly 2, and given the choice I would least likely pick option 1.

However, I got a job offer as an independent contractor (as a data engineer) at a Civil Engineering Company. I would get to work with new technologies, as an independent contractor it wouldn’t be permanent, and it’s a learning opportunity to grow in a work environment. The thing is though: I’m not particularly interested in what the company does.

Here is another thing: I think I have a weakness in programming/DS + Alg. knowledge. So I graduated a semester early, and my initial plan was to spend a couple months or so studying fundamental CS, and learning and doing projects I was interested in. That seemed to be a good strategy and I thought (and still do) that could be fruitful and good for development in the longterm. But it’s not necessarily tangible, meaning it wouldn’t be compared to having a job (like this independent contractor thing) on a resume.

So at the moment I feel like I may have two options: do this independent contractor thing (it should last only a few months), or spend my time honing the necessary skills while working on personal projects I want, and then apply for the companies I’m interested.

I should also mention that my parents are letting me stay with them for some time b/c I graduated early. So I’m not in a rush and feel like I have the chance to weigh my options between pursuing my interests vs. practical opportunities
IBM used to count Jews in the ghetto.

This is corporate America. it's your cool uncle when you're young and it's the same uncle when you realize as an adult that that's just not how adults should behave.
But what's the main use of oil? Energy, right?
The more experience you rack up in your career, the more likely you are to walk away from jobs with laborious hiring processes too.

I will politely decline any opportunity that requires me to do multiple code and architecture tests and several other lengthy meetings, usually spread out over the course of months, because it’s not worth my time to jump through so many hoops. It signals to me that there is already a tendency to implement process for the sake of process.

What will really sell me on a company is a more in depth conversation with the leadership and the team where we learn more about what we value and how we like to operate. And that’s how I would interview anyone who was referred by someone I trust.
Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate Now Integrate with Amazon EBS
Curious, how were the executives caught? How was it proven that the harassment came from the executives?
> If you aren't doing anything about it, the problem is you.

What do you expect me to do about it? I live in a reliably blue area and it's Republicans who are blocking things like a single-payer system.

So what exactly are you suggesting? Uproot my life and go move to a swing state so I can vote Democrat there?

Because short of that, I don't know what. And the country is so culturally divided, it's not like there are many swing voters left who can even be convinced anymore. Republicans just don't want health care reform, so what are we supposed to do?
Please let me know if anyone has any questions about Sutra.js, or why JavaScript game development in 2024 is a smart idea.

Sutra.js part of Yantra / Mantra / Sutra, there is a dev blog here: https://marak.com/blog/2024-01-11-yantra-mantra-sutra

I've spent approximately 13 months with WebGPU + WASM + CSS + JavaScript, building high-performance gaming solutions that run in browser. It's possible to run graphics at Nintendo64 level quality on a potato. JavaScript as an orchestration layer for WASM is exceptionally performant.
The title says it all. But people who mock aren't interested in changing others' mind, or helping the cause. They just want to "score points" and feel better about themselves.
When this topic comes up I usually check https://layoffs.fyi/ which typically has roughly up to date data, but isn't 100% accurate of course, because it relies on submissions.
Summed-Area Table
> IMO is the lack of high-margin/high-growth businesses

It's not really a German-only thing. Other than the US and China almost no other country currently has such things. EU is mostly traditional businesses and risk-averse investors.
I switched over to using it for my day to day just to check it out and I really like all of these things * a lot *.

I also like simple time tracking that displays tracked time as a bar on the border of your day or week view.

I think it's pretty nice as a personal calendar. For getting through my days and weeks, I was previously using Google Calendar + Microsoft To Do. I like this a lot more. I hope they do something better with the vertical text and make the habits more flexible.
If Tesla lowers their prices, other EVs manufacturers are forced to do the same to remain competitive.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
I have never been charged by a hotel to charge my car
It kind of is, yeah.

Many people have many more hardships than I do, but it doesn't mean they feel anywhere near as unhappy as I do.

I don't know where to begin trying to explain it so I'm not even gonna try.

It's something you really shouldn't pretend to understand outloud.

I've faced serious hardships and lived terrible events. I've also enjoyed periods of living in great locations with every material thing I desired.

I felt MUCH happier during the society-accepted hardships than the latter.
Do other CI services do it differently? I worked with Jenkins and Circleci and it was exactly the same.

For github actions caching was fairly easy to add.
If one reads the complaint, really all the complainant is trying to do is to change his subscription from unpaid to paid.

First he subscribes to Facebook and Instagram for free, an unpaid subscription where he agrees to receive targeted ads.

Next he tries to change his subscription to paid, presumably with terms where Meta agrees not to send targeted ads.^1

Signing up for the unpaid subscription can be done with a single click.

Signing up for the paid subscription cannot.

"When the complainant finally reached the correct page, he was confronted with two options. The first preselected and reflecting his current situation was to continue using Facebook with trackers (Kostenfrei mit Werbung verwenden). The second entailed the purchase of a 9,99 monthly subscription, in order to have access to the service without being tracked (Aboabschlieen und ohne Werbung verwenden) see screenshot below, left side."

There should really be a third option: unsubscribe.

1. But does data collection still continue. Meta would probably argue it needs to track everything the complainant does while logged in to the Facebook and Instagram servers for "security" but without any restrictions on how they can use the data collected. We have already seen Facebook and Twitter getting caught using collected telephone numbers for commercial purposes when they were collected under the guise of being needed for "security". Even more, is Meta still allowed to track the complainant on the open web, outside of Meta's websites. The claims of "security" arguably do not apply there.

Is Meta still collecting and processing the complainant's data regardless of which subscription he chooses. If yes, then arguably he is only revoking consent to have ads placed on the Meta webpages that he accesses. The consent may not relate to data processing.

How does the GDPR define "data processing".

For example,

"Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information." French, Carl (1996). Data Processing and Information Technology (10th ed.). Thomson. p. 2. ISBN 1844801004.

Meta could still "collect and manipulate data [from the complainant] to produce meaningful information" but refrain from placing ads in webpages viewed by the complainant.