skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With some sarcasm and much trepidation, I would submit that lobbyists would be more than happy to write the laws that their congresspeople will sign into law, ending the due diligence and oversight of qualified, established government departments. (I know they do this now, but think of how much worse it could be!)
Yes, that is how I found the engineers I did find. I wasn't impressed by the applications I got, although who I hired was fun and talented. If I remember they were either engineers who's primary projects were actually erlang, high priced agencies, people who were elixir curious, or people have only made pet projects.

The freelancers I hired had Elixir experience from a previous job, but we ended up figuring out a lot of stuff together. It was harder to just hand off requirements and expect it to be done.

Granted my budget wasn't very big and I limited my scope to those within the Americas due to working hour constraints.

But it is very different from hiring for Python which is very easy to get a reasonably priced agency or freelancer with years of experience very fast.
Banning a Flipper Zero for Car Thefts is like banning a BB Gun for Firearm Deaths.... You're targeting the wrong device lol.

edit: Further perspective: You need something that can perform a relay attack. You need someone with a powerful enough antenna to find the remote inside someone's home and relay it to a person near the car. This involves at least 2x CC1101's

> As you can see, small embedded antennas are very inefficient, however convenient. In all cases here, the antenna radiated less than 1% of the available RF power. Using a full sized high efficiency antenna has the potential to increase TRP by at least 20 dB, which is 100 times more power or about a 10x increase in communications range.

https://antennatestlab.com/antenna-education-tutorials/consu...

This is the type of device still available, far more useful and powerful than a banned FZ: https://www.analog.com/en/resources/evaluation-hardware-and-...
I feel like SF is a lot of parks and sharp 170° turns somehow nestled into a grid.
They are doing this to recruit talent. That's the angle.

It is the Netflix playbook.
Does this mean that I can run PSWindowsUpdate in a remote PowerShell session? If so, this is going to save me a lot of time. Also, AD management tools never work vie Enter-PSSession. Will stuff like that work as well?
FTA: "ISED will pursue all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero"

Text uses the flipper zero as an example, not as the specific target of the ban.
Yeah, that’s the thing that seems really silly about this to me - if your organization is competent enough to smuggle literally hundreds of cars out of the country, I’m sure you can smuggle a handful of small electronic devices in.
I think Ubisoft’s intent was more to make customers comfortable with the idea of paying for short-term or ongoing access to content. Their shutdown of online services and DLC for some of their Steam games a few years ago did not exactly inspire confidence.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-titles-pulled-from-ste...
when did the Canadian gov become so dumb.
To a first order approximation you’re advocating for communism over capitalism in that you believe the will of the State (funded by “crazy taxes”) takes precedence over the will of the People, represented by local decisions made in a free market.

Consider that you could attempt to solve your perceived problem in multiple ways within the existing structure. 1) Garner public support and lead a campaign to change our laws to be more inline with the thoughts you have around increasing taxes; 2) Exploit the market opportunity you’ve identified (of paying CEO’s less to pay others more) by starting companies that follow this ethos, attract talent, and deliver value to consumers; 3) Attain a leadership position as CEO or in the Board of Directors for a company where you can take responsibility and change these perceived compensation problems; so on and so forth.

The responsibility lies with you to bring the change you seek.
Even if it was unclear, ending Chevron deference wouldn’t say “the agency can no longer make these policy interpretations.” It just means that a court ought to test whether that interpretation is in compliance with the law, when that comes up in a dispute (which is something that courts are in the business of in many other areas) more so than simply deferring to the agency’s expertise on the law.

(If you look at the original Chevron decision, they were much more interested in trying to get out of the “understand and make determinations about complex environmental issues” business anyway, more so than the “understand the law” business.)

Postscript: For your next unfairly downvoted reply I recommend that you explain to someone Citizens United was actually a nonprofit trying to air a movie on cable television and was fighting the FEC over it. (Total hackjob of an organization, mind you. But core political speech.) Some facts are unpopular.
>The French state itself was established on a much more violent rebellion

You say that like it is a good thing whereas one of my main wishes for my country is for it never to become like revolutionary France.
Your wants are not necessarily the best business strategy. Basing their browser off Chromium and then innovating off of it could lead to more user value being delivered.
> And readers can draw the obvious conclusion from your failure to do so.

People all over the internet today in various discussion forums, including on HN in multiple submissions, have already drawn the obvious conclusion, without having read my comments, and their conclusion is almost universally the opposite of yours.

> To prevent further bad publicity, obviously.

It prevents any sales, which is the point of selling in the App Store. But why do you think there's so much bad publicity, if there's nothing wrong with the app?

It's unclear why it even matters who exactly removed the app from the App Store, because Apple's rules do not allow developers to deceive App Store users, and you've already more or less admitted that the app is deceptive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308175 Although I don't know how you can justify saying that it's "at most" deception rather than "at least" deception, because "Trusted by over 1+ million users and 10,000+ businesses" is a flat out lie. Thus, even if the developer refused to remove the app, Apple should have anyway.
The Next Steps for Audio.com and Audacity
Also the Elixir slack has a well-watched #jobs channel, for other looking to post jobs
The only place I see Chrome is the objectively better product is when using google services, so your monopoly argument somewhat falls apart.
So after this law, the honest people cannot have Flipper Zeros, and the criminals will simply continue breaking the law and acquire one.
Now we wait to see if Bukele is doing it again.
Why are you like this? Pedantically parsing gnat shit out of pepper doesn’t make you smart, it makes you insufferable.
I'm glad that this explanation involves a comparison with goto especially with a discussion of "goto considered harmful". But IMO excessively using continuations results in the same kind of spaghetti code as code that excessively uses goto. Delimited continuations, on the other hand, essentially places a restriction on where the continuation can return to. The analogy with using goto is that the target of the goto has to be within a well specified block of code. This restriction gets rid of the temptation by programmers to take shortcuts and write overly clever but unmaintainable code.
Wildfires tend to move fast. Active fire in the vicinity of a home for even an hour is very unusual.

As long as fuel is kept a decent distance and the house is closed up (and doesn't catch on fire), you'd be fine. SCBA would make sure you didn't get any red eyes from the little smoke that would get in.

If you have bushes and trees right up against the structure (or are in a tinder dry forest in a fully involved canopy fire), then you're having a different kind of party of course.
Nothing is a 'bonus' when you buy something. You paid for it, you should get it. I have never pirated a single thing in my life, but I am seriously thinking about doing it now. I have been forced to pay for the same thing many times over because the copy I 'own' doesn't transfer and it stops working. Why is it a crime if I rip a DVD I paid for but not theft if they stop providing a service that was paid for?
A perhaps related effect is that when I leave the house I always forget one or two things, and I remember them usually once I start the car engine. So then I turn off the car and go back to my apartment and grab the remaining items. But I recently learned that I can imagine leaving the house, and it helps me remember the final things I forgot!
I do the same with WholeFoods receipts. The pipeline is:

1. Scan to FTP dir to TIFF

2. Nightly job submits image(s) from the dir to Veryfi (their free tier is enough and they looks like the best for receipts OCR)

3. Save that raw JSON, enhanced JSON (fix occasional mis-attribution for discounts, calculate unit price), and CSV. Filename is a purchase date - correctly extracted by Veryfi.

4. Render with bash + gnuplot.

5. TODO: store into some DB and render with Grafana or something.

Edit: formatting
> Take the road most documented

I don’t necessarily disagree with that statement.

But it can also lead you to use Java or C, because they are also massively documented & mature. And I don’t imagine that’s the desired outcome either.
In the Shadow of the Silicon Valley
Yes there may be these individual case reports - but in practice - I would say, most spouses of PD patients don't seem to get it. There's like 2 exceptions out of 1000 patients in our clinic, but not enough that I feel like running to my epidemiologist with my hair on fire.
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Yeah I agree with your last, it's true. Sorry that you didn't have better experience and I am fairly sure that I've seen your ad there and figured not to engage. :D

Though I think the biggest filter were the US working hours. I think Elixir devs are much more in the EU.
Thanks! I had used 6.0. I was totally unaware this was an option at the time. For what it was worth, Postgres was dog slow back then.
> Rust/servo was the moment when I thought they might turn it around.

Because greenfield parallel rewrites of giant production codebases have such a fantastic track record, that we might as well add "in a novel programming language we're inventing while we're at it" just to make it interesting?
Hopefully, some principled wealthy lawyer gets peeved by these practices, and pursues class-action lawsuits with enough bite and tenacity, to make certain companies rethink their digital product practices.
>Cannot be disproved, cannot be verified.

Not 100% but you can get a reasonable idea but looking. The God hypothesis seems unlikely for a variety of reasons such as the presence of evil and why there are trillions of stars if it was made for us.

Simulations are normally quite imperfect - you can see the pixels etc. The physics of our universe is hard to simulate - we can't even do one proton reasonably well yet no glitches are seen in physics experiments so that hypothesis seems unlikely too.

Personally I think it's maths. The deeper in physics you go the more it looks like maths. See https://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-... for example.
Canada has totally lost its way.
Housing is a massive issue. Healthcare is under constant attack. Immigration is used to prop up a failing economy. We don’t really make anything. Wages are lower than the US just because. There’s no negotiating power. The dollar is weak. We can’t extract most of the available resources because of the weather and environmental concerns. The praries are being sold off to foreign investors. The smartest and most educated leave. Starting to feel like a fool for sticking around.
I would think you could have a company focused on one thing; e.g., "making the people's browser" (with more explanation so the goal is clear). Hire people who believe in that goal. Make it relatively easy for people to leave so they're not tied to their job; e.g., generous severance, active help networking with other prestigious tech companies. Maybe even force people to take a break and work elsewhere for a couple years every N years before coming back, to keep people from getting stuck in a rut. Keep the company relatively small so that it _has_ a primary direction.
If you programmed this as a chess strategy, it would probably result in an engine that played the Scholar's mate every game. This is actually close to what low Elo players do in chess, but as you get closer to 800-ish ELO the probability of attempted scholar mates drop dramatically (likely due to it being an opening that isn't that good).
Required reference "Objects the poor man's Closures[continuations]" [1]. Well, the links actually say "Closures And Objects Are Equivalent", which is the point. But I'd offer a deeper point - continuations/closures are rightly considered one of the hardest things most programmers ever encounter while objects are things most programmers deal with daily. Sure, that means use continuations if you want to look like a bad ass but use objects if you want a project to succeed.

[1]http://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent
> By banning the device, a country would be setting back their workforce of engineers and scientists a bit.

You're pulling a "Think of the children" here. Rest of your comment is fine, but this first statement doesn't hold water. Any incredibly small number of engineers and scientists would ever use this device. A Raspberry PI, Ardiuno, or other general purpose micro controllers and small form computing devices sure, I could believe that. But some niche device, no.

Edit: I wasn't aware of the popularity of the device, as suggested by comment below, when I wrote this
People in charge are not supposed to reply to emails of low level drones, but they are supposed to make good decisions.
I have both Next and Remix projects and I far prefer Next. While Remix is cool, and they were kind of the original, their build and dev process has become really bloated, so any change now means waiting a minute for the whole server to restart.
For what it’s worth blu rays copy protection system was designed so that keys can be revoked so without ripping a DRM free version it’s also possible to lose access to your physical media in this way
Good point.
Though this needs the target to have the extension installed.

I was thinking more along the lines of breaking out of process/site isolation or sandboxing - but yeah, you're making a good point.
I did, until RISC-V started emerging.
It would be a lot simpler to just ban DRM, and allow digital copying for personal use. I don't expect it to happen any time soon, but I can dream.
Project management is the death of all that sort of stuff.

Some places have a good system where there are firebreaks where anything can be done for a week or two, which help solve this.
We can formulate and test hypotheses about the nature of our universe via experiment.

I'm not talking about the universe "not conforming to expectations" or being "surprising" as evidence of a simulation, but of our ability to form and test very specific hypotheses, where the outcome is expected to be a certain way due to artifacts of certain types of simulation, thereby providing evidence for it.

This requires a specific hypothesis about the nature of the simulation, and testing a corresponding prediction that we would never have thought to look for, or expected otherwise.

The experimental confirmation of General Relativity by confirming that the perihelion precession of Mercury is almost exactly as predicted, is a good model of what I am talking about. Although the fact of perihelion precession was already known, the magnitude of it could not yet be accurately measured at the time, yet General Relativity was able to precisely predict the magnitude, which was confirmed much later when the measurement became possible.

There are a large number of papers on arXiv outlining paths towards such experiments to test for specific types of simulation artifacts.
The Stockfish installer is ~45 MB. At 16 bits per parameter, the 270B model would be over 500 MB. The 9B model would be smaller than Stockfish, but you could probably find a smaller chess engine that achieves 2000 ELO.
All within family - the same people who ignored Firefox and didnt give the users what they want (customization & extensions) now just swap places around.

Meanwhile Firefox marketshare is pathetic and money can dry up.
Chrome killing extensions too! Google must be happy of installing those people in charge of Mozilla.
As far fetched as it sounds, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
I was always very confused when I saw DVDs with "includes digital copy" (or similar) on the cover.

Like... yes? I know. That's how DVDs work. It's what the first "D" stands for. The DVD version is a digital version.

Who came up with that phrasing? And why did whoever hired them get someone who apparently doesn't understand how DVDs work to do it?
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We're hiring a *Rust-focused systems software engineer* to work on our application platform.

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It's not great at all. Convicted persons on parole are often disallowed from Internet use or smartphone ownership, so I see a lot of parolees with KaiOS flip-phones.

The text entry is really, really horrible. That's probably the worst bit. The OS is pretty unintuitive and inconsistent in the UX. No-one is really developing apps for it as far as I know.

It's definitely way worse than c. 2007 Nokia Symbian devices.
I achieved this by disabling almost all notifications. There is only instant messaging, calendar events and bank transactions
So why doesn't the government get in and break apart that monopoly that is Chrome, today?

Chrome has the highest market share of internet browsers ~this side of the great firewall~ worldwide (just checked, still is the case in China today, assumed it changed)! Far worse has been done to companies with less control over their respective markets.

I am being a bit facetious when it comes to features though, fully admit, FF is better in getting a few of those, and don't deny history especially with Firebug.
On the other hand, prices can be risen enough that only people escorted now would still be in them. That prospect makes the current situation a pretty good one.
Dunno about that, they use carbon to grow, and if the bodies drop to under around 800m depth after, the carbon is sequestered forever.

I say let the turbulent titillation continue!
> and 3 or 4 fast passes per day.

Yes, this is how it worked.

Remember that the fastpass system was completely opaque, you put in your tickets in the fastpass machine, and it gave you a fastpass ticket and timeslot. Everyone with normal tickets were told they could only have one fastpass at a time, so if you put your ticket in again, or into another fastpass machine, you'd get denied.

But they knew the ticket numbers of people staying in the right rooms, so they could have the system work differently for them, and hand out as many fastpasses as they liked. And the people staying in those rooms generally didn't blab about all their perks.

And the general public was used to a small trickle of people passing them in the fastpass lane, the number of rooms that had more fastpasses than normal was limited, so regular visitors would pretty much never figure out that certain guests pretty much always used the fastpass lanes.
Ooh, looks like I need to check out Vike. It may address all concerns I have with Next :)
Those toro self propelled mowers are super robust mine ran for over 12 years with no oil change until the deck rusted out it was also stored outside. Any more is unreasonable anyway.
It's not a niche device - it's explosively popular and is obviously serving as a gateway for some young people into engineering and hacking.

I couldn't possibly comment on the practical consequences to STEM of banning it. I wouldn't make that argument. But it's silly to claim that it's a "think of the children" argument and nothing more.
When Shopify adopted Rails is was quite new technology though...So they literally didn't follow this advice. In fact the CEO was part of the Rails core team.

Here's a talk in 2008 by the CEO about their caching issues

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lutke-rockstar-memcachin...
Why not banning radio signals? They are used for cars theft!
build something, and aim to make a least $1 from it, you'll learn a lot that way
Better video on youtube? Youtube works like shit on firefox.

Open 20 tabs and you get delays. (probably intentional gutting by google)
Perhaps you should look up how much Mozilla engineers get paid. You can hire a lot of P2 engineers (including the often overlooked extra cost for the employer to cover insurance, rrsp, 401k, etc) for six million united states dollars. Especially if your company already works highly distributed.
Wow TIL! And I've been living in SF for over 10 years!
I’ll do it! At this point I’d like to see some actual data to back up this so-often-repeated claim of “being a CEO is super hard, there’s only a few people in the country smart enough to do it well, so they need to be paid millions of dollars a year”

That sounds… plausible, at this point. I wouldn’t say probable. Especially with tech making everything so interconnected. I loved the kind note at the root of this thread, but the idea that the CEO is some market visionary who is carefully keeping the whole company afloat seems rotten.
How the Brain Crafts Words Before Speaking
> RISC-V, when announced was a small ISA

It still is today, comparatively.

RV32I/RV64I are very very small ISAs. RV64G is pretty small -- comparable to, say, MC68010, and a lot simpler than i386.

These small subsets will be supported by the ecosystem forever, for those who want to use them. They will also remain, unchanged, at the heart of more complex standards such as RVA23 and successors, and make up most of the instructions in programs.
Don’t worry, Australia already did that.
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”
IANAL and don't think it applies in this case, but I don't think you can pull that trick in an attempt of getting out of a debt at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_conveyance
I don't know if your post was a humble brag, but on Elixir + rewriting core code well, if I'm buying a software company and I know that the engineering team took their time to write good, maintainable code, that company is worth a lot more than if it the codebase is spaghetti quicksand.
Well, I suppose we could limit Disneyland to only the rich but I somehow doubt that would create more happiness in the world.