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en.globes.co.il 5mo ago

Google secures EU antitrust approval for Israeli company Wiz

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Is this the Year of Linux paid Apps?

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twitter.com 11mo ago

Walmart VP took $30K/day kickbacks favoring Indian H1Bs over US applicants

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guestworkervisas.com 11mo ago

Search H-1B applications by job title and/or location

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twitter.com 11mo ago

500k H1B Workers Approved Every Year

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www.youtube.com 12mo ago

Microsoft Workers Rebel, Refuse to Work with IDF [video]

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twitter.com 1y ago

New federal data show H-1B and H-4 visas now capture 82% of all new US tech jobs

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twitter.com 1y ago

H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

When will tech workers start creating Unions?

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s3.documentcloud.org 1y ago

The Scouring of the Shire: a letter from ex-Palantir staff to tech workers [pdf]

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www.hamiltonnolan.com 1y ago

They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

How can we trust Open Sources power but doubt Socialism's potential to unite us?

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twitter.com 2y ago

Oh you think White-Collar workers don't need Unions [video]

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store.hypershell.cc 2y ago

Does the Hypershell Really Work?

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

How the Media Controls the Masses [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Hetzner changes prices based on IP

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twitter.com 2y ago

DHH about Apple protecting its App Store racket

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Are We the Baddies? [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Why isn't Gnudb.org database free to download?

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

We Need to Talk About "Authoritarianism" [video]

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

What Are the Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence?

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jacobin.com 4y ago

YouTube’s Censorship Is a Threat to the Left

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mailchi.mp 4y ago

Tracker Recorded Most Press Freedom Violations of Journalists

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twitter.com 4y ago

Journalists who criticize US imperialism in trouble

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

More proof YouTube is throttling independent news

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

When do the lawsuits start against YouTube for demonetizing independent news?

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bigthink.com 4y ago

Mini ice age? Why the Sun will lose 7% of its power in about 30 years

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Capitol Police Acquire Wartime Surveillance Machines

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Hacker News search popup blocks “More” link

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www.currentaffairs.org 5y ago

Humanity Does Not Need Bill Gates

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All this talk on why mass immigration didn't work. But never says that Europe is the reason all those immigrates showed up. Europe's policies supported US and Israeli wars that created those mass migrations. So now Europe is on the hook for the results of those policies.

So grow up and take ownership.

This is a nice story and how it played out is great for Switzerland. But the ways listed on how to fix it, wouldn't work in the US. See companies in the US have already worked around what worked for Switzerland.

The different levels of governments in the US are corrupt. Sometimes from town all the way up to Federal. Actually its definitely completly corrupt at the Federal level. A politician or Judge has already been bought to make sure a case like the Swisscom lost. Would never happen here.

So before we have any progress in really any industry in the US. We need to desperately clean house with our politicians, attorney generals and judges.

The stock market is a very large Ponzi scheme. 401Ks are indexed Ponzi schemes. Once the ultra wealthy can disconnect their wealth from any one country, using crypto tokens. The stock market and 401Ks will probably crash. You usually want to do this on a generation that has no real voting block. So it will probably happen when GenX starts retiring.

Again this is different in a Capitalists society vs a Socialist one.

In a Capitalists society everyone is pitted against each other trying to out compete the other at whatever the cost. Safety in this environment is thought of at the end after a lot of suffering because one group has to win it all. Damages can externalized.

In a Socialist society we build basic rules and we compete within them. Thinking of safety as we build something and refining those rules as we build it because at the end, we are all affected by it and get to benefit from it.

I think the reason tech didn't help productivity until the late 90s is pretty obvious. The internet was missing. Computers needed the internet to make them useful to everyone. So the question should be.

What is Ai missing that will make it useful to everyone?

Bunny Database 6 months ago

You left out the part where they realized they couldn't ship S3 compatibility without rebuilding their storage service. So they have decided to rebuild their storage service. Not really a small project. So I can see how its taking longer. At least they were transparent about it.

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"Rust is self-hosting: To build a new rustc, you need an existing rustc binary (usually the previous stable release). This creates a chain of trust that goes back to the very first bootstrap (historically from OCaml, but modern versions rely on prior Rust binaries).

If any link in that historical chain was ever compromised the backdoor can live on indefinitely.

Unlike C/C++ (which has diverse independent compilers like GCC, Clang, MSVC), Rust has essentially one production compiler (rustc). This makes diverse double-compilation (DDC), the main defense, much harder. DDC involves compiling the compiler source with multiple independent compilers and checking that the outputs match (proving the binary corresponds to the source). With only one mature compiler, you can't easily cross-verify.

There have been public demonstrations of exactly this kind of attack working on Rust (e.g., Manish Goregaokar's "Reflections on Rusting Trust" in 2016."

https://x.com/lmilsfsd/status/2011920950070046787

Incompetence, our "leaders" are woefully incompetent. MAGA, GOP and the right are filled with idiots. The Liberal and Neoliberal Democrats at least were a little better at stealing everything from us and delaying progress. They would bury people in culture wars and keep their followers busy with DEI rules. They used legitimate racist issues and then said everything was caused by racism and not that the 1% was just stealing everything.

I started my programming journey with VB6. Ruby reminds me of Visual Basic. But its never evolved past that. Python became popular because it was a scripting language that had classes and a nice built out framework of features. But it has a god awful syntax and should never be used for a large project. Also their package management is a dumpster fire.

This brings me to C#. At .NET 10 there will be another option then python. .NET 10 brings the ability to run C# script files without the need for a proj file or a main method. This will bring the full .NET Framework and NUGET eco system with it. I can't wait to replace all my python scripts with this.

Meta makes 95%+ of its revenue on their ads. Whats crazy is that they own the platforms that most of their ads run on. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. How do we know they're not fudging the stats on the ads? They're already known not to be trusted. How has a third party Ad Verification system not popped up by now. Not for just Meta but for all Ad networks.

I can't believe that Typeform is the standard in the industry. Is it me or does the whole product have a constant delay to the UI? Also the form building part seems really bad. Nothing is intuitive. Not a fan of one question per page. Also why is it so hard to add multiple questions per page. I had to Google how to do that just to find the option.

This is coming from the US. They're just using Germany as their proxy to go after China. This whole mess with tying ourselves to Israel has revealed a lot of the countries that just act like proxies for US policies.

When its coming from the US, that means its coming from the corporations that control the US. So this is actually coming from US companies doing AI trying to minimize China's AI.