jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, many employers would rather that we physically commute to their offices every morning. They'd also rather we worked 12-hour shifts and got paid minimum wage for it.

However, as the talent crunch keeps getting worse, and CoL and local income taxes keep obliterating pay raises, employers will have to find ways to reward the talented senior employees they're all competing for - and it won't be simply paying them more to work on-site in ultra-high CoL locations.

As more employers offer remote work options, the remaining employers will have to match - or risk losing many of the best candidates, especially senior engineers who aren't going to try to raise a family in SF or Manhattan.

Also, once the process kicks into high gear, it will be hard to reverse; engineers will move to suburbs in states like Colorado, and it will be very hard to get them to move back to extremely expensive areas like the Bay.

Arguably this is already happening during this pandemic. I know many engineers who moved to remote locations with no plans of coming back.
> Most recently, when the government, most especially the Surgeon General and even Fauci, told people that masks don't work.

They said that mask don't work in preventing you from contracting covid. This holds up to this day. As early as February, Fauci was saying that he was discouraging masks because he wanted make sure there were enough for healthcare workers and sick people, but people are acting like it was a secret agenda. I think that people are deliberately misinterpreting Fauci's words, so that they can blame someone besides themselves or their own social circle for the pandemic. People completely ignored stay at home orders and social distancing. Masks are only meant as a last resort if you have no other choice.
I'm not sure what your 50% and 90% refer to. 50,90 percent of what? There were tests showing an order of magnitude more antibodies a week following 2nd shot (e.g. [0]).

The efficacy claims were because disease levels took more time to drop off than what one would expect following lockdown+start date of 1st shot vaccination if 1st shot were effective. I lack the qualifications to evaluate these claims, but I can tell you all Israeli HMOs prefer the 2 shots regimen.

[0]
https://twitter.com/ArielMunitz/status/1356683799568990216
The UK has (first-dose) vaccinated close to a quarter of the population now. Given the vast population difference between it and Israel it seems to be doing pretty well too.
It used to be that you could search anything and you would find some related videos plus some random stuff people submitted or related through the description.

Now, no matter what you search: it limits you to the most popular results, you see almost no random video uploads even after using filters, plus extra results unrelated to your search that YouTube will insist you watch even if it is unrelated to your original search.

Truly lacking.
I could also post about how police unions protect abusers as well. I was thinking more about guaranteeing rights for Amazon warehouse workers and people like the woman in the article working in datacenters where basic expectations like being able to go and get water aren't going to jeopardize your job. The people who are FTEs at these companies dont need unions. It's the people working for contractors for these companies so they can hide a bunch of ugly practices and cost cutting who need it.
Potential for Cobra Effect[1]. If I was homeless and lived near Elk Grove I’d move there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Good to know. I haven't worked in Google myself so I can't comment from first-hand experience, but I've heard from other Googlers I know that this is very much not the case for them. Could be office location/team dependent I'm sure.

I guess in any large enough org you're likely to be able to find this in some areas.
Is that because of the cracks formed by heavy vehicles?
I’m generally a union supporter. I’ve noticed a trend regarding Google specifically that most of the grievances are about Google’s reaction to the union effort. “Retaliation” seems to be the main thing the union cares about. It makes me think of the snake eating its own tail. We need a union to protect us from retaliation for joining the union. I don’t think this invalidates the need for a union, but it just makes me skeptical.

Reading the story about the founding of the union: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employe...

It sounds like the purpose of the union is to create a permanent activist-class of employees, who focus on promoting the union instead of doing their jobs, and are protected from termination by the union (or the NLRB). It’s a far cry from from miners who picketed because they were dying on the job.

I’m not going to cry about the mega-profitable Google having a few hundred less productive employees who spend their time on this, but it doesn’t exactly inspire me either.
Photoshop remains the reason I haven't used Linux as my primary OS for a couple years now. I held out for a long time, but it's just a singularly useful piece of software with no reasonable equivalents.
So, many big phone makers tried to meet the smartphone transition and pulled out. It sucks.

Palm
LG
Nokia
RIM (BB)
Microsoft
Amazon
Obi Worldphone

I know BB still makes phones but it is no longer a dominant arm of their business.
At scale, Evolutionary Strategies (ES) are a very good approximation of the gradient as well. Don’t recommend to jump just yet to conclusions and unifications.
What happened to imports lol...
Because good benefits and working conditions are fleeting without the power of collective bargaining behind it. Without a union, employees are depending entirely on the goodwill of their employers.
I actually donate to ACSH because during the Pandemic, they had the most level-headed and accurate reporting of any source that I could find.

But they do tend to pooh-pooh any anti-chemical reporting. They are very data-driven so they don't "worry" about things like PFAS because there hasn't been any proven deaths from it, which I find a bit too arrogant. They are also very pro-GMO, which I disagree with. However, I still support them with my donations because we need level-headed reporting like this.

Here's an article from today that I just read that shows their philosophy on anti-hysteria media.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/04/01/abc-news-terrible-scary...
I posted elsewhere that it would make sense to allow individuals to apply some smoothing to their yearly income to reduce the impact that progressive brackets have on highly variable incomes.

so let me rephrase my statement about capital gains. it doesn't make sense to treat LTCG as income unless we first make significant changes to the way we assess income tax in the first place. obviously this would be a lot more complicated. imo the existing cap gain rules is a somewhat reasonable solution for a tax system that mostly looks at each year in isolation. the 15% rate is really not much of a concession to a retirement saver who has held a lot of those assets for decades and has experienced meaningful inflation. but the whole system leaves a lot to be desired.
Is there some sort of demo we can view to play around with WebOS and try it out? As in, some JS implementation?
You might like Patrick White. I also greatly respected his ability to describe moments and the character of people, and their hidden momentary emotions. Insightful
The point I was making is that both Islam and Mormonism are based on Christianity and so share many common beliefs, but they both extend on this base. Personally I find Mormonism a fascinating religion, but I do think it has moved past being just another branch of Christianity.
The music industry is pretty good at dying slowly itself... and painfully, for some values of pain, I suppose.
It will eventually go away. Get hosting these days, such as cloud, they give you ftp over ssh and not traditional ftp (port 21). That's how it will fade.

I do love FTP though. But then again, I love holding a floppy in my hand too. It feels like you're holding real data.
It looks like they're trying to co-opt the effort in order to slow it down. A lot of people have already switched from OOo to LibreOffice.
Keep spare domains around and keep mirrors of your content. Make sure to keep a static copy around as it can be a pain in the ass to setup a database server and other apps quickly. Toss the mirror on BitTorrent and get friends, family, strangers to download it and host it. Host it on free website hosts. Host it on Freenet!

Take over forums, pastebins, and other websites to keep the message alive.

Basically, you'll want to have as many avenues as possible in order to send the content across them. As soon as one domain goes down, a bunch of mirrors should pop up.
Don't know if you are talking about webfonts or fonts you are just using locally in Photoshop. Here's my take on webfonts:
About a year ago I started using typekit with a 50 USD plan for a 3 of the sites I maintain/run. Recently I switched one of the sites to googlefonts. Googlefonts has less choice of fonts. But I did it for two reasons. I can download the fonts and use them offline - also in Photoshop Design mockups. The fonts are served faster, especially for sites targeted for europe.
To me , the classless one is the Tumblr guy getting incensed with a barely-related-possibly-in-the-near-future-if-they-dont-pivot startup that was getting funded.
I've personally been on the wrong side of it with some opportunistic a-hole lawyers and a 30-day late payment on my condo fees. Maybe it wouldn't have held up if I wanted to dump 5 figures to fight it all the way, but then that's the point, right? Once you threaten someone with legal fees, they're likely to get a lot more cooperative. Personally, I ate it rather than fight it.
No, if your computer is infected (=monitoring software) there's no difference because token is transaction-agnostic. 2fa won't help
The games on the right certainly are the originators of the games on the left; in fact, in both cases, the developers of the game on the right were the very team which followed up by developing the game on the left.
I've always liked the analogy to Barry Bonds for this kind of thing. There's a famous quote out there that goes something like, you can't point to any specific home run and say "he hit that one because of steroids," but you can be sure he hit more home runs because of them.

I think that kind of reasoning applies equally here. You can't necessarily point to bias for any given case (or at least not this one), but that doesn't mean the bias isn't there.
I was awarded for a big bounty for finding a big hole last summer (and it is a BIG one). I had a pleasant experience. Maybe the folks who were managing the program are gone. But it is sad to see that some people had negative experience.

In general, Slack is full of security holes, if you look at the number of bounty awarded. On the other hand it's great they do pay people for finding security bugs. I just hope they can tighten up the code and run more security checks before deploying to production...
These look pretty functional. A bit sturdier than the typical Army tent and no external guy wires. Given that they have been testing these, how do they hold up in the field to wind? I was recently asked how I would provide shelter for people working on a pipeline in the middle of no where, and this looks like it would fit the bill.
This is an amazing experience and a ton of fun.

I loved being instantly put into a game. I was able to immediately recognize that I was on a team and dive face first into the battle.

Sure, the controls and hit detection are a bit flakey, but experiencing this for the first time was a lot of fun. Great job :)
Hmm, I hope it doesn't spoil your ideas.
That does not change what I said.

Yes, there will be scams. And there will be successes.
So how do they get the crispr into the cell and into the cell nucleus? Would fixing scd be all or nothing?
Mandatory: https://xkcd.com/927/
We all have this year :)
No. I am stating that this attitude of "downvote when disagreeing" could lead to structural discrimination against minorities. That is exactly what I'm saying, nothing more, nothing less.
The audio is available, there's an injustice in my opinion. In either case it will be judged and tried. But the likely outcome is a victory on kieran side. You can't just kick a medical student over critical thinking
Not at any quality with off-the-shelf software they can't, not that I've found anyway. Most software gives up a very long way short of this sort of resolution.
Good point. Networks are good, but they aren't a total lock-in.

However, Facebook has some things going for it that ICQ didn't. for example:

Grandmothers - Facebook started with the early adopters just like everyone else. But they slowly moved (and are still moving) down the curve, past the 'what's a browser' middle and down to the users for whom email is a big challenge. People who basically don't use computers except for occasional tasks that someone else has shown them how to do and set everything up. These people don't switch easily.
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006128 - marc.info - Many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007694 - Ask HN:
I would be very interested in this applied to psychophathic individuals since they apparently lack moral judgement.
in Poland ICQ was smashed by GaduGadu, a local IM raised from an SMS sending app, additionally it was the .com bubble times and when the web was raising crazy around here. Yet I remember that fellow nerds and I used ICQ for some time until it was full of spam, so I assume spam was what 'killed' it in most countries.
Thank goodness. They'd wreck it, turning the geek protagonist into some stereotypical weirdo..
Interesting. Have you got a source for this?
Just get some popcorn and enjoy the show.
What can you do?

How much are you willing to pay?

Whatever you want.

What should I want to ask you?

$1000000

Worship me.
It makes some sense: the videos are hosted on Google servers and served through Google bandwidth.
It's fine and fun to make a minimal early Lisp, just remember you don't have to release it to the public. Make it open-source, but don't post it on the web or just give it out to a few friends to try out or whatever.
It may be just me, but I think self-editing anything of real significance is unwise. Most people know themselves, so even with some distance they will know what they meant even when it is unclear to the general reader. They will also often be blind to their own idioms (especially if they have not traveled) which may be highly local and not translate well to a broad audiance.

I have never attempted to write anything book length, but I have published some short technical articles, and it is always clear which ones benefitted from a good editor and which ones did not.
I have:

- 7 linodes.
- ~12 websites hosted collectively.
- 0 problems
- 0 complaints.

Highly recommended.
Followup: "Talent acquisition: Groupon buys LeakFace for undisclosed amount"
There was a similar poll on Stack Overflow two years ago. The results are graphed here: http://imgur.com/MEw6h

Source: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33970/how-old-are-yo...
But if you don't trap it with a confusing question, you can hold a relatively normal conversation with it, and it'll only goof up occasionally
I tried touring a few times, and didn't really care for it. Instead of my 'Ferrari', it feels like pushing a garbage truck around, both up the hills and down.
I agree. I see two other big differences between now and the PC OS battle of old. First, compatibility problems were a much bigger deal 20 years ago than they are today. If you and the person you wanted to share information with weren't both running the same program on the same OS with the same data storage hardware, you couldn't collaborate at all. Today, we have the internet, which has created a lowest common denominator for communication. Everyone can understand HTML. We have Google Docs, email, Twitter. Different OS's can have different client applications but can easily talk to the same services as other devices.

This leads to my second, related, difference. Microsoft aggressively sold Windows to businesses first, everyone else second. Many many people had Windows machines at work, so when it came time to get one for their home, they picked the same OS for familiarity and compatibility reasons. I don't see that as being a large factor in the handset market. The phone isn't as important to getting work done as the PC was and is, so people have more latitude in picking what phone they want to use.

So, again, I agree. There is room for more mobile OS's in this space than the two we got in the PC space. I hope more device manufactures realize this and try hard to make something compelling. We'll see.
There's a big assumption you're making there. Nothing and nobody can guarantee him parole then.

I don't expect it will happen and even if it does, I don't see 12 years in prison as a light sentence.
Too little, too late. Free Wifi was interesting a decade ago. Nowadays in most countries 3G is so cheap that nobody bothers trying to find an open access point. I currently pay 4 Euros per Gigabyte per month (or optionally 9 Euros for 9 Gigabytes) - that's all, no other monthly fees, no minimum charges, can be (optionally) combined with a voice plan. And in addition most newer laptops provide (optional) builtin 3G modems, so you don't even need a USB modem to use your 3G connection.
As an alternative viewpoint, his thinking seems incredibly shortsighted. When it comes time to launch "InstaAlbum, share your family photos", he is going to have 1/3 the potential audience to draw customers. 3x the existing customers could make the difference between the top of the charts and the press recognition that goes with it.

Part of his rational is that some tiny percentage of the free customers complain, and write negative reviews. Marco should man up and simply accept he has a good product and is a talented developer. That way he doesn't have to give a damn about the haters. It is sad that the %.1 of the population that is inherently bitchy, is driving his business decisions.
> First you toot your horn without adding any value to the conversation

And what value have YOU added to the conversation?

> THAT turns out to be empty words?

This will only be the case if at some time I renege on this promise, which I don't intend to do.
I am sad about this since I was an Instapaper Free to Instapaper paid convert. In fact, I would never have used it if I hadn't used the free app.

I know I'm in a minority of users, but I still think the free is useful.

Having initially spent many months using my iPhone and not paying for any apps at all (only downloading free apps), I took my first step into paid apps with a cheap $0.99 app, and realized that for the small price, it made my app (and phone) experience a whole lot better. After that, I was always willing to spend money on apps (even if it was just for experimentation) and Instapaper became one of the first apps I bought.

I don't know if this is an unusual thing, but I've noticed a lot of my friends act in a similar manner. After paying for that first app, they are very willing to pay for more. And you'd be losing some very good customers if you removed the free app.

I suppose I understand Marco's decision even after all this, I'm still unhappy that we might see it go.
MBAs have glossy displays too, right? That would be a turn off for me.
What's great about Push Pop Press is that their interaction design doesn't suck. All iPad magazines I have tried suck. Big time. I feel lost, gestures don't work as expected, magazines take forever to download. They definitely did a great job with the software, I encountered none of those problems.
"Maybe you think I can only do this because Instapaper is already popular. But it built its popularity while charging a lot for an iPhone app from the start."

AND there was a free version out.

He's neglecting the "critical mass" factor.

The free version helped him sell the full version until it reached that "critical mass" that was required for the popularity of the full version to continue to drive sales of itself.

I've personally found that by just offering a paid version of an app from the beginning is quite frustrating. But once I put out a free limited version, sales took off. So, MAYBE I'll try losing some of my free versions to see what happens, but I think that free-to-paid actually works just as well.
It's not exactly a fact. In my view Concorde was killed by a 'perfect storm': changing market conditions, 9/11, that terrible crash in Paris.

Together those three were what caused the towel to be thrown into the ring. Every time I visit Paris and I see it impaled on its stand it reminds me of a butterfly or something trying to escape. Such a sad image.
Well said! A similar thing I do is to read the diff of what I've written so far before making a pull request, as if I were a reviewer. I've caught many mistakes and "TODO" comments that way.
>Copyright? I'm not aware of any general problem with that. It's pretty simple, the original author has a period of protection for their work. What's wrong with that?

Not just their work, but derivative works, and they get control over it essentially indefinitely. It used to be that works went into the public domain after 15 years. Thus anyone can print copies of A Christmas Carol, but not anything from the 20th century. Most books from the 20th century have disappeared entirely. E.g. see this graphic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-mi...

There is really no economic advantage of copyright after 5-10 years, but a huge cost on society.
No. It will be a huge positive.
I can't say I see anything wrong with the crude learning lesson he was trying to put out there. I myself wrote a quick Wachovia Chrome Extension that never stored credentials, but tracked if someone actually put them in. Upon a "login" the user would be presented with a warning about the dangers of phishing and how to be safe. It blew my mind to see people actually writing comments telling me they tried to log in multiple times, but never had success. Sometimes learning the hard way is the only way.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pcgpfcjfajapilli...
The point is, if a Nokia phone with modded firmware can do this, so can a software radio.
Lots, but it's the PDFs that normally get copied.
That was my first intuition too. It sounds like a classic race condition, in which case you would simply acquire the highest level of locking (exclusive) before reading the data, to make sure all your accesses to the shared data are synchronized.

But I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding what the author was trying to say.
That's probably the best attitude to take since you can't ever stop the infringers. And if you do try to stop them you're only making it more complicated on the people who do want to buy your content.

I buy lots of ebooks and music and the key for me is making it easy to pay for (Amazon and ITMS are great for this). I don't want to jump through hoops to give you my money.

Contrast this with the movie industry who I think are setting themselves up in a way that's pushing infringement with all the rules around renting, buying, streaming, and NetFlix. For example, I see a commercial that a movie now 'in stores' so I check NF. If it's not there and I really want to see it, I'll check the iTunes and xbox marketplaces. When I can't find it there I wonder if they really want my money? They are pushing me to buy the movie, but I don't want to buy the movie I just want to rent it and see it once. I think they are pushing many potential renters to just torrent the movie because they have made it so hard to actually give them money. By this point I'm usually so fed up with looking for the movie I forget about watching it until it shows up on NF.