skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being forced to keep around dead weight because they can't be fired, the potential for an entire company to be shutdown due to a union strike, being forced to only hire individuals who are part of a union, regardless of whether they're the most qualified. For workers, they may be fine with the pay and benefits provided by the company, but get forced to pay union dues and deal with strikes and walkouts because union leadership says so.

Right, but these are arguments that may or may not be based in reality. They're also based around a worldview that inherently says, "If you are not very good at your job compared to the most productive and dedicated people, you deserve to be fired." This is in fact a very modern view focused around the idea that efficiency-maximization is a pillar to societal happiness at large. In M. Friedman's case he very literally argued that.

In reality, a better way for unions often aggressively deal with people who refuse to perform at all (because many jobs are union-only and if the union kicks you out, you're in trouble). Even teachers unions, the target of every union grudge in the US, do this. The disagreement is what to do with people who simply aren't very good at their jobs relative to peak producers.

As we list the various American oppositions to unions, I think it's important to point out how these ideas are shaped and how they conflict with the Union's policies and the existing neoliberal economic establishment.
Example: https://twitter.com/coralineada/status/1042249983590838272

This pretty much rules out "good faith".
I just have to comment about this.

I had the weirdest job interview for a contracting job at Delta. I passed two technical phone interviews and was scheduled for an in-person interview. The night before it dumped a ton of snow. I tried to cancel, but didn't have the manager's contact info. I left an hour early to get there, and still I was 5 minutes late.

They let me sit in the lobby for another twenty minutes, then the Manager's "administrative assistant" came and fetched me. The Manager then asked me some of the most condescending questions, like "what operating system do you use? Have you ever used Linux?" He then finished with a snide comment and that our time was up and he had a meeting to go to.

I called the recruiter from my car. They decided pass, "because the Manager said I didn't apologize enough for being late." That was the last I heard from the recruiting company. They ghosted me. Wouldn't talk to me or respond to my email. It was the most unprofessional situation I've run into in 25 years of contract/consulting. Just plain weird.

Note, this job was not to code, but write documentation about the code. They wanted a C++ programmer to document the existing system that schedules and reroutes flights during irregular ops, that was written by some guys from Bell Labs running on some fault-tolerant hardware. He had sold the management on converting everything into Java running on commodity/cloud servers.

Every time I see their system meltdown... I'm reminded of this.
Ex-Content Moderator Sues Facebook, Saying Violent Images Caused Her PTSD
Ex-Facebook moderator sues Facebook over exposure to disturbing images
On Becoming a Reflective Teacher (1984) [pdf]
Yes!

Out of the more recent episodes 201-David Hohme & 206-Modd were top quality.

If you enjoy Anjunadeep then I think you will also like
'When We Dip' , Canopy Sounds and Magician on Duty podcasts. They really go well with the anjunadeep style although I would say is more laid back then Anjunadeep (which has an at times housier/trancier vibe).
The word in question has a clear meaning, which clearly wasn't the sense in which you used it.
I could understand making that that argument in a thread about Starbucks, but saying that about Google is suspiciously naive.

There are companies with which it's not only difficult not to do business with, but impossible.

Even a person that is not using the internet at all will still have some of their information sucked into the gaping maws of Facebook and Google through their social circle.
Ask HN: Writing platform with support for runnable literate programming?
Working on this thing and am wondering if there's any prior art here, except for Jupyter.
It's still weird to carry around an iPad, my point being the bar will be much higher for VR if it wants to become mainstream and while it will win over gamers or other dedicated users, becoming a widespread VR everyday consumer electronic is a much further away
I'm surprised that remote video cameras aren't used by tower controllers.

The perspective of the control tower makes it difficult to catch issues like this, but a simple video camera aligned with the center-line of each runway would allow controllers to more easily verify that planes are lined up as well as other possible issues like gear down & locked, etc.
What about arms dealers that sell weapons to these people?
> I have seen plenty of evidence that for example the internet as a whole is biased against conservatives, or even really reality,

This is where I stop having the conversation.

You've lost sight of what an "opinion" is and what it means. You're not alone in the world, but it's not a discussion I care to have. No amount of evidence will convince you of anything.
According to the article, the goal here was to demonstrate the possibility of making an attractive, modern-looking Web page while still having it be lightweight. Your example does not achieve the first goal at all.
The #1 secret to make any man CRAVE to commit to you
Now only if it didn’t take 7 days to get your payment processed
Without commenting on the likenesses of the two photos, I do note that a person's ears do change shape, becoming longer throughout their lifetime.
So the JAW doesn't exist? Toyota encodes many union mechanisms directly into the corporate structure. The government itself makes it very hard to fire factory workers and backs pensions.

So if you're looking for a justification for this, it seems like Unions are more of a scapegoat than a root cause. It seems as unfair to blame their union affiliation as it does to suggest that it's because they're Trump voters.

Also worth noting that Tesla, an anti-union shop by all accounts, actually straight up missed their Model 3 targets while union shops (notably Chevrolet, but also Nissan) managed to get mass-market-priced full EVs on the road with good marks for quality, safety and performance within their price category. So maybe it's just America itself that has the issues?
Looks like an investor level presentation. Pretty sure, there are 10x more layers of controllers needed to handle 1M> users.
I'd say it's a big deal because $850M donated to a worthy cause (e.g., GiveWell) could have made a big difference in the world. I've suffered far more for far less.
I have my unifi controller running on a raspberry pie and it has been very reliable. Might be worth a shot.
Ask HN: Solopreneurs, experience with health ministries as health insurance?
Do any of you solo entrepreneurs get your health "insurance" via a health cost sharing ministry (like CHM or Liberty HealthShare)?

What has your experience been like?
Can anyone here think of [...]
how [...] this experiment
could [be] squeezed into
a form [...] as the next
big [...] thing?

This is definitely firmly in the "Internet of Things" genre of niche interests. Remote power monitoring and other system diagnostics for systems designed to account for expected faults, and manage their own capacity to operate, for sure are useful for internet managed consumer appliances.

Right now we only think in terms of wi-fi routers and phones, but when 4 out of 5 useless gadgets (oh boy! internet-enabled shampoo bottles that also can advertise hair gel! yaayy!) have a battery and 5G internet, an RSS/JSON/XML feed of their status will be abundantly relevant.

To... someone. Probably not me, but I'm sure someone will want this.
just another way for google to track you???
Insurance companies are already salivating to the prospect of ever accessing their customers' health monitor data.

Cross that data with customer loyalty card data regarding groceries purchases for the next decades, and one can practically automate ineligibility.
I'm not sure that peoples' answer to the race question on the census is 100% correlated with whether they will receive racism.
The Genius of Fortnite's Business Strategy
Simply because I saw it.

We can't read all the comments that get posted here. If you see one that's worse, why not help out by flagging it, or emailing hn@ycombinator.com?
"Isn't this table just sorted by the PP adjustment factor"

No, it isn't, but I do think you're right in that I should have used the nominal wages. I found the original article and that does not appear to be purchasing-power adjusted:

https://www.daxx.com/article/it-salaries-software-developer-...

Using the nominal wages gives the below, with France now in the middle of the list:

Country Ratio dev:avg
Australia 0.81
Netherlands 0.85
Canada 0.90
New Zealand 0.92
Finland 0.92
France 0.92
Switzerland 0.93
Norway 1.02
Denmark 1.05
Germany 1.12
UK 1.15
Sweden 1.15
USA 1.49
Israel 1.53

Whether or not this is a "meaningful result" is still debatable but I'd like to think it gives us something approaching a "developer appreciation metric".
What do you think Google or any other company should do when it is handed national security letters in the USA?
The dirty secret is that socioeconomic status and race are very related.
ipv6 is on the roadmap :) i just started spec'ing that out today actually.
Casey Liss (host of Accidental Tech Podcast, among others) has a small writeup about that work at https://www.caseyliss.com/2014/11/22/how-i-make-podcasts
True.

You could set up pi-hole as a recursive dns server: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/
That way you don't have to use a public dns server like Cloudflare.
However, since (as far as i know) dns requests are not encrypted, this is not perfect either (security wise).

At least when using Cloudflare you can use DNS-Over-HTTPS: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
Also NAL, but my understanding (even in CA) is it comes down to whether or not there is a conflict of interest. Say you work for Amazon and want to write software for controlling drones. Is there a conflict of interest? Does Amazon make drones? Maybe? Maybe they will? Do/will they use drones and purchase drone software? I’m already seeing dollar signs (legal fees) flying past my eyeballs here. Why would anyone risk that kind of legal exposure, even if they are “really sure” they are right?
>"Not everyone thinks authoritarianism is morally wrong"

The people who don't find authoritarianism morally wrong are generally elites who enjoy privilege on account of their being ranking members of that authoritarian regime.

Can you provide any examples of a 21st century authoritarian regimes where this hasn't been true? Mugabe? Bouteflika? Quaddafi? Assad? I don't think so.
for comparison

UniFi Cloud Controller

$299.00/year for up to 10 devices

$498.00/year for up to 20 devices

$697.00/year for up to 30 devices

+ $199.00/year per 10 additional devices

When I include my time, one less things to break or be misconfigured, one less vendor involved, etc... $299+ a year is worth it vs $120 a year + AWS/Azure, but if youre trying to do it on the cheap, I agree with you.

Does the Unifi mobile app work with the setup you described?
> starting at $399 USD for a 64GB headset

I am most wary of this. And given occulus's past, I would be surprised if this wasn't a walled garden of sorts.

I hope I'm wrong, though, and that you'll be able to run anything, and tinker with the hardware (SD card, nvme ssd) and the software, down to the OS.
I'm currently using Mikrotik happily for AP and router needs, but considering switching to a Ubnt setup for ease of management that does not depend on Windows/Wine and without having to write my own configuration management tooling. As central management is somewhat lacking.

What are your considerations for not choosing Ubnt for routing?
Author of both here. I need to update the README of hyperdht, but we basically just iterated that a bit and moved it hyperswarm/dht to as it's part of the stack now. I'll update the hyperdht README to reflect that.
Saying "I don't believe in the government obliging businesses to do things." seems to me akin to not believing in gravity.

The government - including the US government - is obliging all companies operating on its territory to do certain things. That's one of the roles of government.
At Lockheed Martin I worked on a SIMD processor designed before VHDL and Verilog existed. The reference design was written in a lisp-like language. I don't know if the language had a name or if it was ever publicized in any way.
If anyone would like to listen to the ATC radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW-ETmZU0u8
Google has some sort of human detection that they don't disclose the workings of beyond the little puzzles. I'm guessing that works better on Chrome.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-new-recaptcha-system/

Personally, reCAPTCHA drives me crazy, and I've definitely noted it's been worse since I stopped using or signing into Google products and services. I've contacted several sites using it to ask them to remove it.
Do you want your companies to be extensions of US foreign policy?

Do you want your search engine company to be an extension of Chinese policy?
I think one thing that's important here is that China has a lot of pull on these companies. It's possible for China to look at Google, Apple, or whatever and just say "oh, too bad you don't want to do X. I guess we're going to have to do Y to your business model." It really should be the role of the government in this sort of instance to step in remove the incentive for China to enact punitive measure against that company by just making it impossible legally for that company to even be immoral in that specific way. How difficult is it to codify a law that says "it is illegal for a company based in the US to perform surveillance operations on behalf of a foreign government agency against its own people"?
There is Org Mode for Emacs in which you can do writing as well as literate programming. Here's my Emacs config (written in Org Mode) which doubles as documentation and includes lots of custom code: https://github.com/munen/emacs.d
I think the premise of JEE is that you label your class by @SessionBean annotation, and everything is installed automatically for that class: RPC, load balancing, security, monitoring, and you don't need to shop for individual components and find the way how to glue them together.
How this premise is implemented is another story. I am not sure about quality because didn't use jee for last 10 years, but when I was using it, IBM stack was far ahead of everything on the market, and was like your private PaaS with cloud functions, but with high license fees of course.
Running Kafka on Kubernetes
Have you tried mypy? It's a pretty good static typing system for Python - arguably better than Go's.
I give up--why shouldn't airplane strobes be on while they're on the ground?
> but they also murder people

Not murder. Unfortunately, people are killed in war. Not the same thing.
Yea holepunching is implemented in the dht-rpc package. There is an explanatory comment there as well, https://github.com/mafintosh/dht-rpc/blob/master/lib/io.js#L... (hope that helps!)

We are planning to blog more about how the internals work. The "first class" hole punching is def one of the features I'm most exciting about.
For me, that's really overpriced, since the ongoing maintenance and updates on a debian stretch based unifi controller (which is just a JRE and a blob of ubnt provided software) is super simple and takes maybe 20 minutes of my time a year. I have a ton of things doing different network infrastructure purposes that are also based on debian stretch amd64 so it's barely any additional effort.

You can easily control 50 to 100 ubnt APs on the cpu, ram and disk resources of a $10/month VM. Big difference between like $700-900/year and $120/year.
With the amount of Chinese products being used in US and US support of countries who have violated human rights, your statement sounds hypocritical. US has interests and behaves to protect it, there is no morality in those decisions.
If you don't care about all aspects of your software, including security, ethics, and legality, you are not an engineer. Engineering implies professionalism.

It's debatable whether there are any true software engineers (we're certainly not licensed like traditional engineers), but all software professionals should be concerned about licenses. It's part of the job, as are all ethical considerations of your work.
It is a double edge sword for sure.
Not sure how privacy friendly deepl.com is, but it is so much better than Google Translate, at least for the available language pairs. So if it is more privacy friendly than Google Translate, it must be on the list.
I was an idiot who paid for it. twice	(－‸ლ)
its not really google specific other than in the sense google is breaking the law; if some other company breaks the law then yes, the law should come after them too...
A CT-style system could work for supply chains, but let's say for the sake of convenience, we wanted to use some shared storage system rather than building a new system for supply chains only.

We could have one big CT-style log system host many applications, but as the number of participants grew, we would want some mechanism to prevent spam. Even if there was no outright spam, some users would generate a large volume of logs with questionable utility, and humans would need to get together to decide if those users should be blacklisted or what.

Ethereum gives us spam control via gas costs. I can't imagine a good, low-maintenance solution that doesn't resemble some cryptocurrency. Paying fees from a ledger isn't absolutely necessary -- we could proof of work to discourage spam, like iota -- but charging fees in a ledger seems like the better solution, and isn't that much more complicated.
I would call it a profitable side-project rather than a startup but I've built a price comparison browser extension : http://www.shoptimate.com

I'm currently busy launching a SaaS tool http://blockedby.com but having two small children, a full time job and Shoptimate.com limits the time I can spend on this.
This little slice of magic is why I love HN. Thank you for sharing your story.

It's good to know that pg is still hacking, and still around:

he said that it was PG who found us on Hacker News

Wherever you are pg, we miss you!
HackRF is only half-duplex, and the turnaround time isn't fast enough to fake it. You'd need two.
This isn't necessarily awful. Having a known baseline hardware (even if not quite state of the art) can really help optimization efforts. I'm thinking of the gaming consoles, which are all behind a modern PC in terms of performance, but have really quite good graphics and performance as it's so tuned.
It was down to Rust and Go and I picked Go.

(I mostly write server software, command line utilities and embedded software (embedded software in C/C++). If I wrote more embedded software on Cortex-M than server software om AMD64 I think I'd really like to use Rust.)
Saying "I don't believe in the government obliging businesses to do things." seems to me akin to not believing in gravity.

Believing in gravity doesn't mean that you then need to gain as much weight as possible. In fact, taking into account science like that, you might want to lose a certain amount of weight for your health.

"The government obliging businesses to do things," is necessary, like carbohydrates are necessary. That said, you don't want too much of something.
This is the biggest factor in why a "centralized" database or even a distributed one for that matter doesn't adequately provide the same value that IBM is bringing here.

This also quite obviously a DLT solution and not a blockchain...but it seems like a lot of people are missing that point in this thread.
The classic story: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Why does this matter? What can I do with ten minute settlements that I can't do with my debit card?
For some reason Firefox is only showing the <summary> contents when you click that link, but it's all in there and it shows the full article in ttrss for me.
I don't see any reference in the article to a trained government analyst having confirmed the resemblance. And where do I claim to be more qualified than anyone in this?
That sounds intriguing. What is she annoyed?

What apps (social media, news, or entertainment) are popular with her and her friends?
I'm surprised why something better hasn't come along than FB.
The point of the law is to protect EU citizens, not support business.

Lamenting about the fate of small businesses is getting tiresome, especially when said businesses are one dime a dozen startups whose ultimate goal on their wonderful journey is to get sold and make the founders rich.
Why not use a browser extension? uBlock Origin is pretty good from what I hear. I use uMatrix by the same dev, and it serves me well. Both work on major browsers (FF, Chrome, Opera, etc..).
Didn't Bruce Sterling or William Gibson write a story where there was a street tribe called the "LoTeks?" I think it was William Gibson in the Johnny Mnemonic short story. Molly Millions fought a monomolecular weapon wielding assassin, using the LoTek's space to defeat him with "culture shock."
I'm not sure how many outages I could avoid using Heroku, but I guess at least a few.

One time I was using Docker for a 2 TB MongoDB and it messed the iptables rules. I notice everything slow for a few days until the database disappeared and when I logged in to check, there was a ransom note.

I flew from Boca Raton to NJ to recover the backup and audit if that was the only breach. That was the longest outage.

Like Rome, this infrastructure was not created in one day. Adding Optane storage is something more recent, for example. Or adding a remote KVM to make easier to manage than dealing with multiple DRACS, which I did after a moved to Florida.

But I'm not against using the cloud. I'm actually very in favor. What I'm against is waste.

In my case, being very conservative with my costs and still have a lot of resources available allowed me to try and keep trying many different ideas in the search for product/market fit.
> If you're privacy conscious, why do you have a smart phone at all? Get a standalone GPS

There are trade offs between privacy and security, it's not an all or nothing affair. Even a dumb phone can be tracked via cell tower pings... I think most people who say things like you did aren't effectively thread modeling.

For example, while I do own a smartphone, I turn it off and put it in a faraday bag during Defcon :)

>Even in airplane mode, your phone is tracking where you go with the accelerometer. I don't have time to look up the video right now, but this has been tested.

I'll acknowledge that's theoretically possible, but I'm selective about what apps I grant location privlidges to - I don't think most companies would want to risk fines etc by circumventing.

If I'm attending an especially sensitive meeting, I wouldn't bring any phone with me.
I'm in the camp of the fewer regulations the better, but one thing I think needs more regulation is how the private sector and public sector interact. There is just way too much conflict of interest when they mix.
The article looks to be using screenshots from the FPGA IDE (Xilinx Vivado in this case), which is probably why they look so bad. The later snippets are using actual text and look a lot better, at least on my screen. FPGA design is really really complicated and most of the development environments for them look like a hot mess because they have to cover so much functionality. Vivado is actually one of the sleeker tools available.