skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...which merely means their lifestyle is more lavish than if they had adopted a more fiscally conservative one.

In some cases, yes, in other cases it's like saying poor are poor because they have costs beyond what they make.

>Less than 5% of workers work minimum wage

That's a large number. Now add those that barely make above, but aren't counted -- which adds up to 30% or so.

>The median income worker has higher purchasing power in the US than almost anywhere else in the world or at any time in history.

Which is neither here, nor there. Wealth is social, not absolute. We're not animals.

When everybody else lives in a proper house, we're not thankful that we live in a trailer because in 10.000 B.C we'd been living in a cave

>Even if 90% of Americans had it that rough (they actually don't) that's no reason to aim low.

There's also no reason to aim "high", just because some people sell you that lifestyle.

Life is not a race to make the most money. Some people make it, but it's not inherently that.
It's probably my plugin settings, but I regularly run into issues logging into random websites like for bank or credit cards on firefox. You input your credentials into the log in window, and absolutely nothing happens when you hit login. For these websites, I'm still shackled to chrome.
Your contribution to the welfare state (absolutely MASSIVE public sector) is considered public information, to ensure that everyone trusts that everyone contributes equally. Not joking.
This is bad design. I may have come close to doing this as well for the same reason. There is no reason why NPM should auto-register you when you attempt to publish (or auto-register when you attempt to sign in) other than to remove a few steps/friction to make it seem like a nice experience.

Explicit vs. Implicit : always choose explicit if accidents can cause people serious pain.
npm login that is secretly npm "create account" is a serious anti-pattern. And npm publish -> npm login -> npm create account is a consequence of that.
Alexa is just an input/output device. It is limited, which is OK but that means there will not be a 'runaway hit'. There's just not enough of a surface area for something so comprehensive.

It's like saying 'There are 80k mouse enabled apps and no runaway hit'.

What it can do is have an app for nearly anything, though, that makes sense for the form factor. It's on its way. The next step of its evolution is to look at what apps work and what conventions can be pulled from those as a general standard. Users will be much happier when they can nearly instantly download an Alexa enabled interface for an app and have it work intuitively. And this is doubly important for Alexa because there isn't deep feedback like you have with a mouse where you can see the things you aren't doing to gather hints at what's possible -- you just have to know or, at least know how to find the answer, like a command line.

Which gives me an idea 'man for Alexa'. At least we can standardize a help menu.
I remember elementaryOS had a GUI for this in its app store. Never got around to try it, Linux is not well known in the consumer world, let alone Elementary
These are a lot of the reasons I would join a bank. Ping-pong tables just do not factor in these decisions.

Unless you are aiming for the shallowest of the shallow tech guys, superficial stuff won’t help you.
Perhaps a good idea if you’re blowing all day but I rarely feel the need and I have dust & pollen allergies.

Either way, with electric you’re not breathing in concentrated nitrous oxide and two-stroke oil soot. To deal with dust you’d only need a light and relatively comfortable fabric mask like they use in hospitals (or on Japanese public transport).
Perhaps, but they're certainly not as low as a lot of people portray them to be. I know a guy who did mechanical engineering and with just 1 internship experience was offered a job at VW (albeit in Wolfsburg, not Berlin) for 65k a year upon graduation.

50-65k EUR as a starting salary in Berlin with under 2 years experience will make many people's eyeballs pop out and they'll start rambling about how "30k is the average and that's just disgustingly overpaid". Truth is though that it's reasonable to find those (tech or nontech, the trick is to not accept the first shit job, probably from Rocket Internet, that you get offered within 2 weeks of applying) and it's not overvalued - people making 30k are the ones being underpaid.

Also $100k for FAANG in the Silicon Valley is nothing. Assuming single young worker, 60+k EUR in Germany would be very competitive with the 100-150k USD range in the valley because you can rent a NICE studio apartment for 800-1000 EUR, spending 30-40 EUR on a night out is already plenty and in bigger cities like Berlin, you can get away without a car (it's still uncomfortable and inconvenient, but much less so if you're single, and certainly much better than BART and 99% of American cities).

If you're taking 6 figures in a LCOL US city where you're socking away 70% of your income as savings at under age 30, then yes, there's no equivalent to be found in Europe.
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120/year is way too much for receiving spam. They are overcharging so much its not even funny.
None of these apply to banking jobs, other than the established business one. At least in the US.
Ah man, I literally came up with (and prototyped) this exact thing in 2013. Minus the end to end encryption. I dropped it mostly because I wasn't sure how to prevent illegal use and didn't want to be liable.

Edit: mine was actually (partially) better because it assigned a short PIN instead of a full link, which meant you could just look at it and remember it for typing-in, instead of requiring a separate channel to "send" the link.
Boeing: UK joins countries blocking aircraft
No, but there's a lot to be said for knocking down the easy 90-95% of it...
I wish the author and anyone writing about this would disclose their positions in these companies or that they have none. The merits of any argument on this topic are only worth considering if we know that they're being presented in good faith.

And to be clear, this applies to people who are pro-dismantling and anti-dismantling.
I wish it gets obsolete as it's an abomination.
> Your comments imply that the aircraft industry functions in a manner that allows for human life to be calculated as a tradeoff.

It's true though, just like in any engineering discipline. If loss of life was 100% unacceptable then the only resolution would be to not fly any aircrafts. The fact that we still use flight technology is a tradeoff in itself.
I had the same impression. But this is how political discourse seems to work this day. Instead of making suggestions for improvement an idea gets dismissed completely and nothing happens as a result. Happened with Obamacare and also with the discussion about regulations. Instead of suggesting specific improvements it turns into a black and white debate without results.
"a new computer without a browser would be practically useless (for one, how do you install a browser?)"

When I read this, I realized that no computers can have browsers!
I left the start up world to join a bank. Best decision I ever made. I feel respected and valued here and I have full control over my time. I also like that my work is seen by millions of people, we get about 30,000 unique hits a day on my site. The startups I was at were lucky to break 1,000.
‘Airbnb Tax’ in N.J. Opens New Front in Battle over Internet Economy
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It still exists for one.

I miss vine.
I've never seen anybody use fullscreen-apps/spaces/maximized-windows smoothly, ever.

It's especially bad on multi-monitor.

- New windows appear on unfocused monitor at random.
- Can make shortcuts to spaces, but not the fullscreen-apps (which look like spaces to all other effects). There are apps to make shortcuts to apps, but this is useless if you have e.g. two terminals in fullscreen mode, it just targets one window at random.
- Cannot deactivate the slow change-space aninmation.
- Windows are grouped under same app in Alt-Tab list.
- When fullscreen-app, some dialogs do overlay the app, some are hidden on some random space, and some forcefully move your active space. At random.
- Plugging and unplugging monitors frequently wreaks havoc among the window disposition.
Presumably Mozilla, just like they do for the sync and Web Push servers.
While I do think CloudFlare has earned quite a bit of trust in this regard, this is a bit of a silly argument.

Cell carriers have been selling location data, despite making plenty of profit off selling a service. It's quite clear "we could be making more money" is a (potentially) compelling argument for large organizations sitting on lots of consumer data.
Hi,

I am a user of MaxCDN (which was bought by Stackpath) and on every page you write "Everything customers loved about MaxCDN has been integrated into the StackPath CDN Edge Service" which isn't true and just marketing speech.

MaxCDN had an API called the "raw logs api" that let my service query yours to get an understanding of what requests you have served for us, but that feature is missing with Stackpath, the feature is described here: https://reseller-docs.maxcdn.com/#raw-logs-api
> 10 or 30 seem shorter, no? I don't have anything to say about 10 or 30, but 90 seems too long in my opinion.

Sure they're shorter, but wherever they draw the line somebody like you is going to complain. Putting myself in their shoes I don't see any reason why you wouldn't complain about 30 days (even if you really wouldn't).

> I understand the need to keep logs to thwart abuse, but with longer lengths you're just helping law enforcement.

90 days cannot be to thwart abuse because...? And helping law enforcement is inherently terrible because...?
Related current discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367871

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365108

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365179
The pilots are required to, by memory, know when this particular situation is happening and how to disable the system. The checklist is the runaway trim checklist, to turn the system off the pilot flips switches next to the trim-wheel, which moves with the automatic trim to visually indicate trim adjustments. This is not new to the MAX, only MCAS adjusting the trim is new to MAX.
I don't understand why they don't have multiple redundant sensors or multiple technologies that detect the same thing.
https://stratechery.com/about/#ethics
My friends that went into investment banking did so because they were going to make shit loads of money without having any technical skills. They put in a few years of hellish hours then move to private equity for even more money at less hours.

The money is the selling point.
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The Information wrote recently [1] that ByteDance (owner of TikTok) has been spending billions on overseas marketing for TikTok, apparently spending more than $300M on just Google Ads in 2018.

It's working in some large markets but not others:

"Compared to the exponential growth in India, cracking the U.S. market has been more challenging. While TikTok became one of the most downloaded apps in the U.S., the number of people who actively use the app is far less impressive. TikTok’s 30-day user retention rate in the U.S. has been around 10%, compared to more than 30% in India, people with knowledge of the matter said."

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-bytedance-pla...?
AirDroid is pretty handy on Android; file transfer, browsing your phone's files/images, sending SMS from your desktop browser (although Messages now does that native) etc. Much to my surprise, there's also an iOS version - https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1194539178
Apple used to let you do this exactly with the iPod.
Personally when I moved back from living in Austria to living in the UK I could go to Lidl and it had the same products in the same place between countries. Its really annoying when normal supermarkets start shifting their products around and you need to spend 5 minutes looking for the new location.
Is there anything specific you are missing in Firefox today? Or is it purely the fact that it's broken since version 61? Did you submit a bugzilla issue, or know the existing number? I'd be happy to check it out.
IIRC The link contains an anchor `#abc123` which is the decryption key. Browsers do not send anchor parts of the URL to the server, and so the browser decrypts.

Hinges on the browsers never sending that key, though.
Makes you wonder why they shutdown vine.
Mozilla has quite a bit of money, most of it from their default search engine deals. I'd wager to guess that most of it goes to wages.
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I don't work in Silicon Valley and don't make near the wages. While work amenities are nice, the biggest thing that weighs on me is going "can we afford for my wife to take mat leave and still pay the mortgage". I don't wake up on Sunday mornings in a panic because of the lack of a pinball machine in the office.
Other vendors used to allow you to do this back when internal storage was vfat formatted but it's not been an option these days because Windows and Macs wouldn't have the file system drivers to read the storage.

This is why MTP was created. However MTP is - in my experience - complete garbage and creates as many problems as it solves.
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Seems like overkill. Just declare your guesses and use a third party to generate coin flip/dice roll. In fact this functionality is built-in in a number of chat clients.
The Amazon costs are nuts. The producers get peanuts and the middleman most of the profit.
This is why the entire second half of the article was detailing where I think focus should be.
Also ran into this. Even had a Google manager I've known for years go to bat for me internally. No dice. Which is crazy, since web logs would have shown that the account was completely and always under my control.

Like a distant god, Google gives and Google takes away...
This could be a great opportunity for someone looking to step into a leadership role.
The source is in the article, actually. This is the order from FSB that MTS operator received.
They translated this as: “the mass distribution of obviously false reports of a terrorist act” in January, resulting in “mass evacuations of schools, administrative buildings and shopping centers.”

Right before the IP addresses list, you can find terms "blackhole", "BGP".

The document has a signature of a head of the FSB center that handles this types of requests and orders. Also, you can see a stamp in the right bottom corner on the first page.

Full story, how a Russian internet company has actually found out about blackholing can be found here (in Russian): https://habr.com/ru/company/tm/blog/443222/
In the story, you can find that MTS confirmed that they are blocking traffic and referenced the order in the original article.
I have a recruiter friend and we had a good laugh at companies hiring practices the other day when we were discussing contractor vs. permie hiring/compensation etc...

Company: "We need X, we're paying Y"

Friend: "For Y you're really looking more at Z"

Company: "We don't have the budget for Z, we're paying Y. And don't forget, we want the best"

Friend: "The pickings are slim, here is the best I can do"

Company: "These are all garbage"

3 months of mediocre candidates later

Company: "Holy shit we need to fill this role immediately, get a contractor! We'll pay Z*3

Friend: "Look at all these top tier candidates I have"

Role filled within a few days.
The New York Times description of TikTok as a service makes it sound absolutely awful, but that might be due of my age.
> I challenge that assertion!

For simple things it's adequate, but the fact that one can SSH is also helpful as there's a RHEL/CentOS base to work on. We're able to get Let's Encrypt working with a bash-only ACME client (dehydrated) is short order.

Heck, run Ansible on it:

* https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5
* https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible
Correction, they are publicly available for locals with (whatever you call a SSN in Norway). A non-Norwegian not living in Norway (for example, a person being offered a job to relocate there) would not be able to access that database.
Will the second module be jQuery??
Can you expand on your comment a bit? Maybe I've got rose colored glasses but I felt Linux had more of community feel ~10 years ago. When Ubuntu was ascendant but still had that scrappy feel, lots of Gentoo users were funrolling loops, and Red Hat wasn't owned by IBM.

There's also the problem (IMHO) of OSX having pulled otherwise Linux-first developers away. I feel an especially heavy effect on desktop efforts like Wayland and Systemd.

Some time since then, things went a bit "weird".
But that is not the original (or publicly perceived) USP. If I need to learn or memorize the interface it's not what has been promised.
Oh, I get the logic, but dunno if this is common.

Since the regulators are jumping the gun on these incidents before investigations are complete, it seems odd to ban overflying when 2 crashes at takeoff occurred.

Though overflying could mean having to emergency land in your territory at any time.
Isn’t it because it’s limited to apple devices that it works so nicely? Even some times before recent updates they’ve made, ive had airdrop work improperly where my old MacBook Air wouldnt show up, etc etc. it would be a nightmare to get that working across android and pc devices
Doesn't work in the current speed of development any more. Time to market is more critical than maturity, sadly. That's why every system can be fixed in software now, and that's also why every system can be pwned now.
When businesses tune their platforms to elicit exactly this type of behavior, and have psychologists on staff to help them do so, it's absolutely a business problem as well.

People aren't blameless, but neither are the businesses exploiting them.
I'm just using i3. Its a little "realpolitik", but I use an eGPU and AMD's lackluster, power-hungry options just don't compete, especially when I'm losing 10-15% performance to TB3 overhead.

I'd love for this situation to change, but until then, i'm on i3-gaps and happy.
... which would still make working at a bank vs. at a large company the option with a

- worse work-life balance

- worse benefits

- worse point on the good-evil scale

If someone from a smaller tech company (which has worse pay or work life balance than a bank) decides to change jobs, they’d almost certainly switch to a bigger tech company first. Banks simply aren’t competing with the kinds of small companies you’re thinking of for talent because they aren’t even in the competition.

They certainly are competing with Google, Facebook, etc, for new grads, but only when they’re able to offer much better pay.
Android phones don't do this anymore, for the technical reason that allowing a computer to mount a filesystem directly requires that the phone unmount it. Mass storage expects a block device, so there's no wrapper that one could provide that would make this work with the native filesystems of the phone.

What could be done is to dedicate a file on the phone as block storage, and expose that as a mass storage device. This would suffer from the same problem (of the phone not being able to access it at the same time), but if it's dedicated "flash drive emulation" space then perhaps this behavior won't be as surprising to the user.
> copy text, images, photos, and videos on one Apple device and then paste the content on another Apple device

So not so much for my Linux box or my Android phone, then. As usual with Apple's shiny crap it "all just works" as long as you're only playing inside the walled tarpit.
That's why the key is in the hash part of the URL; the server can't access that (unless it also sends client Javascript that parses it and sends it back to the server, but that could be detected).
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Agreed. And app hand-off (for the small number of apps that use it, basically only Safari for me) is fantastic as a "task transfer" tool as well.
Ippudo is decent at best, and that's only if you like Hakata style ramen. I would advice to skip it (you can find it abroad anyway) and try non-chain restaurants. There is more variability in this case, sometime really bad but most of the time way better.
How is it an abomination?

It seems to have served its purpose well so far. It is relatively easy to use and hasn't gotten in the way of anything I've wanted to use it for yet.
On the importance of web archiving (2018)
It's actually interesting that we're finally reaching a point where types systems in user interfaces are becoming incredibly appropriate.

If we model the stall warning as a boolean variable - then we are not able to signal the user about the fact that the warning system is in fact "inoperable".

On the other hand if the warning system had a state which would say "inoperable", or at it's best return an error - "speed too low", then this warning would never have a state which could be incorrectly interpreted.

This is exactly the same kind of mistake as a difference between NULL pointer and the 0 address you'd encounter while programming.
The end to end encryption necessitates a hard to remember uri anyway, so I don't think you can have both "secure" and "memorable".
They key is appended to the URL as a hash, which cannot be read by the server.
I don't think you are crazy.

At the end of the day, you only have one life, it's not like you get to hit reset while the airlines say "my bad".

TBH, it's a really bad look when US carriers are insisting that "it's fine, it's all fine" while other carriers are grounding out of an abundance of caution.
My roommate and I have a Google Home Mini in the living room, and to make the accidental activations more noticeable, my roommate set the accessibility "ding" sound for when it (thinks it) heard the trigger phrase. It gets activated a lot by television (maybe once every few hours of TV), and we generally have no idea what phrase accidentally triggered it.
I am also looking for a video editor to change aspect ratios etc...

It seems iMovie latest removed the ability to do that.

Do you guys have any recommendations for Mac? Free is better.

I create videos of product reviews for my followers

I need it to create video ads for products, mostly Facebook ads/Instagram
Arguably rpm/yum is still a kludge compared to dpkg/apt.
Thank you for not making us read a blog post to learn this. I appreciate the information.