skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The median salary for a software developer is over $100k.

In the US, or certain parts of the US, perhaps. In most of the world, software developers often don't make that much as employees even at the peak of their career. Maybe you'd reach it in a big city like London, as a very senior developer, working for a big company, but even then it would be exceptional. For most developers not in a US tech hub, getting to that income level or beyond is going to require going independent at some point.
I have to assume the reason that Bluetooth is still annoying 10 years later is the lack of synchronicity between OS vendors and hardware vendors.

Unfortunately, this is something that Apple does well, and most other manufacturers and operating systems have a poorer experience.

I say that as an ex-Apple user, not a fanboy. I love my Linux Desktops, but the Bluetooth pairing is a huge pain. Likewise, when I boot into Windows for games - Bluetooth peripherals are far annoying than their Apple counter-parts.
One bit of misinformation in the article, I believe:

> Not valid, since gdpr applies to eu citizens everywhere, regardless of where they live.

This isn’t correct. GDPR applies to people IN the European Union, not their citizenship [0]

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
I mean if the person is living in Scotland and has a Scottish accent and is wearing a kilt they might be Scottish.

Or, more relevant, if someone is in the dominant social and ethnic group in the richest country in the world and raised in a dual-income white collar family with a degree from an absolutely top-flight internationally recognized college where they met their co-founder, they probably don't fit any reasonable definition of poor.
In the mid-19th Century it was called a Wardian Case[1], named after the inventor.

I recall the issue was with the transported seeds failing to germinate after arrival in India.

This NPR article is a review of the book linked to above and has more details, including an excerpt:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125237...

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/how-a...
> They’ve never had to retract a story.

That is actually not a good sign. Anyone with a sufficiently long track record is going to make some mistakes because no one is perfect. If you refuse to issue any retractions or updates, what that really means is that you refuse to admit that you make mistakes.
They could still hazard it.
I've a vague fantasy about returning to the remote Scottish island where I was born, which is pretty windswept with almost no trees, and building a house and garden inside a large Solar Dome, growing trees and plants that otherwise wouldn't survive in such a hostile environment. Apparently it has been done to some extent[0]. Side note - they discovered in the Biosphere 2 that trees need some wind, because the stress helps form reaction wood to strengthen the tree[1].

[0] http://www.solardome.co.uk/case-study/the-nature-house-north...

[1] http://awesci.com/the-role-of-wind-in-a-trees-life/
You either fall into a group that hates systemd or one that could care less about the problem systemd is solving.
I think the pro-labor argument is Uber doesn’t even consider / allow negotiating their standard contract for rate-setting.

IIRC Microsoft got in trouble in the early 2000s for doing something similar in having separate standardized pay-scales for contractors depending on how long they’ve contracted with Microsoft, and no option to negotiate, and the labor board argued that Microsoft was trying to shoehorn contractor-employment law into employee roles without the legal protections and tax burdens of employment rights
Learn About the Tar Command
yes it makes sense for countries to do this to avoid getting raided by foreign companies that have them over a barrel
It's pretty normal to introduce springtails (small arthropods) to sealed terrariums. Their main purpose is to to eat mold, but they presumably also help with the carbon cycle.
There's a definite [citation needed] on the assertion that integrating tasks into one project/process == monoculture.

And a [citation needed] that systemd is large enough to warrant being called a monoculture in the first place—and to flip the coin, that GNU init is small enough to not be a monoculture.

Let's not forget a huge [citation needed] that the addition of another alternative into the marketplace of ideas could ever be described as monoculture.

And while we're at it, how about a big juicy [citation needed] that a monoculture is a bad thing anyway, in this instance?
Checking MDS/Zombieload Mitigations on macOS with Osquery
First principle thinking comes to my mind after reading the whole article.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google One?
I just got an email from Google that I'm going to be over my storage limit for Google One (Comprises gmail, google drive, google photos, etc) and wants me to now start paying.

For anyone whos been in this situation where did you move your files? Thanks
I feel like this is a conspiracy theory type territory where before Ecuador was a brave independent nation, but the moment they do something someone doesn't like they're a puppet, not a single entity, and every event possible is pointed to be part of the conspiracy theory, even handling of personal items....
To get around the paywall: https://outline.com/KLsq7C
Does NY Post have a source/reference for this?
That is an absurdly broad statement, and incorrect as stated. This is the case for many, but it is far from a guarantee.
I've often wondered about this. I wonder how much is a cultural mindset. In other words, is the U.S.'s relatively risk tolerant stance an artifact that many U.S. citizens are the progeny of people willing to take risks to start out as an immigrant in an unknown land and has that artifact become part of the collective mindset? Or possibly does the slow morphine drip of a safety net make one perceive all risks as something to avoid as opposed to a calculated risk? Or is all this based on a nonsense notion of American exceptionalism?
Beware Chesterton's fence. [1]

Is the network always reliable? Are the messages supposed to be at-most-once, at-least-once, or exactly-once? What happens if power is off when the service is supposed to send the email, and then it comes back: should the email be sent anyway? What if there are five thousand emails waiting to be sent? What if "X is not ready" at the moment, but there's a message waiting to be sent?

A lot of that complication might be because, like Spolsky says [2], it "fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn’t have Internet Explorer".

[1] https://abovethelaw.com/2014/01/the-fallacy-of-chestertons-f...
[2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Taxi prices are regulated because negotiation was too difficult in the pre-smartphone era and taxi drivers would take advantage of information asymmetry to screw people. None of that applies here.

The negotiation is happening between the drivers and passengers, which is how it should be. Uber and Lyft are acting as intermediaries, and are trying and failing to stop this negotiation.
The length of time he was there was astonishing. I'm surprised it was more than 6 months. It couldn't have carried on for ever. One medical emergency and it would all have been over anyway.
Poverty is not a unique property of capitalism.
There's no negotiation happening, though. You don't negotiate in a bid-ask market. "I want X for $Y." "I will give X for $Y." "Done."

(And it functionally is a bid-ask market, though I'll acknowledge that it's made a bit messier by Uber and Lyft fiddling in internal-and-undocumented ways with the prices and offers that they quote.)
It may be close, but it is not literally money. If it were, then why wouldn't they just pay the money rather than going through the hassle and expense (for both the company and the employee) of issuing stock?

But that's all beside the point. I understand why these sorts of things may be appealing to people. They just aren't to me, so they don't factor in as "compensation" when I'm evaluating a job opportunity.
"The US needs to go _____ and should feel very obligated to move quickly on this, but it hasn't."

Same old story. I think most of the world has given up expecting the U.S. to be any kind of responsible world citizen.
> As a result, mostly nobody ever had a problem with it.

The number of broken init scripts I have encountered throughout the years, that went unfixed for months if not years, stand in stark contrast to this statement. And I’m talking packages like uWSGI on Ubuntu 14.04! This is exactly why I gravitated immediately to systemd. The idea that init scripts actually worked and when they didn’t were easily fixable is not true. Yeah you can fix a broken script locally, but this doesn’t fly at scale n > 1. Submitting patches to distros is not a simple process, and not one that makes sense in this context either. Declarative beats imperative 9/10 times, and systemd is one of those 9.
But it doesn't have to be secret, ad defectors only hurt themselves by accepting lower pay for the same fare. That seems like a strong incentive to play along.
Well, sometimes they are useful when a break statement is not enough to get you out of a nested loop.

while (...) {
while (...) {
// ...
if (...)
goto stop_it;
// ...
}
// ...
}
stop_it:
There's actually a whole book about this: https://www.amazon.com/How-Destroy-Man-Now-DAMN/dp/099982032...
hmm. it is not something i would use as person. but i would prefer to use this one as SaaS. Something like, some people are using my mobile app, getting interested with some products, i would popup and ask them "do you want me to email you the links, so you can better see the products later in your desktop"
I think reminding ourselves of old things can be quite a good thing in some cases. I think your idea is a _really_ cool idea.
It’s amazing to me that leaking the tax return data for a sitting president is “journalism”, even without any evidence of a crime. Yet Wikileaks is considered criminal for exposing actual crimes to the US public?
128: MDS, Mined Minds, Red Hat and IBM, K8s OSes, –~Best~~ Practices and More
Why is the theory that they try to produce a better experience? Where does that come from? Probably from their self-promotion and tech journalists eating it up, and nothing else.
The challenge is that "notifications" tend to be treated like a service now. Push notifications delivered "from an app" actually come from Google services to your device. Which is why sometimes you get a notification "from an app", and open the app, and it still has to sync before it shows what you were notified of already. To replace Google in this transaction, the app developer would need to pipe their notification pushes to your alternative server.

Amazon and Microsoft have both played with replacing Google's location API, basically by using their own location service but formatting it like a response from Google though. On the Fire Phone/Kindle line, and Microsoft's Android layer they built and abandoned for Windows Phone respectively.
I think that this is the UX Bug:

> However it doesn't tell you this, it just doesn't show bluetooth options in the menu anywhere. So I spent hours going through every menu item

Greyed out menu item = This is where it is on the UI, but it's not allowed at present.

No menu item = maybe it's somewhere else?
Oh nice! I was thinking something like this would be useful the other day.
There would have to be microbes in the soil breaking it down and releasing CO2 so the plant could get its carbon.
Can we ship all the nuclear waste to your house? Don't worry, it's the safest kind of energy there is.

Or maybe "safe" isn't the right term for something that also produces some of the most deadly substances that we know of? It's "safe" so long as nothing goes wrong, and everything is stored correctly. Of course, that regularly proves to not be the case: https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-school-closed-enriched-uranium...
No you can’t do that. The US and EU do not agree with this type of governance. It would set a bad precedence.
I think it all comes down to what kind of programs you're writing.

For example, without a powerful macro system, something like the nanopass framework [1] would not have been possible.

Sure, you could write an external code generator, but at that point you've just implemented a bad macro system.

[1] https://github.com/nanopass/nanopass-framework-scheme
Vote. As futile as it feels, that's all any of us can do.
DCA is also one of the easiest airports in the US to access the metro(public transit) out of the terminal. Is there a reason you just don't hop on the yellow line and get off at a less congested stop closer to your final destination?
There were actually many commentators on HN at one time claiming the US doesn't want Assange and the whole thing is made up by 'paranoid Assange supporters'. We now know that not only did they want him, they want all his stuff and are going to go to any underhanded length to get it.

What is the value of dissent and all the prestensions around democracy and human rights when people are being openly persecuted, it seems only dissent in non western countries is valid at which point europe, the free press, ngos and academics will line up with drums and megaphones to lecture everyone on the importance of 'freedom, democracy and dissent'. This is a fall and complete loss of moral highground to continue these kind of charades in future.

What message does this persecution and demonization of Assange, Manning and Snowden send to future dissentors? This virtually guarantees that even those with the tremendous courage that it takes to stand up to power may need to think twice as they are simply not safe in democractic regimes and the law and process will be used against them while the public are indifferent and others cheer on.
> RedHat

Soon to be IBM, darling child of precisely nobody on HN. I think a lot of people are still in denial over this acquisition.
Yes. It was called the semantic web, but it never took off.
Under what conditions?
They're not just talking about how much of the fee that drivers get to keep, but the rate they charge riders.

>Uber sees itself as an “agent” acting to connect the actual “merchant,” the driver, and the customer. [1]

Under the theory Uber is operating on, it's weird that drivers can't directly set rates with riders.

1. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-an-early-adopter-of-n...
The article clearly mentions that this is an artificial and concerted effort to increase prices.

To me this does not seem different from taking a longer route to increase the fare.

What you describe would probably be fine if that wasn't concerted. But here they all collude to artificially trigger surge pricing.
They don't, but in the same time they also have no way of distinguishing between crapware and legitimate software. So they visit some site from a phishing email supposedly sent by one of their friends, which is easily guessed these days with the prevalence of social media, then the site prompts them to download this or that, they press "yes" and then all hell breaks loose.
There also the ~900 Tbq disposed by the then USSR in the Baltic, not to mention the vast quantities that ended up in the Arctic Ocean.

But definitely the US should improve that encasement or otherwise minimize the dangers.
Paywalled--I.e. Does not exist
How about it's never too late to work to rectify the mistakes of the past. We at least have to do our best as human beings. I can't do anything about something 1000 years ago, but I can help that person I saw on the street maybe, or I can add my voice to those who decry some terrible behavior of the government. I can vote. I can go to city councils and speak out.
I wanted to add that but I didn't have time this weekend. That's actually my biggest feature request from myself :P. I'm super busy over the next couple weeks, but I'll see what I can do to add this, maybe even just a hard coded "Send this only on Friday."

Thanks for checking it out!
The ecuadorian government changed during this time. They hosted him for 7 years, which for 6 of those years there was a different president called Correa who granted Assange the asylum and supported him. After 6 years, a different president was elected called Lenin Moreno, who is pro-US and was willing to trade Assange in order to obtain loans for Ecuador and possibly some corruption along the way. Also, Assange did publish documents that Moreno is corrupt, with accounts with millions of dollars in off-shore Carribean banks.
> In this case Uber offered you $x. You agreed to $x.

When did they agree on $X? There's no contract between the drivers and Uber stating they they will work for a given amount.

The app sets rates based on supply and demand. Uber offers them $X. The drivers decide they don't want to work for less than $Y. If demand is sufficient, Uber eventually offers them $Y.

Surge pricing is basically a negotiation between company and driver. Just because the drivers have found a case in which they have extra leverage doesn't make it wrong or fraudulent.
I was wondering if the seal failed in the 70s and allowed it to dry out. So he added water and improved the seal so it wouldn't happen again.
I'm in a competitive place and my company pays me to keep my sword sharp. I do that with lots and lots of solid tooling... a ton of it being stuff I've developed myself over years =)

"Don't try the blood and guts routine, let technology do the work."

Myself, I wouldn't ever put this into an extension because I'm certain it already exists and if not, I can bang out the base functionality in a console within 5 minutes and throw a gist in my GitLab or do a URL-JS thingy. 5m is worth $20 to me! $20 is a case of beers yo!
Which, one could argue, opens up a new front for Tesla on configuration management. This is bad enough for hardware and poses already a problem regarding spare parts. Add the additional layer of software that might or might not work with a certain hardware config and this problem increases exponentially.

I'd live to see the Tesla announcement that from today on they will focus exclusively on X because of Y and the measureable and benefits will A, B and C til date D.

But all we get is "full self-driving next year" and "fleet of autonomous robo-taxis".
There exercising their "freedom of navigation".
Can you explain where you see a "negotiation" in this? (Don't get me wrong, I like the cut of your jib, it just seems to map better to a dysfunctional spread-based market.)
Yes and when China signed up for WTO they also promised to fully open their markets up. And no state support for their firms.
As much as it hurts me to believe as much, I'm confident that there really are people for whom at least certain things are "basically effortless". I've seen this occur around my peers, especially with music, where some (who already play piano but only by notes) learn to play by ear in a summer, but others are still struggling after five years of daily practice.
The classic. See also another viewpoint in that conversation:

Donald Knuth: Structured programming with go to statements (1974)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103....

[edit] Of the 102 (!) entries in the bibliography of this paper, Knuth cites 9 of Dijkstra's papers (including the goto paper) and 3 personal communications.
That's odd. Have you taken it for service with Tesla?
It this case, this is more like a foster parent; Oya started as a part-time open source project, then Tooploox sponsored further development after having used it internally.
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Yeah, but as Uber and Lyft will tell you, they are not taxis.
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It's just dirt to the microbes in there.
It seems like reddit, with a subreddit being analogous to a hashtag
it helps to avoid a problem that existed since colonial times where colonial powers buy raw materials cheaply, manufactures in home country then exports processed/manufactured goods to colonies at orders of magnitude higher prices
Have you ever done contract coding? You don't always get to set the rates, because the rate for the contract is posted, and the other side is not going to negotiate.
I just wish the messages were ephemeral... I’m more open but don’t trust Facebook to keep them private for all time
This is basically the contractor setting his rate... through an interface that the app designers did not specifically design for.

If a driver wants to work for $20, and the offered rate is currently $10, what’s the difference between them a) typing $20 into a text field and hitting a “request” button vs. b) turning a switch off and waiting for the app to increment the rate little by little up to $20?
I love this video and have to share it every time I see this debate. He really show how this argument is kind of weak and this is coming from a BSD guy!
> WSL

I think you mean GNU/Windows, or as I've taken to calling it, GNU Plus Windows. (Seriously though, the WSL name is deceptive because it doesn't actually contain any Linux code. There is no Linux in "Windows Subsystem for Linux")
Which is not a service mesh / micro service gateway...
> they probably won't be

That probably isn't very reassuring... and explains exactly why so many men are worried.
All vaporware is theoretically related.
Huntington’s is a very precisely defined disease. Depression has a much wider range of manifestations.
Hopefully in the 21st century, we can be a bit more nuanced than just "stealing is bad, mkay". The intent must be factored in, and maybe the result.

Also, not necessarily saying he's a journalist, but there's a reason journalist have special protections in many countries. Exposing corruption or the failings of powerful people is always risky, and I'm glad some people decide to do it.
Trust me, I don't give a damn about open source as an end in itself—to me RMS means root mean square first, Roads and Maritime Services second, and occasionally I might be reminded of an unwashed beard.
You can look them up though? It's not difficult?
considering wages are stagnant and many Americans don’t have $500 to cover an emergency cost, your idea of $400 up front not being a huge investment is misguided.
dbus is also a dependency though. If you are on the bus (heh) that says systemd is a hard dependency that should be avoided then dbus is also the same thing.
If cars only contained drivers it wouldn't be that bad.

If only there were some way that someone besides the driver could manipulate the in car system.

My Chevrolet handles this well, using the passenger seat occupancy sensor. If someone is sitting in a passenger seat, it gives the option "I am the passenger" to allow access to normally blocked-while-moving screens.

And the behavior the parent described is just annoying. The device has the capability to know if the car is in motion or not. Permanently locking out the function until the car is turned off and on is dumb.