skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economically, that’s simply not the employer’s fault — that the cost of certain employer sponsored benefits has significantly outpaced inflation.

If there are components of compensation which are cheaper to provide now than 30 years ago, receiving the same thing in that case is counted as lower total compensation.

Or to put it another way, if employer share of health benefits stayed exactly the same and employee share took all the hit, and instead, your paycheck increased — leaving total compensation at exactly the same dollar amount — would you consider that as better compensation? Because under that scenario you would be worse off after taxes.
Any chance you have a link to the peach pit? Not turning up many SBCs by that name when I search for it...
That's because of independent researchers forcing the government's researchers to go faster. They didn't want to.
Personally, I do not think so.

I did a test with myself and a coworker. I’m using macOS 10.12; he’s using 10.14. We both have up-to-date Zoom clients.

In our Zoom clients, we both already had the “Turn off my video when joining a meeting” box checked.

I set up a meeting, with participant video set to On, as the article describes. I took the new Meeting ID, launched Zoom, and joined my new meeting. I then sent my coworker the join URL using Slack.

My coworker clicked on the link, which opened the URL in Safari. Safari asked my coworker if he wanted to launch Zoom. My coworker confirmed that yes, he wanted to launch Zoom.

My coworker’s Zoom client did _not_ automatically start video. I never saw video come in from him.
What does Libra do to people who don't opt to use it?
My favorite recently is a class named CustomerCommandMapEmbelisherConverter.

It's not a good name. Nor is it concise, informative or anything vaguely useful.

But I get the strong feeling it comes from someone spouting off a line along the lines of "we need to name things for what they do" and then someone else just coming up with that.

In your case I'm going to guess doBillCustomer() is about 2.5k lines long with a copy of its entire logic duplicated and it branches based on annual or monthly billing and subtle bugs have been fixed in one implementation but not the other and now they are diverged such that they are only 93% the same but that means all bets are off. There are 15 levels of nesting and it interacts with at least 5 external systems during all of that.

Am I close?
The opsec job was so shoddy that I immediately suspected misdirection. I mean, would anyone be so stupid as to use the same username they use for posting _videos_ of themselves for such a purpose? They might as well embed a picture of their ID in the binary.

I know that criminals tend to not be very bright, but this particular field would require at least some basic competence, I would assume.
The NHS has been chronically underfunded for 40 years.

In 2007, before the crash, after 10 years of New Labour, the U.S. spent 15% of its GDP on healthcare. German 10%, the Netherlands 9%.

The UK spent 7.4%.

In fact it's over the last 10 years that the UK has begun to catch up with the rest of Europe.

http://imgur.com/mUI9oWil.png
That sounds like code for "Apple can push an update without user consent"

or...

"Apple can turn off imessage to users with OS < 12.3 until users update"
Assuming adoption - It exists in the world and has all the influence an adopted currency has. Influence controlled by Facebook.
You seem to be responding to points that I’m not making.

I’m aware that very few people install bash outside the context of a typical Unix OS. It would indeed be pedantic and useless to point out that that’s theoretically possible, and that’s not what I’m doing.

It’s also very rare to install, say, grep outside of a typical Unix OS. But you wouldn’t say “the grep workflow on WSL is great” to mean the entire WSL experience, unless you were specifically talking about actual grep. So why do people do it with bash?
Amazon's Position on Unions (YouTube video)
For those who are looking for neutral alternatives:

bitchute.com

minds.com

I really commend YouTube for holding out a long as they have. It can't be overstated how important they have been in being the only real media source for liberal/libertarian alternative thought to the censorious leftist orthodoxy...but the writing is on the wall. YouTube, please continue to hold out as long as you can, and thank you.
Here's a simple experiment. On a Linux box, open your GUI text editor. Try to open /var/log/syslog. You will see "Permission denied". That's because only apps with root can access /var/*.
But why is repetition considered "bad music"? The mind craves certain kinds of repetition.

I'm big on the electronic music scene here; and once you're in the zone that repetitive four-on-the-floor 120/140bpm dance beat begins to feel like a heartbeat: essential, calming, and deadly if stopped

On another note I recall hearing about some anthropologists who claim that the acoustics of Stonehenge are optimal for repetitive drumming in the 130-150bpm range, suggesting it to be an ancient dancehall for prehistoric techno beats
> people who've sought out similar model for its benefits, and could thrive with an offering that pays attention to these concerns throughout.

I discovered BEAM while looking into a way to run concurrent, distributed Golang/gRPC services in a supervisor-worker set up. I've continued tinkering with OTP ever since.

Edit: added quoted portion.
So as I understand it, if there was a popular movie shared via dat and people were sharing it (the key would have to be publicly known for people to discover it at all), it would be trivial for the MPAA to snoop and see what IPs were downloading it, just like torrents now.

Is that correct? Would those snoopers be able to prove who is sharing and who is downloading?
> established-leftist-media such as the NYT

The NYT is decidedly _not_ leftist. Slightly-liberal leaning maybe, but in no way leftist. They supported the Iraq war of all things.

I honestly can't think of a paper that leftists are more critical of... Maybe the Washington Post?
As I understand it, the founder of diaspora met an early end at his own hand.
Well, The Fed is a bit different. It's not exactly a private corporation that is not beholden to the voting public.

More importantly, though, is your note about who this battle is between: it's a battle between groups of people who should both be viewed very skeptically when it comes to the interests of "the rest of us".

Corporate controlled money has been tried in the past; it didn't end well for workers.
Phoenix is similar to Rails superficially, I’m so far as they both have some MVCish structure and some generators. The similarities really stop there though.

Phoenix doesn’t have a magical asset pipeline, it doesn’t have a whole library of language extensions a la ActiveSupport, it doesn’t represent dB rows as objects. Those are just a few things off the top of my head.

Additionally all requests to an app running Phoenix/Cowboy/Plug are separate processes and can happen in parallel without having to stand up multiple app instances.
HOLLY SH*T! This is insane.
> It has more private board members than appointed board members

Only in the world where 0 > 7; there are 7 members of the Board of Governors, all Senate-confirmed Presidential appointees.
Understanding Amazon CloudWatch
Could you explain why you think democracy is important and has much to do with how U.S. currency is managed? It seems to me that voters have very little influence on decisions made by the Federal Reserve, and that's intentional. We wouldn't want a central bank to be much influenced by the latest election.

The Federal Reserve is a consortium of banks and tends to make decisions that are good for banks, so if you're worried about corporatism, it's already here.
I shouldn’t have edited the first sentence so much, it’s a bit incoherent. Sigh.
>So you ignore it. Then what? The only ones speaking have their ideas become the ‘truth’ simply because they’re the loudest majority. Next thing you know the earth is a disc or vaccines cause Autism.

Sounds like a slippery slope argument, which I've been told are invalid.
I just run a Ubuntu in Virtual Box to make Windows 10 go away. It's pretty seemless and I can also use tools like Vivaldi native to Win10. There's no general need to use Windows specific tools nowadays, IMO.
I don't think simplicity can be appreciated unless one has taken a long detour through complexity.

For example, I never understood Calculus I until I took Calculus II. I never understood Calculus II until I took the next class. Etc.

I am reluctant to believe someone has mastered simplicity until after they've mastered complexity, hence the complex interview does have value.
I've had one or two compatibility issues.
My comment that said "ru13z" got flagged and I don't know why, but I meant to say I really enjoyed this article.
Thanks for providing this information.

Without it, the move seems pretty extreme. Knowing that 3x is being spent puts things in a much different light.

I wish NYT had reported more evenly. I feel sort of like they tried to skew people's thinking, beyond the pale.
You can also take a look at this: https://svgr.now.sh/ It converts SVG to both react and react-native.
I like the OrangePi lineup, particularly the OrangePi PC Plus as it has 8GB eMMC and decent specs while being sub-$30 with a case and accessories: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32668421022.html

For a NAS, nearly all of the OrangePis feature USB ports & ethernet that are directly wired to the SOC, so you aren't I/O limited like older Raspberry Pi's. That being said, the Allwinner H3 doesn't support 10 bit Hevc/H.265 acceleration, so you might want to go with a board based on a newer chip for a HTPC. Take a peek at LibreELEC, they have a decent HTPC distro for many SBCs.
I would highly recommend visiting the proof-of-concept link, which is a Zoom videoconference hosted by the author full of people testing it out.
Is being a "slut" a bad thing anymore? I thought they had slutwalks and abortion parades nowadays.
Uncrackable code is puzzling the CIA
> I believe, to some extent, outsiders want to see prestigious organizations fail,

That certainly appears to be the case in recent years at the very least. Thinkng of finance, tech, consulting, etc

>100's of millions of dollars is pretty small in McKinseys organization

I see their business somewhat differently, in that the trust behind those dollars was far more precious. They would almost certainly give back just about any sum to retain the trust of clients they have worked with for literally generations in some cases. Which is why this panoply of stories is so frustrating for them, and also so tempting to speculate on (is it a trend? Have ethical standards lapsed? Is Marvin Bower turning over in his grave? )

For the TL;DR, as someone asked, there are a few big stories bouncing around but only on a few themes.

1. Corruption/pro-autocratic assignments in the developing world (Large fees for small amounts of work in what would become a political earthquake stemming from fraud in South Africa, social media suppression enabling research in Saudi, work with Chinese SOEs)

2. Poor disclosure around a very uncommon investment structure where partners invested in a proprietary hedge fund run by other (theoretically firewalled) partners. This bit them hard in their distressed advisory business as the hedge fund owned paper that was profoundly affected by negotiations they advised on as a firm. Distressed world also has the most strict disclosure requirments around, and they were notorious for handing in comically thin disclosure documents while others wrote books.

This also pissed off one Jay Alix, a brilliant and bulldog-like man who is the eponymous founder of distressed advisor Alix partners, though he no longer works there. It also called into question just about every case they advised on, which is a big chunk of everything period. Because distressed world is super small, and recent years have been very thin on work (the msot counter-cyclical business around by definition.)

I don't think I can over-emphasize how uncommon the core structure was/is, or how susprising it was when it became more widely known.

3. Shitty idiosyncratic seeming events (unless of course, well you get it) like their former CEO (technically head partner) being the guy who was tipping off Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon insider trading fame using his prveledged position as a board member at Goldman Sachs. Being on the wrong side of hitory it increasingly looks like as it regards to pharma corps' liabilities for things that were one step removed.

Bonus for making it to the botton - the hedge fund that was being tipped off by the former head partner, Galleon, they had a pop/hip-hop song (as their anthem?) that is catchy as all hell. Listen to it here:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/galleon-rap-song_n_4789970
Same - here's how my story went:

Upgraded from my 2009 MBP to a 2017 MBP a couple years ago. Immediately regretted the purchase after the keyboard screwed up multiple times so I returned within 14 days for a refund. Ended up buying a Surface Pro and hated it. Upon booting up my machine I was instantly met with severe backlight bleeding so I returned it. The store gave me another device - same issue. This time I decided to see if I can put up with it. I immediately regretted not having a proper shell for dev work. In addition to this, I couldn't believe how hard it was to remove certain applications/programs from the computer. Why is there a menu for Apps and also one for Programs and Features? These issues kept piling up until after a few days I returned it again. Decided to grab a 2015 MBP from the Apple refurb store and have used it since. No regrets.
I would think the lettuce classification is not the only hard part.

Having worked on fruit sorting machines where each fruit is rotated under a vision system and various measurements and classification are made, in a completely controlled lighting environment.... it's not trivial, especially getting it to the level of commercial viability. Making the robotic cutting mechanism / vision / control system would also be challenging.
Lightning is new, so that's part of the adoption story. It suffers from a centralization risk similar to banks (viz a viz using a well-connected intermediary via a wide channel to transmit to arbitrary addresses off chain with less pain that establishing a dedicated channel directly).
Americans Shocked to Find Their Rights Literally Vanish at U.S. Airports
I think you fundamentally misunderstand how currencies work. They are managed by central banks which are designed to be independent of the government of the day.

And corporates basically own and run the internet and it seems to be doing pretty well.
I'm tempted to say this is true (most newer developers are unlikely to have a deep understanding of older, faster languages like C++, especially in the age of Javascript and glorified IRC clients that consume more resources than the OS does to run), but I think a more accurate description of the problem is that Windows became fragmented in 2012 for stupid reasons (when the decision was made to make desktop Windows an ad for its unfinished tablet version- Metro was an unmitigated usability disaster for everything not a tablet) and everyone getting hired on is just trying to put the pieces back together.

We don't know if Windows is in maintenance mode or not either, or what the next version would look like if one eventually comes out (maybe it'll all be in TypeScript?). After all, UWP was mostly retired and the visions of "your next desktop computer is a tablet" have significantly died down- the technology and the will of the market just weren't there.

However, Microsoft has failed once before to develop a proper, stable OS- though Vista did bring a great number of graphical and usability updates to XP, chief among them the "Show Desktop" button, the ability to snap windows onto sides of the screen, and putting a Firefox-style search bar in Explorer, it suffered from poor functional quality (file copy windows should never ever be broken, for instance), so I'm not convinced it's solely the fault of newer developers.
From the article:

"To shut down the web server, run lsof -i :19421 to get the PID of the process, then do kill -9 [process number]. Then you can delete the ~/.zoomus directory to remove the web server application files."
> In our Zoom clients, we both already had the “Turn off my video when joining a meeting” box checked.

I believe this is one of the mitigations, which is why it didn’t work.
I can't help but imagine what would happen if you take a phone stuck like this to the apple store. Would they save your phone or tell you to reinstall?
.../.zoomus/ZoomOpener.app/Contents/MacOS/ZoomOpener
I've posted a moderately detailed tl;dr above under elamje's parent comment.
Insightful! Any process calculus or type theory literature to recommend? Found https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/12d9/eae1638729aeb237b5be44... while googling - would this be a good place to start?
And China is even bigger, yet they never tried any sort of excuses.

When you factor in check in, security, getting to and from the airport which often isn’t near the city, etc, high speed rail is way better. Drop in 10 minutes before you need to leave and the stations are right in the middle of town. For distances under a thousand miles, rail can easily be faster.
Oh, save us from the scenes,

Where the end becomes the means,

And the forest gets so lost among the trees;

When polishing the source,

Blunts all our creative force,

And procedure kills the genius it claims it frees.
That makes sense. But, I don’t remember ever turning on that checkbox.
In regards to the flatness, MS is moving over to Fluent Design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_Design_System) which has more depth and colors, and is a return to Aero in some ways.

FWIW Metro was originally super bright and cheerful, even if it was flat.
Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions
>Say you have a 1 GB file that you want to share with everybody in this thread. How do you do this?

You'd just create a dat feed for it and share that address in the thread. You can do that directly from Beaker Browser easily.

If everyone on the thread was getting it, you might only have to upload slightly more than 1Gb data, as all the chunks could be shared between the other people.

Same as bittorrent, but even better because you can easily add more files to the feed later.
As Cameras Track Detroit’s Residents, a Debate Ensues over Racial Bias
Yes, how does one adjust the setting of a knob?

Gestures?
I think we have different baskets today, though.

For instance, a 40 year old basket wouldn't have a cell phone or service. (This is a phone, entertainment, takes the place of a set of encyclopedias and maps, a flashlight, camera, etc.) Most families have several of these today.
The Google Outage Highlights the Perils of a Centralized Internet
This is a good thing: we are already significantly over the carrying capacity of the planet. A managed decline of population down to a couple of billion engineers, and robots for everything else, would mean a much better quality of life for the average human, and much better outcomes for the environment. Then, when we expand beyond Earth, we can grow the population again.

Technological developments have always driven the human species forward - all of this is nothing new. The difference now is the extremely high populations (enabled by technologies invented elsewhere in the world) in some countries with excessive unemployment levels.

Genetic engineering and molecular biology will also enable us to identify the genes which contribute the most to useful traits, and to expand access to those genes to a greater portion of humanity
Why is the metal chassis wired at all?
Bad habits that could cost you your career
How to protect yourself:

"Disable the ability for Zoom to turn on your webcam when joining a meeting."

It's under Settings->Video in Zoom, check "Turn off my video when joining a meeting".
Many on HN had experiences with investment, or are themselves, investors. We need to see either enormous traction (beyond speculation) or solving of an actual customer problem. So far not a single "X but with Blockchain" startup did not deliver anything of true value.

Personal anecdote: a friend of mine was working on a project to utilize extremely counterfeit-resistant holographic tags to authenticate organic produce in China (where anything can be faked). 2-3 years and he still didn't have any significant customers. Enter Blockchain. They replaced the tag with a QR code, "blockchain cannot be faked" mantra, and within 6 months got $4 million investment and some customers. So when you scan the QR code, it opens a web page that shows some fancy data like id, date of packaging, etc. Who provides this data? The company. Who provides the web page? The company. Who can alter this data in any way they want? The company. And now the punchline: there is no blockchain in the code. Zero.
Your statement is incorrect.

The compiler can tell if something isn't referenced - but it can't tell if a provider that goes into a DI framework is never invoked.

The DI framework can tell (at run-time) that you're asking for something that is missing a provider. It, quite obviously can't tell (at run-time) that you're never going to ask for something in the future.
No one would argue otherwise. Indeed, you can trivially take any readable function and transform it into an unreadable one of exactly the same length. But this doesn't seem like a valid reason to dismiss specific findings of specific studies. Don't you think it's interesting that such research as we have contradicts the most often-repeated claim about this aspect of programming?
Why not run your own LFS server? We use https://github.com/artemkin/git-lfs-server with GitHub and it works fine, big ML models are pulled from a local server.
Predator Free 2050: New Zealand ramps up plan to purge all pests
You can do really cool stuff with SNOBOL[1] or TRAC. Really any homoiconic Lang or lisp will do great things with text. But I think Elixir handles text just fine if it’s UTF-8.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
I'm very interested in this software. Does it do a bit check after copying to make sure that the copy can be read and is the exact same?
I recently read Sapiens. The author discussed how the Agriculture Revolution tied humans down into boring and less rewarding agriculture societies. Perhaps after thousands of years running freely in the wild, humans got bored. They needed to find higher callings. This was when religion started.

It seems like humans are now at the same junction. After getting all stuff we need, we are lost again. We have less children for economic reasons in the same way hunters did. Having and raising children is ironically the simplest way to find meaning in life.
> Rendering useless by bad software - so if you take my linux device and install windows I now have something with objectively worse software than before, and where all my software no longer runs, and which is incapable of reading my ext4 formatting external hard drive. So...you've bricked it?

Obviously not because you can always put Linux back on it. A bricked device, you have no way of doing this. It's useless.

I can't believe all of this discussion simply because people want reuse a word that already means something. It's like the FE devs hijacking "real time". Good grief already.
On a homonymous note, viewing society as a (psychologically) gaslit world can be a really useful lens for having new ideas, and for freeing yourself from some of its ruts.
Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Drug Companies to List Prices in TV Ads
I read somewhere the record belongs to Australia, with a 27 year expansion.

In that light, the US economy could go quite a while longer. I hope it does.
Good point. Scrap the whole thing.
"Don't blame me — I voted for Kodos."
Thanks Alex, Just enrolled the course. Watched the intro, it's really engaging. Looking forward to complete this on free time.