skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making people pay for security would be bad.

A solution to this is having an upstream kernel (like mainline Linux) work on the phone, and having fairly standard hardware in the phone with in-kernel drivers and free / standard libraries instead of these shitty blobs we need on current phones, and crappy unmaintainable Linux forks.

Android 9 works on my nine year old airis kira slimpad x86 tablet sold with Windows 7. It runs a standard Xubuntu though. And yes, the latest Ubuntu with latest security patches.
I don't rely on the manufacturer. It just works with standard software. Have the OS builders and hardware device makers maintain each part for you.

This is not the world we live in though. In our world, Qualcomm and Samsung make their messy Linux forks and don't seem to maintain their Shit on a Chip.

The Librem 5 is promising on this matter though.
Surprised Philadelphia ranks so cheap; I was under the impression it had prices similar to other New England cities like Boston or DC.
> I'm glad you've had a good experiences with LSD every time you've taken it. But even a simple look into the history and culture of LSD and you would know that very "bad" trips are possible. I'm shocked that you haven't done more research into LSD as a whole.

So you are essentially shocked with your own assumption. I've never mentioned I don't know about the "bad trips" theory (although I can only speculate about how does it feel and why can it happen as long as we are talking about LSD, I have only met one person who had a bad trip experience and it was with n,n-DMT).

I also know enough about how does it work on the brain chemistry level.

As for the military usage and related history - I'm not interested enough to invest more time than it takes to write a comment expressing my surprise and my experience so others could share the essential parts in response if they feel like they want to.
Lawyers argue all the time. It's not a legal truth because their chief attorney says so. They are entitled to claim (within reason) as much as anyone else is.

And, of course, they will claim the most favorable definition. In other situations, notably when they are arguing against entrenched transit/transport interests, they "become" a transport company. It's a question of which hat fits the day.
Short Wiki article on the object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2019_Q4_(Borisov)
> And why do you say that as if it's a good thing? Perhaps its this exact attitude of extravagance and wastefulness (especially when taken to extremes like in SV) that has led us to the exact income disparity issue

So you are recommending Americans should stop buying/discussing cars and SV new grads should stop accepting/discussing high salaries because it is "wasteful and extravagant". I am trying to look for some element of logic in your reasoning but I can't find any. Now is a good time to start a discussion on envy.
Or they are more actively looking at us since they first picked up our radio signals several decades ago :)
One would like to think that it would get more points than that :-)
I cut my total comp in half to move to a startup. That's just the price you pay. If you've worked in both environments, you know what you prefer. I don't think I'd go back to the other one.

The only thing I miss is that there's a lot of diversity in bigger companies you don't find in startups. Here, everyone is like me :D
I don't doubt any of these expenses, and this hardly seems like a lavish lifestyle... but at the same time, $38k in 401k contributions is hardly middle class. Especially when the median household income in the US is $59k per year.

If you plug that $38k in 401k deductions, and then add say another $10k in employer contribution, assuming you have two parents at age 30 who plan on working for the next 35 years, and who have, to date contributed $10,000 total to their 401k you end out with a $9.0m retirement fund at age 65, assuming a 7% annual growth rate. Going by the 4% withdrawal method you get a $360k annual retirement income which seems a little high.
The user experience is much better not dealing with that shit. Reordering rides when you have somewhere to be is not a good time.
The bill specifically excepts a bunch of professions (doctors, lawyers, engineers...) Secondly the contractors for most of these Intel/Google, etc are employed by someone else.
> A better example would be that Mr. Snowden claims he began collecting files after James Clapper's testimony, but in fact he began 8 months earlier (third point in the Executive Summary, page iii).

His claim was that testimony was the "breaking point" on the decision to leak, not download files, and soon after he agreed to publicly be named the source.

>mainly that he never reported his suspected abuse of government programs via established internal process and he took and shared material on much more than the programs he was concerned about.

It's his word vs theirs on whether he raised the issue before deciding to leak. And he knew there was a ton of unrelated data in what he leaked, that was why he privately gave it to reporters and didn't publicly post it.
Sounds like he's talking about the bullet cluster...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

Although that's a colliding pair of galaxy clusters. I'm not currently aware of any examples of this effect being observed for just two galaxies.
in one of Buckminster Fuller's books (Critical Path IIRC) he recalls an indicator of the Great Depression being half-finished housing developments - rows and rows of houses, covered in tarpaulin, plumbing exposed like a skeleton, abandoned. I recalled this vivid description later during the mortgage crisis of 2008.
But how is it better for the world if all of these Uber drivers, who clearly prefer driving for Uber to McD's, are forced to work at McD's instead?
How well does UWB penetrate a typical office wall?

At a previous job we looked into locating. If you had two items parked on opposite sides of a common wall, you couldn't tell which rooms they were in. Which was critical for us since we did NOT want people wasting time running into the wrong room to grab it (think automated defibrillators)
Sorry that I wasn't clear about that. And I should have noted that my experience dates from the 00s.

I do agree without reservation that linking healthcare to employment is crippling for independent contractors. As I understand it, the setup allows employers to deduct substantial costs from taxable income. So basically governments are subsidizing the obscene profitability of health insurers, the pharmaceutical industry, and some provider sectors.

Back in the late 90s, I was able to get ~affordable health insurance through AFL-CIO SBWA Local 125. But that service went down in flames, so I ended up paying ~$1K per person. As I recall, I could deduct 50% of medical expenses, but it was still the largest expense after mortgage and taxes.

And if it had been $5K per month, I couldn't have managed it.
Would anyone use a charitable payments API?
Recently built a tool providing a real-time, direct link between donors and recipients (living on ~$2 a day or less). Donors can send cash to very low-income people and exchange messages (e.g., confirmation message, a SMS indicating how the gift was used). Wondering whether it is worthwhile to make it open via API, so that anyone could integrate an option to make direct cash transfers to globally poor people into products, sites, etc.

My question is if people would use such an API, or more specifically:

a. What are the use cases / potential needs solved that would motivate developers to use the API (e.g., something for people to use for side projects to develop skills, a way to encourage more customer spending)?

b. Are financial incentives important (e.g., developers keep 1% of transfers sent through their application)?

c. What other motivations might be there for use?

Curious to hear thoughts.
This.

My motivation for programming is strictly that I get an above average amount deposited into my account twice a month to do a relatively easy job in an air conditioned office or at home.
Conservative Politics are not necessarily conservative (i.e. keep it the same) and Progressive Politics are not necessarily progressive (i.e. make progress). Thats the beauty of American Politics. It literally starts with lies and only gets better from there... :/
There is no magic in these widgets. People have to add certain snippets, mostly a JavaScript file from some CDN and some basic HTML tags where these widgets shall appear, and everything else is done by the JavaScript.

In former days, people used iframes, this was even easier because the iframe could basically show any website with its own styling, scripting, etc.

If you want to get hands dirty, then skip any framework, learn modern ECMAscript, vanilla Dom and try out to modify a well known element in the target page from your script.
To be fair, OP was using the technical definition of shit.
I'm looking forward to the tags. I hope they make something super small that can be snapped into a range of accessories such as dog collars or suitcase name tags (some first party, no doubt a ton third party to follow including some wonderful and crazy things like a message in a bottle). Once other peoples phones can find my things reliably, a lot of anxiety I have about things I tend to loose will go away (for a small price).

(I used to love Tile, but as a product we hit its technological peak several years ago and the network effect does not seem to improving this incrementally as much as it used to)
Or we could shift to an other side of the universe by "inverting" the mass of the ship where the speed of light is much higher[1].

Cosmology is so cool... too bad we do not have time for that: we cannot even cure the common cold!

[1]: https://januscosmologicalmodel.com/pdf/2014-ModPhysLettA.pdf
Cosmological bimetric model with interacting positive andnegative masses and two different speeds of light,in agreement with the observed acceleration of the Universe
Isn't that the purpose of tools like https://erlang.mk/guide/getting_started.html#_getting_starte... ?

Edit: and for cross-system dev (e.g. debian to windows)
-> https://erlang.mk/guide/cross_compiling.html
> They're only JUST NOW starting to get payed what they deserve

That is absurd. In a free market with free movement of goods and people, whatever you are getting paid is what you "deserve" aka what other participants in the market are willing to pay for your services.

It is only explicit government intervention that overrides this process; subsided renewal energy sources, childcare, housing etc.

But with everything else being equal your friends were getting exactly what the market could afford. Just because you have a PHD or Masters does not mean someone else owes you a high paying salary.
Wikipedia also has an excellent overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
That's the marginal median 2 br rent. Very few people living here for the last 3 years or longer pay that much. The true median 2 br rent is much lower. I'd venture to say even maybe a third lower.

EDIT: I can't respond to the comment below, so here's the other thing: rent control guarantees no rent changes, but you don't need it. Personal landlords don't change rent that much, often they prefer keeping tenants and handling cost pass-throughs rather than raising rent to maximize revenue. I live 4.5 years on a $1.5k rent / 1 br in Portola that terminated only because I moved away from the Bay (back now).
> As a "millennial" who graduated in 2008, I seriously hate reading shit like this. Maybe it recovered for the Boomer's pension funds and 401k's

No, it didn't, certainly not at the point the recession is deemed to end.

The end of a recession is when the aggregate recovery begins, not when it is complete. (And yeah, recovery from recession doesn't mean most people are doing better, as it's an aggregate about the economy that isn't concerned with distribution—the long “recovery” between the short recession of 2001, IIRC, and the Great Recession saw every quintile but the top without gains, and the bottom three declining.)

The isn't a Boomer vs Millenial thing (it's more of a bourgeoisie vs. proletariat thing.)
Ask HN: Why are browsers so bad at stopping popups and other dark patterns?
Popups have long been an issue along with other types of ads, but the most infuriating kind I've ever seen are those which watch the mouse position and throw up an ad or subscription plea when I'm moving the mouse upwards to the tab bar after I've finished reading an article and want to close the tab.

Obviously blocking scripts' access to positional data would break many sorts of useful interactions, but there are far more pages that snag that data to display ads on mouseover or page border interactions which brings zero benefit to me as a user. Why is there no way to either pool that information among browser users to negate this dark pattern, or to remember my dismissive interactions of closing popups and pre-emptively negate them next time I visit a page?

Also, if you work as a designer or front-end developer who implements this sort of thing, I want you to feel bad about it and talk your money hungry marketing people out of it; because when your employers' revenue eventually sinks due to pissing off more and more of your readers, you'll get laid off looong before the marketing people do and if you don't stop and think you won't even understand why.
I always find it funny when people refer to age of employees -> there is this ageist idea that your salary should increase as you get older, and senior positions are reserved for older people.
We also say that we believe in meritocracy, that is the most capable person gets the job, and market decides their salary. The two ideas are in conflict. Markets can be cruel, but the ageist idea is mostly prejudice.

Surely the problem is that those companies are earning absurd amounts of money while contributing very little to society. They've got billions stashed offshore that they literally don't know where to invest. Even after paying this much to grads.
The government has been studying UFO's at the highest levels since at least 1947 and likely prior. You don't study something closely for 7 decades and not learn anything.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
The lineage case is problematic because the devices are often different requiring different drivers. If the individual devices that make up your phone had to compete in an open market instead of getting bundled I'm a complete system, there would be more consolidation based on economies of scale, and thus fewer drivers to worry about. How many GPU brands for your PC do you have these days?

A phone is a more limited device that isn't bound by the same constraints as a laptop. I don't think the case is as hopeless as you imply. Something like Ara: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/193256-googles-project...
> They are all based on learning to recognize patterns to infer which things look the same as whatever was in their training set, but they have no semantic capabilities beyond simple classification

Deep learning is more than just imagenet classification or object detection.

There are many approaches that require more understanding, such as future video prediction, captioning, question answering, reinforcement learning requiring an implicitly learned model of how the environment works beyond mere appearances, image generation, structure extraction, anomaly detection, 3d reasoning, external memory, few/one/zero shot learning, meta-learning, etc etc.

The field is huge and whatever "obvious shortcomings of deep learning" non-specialists come up with after reading popular articles are probably being tackled already in many groups and have several lines of approaches and papers already.
You've misunderstood my point.
The fastest man-made object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

Travelling at that speed (0,00064c - no relativistic effects) would take ~170,000 years.
If the regs were put in place due to "good intentions", and a "healthy[sic] dose of lobbying", then functionally this "negotiating ability" does not exist, because the government is not acting in the best interest of consumers, nor does it currently have the capability: its hands are tied.
Yes, it depends. I mean, there are independent contractors, and they get 1099s.

But I'd find it miraculous if the job you just described was upheld as an independent contractor.
Do you feel the same about lawyers and other highly paid jobs?
Is being a lawyer any more intellectually challenging that being an engineer.... (honest question, as lawyers at big firms start at around 150k+ as first year associates)
In India I had to give a photocopy of my passport, my permanent address in India, and a letter of referral from an Indian citizen to get my Airtel sim card. It was one of the weirdest experiences I've had in the country.
turtles all the way down ....
Or maybe a meal at a nice restaurant?
> Part of me thinks Uber could get away with this if they just relaxed some of their current driver policies (e.g. more limited penalties for cancellations). The issue is whether doing so would drastically deteriorate the quality of the service for riders.

I'm going to go with yes. The only times I use ride sharing services (Lyft, not Uber) are in high-density situations like getting to and from the airport. Depending on the hour there will be dozens to hundreds of drivers hovering in the area trying to get rides. As soon as "rider available" appears on screen a dozen different drivers are mashing the accept button.

Up until a year or two ago, the drivers would then see where I want to go and then call me on the phone to say they didn't want to go there, telling me to cancel the ride they had accepted. I systematically refused every time so that (usually after a few minutes) they would give up and cancel it themselves. This would usually happen for 2 or 3 drivers in a row, making ride-sharing a miserable experience for me.

I assume the cancellation penalties have been made much more serious, because this hasn't happened to me in a while now.
Looking at the breakdown it all makes sense, and I don't fault them but at the same time I agree with you and don't think the middle class of the country has ever lived that well.

Vacations that require plane travel twice a year? Going out to concerts and ball games for regular date nights? Life Insurance?
It’s important to note I said “in SF”.

If you want to save up a $300k down payment on a single family home, $5k a month in savings will take you 5 years (assuming you ignore your retirement entirely).

Otherwise, I agree that $5k per month after taxes and expenses is a ton of money.
Huawei may sell its 5G technology to a Western buyer
That's the average per woman, not the average per family (which wouldn't include independent, childless single people).
> the legislature did its best to rectify that.

my experience is that this is hardly ever true in politics. Legislators are generally balancing what they think is right (or what they think voters think is right) with what is in their own self interest (such as getting re-elected). As a result, they most often do their best to serve their own self-interest first and foremost. They raarely try to rectify something if rectifying it is at odds with their self-interest.

Rectifying this situation would likely involve some third category "somewhere in the middle", but that's not what we got.
Murder was just the worst example: rape, robbery, assault etc.
Wonder if they will run into trademark issues when they move on to the next version of the chip.
Back in the 2011-2012 era of Square, Brian would often opine at length about our products, our strategy, etc.

He'd write as if he had some sort of inside information and was a serious authority on the subject.

Anytime he'd make a new post about us, it would make the rounds on internal lists. Usually to the tune of "Oh wow, another Roemmele..." and we'd all read on in amazement at how much he'd just plain made up.

As insiders, we knew his posts were pure speculation, and were rarely even close to the mark about strategy or the technical details of our products.

Since then I cringe a little anytime I see one of this posts show up up. He completely lacked credibility when talking about Square. So I'm not sure why it would be different with Apple.
I don't think it will be a binary black or white, but rather a reduction. Which means a reduction in pay and a reduction of hours. Subsidy via VC money is an independent modifier.
I definitely think an API for donating to charitable organizations would be extremely useful. Most of them have terrible web flows for making/managing payments, and I've thought for a while about what it would look like to have a single website you could go to to make/manage donations to any number of nonprofits. Could significantly lower the bar and open the door to micro-donations.

Unfortunately, such a project would likely require case-by-case relationships with each organization.
Tablet solves for that, no?
Japan did negative interest rates in 2016.
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
>It may not have been your intent, but your comment has (at least on my read) an accusatory tone. You ask a number of rhetorical questions which indicate that you have low-regard for the work of the engineers in question.

I do have low regard for the engineers in question (low regard in terms of their ability and worthiness of salary, obviously not low regard in terms of their person). The majority of engineers in SV are working on products that primarily exist to serve advertisements to customers. They don't deserve $200k+ for that, and it makes me sad that society has decided these are the people that are paid this much while teachers and nurses are actually starving.

You say that self-driving car engineers deserve it? Really? Show me the 22 year olds that have contributed meaningfully to self-driving technology. But you can't. Because the people making the meaningful contributions (read: worthy of being paid $200k+) are much more experienced, have been working in the field much longer, and are much older. They are not 22 year old new grads.

>Calling someone defensive because they disagree with you is uncivil and a great way to start an argument. In the most literal sense of the word, my comment offers some justification for these salaries because yours appears to discredit them.

And claiming that someone is accusing blame (when they haven't) is also uncivil and a great way to start an argument.
I heard it was twofold:

One, monthly vesting is strictly better than less frequent vesting. So once one firm (think it was Facebook?) started offering it everyone else in the same pay scale had to, to compete.

Two, the cliffs made it optimal for people to leave right afer the cliff, then take the signing bonus at another company. Removing the cliffs makes it so there is never an “optimal” time to leave
It is also the slowest spacecraft. Speed is relative. To get it going that 'fast' when close to the sun the other half of its orbit is correspondingly slower than earth. When launched it accelerated away from earth at speed, but from the perspective of the sun is was actually decelerating, and was moving much slower that it was when attached to the earth.
Bletchley's wartime codebreakers meet again
From the fact that you took a dump on the steps of this thread and have repeatedly refused to back up or explain your points both to me and others who responded to you by arguing over semantics and side stepping questions, I'm just going to assume you are acting in bad faith.
From what I understand the scripts usually find an anchor in the page, then load some iframe/html content and update the anchor with new data. That in itself doesn't seem too bad, but ... it can't be that easy. I mean, each one of those widgets usually is 100s lines of code. I feel like I am missing something very important.
Sure it does, it just doesn't sell it to you. You are not the purchaser of the information, you are providing the information that's being sold.