skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a company 401k with matching funds. Clearly, if the company is willing to give you more money that’s a benefit, but you don’t get that opening a 401k at fidelity etc.
Looking at resumes, you would've thought Wheeler would be an awful FCC chairman, but he turned out ok. Which makes Pai even more frustrating because you look at him and think "I know he has ties to the industry, but he could choose do his job if he wanted to."

>The FCC's mission, specified in Section One of the Communications Act of 1934 and amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (amendment to 47 U.S.C. §151) is to "make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges."

Imagine having that mandate and going out of your way to take the position that you don't have any authority over internet connections.
> The ability to be visually immersed in a book does seem nice. It also strikes me as probably a bit of an exaggeration. I have a hard time believing people wouldn't be spending much more time reading than I observe them to if reading were really capable of such transport into fictional dimensions

It’s a skill and takes effort. My wife visualizes what she reads seemingly without any trouble at all and can read more than one decent sized book per day.

Me it takes much longer. It’s about getting into a state of flow. Sometimes I just can’t get there and all I see are words and I struggle to keep straight what is going on in the book.

Sometimes I am kicked out of flow by the author dropping a descriptive visual detail late enough in the story that it conflicts with what I had imagined. As in, what do you mean so-and-so has blonde hair?

There have been times where this has happened and I just choose to ignore some of those details and carry on with the thing as I had imagined it.

I often like reading a book after having seen the movie or tv show if one exists because it makes the effort of visualization easier. I’m reading Leviathan Wakes, of which the first season of The Expanse is based. So I picture most of the characters the same. Except for Amos for some reason. He’s different in the book, and right now I couldn’t tell you what he looks like when I imagine him. I’ll have to try to make a point of remembering when I pick it up again.

I prefer books that only give hints of how things appear, to let my mind fill in the rest. It works better for me that way.
I agree. Spanish is not perfect. It is the best alternative that I personally know of though (outside of constructed languages, which have other problems)
If the software is simple enough that someone can make it just to have something on their CV, I think a paid developer needs to do something more substantial.
Author here. I put Rails instead of Ruby deliberately. I'm not sure if Ruby is significant enough to stand on its own, guessed not.
English spelling is such a mess in good part due to historic attempts to improve and reform it, along with a few accidents of history. I suspect it's safest to leave well alone now. :)
R&D isn't the same as financing infrastructure..
We replaced our daily standups with a chat room. Now, everyone can come in whenever they like and the “standup” can happen totally asynchronous.
> Bitcoin is seen as a risky investment by most people. To those of us that understand what it actually is and how it works, it's the best kind of money/store of value ever invented.

Why? Just because the other options have downsides, what makes Bitcoin good? There was a rush in 2018 - are you assuming it's going to happen again? Bitcoin seems to be super unstable, more so than anything else I'm aware of - why would I want my retirement savings to be able to fluctuate that much every year? What stops a new cypotcoin from coming along and being dubbed superior, removing the value of Bitcoin overnight?
> That makes one wonder about who else is still using Perl? if any? Can’t remember the last time I’ve heard about it.

I don't even get statements like this. And what does 'heard about it mean' anyway.

Interesting I just pulled up another quick and dirty test compliments of HN Search (Algolia):

Last Year Story Titles:

Perl: 301
Python: 3,360
Java: 3,931
Ruby: 687
Ruby on Rails: 105
HTML: 214,423
Bitcoin: 1,398
Blockchain: 1,622

Adding Bitcoin and Blockchain I was just curious. But imagine if I wanted to prove popularity by using 'last year in Hacker News' in titles. It would appear that Python was 'more popular' than Bitcoin or Blockchain.

No question it's less popular than it was years ago for numerous reasons. Not sure the methodology used (google trends) tells the complete picture.
Usually companies cut compensation as a last resort, as it's damaging to morale. They don't do it for fun. Some people are obsessed to see employment relations as a zero sum game.
String obfuscation is trivial to do so I have a feeling they're actually running the binaries in order to do anything. Just a feeling, though- I don't think the author of the post stuck around long enough to see if the remote instance behaved as it should.
Smartphone Huawei Mate 30 Pro: Kirin 990 Processor with 5G, Without Google Play
In the very spirit of agile, if standups are not providing your team value, then by all means stop doing them. But, if you are not able to perform a quick functional standup that informs your team about the important work each person is doing, their blockers, etc, might I suggest this is a sign of a deeper team disfuction, rather than some inherent issue with standups generically.

I'd go further to say that if your standups consist merely of parroting words verbatim from JIRA, you're letting your team down by not providing additional detail and context that could be provided more easily in person than on such a tool.

Lastly, reading between the lines of your text, you seem very much "over it". Not standups, but team engineering. Possibly time to find a new environment better suited to what you enjoy.
You do if you want to release it and have your users be able to use it without being warned that your product is insecure.
The OSS world, all the glitter, is just an iceberg to the ice continent of the software industry as a whole. There is still a lot of new mainframe code written today. And a lot of glue scripts are still written in perl at various software houses
Could you do ssh -R and get shell on the testing machine in Redmond? Could make a nice tunnel for getting US netflix.
Apply that masculine/feminine rule to 'wing'/'wings', or 'sea', or 'eagle'/'eagles' in spanish :)

I know those are exceptions. The thing is... there are a lot of exceptions.
One advantage that English certainly has is a very rigid, predictable sentence structure. I come from Russian - a language where words can be rearranged in many possible orders while being not only grammatically correct but also stylistically valid (also with slightly different accents and meaning). The fact that putting words in different order is just a mistake (and not originality) was completely alien to me, but now I enjoy it a lot, because it makes the language so much easier.

And prononcuation of English is, of course, a special hell - but one that you very quickly get over with, once you start systematically watch movies and tv series with subtitles instead of dubs. And what other language has as much movies, tv series, music and videogames other than English, through the whole 20th century and up to this point?
Ok, so if I compile an executable that pops up a screen with a picture I drew + lots of personal and medical information about me, and phones me whenever it's executed, and then just leave it on my machine only for it to phone home from Redmond, can I sue them for copyright, GDPR, HIPAA violations and whatnot? How good is their "new unique binaries" detection? Could I do the same with just a bunch of files wrapped in a good ol' self-extracting archive?

Seriously, what in hell? Like always, blatant violations of users in the name of "security".
For what it's worth, shareholders are also getting slammed, but they can always sell to get away. Not always an option for folks that are employed at the organization.
>You imply there were no benefits from lhc?

I have overtly stated as much, in as public a way as I had access to at the time. I don't care if it's "not incredibly expensive per scientist" -it is a wasted effort, and an awful lot of what gets published (with 1000 "authors") as being bullshit. I've also seen the lifestyle and read the "results" of both experimental high energy and the theorists: it's basically a cargo cult at this point, imitating the glory days in the 50s and 60s.

Let me ask you a question: what lack of result would convince you that high energy as practiced today is a waste of time? I look at stuff like this and see sheer decadence:

https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/the-walrus-an...

The "muh basic research" argument doesn't work forever. "Which basic research" is a question we should be asking, and building yet another giant accelerator and detector set up is not necessarily the answer, just because that's been useful in the (now distant) past. Phil Anderson is probably right.
As a light weight alternative to the official client, you can try https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

`spotify-tui` uses the Spotify Web API, which doesn't handle streaming itself, so as of now you'll need a spotify client that handles streaming.

In the future, I'll see if I can integrate this into the project for a more complete package.
You need to have the official Spotify app open in order to play songs
30 years ago, if you said GE might be failing in 2019, you would have been considered crazy. There are no guarantees in life, even if the law says there are.

The only reason your elders are enjoying the fruits of a defined benefit pension is because the costs of their pensions was hidden by an assumption of ever growing populations and economic growth.

Additionally, why give control of your retirement funds to someone else when you can have control of your money? They're investing it in the same place as you would, and not getting any better returns.
There is a bill called s386 recently caught some attention and eyeballs.

The data says, 75% H1B visas all went to one country, India, while a larger country like China, took a normal percentage 9% over the years.

Reason? India's outsourcing companies made quite a lot frauds and while they moved some of their offices to USA, they still hired mostly Indias by H1B visa, from outsourcing to insourcing, the employees are the same: those from India.

As an IT guy for years the problem I saw is that, India manager is notoriously nepotism, mean they prefer hiring Indians _greatly_ to other races, it's not uncommon after an Indian becomes a manager, in a short period of time, all his/her team will be full of Indians. This is scary and unhealthy, and Americans has been turned on their blind eyes for this abuse for years.
Nuclear is dense and constant, far more dense than wind or solar.

BTW, burning coal for energy should be considered a crime against humanity. It should be replaced by anything, regardless of energy output ;-)
I will elaborate a bit more. You've taken the time to have this macOS set up configured exactly to your liking. All of these apps have settings and application data. Sometimes the application data and settings are synchronized in the cloud and sometimes they aren't. Maybe you use an app like Notes which has application data (your notes) that is synced to iCloud but application settings which reside somewhere on the computer locally. How do you handle situations like this? Do your back up solutions essentially allow you to back up the complete state of your computer so that if something happens you can restore it back to to the exact state you left it? What about upgrading macOS versions?

This is a puzzle I've struggled with both on macOS and iOS.
I think the point is about vocabulary more than anything. Most people (in the US) understand the word "pension" to specifically refer to a defined benefit plan.
> Perl – 1987

> Python – 1989

> Ruby on Rails – 2005

Ruby itself is 1995. In 2005 when Rails was coming out Perl had it's peak according to Tiobe:

> Highest Position (since 2001): #3 in May 2005[1]

> That makes one wonder about who else is still using Perl? if any? Can’t remember the last time I’ve heard about it.

Duckduckgo? [2]

Sure, Perl is loosing popularity but I don't think it's anywhere near dead or extinct.

[1] - https://tiobe.com/tiobe-index/perl/

[2] - https://github.com/duckduckgo?language=perl
nice save! holy crap that’s a lot of batteries.
Linked Data (2006)
“It help immensely with production as your colleagues often help keep things from falling through the cracks.”

But your job as a developer is to not have this happen. It’s nothing something that would be a nice to have, you’re supposed to always keep your team informed about potential gaps. The standup is designed to catch gaps but really that should be something you should already be doing.
You didn't explain what this has to do with copyright? CFAA[0] (or even [1]) seems like a better avenue to explore, but still likely a dead-end. Copyright seems like a misnomer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Espionage_Act_of_1996
I really think that the sooner we can separate out pensions and healthcare from employers, the better.

Businesses main area of expertise is not in pensions and healthcare, and they cannot provide these services as efficiently as if there were many different insurance companies on the market offering these services for sale, and instead the company paid you a fee for your services, and then you went out on the market and bought your own pension plan and health insurance.
1 DB schemes are much better for the employee than DC

2 Pensions funds are different to investing for individuals (with small portfolios)

DB schemes have very long lifetimes and have to invest for multiple generations and cant just invest in a tracker - they have to have a suitable investments in bonds and guilts for example./
I never heard anyone in the US in my 30 years there use the term "pension" to refer to the typical retirement plans available in the US.

In UK and Ireland, though, most retirement plans are called "pensions", even defined contribution.

The first time I told my mom about pensions after moving, she said "oh my god you get a PENSION?!??" like it referred to the paycheck for life her parents got from the paper mill.

It's just semantics.
CLI utility that streams data from multiple S3 objects to the shell
I'd like to see SolveSpace (CAD) on there, but the mac support will be dropped soon unless someone can jump in to help.
I don't find it to be more of a mess than any other electron application though. So that's.. something.

My main issue with the snap install (debian) browsing for songs became slow initially. The UI will be there but it'll just show 'no results' for basically any search until after a minute or so.
An expert Perl user will always be able to show some nifty program that could never be replicated in another language, or would be ten times larger and full of bugs if it were. If you play to its strengths, it is amazing. There is no better language for ingesting text in ad hoc formats and generating formatted reports. Hence the name.
Joint Statement on the GNU Project
Not really. Rail is paved to high standards, roads to the same standards are more expensive yet. If I were to replace my driveway with a rail I wouldn't use the same high standards that the main line gets and so my costs would be much less (of course since there is no rail down my little street that would be pointless). Mainline rail is expensive, but so is highway paving.
Did you compare it to a $50K Audi or BMW? They’re also pretty fun
I believe the "conflict" is called class warfare.
It seems that when the companies do not own the pensions and they are funded properly this issue goes away. It's when the companies play games with other peoples money that we have victims. Independent 3rd party management of pensions often means less shenanigans and trouble
>For example, there are protections through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and you could probably arrange for your own insurance as well.

The PBGC is just for show. They can't even guarantee the pensions of the multi employer defined pension plans that are about to fail, so there is a bill in congress to bail them out currently:

https://burypensions.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/butch-lewis-ac...
Sure, but the rate is what helps to figure out why the change. If the rate of pedestrian death per mile walked is actually going down, but they are walking lots more, then you want to keep doing whatever you're doing, to keep the rate going down. If the rate per mile walked is going up, you need to consider some sort of about face, changing what you have been doing before.
You mean like in good, old Europe? No way!
But why is that? It seems like there should be a way to offer a simple annuity product profitably.
>and have subsequently deferred their "hardening" to January 2020

Two months? So Catalina will start breaking apps for average users after only two months? It hardly seems worth it for Apple to have that short of a delay.
> Just treat everyone like they are human.

I do,i believe in the policy of no job is above or below any other job,work is work.Same reason i don't get the stigma around sex work,its work after all.

Its just that some jobs should be paid more and that some dev jobs can be bit overpaid.A great example would be chefs who work in hot environments unders stress aren't as well compensated when compared to software engineers top chefs are paid well but thats like the 1%
Let's move beyond eating animals
You might find this app useful. I plan to use it as I move to a new mac soon.

https://github.com/zenangst/Syncalicious
Can a domain expert comment if this does away with the whole blood donation/testing/storage/logistics system we currently have?
Apps that aren't distributed on the App Store are treated like second-class citizens on macOS. You can't even install them without having to chase down esoteric instructions.

If you don't understand why that would be an issue for a company that sells applications outside of the App Store, I don't know what to tell you.
> You need to have the official Spotify app open in order to play songs, but you can control all your devices with this app.

Will it ever be possible to have it work without the app open?
This has been debunked:

“But manufacturer will add more RAM – in the iPhone 11 will put 4 GB, and in the flagship 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max even more – 6 GB. Let’s see how an increase of 2 GB of memory will affect the work of older models.“

There’s only 4GB in the pro models. Perhaps the 12 will have 6GB.
> Except for management, as standups are a simple way of keeping psychological pressure on developers and squeezing every last bit out of them.

When I was a manager, I always found it to be far more effective to have team members apply psychological pressure to their peers, rather than apply pressure from the top down.

Standups are best avoided by managers. I never felt the need for yet another meeting. In fact, an excessive number meetings are one of the main reasons I got out of the management business.
The three things that could kill a pilotless airliner
The other issue is that defined benefit pensions were historically oriented around long-term employment with a single entity. This is most obvious in the case of the US government but pension benefits in general tended to be maximized when you stayed with one employer for a long time.

This worked out pretty well for me [added: it's been through 2 changes in ownership but it's still available for payout] but, if instead you look on 2-5 year job tenure being far more common today, a lot of people would end up with little or no pension under typical defined benefit pension terms.
Interesting to start with more of a null hypothesis here. What’s the historical investment level? Does this amount actually reflects a complete collapse of fossil investments?

BankTrak apparently has been doing these report cards for 10 years. Here’s the 2016 edition:
https://www.banktrack.org/campaign/shorting_the_climate_2016...

“ In just the past three years, these banks have sunk $42 billion for companies active in coal mining; $154 billion for the 20 largest coal-fired power producers; $306 billion for companies that drill extreme oil; and $282 billion for companies building liquefied natural gas export infrastructure.”

Sounds like a similar 3 year period, total is $0.78T tho. So...increasing? Possible my assumption that these are comparable is wrong.
These guys (https://evilmartians.com/) sure understands a thing or two about images and image compression. I have used their imgproxy[1] (Golang image resizer) for a long time and it has been solid from the very beginning.

[1] https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy
Should check long-term.
Good article, but the author mentions "JPEG compression artifacts are so prominent that it practically spawned a new art form." and links to a glitch app.

Glitch art wasn't inspired by lossy JPEG compression, it was inspired by corrupted digital feeds and missing image data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_art
Don't ruin their fun
spanish is also the language with the most illiterate people in the world
Conflict of interest? Isn’t the interest of a business survival and profit?
So that it is not "mostly buggy, poorly supported and half finished".
Paper: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.15427
JavaScript Tips – A JavaScript Tip per Day
Not really, there is already well written solid software for the Mac which I do pay for. What would happen if these companies open sourced their software is most users would stop paying and they would be forced out of business.

Open source devalues developers work.
I have trouble squaring this ostensibly fantastic news with the constant dire predictions about the stock.

Is it just the stock is considered by some people to be simply overpriced, or is Tesla the company in danger of going bankrupt? I'd like to get a Tesla, but I worry about the company going under and being left with a car that has no resale value or ability to be maintained.
Once in full production, potentially. But currently it's only been tested on rabbits. This could change the face of medicine if successful.
Thanks for the clarification! I still think it takes a lot from the JPEG artifacts, but I'm happy to change it if the author objects :)
> it is a computer with amazing batteries that happens to live in a car

hum pretty sure the value of your Tesla will drop to zero if it can’t drive anymore. What are you talking about?
Microsoft does a 50% unlimited match up to the irs cap FYI.
Open Source Survey / Data Collection Tool Reqd?
Can anyone recommend an open source data collection (survey) type tool which we can use to collect data from several hundred orgs and which we can integrate with our existing DB to house data?
What? Every engineering team I've been on has done standups at their office/desk/bullpen. It literally takes exactly the amount of time of talking. Then we sit back down and resume work. You don't have to make it a full blown meeting. In fact, you shouldn't.
I guess what I'm saying is maybe in an increasingly global society we should purposefully select a common language. English is de-facto today for historical reasons, but its difficulty is creating inefficiencies we could do without.
This was running on Linux?

That's odd. The bug works on Python. Wondering how Perl does the formatting to end up with \r\n.

Either way, still puzzling there is a typo in the official example.
Agreed! No need to blame anyone. Let’s solve the problem though, will need to have everyone involved.
IMO standup shouldn't be where the conversation takes place, it's where the conversation starts, to be picked up after standup/in a separate meeting.