skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do too, but in a large amount of cases the skills I want to learn in my own time often only tangentially relate to the skills I maybe should acquire to become a better worker at my current job. Unrelated stuff like painting, modeling and playing an instrument. Most of it is still software related, but not specifically to my job. Getting that out of your head from time to time seems to help. Of course there are compromises, but certainly not most of the time.

If companies want efficient and capable workers, they have to be willing to train themselves. We are < 500 people and are currently building a training center just for that purpose (not software focused). Granted, a culture where job hopping is common, that can come at a steep price.
Meanwhile Canada bans paid donations.

While volunteer blood product is great and all, the supply isn’t enough and just means we use American product.

Dunno why we (Canadians) disallow a homegrown industry and insist on paying everyone in the process except donors.

Somehow domestic dairy production is a national asset that must be protected, but it’s totally okay to depend on foreign nations for blood products.
Probably Parkinson’s Law in action.

You are providing the “option” but not literally scheduling the time. Employees need cover otherwise you are “learning” but nervous something will “slip” because “Learning” isn’t business critical.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
It is not easy to get certificates for OSS.
Top-down decisions that changed food supplies
> For example, there is one 'correct way' to unscramble a rubiks cube

Thats not true from a mechanical standpoint. From start, rotate an edge 180degrees. Now you can turn it right 180 or left 180.

Making 2 coins show the same face (when they differ) doesnt have one correct algorithm, in the same vein. Developers necessarily interact with apis at this level and generalize from these choices.
Since the borrowers could sell the collateral instead, technically they aren't depending on these loans and they could stop using the repo market.

However, they would then 1) lose the yield on the bonds and 2) instead need to keep large amounts of money on some account and trust that the bank doesn't go bust. Bond holding is used as an alternative to deposits.

The government also doesn't want the repo market to shut down, because that means everybody dumps their gov bonds, since they wouldn't need them as collateral anymore. The dollar amount of outstanding repo contracts is measured in trillions so this would imply a catastrophic increase in the cost of borrowing for the government.
>But the current maintainer has the Apple provided signing cert, that's the whip hand in this whole deal.

So apply for a new signing cert? The only thing I'm hearing is "he closed and I don't want him to close it but forking it takes a lot of effort and I don't want to put in that effort".

If nobody is willing to put even the basic effort of applying for a new signing cert, color me skeptical that they'll actually maintain the entire project including the apparently voluminous changes needed to work with Catalina.

I hate nothing more than people who complain something isn't open source but want it to be maintained by someone else's time and effort. People's time isn't free, and they have no obligation to give you their current or previous time for nothing. (Not talking about you personally, referring to the guy in the original post)
Amazon used to print my name with an HTML entity on the shipping labels.

Buggy software is buggy. Saying "who cares about accents?" only sweeps the problem under the rug.
I am on 18.04, so it's not working if something was done.
Check out Cootek - Chinese app developer that went public about a year ago (main app is TouchPal keyboard). They were engaging in "malicious and disruptive behavior" to drive their revenues (Buzzfeed broke the story) and Google banned them from distributing their apps on Google Play. Stock is down from >$9 before the news broke to $5 today.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/google-b...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ctk/
This is robbery by the management class, and who can blame them.

If I can take on debt at a corporate level and personally enrich myself, by increasing the value of the stock through buybacks and then selling it, why wouldn't I?

This is all made a whole lot worse by stock option packages that give managers equity at major discounts.

I think we'll look back at this as the largest heists in history. Should serve as a good lesson to central bankers in creating wack incentive schemes (but it probably won't)
Honestly... I've never wanted to embed an image in HN more than now. Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown says what 1000 words cannot.

https://giphy.com/gifs/football-prank-Ou18ZgE49Fss0
The game wasn't designed for you and me. It was designed for the ones that can take advantage of it with massive amounts of cash, connections, and staff to exploit it for them. Bet on the companies to figure it out for themselves and just stick to index funds over the long haul. That way at least you're not playing a game that was designed to take your money.
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Hey no problem, I think it may help some of the other HN fellow users which weren't so trusty about CashBalance.

If I remember correctly you're on the official App Stores, and also are a stripe verified partner which is a great point to be confident about the proper use of API_KEYs

And sometimes being pricey in software inspires more trust to the buyer, this is also true in any product or service you might need tough
I'm sure there are many courses available at your local convention center where they'll be happy to tell you what to do with your $20k!
"the value of social media is shifting away from content hosting and removal, and towards recommendation algorithms directing one’s attention"

I really wish I could hack on the youtube recommendation algorithm. It seems to be tuned for zombie viewing pleasure, and totally not for finding surprising new content. Even just having several "personas" would be a big help.
- There's no need to take on credit card debt while making $10/hr

- Proper diet and exercise is far more important to your health than health insurance. Health care has little influence on health outcomes (see the Oregon Medicaid Experiment and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment).

- A substantial minority of jobs in the US that pay <= $10/hr require strenuous physical labor.
Triple actually. Corporate profits tax, new hypothetical buyback tax, and then again as capital gains when the shareholder sells.
Not profits but debt. With the ultra-low interest rates of the last ten years, companies could finance bonds at rates just above inflation. However, instead of using those funds to grow the business (e.g. R&D), they simple bought back shares, increasing the price of the stock.
You're right, I remember, not fondly, parsing that XML for mobile.
But you can get 100s of microfiber cloths from various places. The idea that only Apple is capable of making this special cloth for cleaning their display feels a little silly.
Hello folks, Postput now support :

- IBM object storage
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- Greyscale filter on images
- Tint color aboce image
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Every one? Including the co-plaintiffs who are fighting to keep the pensions they were promised?
That's a type of decentralization. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network which is using both terms:

> A distributed social network or federated social network is an Internet social networking service that is decentralized and distributed across distinct providers (something like email but for social networks), such as the Fediverse.
Yes, big corporations like Google, who is perfectly capable of paying for osxfuse, too.

Balk? You think the MBAs at those big corporations are pushing them to pay for Linux over the objections of the devs? No, devs don't balk, devs are the reason those companies are paying for Linux.

What in the world do any of your points have to do with the discussion at hand? My parent, pjmlp, claimed that (1) open source can't be sustainable because (2) open source supporters don't value open source work as being worth paying for, both of which are contradicted by the incontrovertible facts that (1) sustainable open source projects exist and (2) they're sustainable because of open source supporters who pay for it. Corporate supporters, yes, but corporations are composed of people, and corporate supporters of open source are only that way because their "open source folk".
My father and brother both got prostate cancer, the effects of surgery are life changing. I've been monitoring my PSA and it's still low (at 60). This is so much less intrusive and gives me hope that if I do get prostate cancer, I might be able to lead a normal life if I'm lucky enough to get this treatment. This is no joke of a disease.
Probably not an issue in most situations, but if you're unlucky to have these monitors in a space where custodial staff who didn't get the memo might take it upon themselves to wipe some dust off a screen, or several screens... yikes.
What's misleading about it? Check a PPP adjustment, it's still easily top 50% worldwide.
Does tapping the bottom of a beer can stop it fizzing over?
UK Galileo Replacement to Integrate with US GPS
I’m not sure asserting Facebook is a third party is correct. They are a third party in the communication sure but are also the provider of communications medium. Compelling then to back door it wouldn’t be compelling a third parry
This works great, and I very much prefer generating my QR codes locally than on any website.
What’s special is that they are inherently visual instead of symbolic. What happens when the culture shifts and :bug: is replaced by :pile-of-shit: ? We now must remember that 5 years ago, we used :bug: to mean software defect but after that one blog post we all use :pile-of-shit:?

It’s like the second derivative of the floppy-disk-means-save problem, but pushed into our terminals where despite their drawbacks things must generally have a relatively fixed meaning devoid of the context required to interpret purely visual signifiers.

If you mean that performance improved just write PERF instead of :lightning-bolt:
I was in a similar position. The following helped.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Millionaire-Teacher-Wealth-Should-L...

https://canadiancouchpotato.com/
Glad you like it! There is already support for that. If you log into https://ctr.run with your GitHub account, you'll get a docker username and password that you can use to `docker login ctr.run`, and will allow you to `docker pull` your private repos.
Webber's trashed it (the initial author), the biggest piece of software claiming to implement it doesn't even implement it (Mastodon), the only piece of software that stays semi-faithful is full of devs who hate it (look on their Pleroma profiles, there's a _bunch_ of bitching about AP).

You're frankly uninformed on many levels, and while I'd normally refrain from replying to someone so obviously delusional, let's give a tiny peek at the problems:

AP is completely broken for anything but publicly-scoped content, relying on a lot of trust for every party involved. This gets broken frequently, and has had consequences so far on networks implementing it.

The specification itself is far too ambiguous. If you've got a lick of sense, you'd know this. But here's a post by a maintainer of Diaspora explaining this part further: https://schub.io/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to...

So let's assume you can get Twitter to implement ActivityPub perfectly to-spec. Great! It doesn't work with literally any pre-existing ActivityPub software, and users' DMs and are more or less public, with users' private accounts literally being public.
Anecdotally: a new plasma donation center was constructed just by my office on high-value real-estate directly on the light-rail line. Everyone I've seen using the debit cards issued by the donation company look terribly beat.
>Your "resources" (what a derogatory way to refer to people, by the way) will be more valuable, more competent, if they know more than just that what's needed for your team's direct focus.

Would that I could safely direct your ire to my manager.
I don't think it was shame but a photo-op / statement-through-deed that big changes need to happen. However, individual-level veganism, recycling and eco transport isn't the whole solution. We need a holistic approach and top-down leadership integrity to make difficult changes to arrive at overall rapid, net negative global CO2 for the foreseeable future. If we don't, I better sneak into Zuck's NZ prepper bunker and hide in the pantry.
Yeah, I've read about that, and it's good news, but more investment does allow faster expansion because building bigger planes requires capital investment in facilities. But you're right, you can only expand so fast because you have to build up institutional knowledge, however I will point out that I wasn't proposing that they jump right to jumbo jets, only that they need to more quickly build jets competitive with the 737MAX (which is a mid-size jet). Eventually it'd be great if they also built jumbo jets, but what the market needs the most right now is a modern 737 replacement made by someone other than Boeing. Boeing isn't trustworthy any more, and they're still bound and determined to stick with a 50-year-old airframe design no matter what.

I'll also suggest that, with lots of investment funding, not only could they buy more equipment and land and build facilities, they could also poach valuable employees from other aircraft makers to build up that institutional knowledge more quickly. Surely there's some disgruntled Boeing engineers who value quality and safety over executive bonuses who might like to work for a while in Nagoya?
Based on what I know about Oracle's software quality to customer inertia ratio, they're probably betting right. I wonder if the future is as legitimately bleak for all of the other buyback companies.
It's not better at all than reinventing the wheel. The wheel should be reinvented until someone makes one that isn't square.
After pay-walling medium, and wit the state of state-controlled twitter-bot networks.

Jack Dorsey's horsey-moves/initiatives can go to hell

Long Live ActivityPub
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21763323
Why? Did Apple acknowledge all the PDAs that came before iPhone? Did Spotify acknowledge subscription music services like Rhapsody from 2003? Did Flickr mention Smugmug?
Founder Advice with Brett Martin, Managing Partner of Charge Ventures
I have a nano ceramic coating on my Golf R.

Totally understand the need to take special precautions.
Interesting that the market is at an all-time high and companies still feel their stock is cheap enough to warrant investing in. When will this bull stop?
Which is a far cry from "top 5%", right?
> It mostly makes moderation (or censorship) impossible.

Making total censorship impossible is mostly congruent with the goals of society in my opinion. Censorship has done immense damage, e.g. Lysenkoism in the USSR (to pick a particular example).

However there is still the option for users to voluntarily opt in to certain kinds of filters. Most likely most people would voluntarily opt in to a filter that rejects child porn, for example. It's an open question whether a decentralized system with filters would lead to better overall environment, but I think it's worth trying.
The "as an agent of a company" part is intended to exclude that.

Even if it wasn't, that just means when drafting the law basic care needs to be taken. The same could be said for practically every law.
It sounded surprising to me too. Looking closer the source is actually "Human or Animal Blood". Also Ireland similar amounts as the US, so I'm thinking its probably Animal blood, but I haven't found a good definition.

https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/3002/

http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-blood-exporters-by-count...
For the record, I actually don't think this is crazy and I think it's good/sensible that they're trying to give people guidance on how to clean their expensive screens.

Off-topic: am I alright using a screen cleaner like Woosh! on the MacBook Pro or should I go totally dry?
The point is both the companies in question and the ultra-wealthy that are the beneficiaries of the vast majority of these buybacks AREN'T paying taxes, so it's another way for the government to at least attempt to capture the $$ that should already be going into the treasury instead of offshore accounts/subsidiaries/whatever double dutch triple lux tax evasion scheme of the month they're using.
That happens?
I wonder if he realizes how terrible Twitter is for long form writing and publishing like this when he does it. It’s always baffled me why they haven’t removed the character limit entirely and instantly become the largest networked publishing platform that’s ever existed over night.
So now instead of a focused team of experts detecting and removing disinformation campaigns, each user will have to figure it out on their own or hire a service to do it.
> Dunno why we (Canadians) disallow a homegrown industry and insist on paying everyone in the process except donors.

RTFA
Screen readers do handle emojis in this way, at least the Google assistant while I'm driving does.
Discussion on the Tweet itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762510
Wait, what? Where does one even go to get paid for a blood donation?
Could you elaborate? I checked the gif and don't understand what you mean.
>Somehow domestic dairy production is a national asset that must be protected, but it’s totally okay to depend on foreign nations for blood products.

cynical explanation: because dairy farmers is a huge voting block, and blood bank operators aren't.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRCdORJiUgU

IMO though, Google's 2011 year review still remains the best Zeitgeist video of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAIEamakLoY
How to build secure Mobile Apps: the tough job everybody ignores
Tie it to deliverables, like reporting back to the team about the content or giving seminar style talks.
“This is mainly driven by people around the age of 60 with a profound fear of death and almost no knowledge about implications of certain technologies.”

I thought most surveillance tech is developed by young bright people. You are making a big mistake by making this an age issue. You are sort of implying that once these old people are gone things will get better. They won’t.
With lists notable people from cities it's gets vague whether to include people who were born but not raised there, raise but not born there, people who moved there as adults, etc.
Jack is building his own Fediverse.

I think Twitter should whitelabel its application and sell 'instances' to media, publishers, government agencies, and other organizations who would benefit over control of their namespace. G Suite seems to be a good model to follow.

What I'd really like to see would be a focus on nonprofits and grassroots political candidates, such as a NationBuilder for the Fediverse.
You're mixing up fitness with healthcare here.

Diet and exercise are great, but they're not going to fix a severed finger or a broken femur.
> paying everyone in the process except donors.

Probably to reduce incentives for people desperate for cash. If I ever need blood (I'm in France, same payment system as in Canada from what I know, and what you wrote), I want clean blood; and I'm not paying (with my tax money) for dirty blood to be pumped.

If you pay donors, whatever drug addict might think about making a quick buck, lying on their medical form, getting their next high. You could do ID checks at each donation event, ban people for life - but how can you do that while keeping their data secure? (Banned from giving blood = either addict, or is/was seriously ill, or received a transfusion already, or had male gay sex, etc. ; which is a serious privacy leak)
Related to my other comment--I have a nano ceramic coating on my car, and when I take it for service, I have a little sign I hang from the mirror that basically says "Don't wash vehicle without permission."

Just set a screen saver that says "Don't touch me"
Mmm, that perspective doesn't really reflect the, I guess, party liquidity in a practical scenario.

The company has money, they trade at $X. In a trivial sense it means you can buy a share for $X +- some spread.

The capital return mechanism is that the company now owns the share, and can retire it, the part that really isn't important is who they got it from.

It's sort of like electrons in a metal, they're just sort of around. Worrying about the behavior in specific instances doesn't paint the picture of the aggregate behavior.
Oh, it's freedom--but freedom for whom? Freedom from what?

The financier's freedom from regulation makes it easier for them to limit the freedom of the financed. The borrower's freedom from deception makes it harder for the banker to achieve record profits.

In this case, the merchants got their freedom, and it seemed like a win for consumers too... until it was time to upgrade.
Though paying an engineer to learn a new skill is not going to be capex on a financial statement. If it was companies would be more willing to do it.
This looks very cool!
> blood now accounts for 2% of the country's exports -- more than corn or soya.

That seems to be the core fact in the article, and no source is given. It seems ridiculous to my eyes, you'd think this would be an easy thing to cite...

Edit: Yeah, this seems to be bunk. Here's a relatively authoritative-looking source for "Plasma, Vaccines, Blood" which puts it at $23B per year:

https://www.ustradenumbers.com/export/plasma-vaccines-blood/

US total exports are around $2500B per a quick google, which puts that at about half what is claimed.

And of course mixed in with that blood is the presumptively much larger trade in vaccines, which is a known US export industry. I can't find anything that tracks this number with blood donation products split out.

Second edit: As others in this topic are pointing out, in fact that "plasma/blood/vaccines" number includes animal products also. So this article is garbage, sorry.
Are those millions taxed once or every year. How many times can you tax the same dollar bank note.
Very few companies (mostly tech companies) can take advantage of those tricks. Exxon can’t assign all its oil fields to an Ireland subsidiary to inflate expenses and reduce profits in the US. The median effective tax rate for the S&P 500 in 2018 is 21%. That’s the same as or higher than the statutory tax rate in Canada, the U.K., Sweden, Norway, and Germany.
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> So what can I do as a manager to make it more “okay” to spend time at work learning?

Be seen doing it yourself.
Indirect argument against net neutrality. At least he can still say "won't somebody please think of the children?".
Agreed. This is a dumb story. A $5000 display ordered with upgraded, low-reflectivity glass must be cleaned with the INCLUDED cloth.
Then why are toll roads a thing? They explicitly allow vehicles to pay more for a faster road.
Political arguements is a fool's game as they are experienced manipulators after power. Sociopaths in other words. Not playing the expert's games is the only way to win against them.

Force them to insist upon what every expert says is impossible. The only "answer" they can have to that are more spin spun bullshit or making it their own. A "don't use me ever" form of encryption if they actually succeeded (any other option is better) or they create a tower of babel standing on a vertical gnat's hair - an inevitable collapse on any foolish enough to use it that only damages the arrogant fool who made it further.
Also missing from the list:

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