skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this automatable with AppleScript, or similar? If so, then there are possibly some vectors that Apple are trying to block.

There are likely many better ways to handle these situations, but I'm not sure I really expect it from the recent Apple. The most recent Apple is recognizing issues (i.e. MacBook Pro keyboard), but I doubt the whole organization has caught up.
And instead of letting adults exercise their free will, we need the government to "protect them"?
Payroll taxes typically max out short of the typical engineer base pay. The RSU comp would not generate more tax even if it was cash.
The fund rebalances regularly. Before the company is dropped out its value will have dropped, of course, causing the entire fund to drop proportionally in value.

Index funds typically rebalance quarterly, I believe. The index also rebalances, usually called reconstitution [1]; the Russell indexes rebalance yearly, for example.

Which means there can be a discrepancy between the fund and the index at any given time. This can result in arbitrage opportunities, I believe.

Interestingly, the selling and purchasing involved in adding or removing a stock from an index/fund also has an effect on the market [2].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reconstitution.asp

[2] https://www.cxoadvisory.com/miscellaneous/strategies-for-exp...
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By that notion, most wealthy people do not own the means of production either. There are billionaires from hedge funds that own no controlling interest in any companies.

Partial ownership is still ownership.
I remember being blown away by a line from a Civil War document, a letter or diary of a Southern officer, talking about the units of the Northern army made up of Black people. He wrote something like, "If [black people] can be good soldiers that throws into question our whole theory of slavery."

They had a "theory of slavery"... That's what blew me away. This officer wasn't evil, or stupid, he was the product (or even victim) of his culture. They thought slavery benefited the slaves. As insane as that sounds, that was the everyday psychosis of the culture.
Not to mention that if a business has the audacity to hire non-union labor, the unions will picket them and make all kinds of accusations about the business. Unions, for all intents and purposes, do not believe in free markets.
okay, sure. :)
This happened for one 100 year period when the world grew from 2bn to 7bn. Good luck in the next 30
What do you mean? Authority is a synonym on expertise, in that context. You claim certain people or institutions have the expertise on the subject to make the right call, so you appeal to their authority on the subject.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/18/21028517/sharenow-car2go... has a bit more background.
It's admirable how your employer has the contract clause excluding ownership of any work you do on your own time, on your own equipment. To me, that seems like it should be the standard, common sense.

I noticed Dunbar's number (~150 people) is sometimes mentioned, to attempt to explain how trust in relationships break down in large corporations.

I'm curious, may I ask roughly how big your employer is?
Ah cool, a little piece of history. I stand corrected.
You can do this via any file dialog, if you like. I don’t know offhand if Terminal has any open file dialogs, though.
The implications of this for all-remote companies are fairly chilling.

Yes, in principle, staff could put together outside channels, but it's a significant chilling effect. And without legal shielding, even "using corporate email to get non-corporate contact info to unionize" might not be safe. I wonder if this could end up with unionization pressure driving companies to accept more remote work?

Your break room comparison seems apt. The NLRB rationale of "using employer equipment to organize" sounds reasonable, but we're not talking about a consumable resource like using company ink to print pro-union fliers. If the company is already providing a platform for informal/social employee communication, restricting union-related content is clearly not aimed at conserving resources but at impeding union activity.
I actually worked at Ember for a bit before leaving when they get bought by Silicon Labs. The reason, internally, really was the fear that there would be a flood of low quality products that would make ZigBee look bad.
I'm not a fan of what Apple has done in Catalina, but I don't think your take is completely fair.

"For years", simply opening an app implicitly gave it access to most of the data on your hard drive. Regardless of whether you opened or dragged in a particular file.

In Catalina, Apple wanted to restrict this. As a consequence, in the initial release of Catalina, you could drag a file from your desktop into your Terminal, but your Terminal would be unable to access the file. Which of course is terrible UX!

So what Apple did in this update is give back the behavior you're describing: dragging a file into the Terminal implicitly grants the Terminal access. But unlike in old OS's, the Terminal doesn't suddenly get access to most of the other data on your hard drive as well.

Unfortunately, in order to walk that fine line, Apple had to add an extra, undocumented file attribute. And because Apple policy is for anything TCC-related should be SIP-protected, that attribute is protected by SIP and cannot be manually edited. And because a UI for revoking access to individual files would be a complete nightmare, there's no UI pathway either...

Apple's intentions with all of this absolutely make sense. The problem is that good intentions don't matter if the execution is flawed.
It should still ask. Explicit is better than implicit.
But it's not _their_ project, it's a project they contribute to. Google contributing an article about k8s would be a completely different thing from Google contributing an article on say Hadoop.
> ... singling out "Silicon Valley" seems strange.

Not to mention that two of the companies in their subtitle (Amazon and Microsoft) are not Silicon Valley companies.
I think it's ridiculous because it seems to me to be a term that was invented for the sole purpose of re-framing the online advertising business model in a negative light, as opposed to say describing some new phenomenon for which there wasn't already an adequately description word or phrase.

I think we'd probably disagree on the appropriate level of informed consent required for the use of free online services that no one is legally required to sign up for. I don't think it comes anywhere close to the standard established for health care or other industries or situations where that concept is generally used.
Validate firewall/ACL rules *before* you push to prod
FaaS
> between normal people and the genuinely wealthy

Ah, the convenient goal post shift to imply that people who retire early don't have wealth. Wealth is now redefined to mean "an amount of assets large enough to make a convenient political out-group".
Fake the supply side (aka content) as much as you can if you are trying to reach the existing community as your seed, if possible make sure people are noticing said content (via social/seo). Or simply reach out to said group or person to get a network started. Make sure engagement is kept high and differentiated as people change so being constant is not always the best scenario.
Yes, there are a few fringe areas that are likely to flood. But as we know that, that is not a problem. These areas are mostly uninhabited, have emergency procedures in place and are somewhat resilient (houses built on artificial mounds). Dealing with the known unknowns is relatively easy. Sometimes these areas flood, but seldom does it cause significant impact (loss of life, significant impact on economy). Taking into account all the known unknowns we have designed and built the greatest sea defense of history designed for 1:10.000 year conditions. And I am very confident this has been done properly (no expense spared).

I believe New Orleans was rebuilt with 1:100 year conditions in mind, and that was after Katrina. Nothing close to 1:10.000.

So are we safe then? A few years ago I would have said yes without a doubt. But now? It's the unknown unknowns I'm afraid of because they are by definition left out of the calculations to get to 1:10.000 year conditions, and we are only just beginning to discover what climate change really means. I'm afraid we "ain't seen nothing yet", and extrapolating from the past just won't cut it.
Well, actually, they'll limit the CA freelancers to under 35 articles a year and move the work to non-CA freelancers. Other companies are letting their CA workers go completely.

The point is that this isn't particularly hurting Vox, just those CA residents who are doing contracting work that can easily be moved to other workers elsewhere.
Of course freelancers aren't the only ones being cut. There is no shortage of stories about newsroom staffs being massively cut too.

So, yes, with a small number of (mostly national/global/specialty) exceptions, there's far less news coverage requiring significant legwork and story development, especially at the local level. I live in a fairly small town and there's basically no coverage of town events since a sort of labor love small newspaper shut down a number of years ago when the publisher got ill.

The business models are tough and you see it here when every story from a paywalled source is posted and someone posts a way to bypass the paywall. (But paywalls are tough too. I subscribe to The NYT and The Economist but that's probably about my limit. And most people don't even do that much.)
That's the wrong API.
In the successful cases it is easy for the demand to recognize what they are getting. Employer just has to demand passport and they can avoid hiring illegals. Just looking at the person is enough. Same with child porn. Same with anything else where we have curbed demand side.

How would you say Microsoft is able to recognize where the cobalt came from?

I can’t really see any way here that would not be a de facto ban for the whole material.
Nope, this violates Wikipedia's policy against "meat puppetry".
For now- but if Turkey gets snippy back w/Google and tries to force the issue, that entity will simply cease to exist.
UK could ban the sales of locked phones
Yes, they were removed, after the sham was discovered and made public.
I'm not entirely sure what they would take as proof.
Those dialogs recognized the product had to change significantly for the time and were accompanied by many changes below the surface. I'm not sure that the same level of recognition exists in Apple circles.
I think there is a difference between telling everyone "We have this really fast plane called the U2, and the Russians have been lobbing missiles at it. For the moment its fast/high enough to outrun them but this won't last forever" and telling them how fast/high.

There is a middle ground between handing out out engineering information, and pretending it doesn't exist.
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Life is too short to click a million permissions dialogues for everything I do on my machine.
Right, I didn't imply that they had to retire. It's just that even having that option means you are wealthy. People who can live a middle-class lifestyle in the US without working are super fucking wealthy on a global perspective.
There wasn't much to model. Complex health insurance systems were in their infancy during that period. People would sometimes pre-pay a local hospital to reduce costs, etc.

The employer-sponsored model of the US wasn't that bad during the 1940s, but I was clearly obsolete by the 1960s. What keeps it alive, ironically, may be Medicare: it removed the most expensive pool of patients (seniors) from the risk pool. This staved off the government needing to come in and heavily subsidize private insurance and set up nation-wide care provider networks.

Countries with private insurance industries that didn't bifurcate the risk pool in this manner ultimately did a better job of controlling costs for everyone

Medicare itself is a bit of compromise: it was suppose to be for everyone, but it ultimately just became for seniors. And while Medicare for All is back in the zeitgeist today, it was a consistent policy plank until the 80s, with the more conservative position being an approach where private companies would just sell medicare coverage (effectively creating a system like Switzerland or Germany, minus the public care providers).
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Ok, we've subtracted the pair (1, -0.2) from Linux in the title above.

Edit: corrected from 0.8

Edit edit: corrected from (1, 0.2)
Wow, learn to read.

>I know a couple of people in their fifties
An alternative theory would be that the concept of a minimum wage is not working.
Frankly, I’m happy as long as money is out of the government’s hands. Politicians have repeatedly demonstrated they can spend money way faster than they can generate it. What’s the point of paying more taxes if they’re just going to waste the money? Leave it in the economy and let the market sort it out.
> If the jobs go away who is doing the work the person was previously doing?

Nobody. You used to have two shifts, one that made a lot of money because it was peak hours and one that you could justify with a lower labor cost but not anymore. So now there's one shift and the business has shorter operating hours.

> Were they being hired unnecessarily because they were cheap, or are they going to make the remaining employees work twice as hard to cover all of the jobs? Or is stuff going to fall through the cracks.

Well yes, that's exactly what can happen. Stuff falling through the cracks has a cost. If the cost is more than the cost of hiring someone to prevent it, you do. If the cost of hiring someone goes up, the cost of the problems may now be less than what you have to pay someone to prevent it.

> Aren't the number of jobs needed more dependent on the demand for your product than the price of hiring employees?

A job exists when it creates more value than it costs to hire someone. If the value it creates stays the same and the cost to hire someone goes up, some of the jobs move to the other side of the line and disappear.

You're basically assuming that all jobs at all companies have the same margins. The high margin jobs will stay but the low margin jobs don't. "Low margin jobs suck anyway" is little consolation to the people whose alternative is even worse. And if you gave them a better alternative then they would choose it even if you hadn't prohibited the worse one.

> Now more expensive labor can make your end product more expensive which can reduce demand for it and cost jobs, but that's a second order effect and should be muted if everybody is affected by the same laws at once.

If everybody is affected by the same laws at once it makes it easier to raise prices because your competitors have to do the same thing. But raising prices still reduces overall demand.

And in many cases the competitors aren't affected because they're in other jurisdictions, and then raising prices really reduces demand in your jurisdiction because people just buy from the competitors whose prices haven't gone up.

> The people who really get hurt are the ones competing with sweat shop slave labor in foreign countries, but most of those jobs are already gone and lazy Americans weren't willing to work 100 hour weeks for pennies anyway so competing fairly against them was Quixotic in the first place.

That's just a lazy rationalization. It's the people at the margin who get hurt, but that doesn't mean they don't exist or that they don't get hurt.
Sorry but just compare to an Auchan in France, or a normal Waitrose in the UK. Edeka is the closest but e.g. my Rewe doesn’t do Cilantro but Edeka does. Rewe does fresh chilled soup, Edeka doesn’t.

And market food is ridiculously over priced. A zucchini flower costs 2 EUR. anything rare or slightly pimp costs a fortune in Germany. And normally isn’t fresh.

And yes, sausages and cheese are great and the best in Germany. But not every night. And I don’t want to “from scratch” cook everything.

Oh and if I forgot some tomatoes and realized on a Sunday? Tough. Nothing is open.

A friend of mine worked in retail and said of Germany...they tried to introduce “exotic” potato types rather than just “for mash”, “for fries”. No one would pay 1 EUR more for a nuttier tasting potato. That’s the German market. Gut und Günstig.

Sucks.
> I'm extremely grateful to read this headline instead of it being meth, crack, or Fentanyl.

How about the headline "teen drug use hits historic lows"? That would be a headline I'd like to read.
It's strongly discouraged and looked down upon. Editors with a conflict of interest take up a disproportionate amount of other editors' time and are practically never able to write neutrally about themselves or their company.
And if you're an organizer relying on obscurity instead of NLRB protections, would you really feel safe starting that process by telling prospective members "hey, PM me your personal email" over a corporate channel?

If your company is too big or remote to talk in person, establishing wholly-external connections is not going to be an easy task.
This doesn’t make sense. What would happen to these people if there were no startups and no gig economy? This feels like the same argument that wants Chinese factory workers to have to go back to starving in the fields rather than worker long hours in factories because it isn’t optimal.
I guess my question would be then why did the bank originally allow themselves to loan too much out? From what you said, it seems like they loaned too much out and without the Fed they would then have to dip into their assets to meet the regulation. So it still seems like the bank messed up and the Fed is bailing them out (despite with interest). I agree it would be a problem for them to dump the assets but it also seems like a problem they are in this situation to begin with.
Out of curiosity I did the same thing in Ruby for comparison.

N = 1E6.to_int
N.times { |i| puts "x#{i} = #{i}" }

Then running it with:

time ruby big.rb

It never completed, because it allocates variables on stack.

Traceback (most recent call last):
big.rb: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
ruby big.rb 1451.52s user 23.74s system 97% cpu 25:08.23 total
Dunno, but apparently the ops budget at Basecamp is about $3M/yr, no idea what the traffic level of Hacker News is compared.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/only-15-of-the-basecamp-operation...
Sure that's cool, but without a rooftop antenna, I get 2 different PBS stations, each which have 3 digital channels, so I get 6 PBS channels. Most programming is in full HD and higher resolution than streaming which always seems to add extra levels of compression. These are the ONLY stations I get without rooftop because PBS transmitters have more geographical coverage than any other network in the US. With my super big-ass gigantic antenna on a 50 ft tall pole, I get a bunch of other networks as well, again with higher resolution than typical cable or streaming. But the point is that even without any antenna, most people get at least one PBS station, which typically will have at least 3 channels multiplexed in their band.

The announcement above seems to be an ad for youtube's $50 streaming service. Anyone who has that service already knows what it carries. Anyone wanting to sign up for that service based on PBS alone should just turn on their TV and see what happens.

It's useful though for Americans living out of the country.
It actually makes me feel better about the project seeing Legrand on the list of companies than it does any of the 3 tech companies in the title.
It seems that some banks just decided to stop funding the overnight and short term repo needs of some other banks. There's lots of speculation about why. [1]

1. https://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/12/bis-drops-a-bombshell...
That's just an American-centered view-point though. Just because an accent dominates doesn't mean it's not an accent.
I'm a former maintainer of RxJava so my answer might have a Java tint to it.

I would describe Observable as representing an uninitiated computation. More analogous to function reference than an Object with state. If you delve deep into an observable implementation you'll likely find that the only concrete property is the function to invoke on subscription.

As an exercise replace "Observable" with "function" in each of your questions and see if they still make sense.
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>they can use this as justification to keep anything they want secret, even when there is no real national security concern with revealing the information.

Aren't these secrets revealed to the judge, who then decides if the intel agency is justified in state secrets defense? At least that is a check and balance.
And Gen-Xers sit between the two, utterly blameless. Not that we care.
> age, gender, martial status

What resume has this information? This is all stuff you can infer from the interview itself.
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The usual UNIX permissions checking doesn't get bypassed, does it? This is additional.
Thought it was clear: "Never, ever, ever, ever worry about anyone copying your stuff."
I'm actually on your side with the "actions have consequences" logic. That still doesn't imply the consequences are "extinction of the human race".

I'm also all for handling in ecologically responsible and sustainable ways.

However, what is being proposed is adoption of unproven technology on a massive scale, at an enormous price. That is where the logic falls apart. Many times before, it has turned out that such forced technology changes were actually damaging to the environment.

If the new technology was actually better, in most cases it would be adopted without government pressure.

The extremism is the problem.
I am talking about a very specific feature of the Powerbox that gives you a security scoped bookmark to access a resource, even if you are sandboxed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828138
Given the bulk of a median American household's wealth is tied to the equity of their primary residence, it would be interesting to see how these returns stack an investment in a single family residential home.

I imagine it would be difficult to parse out home improvements and so forth, but it would be a comparison that more people to could relate to given the average person doesn't buy T-bills and such.
The problem is the dearth of women, not the presence of men.
>This law contains exemptions for lawyers, dentists, physicians, vets, psychologists, architects, private investigators, accountants, direct sales salesperson (telemarketer), fishermen, podiatrist, graphic design artist, travel agent, grant writer, “Fine Artist” (does not include musicians), Human Resources administrator, marketing, photographer, freelance writers/cartoonist/editor (limited to 35 items per year per publication), esthetician, manicurist, barber, cosmetologist, electrologist, annnnd repo men.
> describing some new phenomenon for which there wasn't already an adequately description word or phrase.

I think it does exactly that, though.

> I think we'd probably disagree on the appropriate level of informed consent required for the use of free online services that no one is legally required to sign up for.

We might not disagree as much as you expect on this. I'm less concerned about this sort of thing -- my concern is all the spying that takes place outside of such services. It's essentially impossible to function in society these days without being spied on due to surveillance capitalism. Even staying completely off the internet won't do it.
What, dragging a file and dropping it onto an application to grant it access? I am not sure. I'd like to think that doing this programmatically would be locked down if it allows an application to extend their access without user consent.
as opposed to ZigBee making ZigBee look bad as it stands now. Only big names looking for a lockin pick ZigBee.