skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and there will be some noisy exits while people say "man Google has really lost its way" and they will open up the hiring spigot a bit and replace all of those exits with new employees for whom Google has always had a pay per meal policy (or no cafes in the satellite offices) or what ever method Google used to prevent the hit to their profitability.

After a few years nearly everyone will think this is the 'regular' Google and won't know anything about the 'old' Google way.

When I was working there, there was a tool called 'percent' that would tell you what percent of the employees were newer than you were. What astonished me was how rapidly one became an 'old timer' in the sense that > 50% of the employees had arrived after you had[1]. I watched this process in real time as people got fed up and left because they felt that the company had "let them down" or "failed to meet their commitments." It was a lot like university where every 4 or 5 years its an entirely different set of undergraduates. You tell them "how it was" and they believe you because, you are there and they just arrived.

[1] That particular astonishment, combined with the reported employee numbers, led to another investigation which was how Google could replace 50% of the staff without anyone noticing, and discovered that churn was a pretty big thing.
Sure - look into something like a depletion deduction using the percentage method rather than cost method.

This creates a complexity nightmare - as you end up with basis changes for s corp pass-thru's etc that are not tied to anything "real" - ie, no additional contribution of assets or payment of tax on accumulated gains. This all makes things very complicated from recordkeeping, reconciliation and auditing perspectives.
Access to individual personal data is only one small point of power. Billions of dollars for lobbying and the ability to set policy and make sweeping changes is a much larger power.
Couldn't you get around that with a really long USB-A-to-whatever charger cable?

Slapping a Stirling engine on a rocket stove just seems like a really good idea to me. My major concern would be the in-backpack weight and volume.
Is that interest taxed?
It depends on your hardware.

If you have everything Intel based then yeah, it almost just works, except the i915 driver occasionally has huge regressions, Mesa sometimes has huge regressions, and the kernel itself oftentimes has huge regressions.
I really like the UI design and PWA hints to add this to your mobile. Great work.
.. or not pay it.
A Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything
Algorithmic correctness won't necessarily help you if the root problem is bad sensor data.
> Personally, I'd rather earn an extra $25k and buy a few cups of coffee with it than get "free coffee".

I don't think there are any companies that spend $25k per employee per year on coffee???
That is a dilemma that not a single worker in the history of this species has ever had to grapple with.
To be fair, I don't think more automation is a bad idea here. The bad idea is Boeing continuing to design and manufacture aircraft.
As far as I have been able to gather, the MCAS software performed exactly to spec. You may have been drawn to the Boeing straw man narrative "the software was faulty (we can fix it)".
I'd argue the opposite. The whole point of a commodity is to not care about who produced it or how, to treat it as an abstract in a trade for goods and services. There is a specific lack of care required. Ask anyone who consumes a commodity how they feel about the cow their milk came from, or the orange grove their orange juice came from, or the oil well their gas came from, or the farmstead their coffee beans came from, or the factory farm their pre-sliced chicken breast came from.

If labor itself (not the product of labor) is a commodity, then nobody cares about the labor. The laborer is merely the vessel for the labor, so they're even more disconnected from the commodity, like the dirt that a corn cob grows in. All you need is to make sure the dirt can keep producing corn; none of the consumers or producers care about the quality of the dirt. This is more visible when you look at unskilled labor around the world, where people usually are treated poorer the lower the wage is for their labor.

Take Foxconn's workers. They work very long hours, basically every day, and live in very cramped quarters, with no time for a real life. They're treated as a commodity, and the "exchange" is that they get to send money home. But what kind of life is afforded them personally? Who cares? They're just husks assembling iPhones.

Around the world, the environment of a commodity is often given poor treatment. The subject's very reduction of value leads directly to a lack of care in its treatment, as long as the good produced remains of a sufficient value to its consumer. You see this in the environment of the commodity being slowly eroded, surrounding communities being poisoned, 3rd world governments being corrupted and eaten away, as the commodity product is carried off. This has been going on since empire has existed, and continues with the rise of capitalism as a mechanism to convert valuable goods into cheaper commodities.

So I personally think that treating people callously is a result of commoditization.
In what sense did Gottesfeld "blow a whistle"? He's a cause celebre' in the right-wing blogosphere (because Justina Pelletier is, as well), but I can't figure out why. From what I can say, all his information came from the right-wing blogosphere as well; all he did was react violently to it.
Just because other companies are pushing out shoddy updates and other user-hostile measures, that doesn't mean we shouldn't criticise the one we're talking about for doing it.

My phone, which was top of the range when I bought it less than a year ago, has serious bugs in the most basic features, which have replaced other serious bugs in similarly basic features from the last software release. This was all essential stuff -- literally things like making and receiving calls properly -- that worked fine on a little Nokia block costing 3% of the price and available a decade ago.

The fact that both market forces and official regulation have failed so badly that my modern, four-figure-cost phone can't do what a Nokia block costing maybe 3% of the price could do a decade ago is hardly a glowing endorsement of our modern consumer-hostile tech culture.

So it is with Windows 10, and its obsession with spying on everything you do, and with updating itself without your knowledge or consent and forcing reboots at times it considers it necessary. Some of us don't work regular hours and do need to do long-running (multiple days) jobs fairly often, and there is just no way that a serious operating system should be interfering with that.
Don’t play zero sum games, like defining your worth by “being the best”.

Play games where you can advance independent of other people’s advancements (like being healthy, or able to perform some skill).
What percentage of runaways are confirmed runaways, as opposed to being trafficked?
It's called hyperbole.
In Australia you can do it all online. Took me about 60 seconds this year and $0. Admittedly I had nothing to claim or declare beyond PAYE and the auto-filled dividends.
lolll I did think that they were joking
Microplastics tend to attract other persistent pollutants [1] to their surface and are linked to endocrine disruptors like BPA which have an undeniably negative effect on human health. And the fact that microplastics (which generally used to be macroplastics) have indeed passed through lots of other digestive systems doesn't make them safer. It means the same microplastic particles can kill over and over and over [2].

[1] https://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/08/Ocean-Plastics-S...

[2] https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/seabirds/laysan-albatrosses-...
The join command has been around for over 30 years!

See p. 7 of this PDF (which contains SunOS 4.1.2 manual pages): http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/sunos/4.1.2/800-6641-10_Ref...

The short description it gives for the command is "relational database operator".

(The "Last change: 4 March 1988" at the bottom of the page refers to the last change of the intro(1) manual page, not the whole book.)
I agree that unions were important, at one time.

However technology is at a point where large enough companies can simply engineer around the human resources problem if they want to.

So bringing a company like Google's feet to the fire will only make them want to cut you out of their supply chain. Your "bargaining power" is short term. Merely until Google can find another way to subvert you with technology.

In the industrial revolution Unions had bargaining power because they offered a valuable service that you couldn't live without. Today there is no problem that technology can't solve with the right amount of funding.
Or, to put it another way: A study which has not passed peer review made an outlandish claim, one which anyone can verify is false just by boiling their tap water and inspecting the sediment. Flagged, and also I no longer trust Reuters to do simple factual reporting.
Cheaper? Perhaps. Much cheaper? Not usually.

I just looked up some flights from SFO->Seattle

$101 for a round trip, $77 for a one-way flight.
Show HN: London Tube live status from terminal in pure bash
Exactly what I'm thinking.
It would be interesting to see how micro-plastics differ from silica/ sand. Something most of us have been exposed to, especially if you live near a beach or other sandy environment.

One thing I do know is that not all sand is alike. There's the normal sand that has been ground & rounded over millennia and 'sharp sand' used in construction. Getting normal sand on your skin is a minor annoyance, and I'm not aware of any real damage if some are inhaled. Sharp-sand is much more irritating to the skin/ eyes, it feels more like fibreglass than the beach variety, and I believe the sharp particles are the reason for silicosis as they are not easily removed by mucus.

It would be interesting to know which category microplastics fall into. You would think (hope) micro-plastic would be more like the natural 'soft' sand variety than the more troublesome sharp sand.
For Windows, Microsoft offers a CSV ODBC driver that can make the files look like any other relational database.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/850320/creating-an-...
My knee jerk reaction to this is "more automation after an automation failure? Huh?". But whenever I think someone is being that stupid, it's always worth a second look, and it turns out the reality is more complex.

This article[1] linked off of the OP goes into detail about their crashes. It describes a design philosophy that pushes robustness fully onto the pilot, expecting him to flawlessly stitch together independent automated systems and unreasonably rapidly interpret and react to their error modes. In the case described in the article, separate automated systems had contrasting views of the world, and shouted their contradictory errors at the pilots, relying on them to be able to instantly reconcile these models and figure out what the root problem was. (In this case, a specific sensor failure made a single system think the plane was pointed up, and this system made the isolated decision to push the nose downwards while warning that the nose was too high. Naturally, other systems simultaneously complained about the nosedive).

One solution, of course, is to remove automated systems from planes. But assuming they provide any value (I don't think this is in dispute?): another, more reasonable strategy is to commit more fully to an automated system design that is intentionally fault-tolerant, robust to system and sensor errors, and has a more complete view of the plane's world. Instead of requiring the overall state of the meta-system to be lossily communicated to humans in a time-critical emergency, the newer designs are intended to use all the information available to the plane's systems to reconcile subcompoments' contradictory view of the world. Note that this doesn't preclude human control at all: if anything, it makes pilot control _safer_, since the system can provide a coherent view to the pilot in a way that's currently impossible.

I don't know enough about large aircraft operation to fully comment on the wisdom of this approach, but it's substantially more complex than "auto system failed, why would they expand use".

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-four-second-catastrophe-how...
Many years after hearing, and being inspired by the world's reaction to CFCs and ozone depletion, I read a piece in one of the main US papers - WSJ, NYT, WaPo, I forget which, that the main impetus for US action on CFCs was Reagan had had skin cancer. Which made it more personal for him.
The auto system failed because they a) were band-aiding a flawed mechanical design b) under-designed the compensating software (only provided a single AOA sensor by default) to obscure the fact the plane was significantly different to avoid training costs. These are management problems, not technical problems. More automation would be subject to the same issues.
source code will probably be needed. I’ll need to compile it for my platform. thanks.
Corporations are capitalists performing collective action. Our governments not only allow this, but provide special provisions in the law to support and encourage it.

We can get rid of collective action for workers when we get rid of it for capital. Until then, if anything we need a shift away from enthusiastically encouraging collective capital while barely tolerating collective labor, to something more equitable and beneficial to the individuals whose government suffers those corporations to exist in the first place, whose interests lie overwhelmingly on the side of labor.
> The question is whether environmental micro plastic is any more harmful than the micro quartz crystals we've been digesting and expelling since the dawn of time.

That's nonsense, it's understood that microplastics contain and secrete endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are damaging to human health. It's a question of quantifying the problem and how much damage it's doing.

To be clear, if you eat something containing a bit of quartz you'll poop it out shortly, barring some specific digestive problem like diverticulitis that traps it. Your body won't do anything with it. This is not true of the chemicals in plastics.
There is a 70s TV mini series that did a good adaptation of the Shogun book. So I decided to read the book, it was well worth it. At 1000+ pages I wish it could have been longer. I loved it.
If Japan confiscated his passports he can probably just go to a consulate and get a new one.
Crap I meant to make the above comment as a top level comment, not a response.. Somehow it came through twice.

Anyway, in response to your comment: perhaps I'm conflating these, but a commitment to robustness seems like it's included in the newer philosophy? It just extends that notion beyond the sensor-level to the system level.

Sure, you can frame an inadequate emphasis on robustness as a "management problem" instead of a technical one, but that seems equally applicable to the "management solution" being put forth, no?
What's CBDa?
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Accepting a job without doing more research on the company and the actual job but of impatience. 11 months down the drain.
A must-read for anyone implementing security on a language specific VM or runtime environment, in the future...
Just stop. Just take this kind of absolute disregard for facts somewhere else.
I don't normally share these things, but I stumbled onto this video last night:

The Ultimate Steak Sandwich - Gordon Ramsay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwu2y9x5OlM

He adds a bit of nuance to every single step of the process. I found myself wowing repeatedly.

I even had an existential crisis about it briefly as I realized that I don't love anything as much as he loves cooking. I used to love programming, but now practically hate it as often as not. I don't know how to reconnect with that kind of love and meaning in my life anymore. I sincerely don't want to do anything that society tells me to do. My days are planned around coping and avoidance. Without hope, I lack passion. Without passion, I lack focus. Without focus, I lack a means of income. Seriously, I'm stuck paralyzed at step one and have been for over 6 months.

If you aren't paralyzed with doubt, great! Be thankful for that and pay it forward. Hope this video inspires someone.
It sounds too complicated for me to use. I’d prefer to use something I know the user already has setup.

Other solutions would be Patreon, Venmo, Zelle, or the Buy me a coffee button on some OSS repositories.
Ask HN: Intro to SDR
Do you have any resource recommendation for deep dive into SDR (Software Defined Radio)? What's your interesting project or usage worth sharing?
Elections at all levels are won and lost on candidate email dumps and internet activity. Blackmail always works better than lobbying, and this is what protecting the worst actors will enable.
And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time.

People keep saying that, but how often is it really true these days?

As a professional software developer, the tools available on UNIXy platforms are already much better in many cases than the Windows ports.

For a typical home user who is mostly interested in things like email and social networking, and maybe needs to write up some notes or do a quick household budget spreadsheet or basic photo editing, there is capable software available on any serious desktop platform today.

It's true that gaming lags behind, though there has been useful progress there in recent times, but lots of people game on dedicated consoles or on their mobile devices anyway now.

Are you sure you're not just repeating dogma that is well out of date by now?
Recently I being using iPhone Notes. One note per book using the camera to take screenshots.
JPEG-XL: Next Generation Image Compression Codec
Open source / Royality free
NEW public software repostory
https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl
Full join is missing the Id on 456 and the Key on 999..
No, better filing with the same tax system is empirically a better position. Holding auto-filling hostage to push contentious unrelated systemic changes is dirty, and why we have such gridlock. "I'm willing to allow a wide-consensus change but only if you concede me my very contention change" is not good-faith.
Strange. Plenty of my coworkers are neither assholes nor sycophants. I'll pick them over the other two any day.
>Like, sure single family homes in suburbia tend to look the same. You know what also looks the same from the outside? Apartments. Literally all you can see for each one is a window and maybe a balcony, and they all look identical.

It really kind of depends. People focus on the "And they all look just the same" element of the song and glance over the fact that they're "made of ticky-tacky."

In an urban setting large solidly built structures slowly form accretions and extensions to them that slowly help a neighborhood develop character and personality over time. Large apartment blocks that don't permit something like that, as you see in lots of East Asian countries where they had to throw up tons of housing REAL fast, can also end up looking really bland and dehumanizing.

But then you go to a place that has had time to really develop character as multiple generations of residents have written over them without ever fully erasing what came before and you end up with beloved urban centers like New York or Paris.

The suburban development model doesn't really allow for that. The houses can get extensions in theory, but often deed restrictions or HOAs insist on things adhering to specifically defined code about how they can look and what they can do. The conformism is a willful aesthetic choice rather than just a pragmatic shortcut.
what device you're on? cause it works on my phone
Coffee is so bargain basement cheap when bought and prepared in bulk too.
JPEG XL Reference Software
It seems to me that companies are now (and will be) relying on the long tail of their entertainment investments to justify the cost. Perhaps before it was easier to recoup the investment up front?

What are the chances that these companies genuinely need this sort of draconian copyright law to remain profitable?
I've been holding off making scripts for a lot of cases so that I memorize the commands. Do you think that's pointless? I'm a college student now and I've been thinking that I'd be better off not customizing my shell too much so that I can use other computers I end up in front of. (I have nothing against customization in general, as I think my emacs would show)
> Windows 7 goes end of life in 2 weeks.

No it doesn't, for two reasons.

Chromium Edge will support windows 7, ironically the release date it's just one day after Win7 supposedly goes eol.
and of course Windows 7 ESU support will end in 2023.
Run Debian Stable or CentOS and you won't have to worry about "regressions" for at least 2 years. If the hardware works when the system is installed or upgraded, it will work for the lifetime of that release (barring exceptional bugs).

Windows has nothing comparable, besides the LTSB/LTSC releases that people can't even figure out how to get legally.
> Millionaire movie studio execs and actors

The story about these is interesting. Because for every millionaire actor there are hundreds/thousands of wannabe actors. Who may or may not one day become a millionaire actor.

Not to mention all the rest of the TV/movie production chain: writers, directors, cinematographers, gaffers, production assistants, stunts professionals, etc, etc, etc

The "over-unionization" of that sector ensures fair pay and conditions (which sometimes are already grueling) for the professionals involved in this area of business. What happens without unions? Check the VFX companies for an example.
How can this be better? Thanks for letting me know!
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> messaging that the government can't do anything properly

I would love to hear about things the government has done exceptionally better than private companies. Please go on.
Dont drag. Touch the piece and the touch the spot to drop it on.
How do you keep windows from rebooting when it feels like it to install 'critical' updates? Id like to use windows as a linux VM host but every couple weeks my linux server is taken down because automatic reboots can't be disabled. Microsoft seems to actively prevent every workaround people find to disable this rebooting, no matter how difficult and arcane.
You shouldn't be comparing nominal returns between markets, what you should be comparing is the inflation adjusted real returns. That's why even if Japanese banks offer nearly no interest the currency is deflating and as a result holder might end up with a net profit
Somebody please take away Boeing's shovel already.
You could try. File a few DMCA notices for Disney's top content to their CDN and cloud/datacenter providers. I guess they won't take it down.
He should read up on the economic principle, tanstaafl (there ain't. O such thing as a free lunch), then it won't bother him so much.
> Disk fragmentation has become an even bigger issue since Windows 10 doesn't defragment SSD disks

Defrag on SSDs in Windows 10 runs Trim. And it does do that automatically on a schedule if you don't change anything. Actual defragmentation on an SSD is way less useful because SSDs don't have killer seek latencies like spinning rust plates did, and it would be small-scale harmful because of write wear. And your SSD's onboard controller would likely thwart your efforts anyway, because of wear leveling.
Don't miss Ecclesiastes. It's fascinating and heartening in a way to realize that someone thousands of years ago was struggling with the essential questions of our existence. Why is life hard, unsatisfying, and filled with sorrow? How is one to deal with this?

(There are paraphrases available that might be more accessible for first-timers.)
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