skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, now if you state an opinion that's too controversial or against the grain you get blacklisted by anyone with enough time to feed your name into a database.

Real names: no, no, no, no, no
Why do we need to organize people making 300K+. We already have massive bargaining power. Unionization will only reduce an individual’s leverage
The reason is usually that it’s several hundred dollars more expensive to take the second cheapest flight. Or requires a stopover.

And if you aren’t aware of what plane is operating your flight then you risk having to cancel very late and re-book a likely much more expensive ticket.
DES Encryption will stop someone from BnE your data.

They might BnE your key though, if you aren't careful enough.
Three or four years ago I loved my Chromecasts, but it's crazy how much worse they have gotten in that time. They used to have a really simple setup and then "just worked" from there. Now though, they regularly disappear from every device we use them with in my household and have to be setup again. The setup flow has changed several times over the past few years, always for the worse. Once everything is (re-)setup, they still fail to connect or lose a connection often enough to be a big annoyance.

I'm not a fan of smart tv apps for all of the reasons discussed on HN, but they work so much better for me than Chromecast I've started using those instead whenever possible.
Didn't the same thing happen with the Amazon fires recently?
I was at Costco a while ago and overheard a conversation between some kind of store manager and several visitors in suits.

The manager was explaining that on weeks when AirPods are in stock their sales in the electronics department more than double. The exact numbers he mentioned escape me but were staggering. The whole time people were loading thousand dollar TVs onto carts - and the AirPods alone were doing that much over again in sales.
Just another data point to show that when you hear "unlimited vacation" you should think about it the same way as when you hear your cell phone company say "unlimited data"
The wealthy union leader?
Moskstraumen?
> the first to market has a much easier path in almost every sector of the tech industry. Facebook doesn't have competitors offering more compensation because they're in a sector with an enormous barrier to entry.

Except Facebook wasn't the first social network. And Google wasn't the first search engine.

Facebook didn't crush all other social networks by being a 1st mover. They did it by constantly developing their product and making more engaging hooks into their platform and they hired the best like crazy (at the highest industry wages) to do it. They bought Instagram (a competitor -- and not a 1st mover btw) because they feared their competition. It won't be the last to threaten them either and they'll need more billions on hand to buy that company or innovate along side them to keep growing.

I'm speaking as someone who's founded and sold a successful business, helped a bunch of 9 & 10-figure startups grow theirs and been around to see a ton of others fail completely. Unfortunately, it's not easy to make money or run a business as much as it might look that way from the outside.

In a highly competitive hiring environment like tech the day you don't treat your employees well or pay them a competitive wage, they'll leave in a heartbeat. It's not uncommon to see resumes of talented developers with a new company every 9-12 months as they rocket up the payscales.
> Fossil's opinion

Tools don't have opinions, people do. Fossil is just inflexible.

You don't want to alter history? Don't do it then. Git supports not altering history just fine.
For what it’s worth I’ve heard Apple has made more money off the Apple Watch than they did from all iPods combined. That business is HUGE too.

But compared to the iPhone it looks small so people dismiss it.
Lol and my engineering called me paranoid when I made us go from SHA1 to SHA256 (it was trivial for us). Guess I’m having the chuckle now.
I always suspected that this claim is based on somewhat dishonest play with statistics but never seen anybody conveying the message digging deeper.

Safer in what regard?
Agree in principal but I fear it is too little too late at this point; Sonos has been leaning hard into thier "IP Portfolio" for a while now. To me their core technology was basically to patenting clock sync over wifi for the purpose of playing audio. Anyone developing a similar product who might even consider that Sonos holds a patent should have a trivial time of producing a non-infringing implementation. Nevertheless Sonos have somehow been able to win some cases against some decent enough names like Denon, and now it looks like they are going for real meat. I suspect Google to steamroll them in the courts, but it may be lengthy and expensive to undo some of the legal precedent they have established. Or Google could have signed a bad contract with them in the past, which could further empower Sonos (bad for everyone.)

Despite its proprietary nature, when Sonos first came out I heavily recommended it to many people because it solved a lot of problems and "just worked" at a price point that was high but fair, especially given the apparent quality and polish of the product. When it became apparent they were instead committed to bleeding their own customers dry I completely gave up on them. Was there ever any discussion on HN about how Sonos encourages their customers to brick their current players when upgrading by offering deep discounts? This practice is despicable.

I hate to say it but now I have come to judge people who buy Sonos negatively as I feel they are uninformed consumers contributing to a malicious company. This is a pretty dangerous place to be for a company reliant on their brand and reputation.
I also bought many at $5. One at a time on each trip into Microcenter.

IMO, if I can't buy 10 of something for $50 or 100 for $500, the "real price" isn't $5/unit. Microcenter would pretty consistently sell $5 for 1 and then $15 or $20 for each additional unit.
Mark Zuckerberg helps the founders of Diaspora (2010)
So this is an argument for trickle-down economics within an industry, except used to rationalize fighting unionization, instead of increased taxation.
My favourite is yq, because there are two competing and utterly incompatible implementations of it. Just to add onto the shitshow that YAML can be.
Anecdotally, it seems like the rate of disruption in this space has been steadily slowing down.
Well, it does seem to be semi factual, 183 people had been arrested, "only 24 of them for arson:

24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires
53 people have had legal actions for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, and
47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a lighted cigarette or match on land.

Source: https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article?sq_content_s...
a programmer friend of mine used to date online. he's not a tall guy and he was convinced that he would never get a date let alone a girlfriend... he started dating offline & has now been with his gf for a number of years! online isn't the only way to go.
But this won't easily allow the general public to see that someone is unsafe; there are no visual indicators.

So, while with license plates pedestrians can call in and report a car without a license plate, a drone won't be identifiable one way or the other.
They can pair with an Android phone, but I don’t know if you get the great connection/pausing related features or not.
There would be less trivia to memorize if the command behaviors and options were more consistent. You may not be able to achieve that at the edges, where new commands and options are added, but you can always go back and clean things up.

For example, the cut(1) command is intended to do precisely what his f script does. But it's inconvenient because unlike many other commands it (1) doesn't obey $IFS and (2) the -d delimiter option only takes a single character. This could and should be remediated with a new, simple option.

I think the only thing preventing that change is that there's not enough interest in moving POSIX forward faster; certainly not like JavaScript.

Another problem are GNU tools. They have many great features but OMG are they a nightmare of inconsistency. BSD extensions tend to be much better thought through, perhaps because GNU tools tend to be lead by a single developer while BSD tools tend to be more team oriented.

So the way forward isn't to replace the organic evolution, it's to layer on processes that refine the proven extensions. And we already have some of those processes in place; we just need to imbue them with more authority, and that starts by not rolling our eyes at standardization and portability.
I have tested several eye tracking solutions on VR platforms, including Tobii and FOVE. Both solutions worked well enough for me to play games at the same speed I would with other control methods. Although it may be that eye tracking from that close of a distance works better than from a laptop screen distance, I haven't tried the Tobii laptop eye tracking solution so I can't say.
The new software has been updated to use both sensors. It won't activate when sensors disagree by more than 5.5 degrees.

The new software now only does a single stabilizer movement. They have eliminated all known failure conditions which might cause multiple movements.

With only a single movement, the pilots will be able to counteract the force.

Two sensors is not quite as good as three sensors. It can't know which sensor is bad. But it can disable itself and prevent unintended activations.

The new software, when combined with adequate pilot simulator training to both disable MCAS when it encounters an issue, and to fly the plane in with MCAS disabled makes things safe enough.
This is Moloch[1] (I highly recommend reading Scott Alexander's essay, because he says a lot more than I could say and he says it a lot better.)

We need to look at this in basic terms. Why even have businesses? Why have jobs? An economy? Ultimately, the entire reason we want any of these things is so we can make our lives better. Any policy we make with regards to corporations needs to be framed in that context.

The vast majority of large companies are well-oiled machines with one purpose: extracting wealth from somewhere and placing it into the pockets of a few people with power within those companies. In a lot of cases, that "somewhere" is "the pockets of average people". On a global scale, corporations are almost always a net negative for the basic reason we want them around in the first place.

But we're not looking at things from a global scale, we're looking at them on a local scale. And on a local scale, we know that you have to spend wealth to gain wealth, so we hope by getting companies to set up shop in our back yard, that they'll do the wealth extracting elsewhere and do the wealth spending here.

But this isn't a deal with the devil we should make blindly. It wasn't so long ago that corporations in the US were feeding us diseases, forcing us into windowless sweatshops where we would die if they caught fire, selling us exploding cars, and poisoning our drinking water. And they're still doing all of these things in other countries. And they're still happy to lie to us, dump slightly less poisonous chemicals into our drinking water, sell us counterfeits, start wars, and heat up our planet. Corporations aren't our allies, they aren't our friends, they're machines that will literally kill us if it helps with the wealth extracting, and they need to be approached with appropriate skepticism. It cannot be assumed that simply having businesses around is going to be a net positive, so steps need to be taken to be sure that it is.

One of the key ways to make sure that corporations are a net positive is to make sure they pay their fair share for the resources they consume. That's taxes. So I'm understandably very skeptical about any effort to lower taxes on corporations, because that sounds suspiciously like letting them extract more wealth than they give back. If they aren't willing to pay their fair share, then they aren't a net positive, so we don't want them around.

We have to remember, this isn't a one-sided deal where we're begging for scraps at corporations' tables and are snivelingly happy to just have them around. They need us too. Workers are worth their hire, and workers want to live in places where their communities provide services to them. We can and should demand that corporations pay taxes to support our communities. If tax breaks are really necessary to attract companies, why are so many of the places with the largest economies also some of the highest taxes?

And more importantly, going back to the basics again: the highest standards of living also occur in places with the highest taxes.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
There's plenty of AirPods competitors on the market now with easily recognizable names. I'm a proud Samsung Galaxy Buds user myself.
i agree with all of this.
It's been a bit since I read it, but I recall the meaning overlap/double meaning between leader -arch (such as plutarch) and arch- from archaeo- was directly intentional word play in the book trilogy, and yes that leader -arch meaning does add spice to the neologism.

(I don't think Destiny does much with the playful dual meaning, though. Certainly the cryptarchs in Destiny have never yet been meaningful leaders.)
Check out [1] - also the Melomanias are the closest I've found to wired quality headphones (and absurdly good battery life) that also are close enough to 'just working' but they were $99 last I looked.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21985320
it's just like anything else. you need to be self employed and own a business that you've scaled out to earn the big money.
It's only vastly less safe as a multiple to the other options, and not unsafe on an absolute basis.

Similarly, driving NYC to LA is vastly less safe than flying from NYC to LA commercially. That doesn't make the roads unsafe.
Too bad regarding the Arduino pro IDE. There’s so much room for improvement in microcontroller space. If you can use a Linux based SBC you might check out Nerves (nerves-project.org/). It’s nice for a lot of “one off” projects and with boards like orange pi zero, pi zero, etc the cost isn’t bad. I’m working on support for Omega2+ boards which are pretty low power and have decent WiFi. Still they’re not as suitable for low power, really small size, or real time projects. For microcontrollers, Rust seems to have decent support for a few of the STM boards. I’ve been tempted.
It can be in the same country, just not the same pod/environment. It could even be a backup server with a vaulting policy that prevents backup admins from deleting things. i.e. require 2 C-levels to input something to delete anything.
Their website appears to be focused on studying space weather. Electrical ground currents are influenced by space (interactions).
This argument is unsympathetic to the millions of creative professionals who deserve credit for their work. It's about a lot more than just a list of names.

Authors get credit for their books. Everyone who works on a film gets credit for their contribution. This goes into your CV, resume, IMDB, whatever. It's important.
It’s simple to explain in the same way that Apple even in the 90s made the most profit of any personal computer manufacturer even though PCs clearly had superior hardware and much more software.

The answer is monopoly pricing vs competition. Apple is the only iOS manufacturer, just like they were the only MacOS
Manufacturer (excepting the brief period of Mac clones)

That means all Android manufacturers compete and split their market driving down prices and margins and divvying up market share.

You saw the same thing in PCs when they were almost sold at cost or razor thin margins because they were commodified: a pc from dell vs hp vs compaq vs gazillion other vendors was basically the same experience.
During that same era, Apple's slogan for the iPod was, notoriously: "Rip. Mix. Burn."

They were the first company to crack the nut of digital music sales, and getting those deals with the recording industry absolutely required DRM at the time.
Collectively bargaining will help voice concern about the rising cost of healthcare benefits.

Getting employers to care about the rising cost of healthcare benefits will get lobbying to happen to make a change.

Until employees push back on rising plan costs, not much will change.
The point is that one little product is HUGE. Just MASSIVE. People may not think it’s very big because it’s such a small share of Apple’s revenue but it would be a success everyone talked about if a third party had got those numbers.
Ask HN: Approachable GDPR training for teams, devs, & clients?
Hey everyone -I've been studying GDPR for my company and consultancy.

We are trying to build GDPR compliance into our own products and the products of others. I want to train our teams and our clients on what GDPR is, how to comply, and how to think about it technically.

All resources I've come across range from short summary videos/articles, to checklists, to the actual text. These have been good for me, but are very boring and/or messy and I want to find resources that are approachable and not intimidating.

Do you have any good resources for GDPR training for developers or startups/entrepreneurs - preferably videos or interactive training?

The best straight-forward articles I've found are the following:
https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/
https://www.varonis.com/blog/gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-english/
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-developers/

Bonus question: Art. 27 requires a European representatives if you don't have a office or employee in Europe. Anyone have any experience or recommendations on finding and working with a EU Rep?
"communicate so that everything you say can be understood 100 years from now" seems like a terrible standard to hold conversation to.

What is "IT", by the way?
Probably most of the things being marketed as AI have been around and called statistics for a long time, and it's never been a problem.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.29.1/std/arch/#dynamic-cpu-featu...
> That kills any notion of simultaneity.

That's not actually true. Assuming there's a distinguished "initial" event [the big bang], and your universe does not contain any closed timelike curves [citation needed], you can define a Longest Proper Time from the initial event to any other event as the (obviously) longest proper time that any object or test particle could experience along a (timelike) path from the initial event to the later event.

Simultaneous events have equal LPTs and are always spacelike-separated (if there was a timelike path from A to B then B.lpt (>)= A.lpt + len(path) > A.lpt, so B.lpt!=A.lpt and they aren't actually simultaneous).
Step one, avoid zero-sum thinking.
> And if you aren’t aware of what plane is operating your flight then you risk having to cancel very late and re-book a likely much more expensive ticket.

I always try to select my seats at time of booking, which requires knowing the model+revision of the plane. Is that weird?
Have you seen the lowest common denominator facebook feed? Plenty of people will post plenty of garbage of their own volition even if you ignore just sharing other sources of clickbait and that's under their own name and face most of the time.

Reputation tracking is most useful for detecting bad faith actors (ie the person "just asking questions" but regular participates in extremist forums), but doesn't seem to be enough to promote any sort of self moderation.
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If the hardware is fixed (redundant sensors where necessary etc., but obviously not “smaller engines”) and the software is fixed, and training is fixed so pilots can handle the situations that can occur, and authorities believe the plane is safe - then I believe the plane is safe. It’s at least then safe enough that I wouldn’t pay hundreds of dollars to avoid it. Would I prefer an A320neo departing from the next gate at the same price? Sure.
A Visual History of the Media excluding Andrew Yang
BOM looks like <$10 (there's barely anything inside). Maybe $15 with those small batteries. I doubt it's economical to recycle. What's fascinating is that people are willing to pay so much over the BOM. But I guess that's Apple speciality making people do it.
At least a part of the saga of rising salaries without rising productivity is due to China being very lax on interest rates and Xi's government genuinely believing in that being a recipe for growth.

Xi himself is said to be very emboldened by what he sees as success of his previous attempts of running the economy by throwing money on SOEs, and he uses that to parry any attempt of central committee to reason with him.

There is a well known video going around of the plenum session opening, where Xi basically says "bigger, better resourced state enterprises," and Li says "smaller, and nimbler ones" right after him.

Xi ignores that China saw its fastest growth at the time of Chinese rates being rather high.

Low rates demoralise the entrepreneurial community.

Too many business owners exit because they can go to higher rate countries for rentier lifestyle.

Too many business owners think it makes no sense to compete with people who can get billions at 1% interest and throw that to bruteforce their market position.

More so, this makes it really appealing for gambling minded, and well connected individuals to take state money, and gamble them on speculations, becoming instant billionaires.
I don't wear airpods because I came across a few articles saying they are they are really bad for the environment: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neae8z/why-airpods-are-a-...

Honestly a little surprised that Airpods would be so successful.
Nobody claimed it was new. The majority of this is recent.
It may break our electrical grid maybe
I am still in my 20's and recently switched team. Switching team made me think a lot about what I want to do in my life, and I still haven't been able to figure it out. I was feeling anxious and worried as I felt I am old enough that I should know what I want to do.

Reading some of comments in this thread made me realize that many people don't figure out what they want to do, even until 40's, so I feel better that I am not alone in this. I thank you all for sharing your perspectives with career. I will bookmark this page and read this whenever I feel lost with direction of my career.
Both Ferrari and Lamborghini are unionized. Indeed the financing that helped start Lamborghini in 1963 was contingent on there being a workers union.

I don't understand your point.
Once we start seeing cheaply made, imported yes/no engines (masquerading as AI or knowledge) flooding the market, the definition of intelligence will be lost on marketing anyways (unlimited data, superfood, etc)
You got answers about AirPods Pro. On the normal AirPods there is no need because they’re not isolating earphones, you can still hear ambient sound just fine.
Why though? I don't know anything about AirPods Pro, but previous models were quite mediocre product compared to competition.
The average video game developer makes a lot less than the average tech worker. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone lower than a Director hitting $300k from what I figure.

Glassdoor indicates a "Senior Software Engineer" at Blizzard (considered one of the better companies, afaik) makes between 63k-126k. A "Game designer" makes 33k-72k. Video game industry also works long hours with a lot of crunchtime. And this doesn't even get into EA, or the other megalithic companies that push out dozens of titles every quarter.

The video game industry gets away with working their engineers harder and for less money, because people generally like building video games.