skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd say it's very hard to find any violent revolutions that improved a society.

The reign of terror in France may not have improved France, but it did scare the European aristocracy, and ended up indirectly giving a lot of political and economic rights to the general population. Aristocrats very quickly realized that they did not want a repeat of that performance in their home countries.

The Soviet Union, especially under Lenin and Stalin was no picnic, but it scared the West shitless, thus forcing it to concede rights, benefits, and legislature to labour movements, to prevent full-scale communism. Social democracy, as an institution, can credit much of its existence to the communist revolution.

People with power over you never give anything up, unless they are scared. Violent revolutions tend to make neighboring oligarchs quite scared.
Yeah I wonder if this will affect midMarket street development. To the chagrin of pols they might have promise further breaks to attract marquee tenants/HQs to these sorts of areas.
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But then, they cut the heart of the book out to stash warez.
Personally, I find it pretty funny how this "work that can only be done well in person, in an office" can suddenly be done remotely no problem when the government mandates that everybody stays home.

This was exactly what happened with my company. When I was hired, three people in the interview process stated explicitly that remote work was not an option, and don't even ask.

Then when the state shut down, suddenly it was perfectly fine for hundreds of people to take their work computers home.
> You need also to password protect your BIOS so that first device in boot order is hard disk and settings cannot be changed (without BIOS password).

You also have to make sure your BIOS can't be reset by removing the battery, doesn't have some administrative bypass or even a reset jumper. I've even seen a BIOS that reset to default boot settings when you remove all disks - and then gleefully boots from any attached USB disk.
"Basic Economics" was also very effective for clearing misconceptions I held.
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In addition to what others have mentioned, it is also the step up from their free and cross platform Garage Band application. It is an easy way to build lock-in on those stepping up from novice/hobby users into a professional daw without losing control of the soft-synth voice control from one platform to the next.
Since you pointed out the screen options, this is one of the biggest thing stopping me from getting a non-MacBook: 4K is way too high-res and sucking too much battery and FHD is to coarse for a 13-14" screen. Apple hit a sweet spot with their Retina displays.
This has about as much truth to it as people who say "perks are just to make you stay at the office longer!".

i.e. it's typically not a problem and can be very beneficial to the worker.
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This was inevitable after the SEC got involved.
"Accidentally" collected network packets (including traffic on the network, websites being visited, etc)..... whoops!
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I don't think any book has had an immediately noticeable effect, but looking back to books I read years ago I can to some degree tell which ones are still resonating.

The Demon Haunted World (Carl Sagan) — although I was already a skeptical thinker, this book opened me up to how critical thinking can enhance your spiritual side as well as your intellectual side.

Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter) — this book added color to a lot my intuitions about the deeper connections of patterns we see throughout reality.

Truth & Power (Michel Foucault) — I'm not a fan of most so-called continental philosophy, but Foucault's ideas about cultural structures has always stuck with me.

The Allegory of the Cave (Plato; section in The Republic) — classic; some might say the basic idea underpinning all philosophical and scientific inquiry.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein) — I'll admit I never quite understood this book from reading it, but it definitely changed how I thought about philosophy, consciousness and spirituality.

Charles Sanders Peirce essays — it's been a long time, so I don't remember the specific texts, but he did fascinating work in semiotics. One essay in particular was critical in how I think about communication and consciousness.

Fact, Fiction, Forecast (Nelson Goodman) — Goodman is brilliant and is great at relaying philosophical problems as puzzles. He's a great writer and turns the problem of induction on its head in this one.

Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) — I don't read a lot of fiction, but this book is amazing. There's a lot of history, so you may need to keep an encyclopedia nearby, but this one will really get you thinking about how the autonomy of memes. Probably quite relevant at the moment.

Any number of books and essays by great analytic philosophers: Saul Kripke, W.V.O. Quine, Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper, Carl Hempel, John Campbell, David Chalmers, Thomas Nagel, Hilary Putnam, Jerry Fodor, Dan Dennett, David Lewis, etc.
I don't think it's particularly inscrutable.

Pay a wage which is high enough to attract the talent that you need and which still leaves the company with a profit at the end. If there's a wide range that satisfies both of these conditions (and in markets with minimum wages, is legal to pay), then choose to offer a pay rate that best balances getting/keeping the talent you want vs the profitability.

If someone else can do my same job as effectively as me for half the rate, I'd expect my company to switch, just the same way as I'd happily take a 1/2 off coupon on the purchase of my next car, house, computer, or even groceries.
I don’t think that’s what he is talking about here though. And note, his point about the multiple files isnt even a complaint.

As someone who worked with Ember in the past (our company inherited a new product with an acquisition so we were forced to change tech stacks), this comment really comes from the fact that Ember has a very comprehensive file layout system. And one of the major criticisms about Ember classic was how different core pieces for the same component, were located in so many distant folders (hence the comment about colocation of component code, which seems trivial, but is a huge usability gain IMO).

I think that sentence should be read more as a reflection on Ember, than suggesting the author does not think React components can be broken into multiple files, and hence an indication of their knowledge of react.
Wowowow! I've only read the FREE first chapter so far, but honestly, I'm pretty hooked. If the rest of the book is as useful and well-written as the first chapter (which I suspect it is) then the price is a steal. Following this book's advice in writing your own tech articles will earn you your money back from buying it within a couple of weeks.

Well done philipkiely!
I remember that comment. I’ve quoted that story a number of times.
I don't understand. Intel has ME, AMD has PSP, neither makes any particular effort to support libreboot (although I'm pretty sure coreboot can work with both if the manufacturer wants, because Chromebooks do that). Unless you believe that Intel is more open, why would you prefer it? It appears to me that they're equally security-unfriendly, but with AMD at least winning on price and performance.
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Only 6.4% of Americans got a high school diploma in 1900.
It looks as if Durov wants to distance himself and Telegram from the cryptocurrency subproject, in connection with the latest claims of regulatory authorities.
Both. However, I end up iteratively developing and refactoring.

> What is the right way?
I would like to know too. I suspect experience gives you insight into a design that will likely work.
I always tell people that if you can invest in a retirement account in your 20s, you'll have 50 years for it to increase in value. (And now with the stock market down, you could even start off with a big bounce in the next recovery...)

You can also withdraw from these retirement accounts early for first-home purchases and medical emergencies. And some employers will even match your contributions, which one financial advisor described to me as "free money."
Yes! That's definitely older. Thanks for finding it :)
> I would also say that even for people that can work remotely, low income may mean worse environment for work at home. Even with three kids I was able to quickly repurpose one of the rooms for home office and get everything needed to work comfortably from home.

I would think that working from home all the time as a matter of course (as opposed to being forced to, like during a pandemic) would allow lower income people to live further from the expensive cities and, arguably, in much better conditions.

I know that if I could WFH full time I could move to the suburbs (or even to a smaller city) and live in a house bigger and cheaper than my current flat.
Something similar happened in the US where numbers of students in CS went up over time. However, academic fraud has not been as big of a problem as it is in India.

An Indian friend of mine said that IIT is good but hardly anyone can get in and the caste system dictates admissions policies anyway so many people try to get engineering degrees from schools with lax standards. The professors are completely unqualified, according to her, and people have to pay more to learn the material from off-campus tutors but not everyone can afford that.

I think this should be the focus is ending academic fraud rather than some of these other issues. That could do a lot of good. Here is a reference to a story I found that corroborates what I was told.[1]

[1]:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/UGC-probe-f...
Interesting - do you predict that bay area residential housing prices will go up?

I would have guessed folks would just start leaving...
A lot of those tests were people not presenting with COVID-19 symptoms though. Think of all the asymptomatic people who were getting tested; that group had a much lower test positivity rate than 55%, thus bringing the average down. For people who had all the right symptoms, it was higher than 55%.
If I could work remotely, I would gladly take a 30% cut to go live somewhere like the Netherlands. 50% cost of living cut from SF. I could actually have a woodworking shop too!
True.. if your last interaction with TIBCO was c. 2005. Back then consistency issues were a real challenge with VMs, “ESB” was a real software category with transactional messaging as a pattern (I make it a practice to not judge customer preference on how they use our tools)

Today you will find even our traditional brokered messaging products like EMS lifted and shifted on AWS/Azure infra.

OTOH, if you are building new apps - you‘re likely to deploy TIBCO’s integration or stream apps / pipelines using Flogo/Pulsar/Kafka on k8s-lambda-gcr or on a fully managed service on cloud.tibco.com.

(Source / Disclaimer: I do product stuff over at TIBCO Software. Happy to chat if there are further qns: rkozhikk<remove-this-at>tibco<dot>com)
I’ve worked from home for a number of years. It’s all about having a normal schedule. My family knows when I’m in the office, I am at work. There isn’t anyone popping over my shoulder, and general interruptions are almost nil in my case.

I think a lot of people are going to be super surprised what a quiet room and your playlist of choice can do to increase productivity. Just my 2 cents.
Skype was Estonian, not Swiss.
Or full software solution for PlayStation is Remote Play.
Isn't it the same pretty much everywhere? E.g UK, US, even in China? Companies hiring "ex" government figures for lobbying?

You try to imply that EU is kinda root of all evil.

>> A top official has been poached by Facebook from the UK’s media watchdog, the Office of Communications (Ofcom).

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/uk-media-watch...

>> Warren Singles Out U.S. Officials for Moving to C-Suite Jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/warren-pr...
Author here. At the last two companies I've worked at we really needed—and didn't have—a solution for spinning up throwaway Kubernetes clusters that we could use for testing and development. Krucible is an attempt to solve that problem.

We've just released a really cool feature called Snapshots that allows you to image a running Kubernetes cluster, including the state of all applications, and then create new clusters from that image. It's great for creating consistent development environments or quick starting test environments.

Happy to answer any questions people might have.
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I have the same speculations re: why, so far, they have been so reluctant to do so.

As for why now? I believe it's simply because now that peons have had a taste of WFH and all its benefits (and realized everything you enumerated), it will become one of the most desired "benefit" in a job. It was a massive leap forward from WFH being a "nice to have" to a "must have" to even be considered by a lot of candidates.
Warez on minidiscs [1], even! And long before Hi-MD, which suggests some kind of acoustic steganography resilient to ATRAC compression.

For all the interest that went into Simulacra among the writing and production crew, I feel like it's not without significance, accidental or otherwise, that that was the book selected to be hollowed out for Neo's shelf safe, to have its substance removed in order to make a place for the stuff of the movie moment in which it appeared...

[1] https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_a...
Try to contact all your contacts and tell them that your Skype account have been hacked. Also don't give away any personal details unless you are 100% sure you are dealing with the official support.
Your account will likely be used to scam your friends and family. If you have your voice online somewhere they can fake it, or just use the chat to impersonate you. Your personal details and chat history will make it very convincing.

Hi, this is Samnwa, your brother, we talking yesterday about xyz, how is that going? btw, could you help me login to my bank, can't find my key card, can I use yours? Cool, alright, Just enter this number... Ooops I entered it wrong, lets try this number...
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Previously: "SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering" (7 months ago, 201 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21228415

“We allege that the defendants have failed to provide investors with information regarding Grams and Telegram’s business operations, financial condition, risk factors, and management that the securities laws require.”

“Telegram seeks to obtain the benefits of a public offering without complying with the long-established disclosure responsibilities designed to protect the investing public.”
I don't think all of them will -- it's probably significant that Twitter was already thinking about this. However, I know my CEO never would have run this experiment without the pandemic. Now, he has data he didn't have before, and he's publicly said that this changed his mind.

The trigger event was the forced experiment. Studies convinced me, but I don't have to take responsibility for the health of a whole company so it's easier for me to advocate for risks. Seeing how your company actually behaves in a 100% WFH world is better evidence than a study.
Further, the extent to which material quality of life has improved since the industrial revolution implies that the drop in prices has exceeded the drop in wages by orders of magnitude.
His analogy is pretty poor IMO. A more realistic analogy is: imagine if a group of people got together and bought a plot of land to mine gold. Then imagine these people told all of their friends that they had a gold mine and were willing to split the output of the gold mine with all of their friends for just $10k/piece.

Now imagine the government said: hey, you don't even know if there's gold on that land, but you're promising your investors that there is. And not only are they telling us we can't sell part of our non-existent gold to our friends, we can't sell it to people ANYWHERE.

Sound completely unfair? Government overstep? We aren't allowed to sell people something that doesn't exist?
Yes the comma two https://comma.ai/shop/products/comma-two-devkit. If you have a newer Honda, Toyota etc. you can try it in real life !

Won't be working on your Aviato car, I am sorry :)
(Note: IANAL) Especially with the strict time limits before you go into assisted living/nursing home. If you do estate docs/structure too late, you can lose the estate to Medicare/Medicaid. Also, some states have "Filial responsibility laws" which are another wrinkle.
Houses get cleaned and other service jobs get done in suburbs too.
I don't understand why? Salaries are high because you're competing for the same small group of talented people. They aren't high due to the location.
Rationalize it however you like, the conclusion you jumped to using your cherry picked numbers above is off by an order of magnitude.
It is 100% accidental. He registered a domain he observed being queried from his analysis system. He did not figure out what the purpose of this domain was before registering it. One of three options:

- Act as a centralised C2.

- Act as a kill-switch (this is what happened)

- Act as a dead-man-trigger, destroying the host system.

Even if the third option is not as likely as the first one, the repercussions had he been wrong would have been severe.
They are basically blocking USD competitors. This makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Update: The SEC statement makes more sense than my original comment :)
I think there is still a lack of things like white boarding tools. I haven’t seen anything that could replace a big whiteboard.

Also webcam images generally look horrible. I am sure something could be done about that.

Better microphones and speakers in laptops would help. Better suppression of background noises like kids would help.

I think there are a lot of little things that could improve tools a lot.
Another unsolicited recommendation in a similar vein: Edith Sheffer's "Burned Bridge" (https://www.amazon.com/Burned-Bridge-East-Germans-Curtain/dp...).

It's similar in that it offers a somewhat unconventional lens to history, this time applied to the Cold War. As Americans, we often think of the East-West German divide in terms of Soviet and American interests, politicians, and international intrigue.

Yet, for "normal" Germans living in otherwise "normal" towns, the arbitrary partitioning of their country along hastily-drawn lines was an event that had to be integrated into their daily lives. We often think of history in top-down ways (i.e. FDR and Stalin decided that X would happen, and so it did). This book really subverts that narrative, and instead presents a brilliantly-researched and significantly chaotic reality. You come away thinking that the iron curtain was not an inevitable thing, but rather the result of frequent misunderstandings and breakdowns in effective communication, and the inability of distanced leaders to assume good intent.

For me, it changed my default perspective on how borders and bureaucratic systems work, and what role law and top-down decision making (good, bad, influential and negligible) has in everyday life, especially in moments of big change.

It's tangentially relevant to the coronavirus, where big bureaucracies are trying to flex into everyday life. It gives you some intuition of where we should expect these efforts to succeed, and where we can expect it to fail.
Restaurants didn't previously have to pay this 30% charge on everything they make, because they had dine-in to balance it. Margins were already razor thin, and then the virus hit and now the only way to do business is to fork over 30% of your income to a third party, whose value add is likely not 30%.
I had a similar experience! My grandfather was a Phd in bio from Harvard so I had his library to peruse. My favorite difficult book was Biology and Knowledge by Jean Piaget.
I was wondering why remote work is sometimes so difficult for me, even though I've been doing it for years.

Turns out I needed to let in some fresh air more often.

Getting to 1000ppm of CO2 is remarkably easy in a room with 25 cubic metres of volume.
Yes, agreed. In fact, the first example I can think of is the Michelson stellar interferometer at the Mount Wilson Observatory, which was in operation in 1920.

However, there has been a major push recently to circumvent the limitations of optically connecting the telescope arrays; there are a few different approaches, of which I'm not aware of any fatal flaws. Seems likely it's a matter of time and physics and engineering; very difficult, but achievable.

See for example:
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/51042/Tegmark...
Yah that makes a lot of sense. I am a guitarist buy 90%+ of the time I play acoustic.
I just found this very relevant history:

1799 The first quarantine station and hospital in America was built in 1799 at the port of Philadelphia after a yellow fever outbreak in 1793.

1878 The National Quarantine Act was passed in 1878, shifting quarantine powers from state to federal government.

1944 The Public Health Service Act formed the federal government’s quarantine authority in 1944.

1967 CDC (National Communicable Disease Center) took over federal quarantine functions in 1967.

1970s CDC reduced the number of quarantine stations from 55 to 8 because infectious diseases were thought to be a thing of the past.

2004–2007 Number of quarantine stations increased to 20 because of concerns about bioterrorism after World Trade Center attack in 2001 and worldwide spread of disease after SARS outbreak in 2003.

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantine-stations-us.html

So fighting pandemics officially became a function of the federal government almost a century and a half ago.
Behavioural cloning, doesnt work in the real world ! I use path and lane detection
At least in colonial and the early United States the colleges were originally heavily oriented to training the clergy. Medical training came later, and lawyers for some time were trained by being apprenticed to practicing lawyers, e.g. Abraham Lincoln.

Post Civil War, the four-year liberal arts education took on the role of finishing school for the children of the upper middle class. Vocational training was unnecessary, since they were expected to return, suitable spouse in tow, to the family business. The education, to the extent that it mattered, was to provide them with background for their role as leaders in society.

Students preparing for science, engineering, and the other grubbier majors were looked down upon, particularly the students from the lower classes on scholarship.
Many restaurants and small chains have direct order websites, or middleman sites that charge much less. Check for that first.
Downward pressure on bay area burbs because of people leaving, but upwards pressure potentially due to the exodus of SF as people start to want more separation from people. Time will tell.
Libra is allowed to exist though. Or I suppose it doesn't compete with USD as it will be tied to fiat?
The reason Apple keeps Logic is they generally have a strategy of trickling down features from big pro apps to smaller consumer apps. Logic -> GarageBand, Final Cut -> iMovie, Xcode -> Swift Playgrounds.

The AVID idea doesn’t make much sense as Logic and Final Cut are already integrated into their product lines. I think there’s a certain amount of truth to the brand prestige argument, but I think the more important point is that these capabilities are actually core to Apple's product strategy, they just manifest themselves in unintuitive ways. E.g., Apple's AUv3 strategy would never have worked without GarageBand and GarageBand is Logic.
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but now the poor people have to commute to the suburbs completely negating the environmental benefits lol
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