skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't they increase the cost of all items, and then provide a 30% reduction on direct orders.

Isn't that why discount for cash exists at gas stations etc? To get around these sorts of policies from the credit card companies.
Also from Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed.

Not mind bending for someone who spent some time trying to imagine a anarchist society (but still quite enriching), but maybe for others.
Ask HN: What do you do with stock options underperforming the underlying stock?
The company I work for went public and my strike price is higher than the current price in the market. The real stock probably won't reach that strike price in a long time--if ever, so they're essentially worthless, and will be for a long time. So my question is: what do you do here? At least before we were public, they would use stock options as an incentive because they MIGHT be worth something. But now they're actually worth jack. New employees probably get RSUs that actually amount to a real value, while the older employees are stuck with worthless options.

Have you ever been in this position? How do you negotiate/reason about it?
> Both emails encouraged me to contact customer support. I did so only to be met with a request to fill out an online form with an incredible amount of personal information to verify the account. Why would I provide 10X the personal info (...)?

This by itself looks like a phishing attack. Did you click a link to Skype support in the second email message or find it by yourself going to the Skype website and browsing around?
It wasn't people following Protools: it was Protools chasing the chasing markets that had already started to leave.
It isn't so much that colors in paintings such as this fade, as it is that the varnish becomes opaque and occludes the colors beneath. Environmental factors, dust, and such contribute to how you see the colors, but they haven't gone away.

Much of the work of conservation is actually removing the varnish and re-varnishing it. They make photographs like this to help determine -how much- varnish should be removed, and to hedge against damage in the process. Often they must re-apply colors when the removal causes flakes or disturbs unknown faults in the structure of the painting.
I have a feeling a lot of companies will follow suit. It saves up huge costs in real-estate by not having to provide seats to people.
It also might just open up more companies to hire from any time zone.
Here's my list:

* Read any book you want

* Don't read books that you don't want to

* Get on with your life
Which Inheritance Pattern Does Grickle-Grass Display for Height? ______
Bernardo Kastrup's - Why Materialism Is Baloney
30% may not seem unreasonable to you as a customer and from the perspective of paying the delivery driver, but it can be deadly for the restaurant. Restaurant margins are low as it is, and an extra 30% cost on every order puts a lot of them in the negative.

You can argue that is a free market and restaurants are free to not participate if the cost is too high. Some do, at least some of the popular local spots around me are NOT on any delivery app. But most restaurants also can’t afford to not have this sales channel, especially during COVID. So now they are left in the shitty position of choosing between losing a lot of their orders and losing money on a lot of orders and hope dine in comes back soon.
Hi! Luna team here.

I'm really sorry to hear you had a poor experience with Luna Display. We do support both the iPad keyboard and Mini DisplayPort so I'd be happy to try to get this figured out for you.

You can contact me directly matt@astropad.com and we'll get thing sorted!
This is a very specific question but... Stoner by John Williams is one of my favorite books. It was also more difficult for me to read than other books I typically pick up which are primarily sci-fi and NYT bestseller fiction books.

When I read the Wiki for Stoner years ago I saw this line, "Bryan Appleyard's review quotes critic D.G. Myers saying that the novel was a good book for beginners in the world of "serious literature"". I looked up D.G. Myers and to see if he had a list of serious literature or a twitter where I could ask about such a list only to find he passed away in 2014.

Does anyone know of such a list? Googling provides results but nothing... conclusive.
Not the person you responded to, but my $0.02.

Developer: codes websites and apps.

Programmer: writes computer code. Encompasses developers.

Engineer: builds bridges, rockets, cars, missiles, smart tvs, gaming consoles, computers, power stations, electric infrastructure, water treatment plants, etc.
What founders can learn from pre-internet era businesses – Madam C. J. Walker
NPM v7 Series – Introduction
They flat-out denied they shared executives until it came out in the paradise papers. [1]

[1] https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/paradise...
> Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Keith Johnstone)

second this. I stumbled over it few months ago and keep thinking that I must re-read it soon. love it
It's not just the 30%, though. One restaurant's monthly statement[0] showed them not quite breaking even after all of the fees and charges were applied.

That said, I completely agree with the rest of your comment. We just don't want to pay what things are worth.

[0] https://www.eater.com/2020/5/1/21243966/giuseppe-badalamenti...
I'm totally sincere. But don't let that influence you. Be rational.

When something seems ambiguous you need to shed your biases and follow the logic and evidence. Read what I wrote in my response and both dispute and reason about the logic and evidence behind it. If you find the logic to be correct then we're good, if you find it to be incorrect then both of our premises are logically flawed.
Quality is ranking things or people by their properties. Things that suck at their job can still be ranked.

You have to balance the idea and quantity of a piece to describe it's properties. Then you can rank it into a hierarchy. The UK runs on this principle of reception and qualitative judgement.

Turning the brain off with "peace of mind" is necessary, can't be thinking up new ideas and directing thoughts when you are in a state of reception, nor can you be excessively self-aware of your own being.

I haven't read Zen, it seems boring to be in that state of reception all the time, to me.
I completely agree with what you said. One important consideration is how companies like Uber have contributed to a lack of support for workers who are laid off. Uber in particular has failed to pay billions of dollars into states' unemployment insurance funds.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11812496/uber-and-lyft-arent-payin...
Nah, I think he is pointing out that if more remote work becomes the norm, urban areas will see an exodus to more rural, cheaper areas to live, and the demand for living spaces will decrease lowering the costs of rent in urban areas where most poor people live.
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter
It's presented in a very non conventional way, but teaches you to think about many problems in a more "first principles" way, and connects real world problems with more abstract idea. I have read it well into my CS career and it was still worth it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
When Apple vs. PC wars first started, PC won because of software. It’s a lesson Steve learned which is probably still guides their thinking. This is why there is numbers, keynotes, Pages, etc.

Apple still wants to empower the creative community with Finalcut Logic. To ensure if you’re a creator there is a software to support you on the Mac platform.
The credential's value doesn't go down for the entity seeking someone with the credential. The value only goes down for the person who has the credential IF they were deriving value from the exclusivity of the credential.

In other words, the value one gets from the exclusivity of a credential is separate from the practical value of having the credential.

The value from the exclusivity is bound to decrease as a population recognizes that value and rush to claim some of that for themselves which in turn diminishes that value for everyone.

As the value of the exclusivity is removed, the true value of the credential is discovered.
Yes, in English we fully adopted the formal which is "You" for both formal / informal speech. The familiar / informal was "Thou" - which is a bit weird because now we think of "Thou" as being a bit formal because it is so old-fashioned.
a nintendo handheld can be cracked by following a guide, to then play any game released for it. this will require a $100-200 console.

for older consoles like the nintendo ds, you can emulate, like dolphin emulator for pc. i can even emulate a ps2 on my beefed up gaming pc. nevermind that though, any modern laptop or pc should be able to handle nintendo ds games on an emulator. i think that'd be a good start for you. in fact, even android phones can emulate it.
That's a scary amount of information which is being asked of you. Are you sure the site asking for it is a genuine Microsoft asset?
Preparing for an Exit – Improving Your Business Hygiene
I have to concur with the other comments. I got a Luna USB-C key right before Apple announced sidecar and back then I was pretty bummed I spent the money on something I would not have any use for anymore once Catalina would be out. Turns out sidecar doesn't nearly work as well as Luna Display. Sidecar loses on all things that matter: image quality, user friendliness, responsiveness, stability. The only thing it wins on is price, hard to compete with free.

I recently found another use case for my Luna display by the way, when I wanted to play some real-money online poker in the garden (shelter in place makes you want to do things like that ;-). Apple does not allow gambling applications on iOS, and screen sharing Pokerstars on my Mac Mini using VNC was a really shitty experience. So what I do now is start the Luna app on the Mac Mini, connect the iPad to it, then take it out into the garden (which has its own wifi AP) and put it on full screen. Responsiveness and touch control are excellent that way.
Thanks, do you have a recommended product?
I picked a rig that freelancers using Redshift and the like buy to 'render faster'. I hang out on the resp. Discord servers a lot where these things get discussed. So from what I read there this comparison is spot on as far as the current market goes.
I wonder, does this automatically turn off if the system that’s running it messes up?
Also, in that case, if someone were to screw up GPS navigation or sensors, it would crash. Someone could fake a set of objects making the car take a modified prediction path, like “Virtual” barriers.
Then, another worry, if all that can be avoided 100%, there’s still driver input. The driver should have the last say in what’s going on. Much like how a tesla alerts you rapidly as it’s predicting, Incase it’s prediction is wrong, thus, you SHOULD BE WATCHING, even if it’s “Autonomous”

I’m sure the Tesla’s that have crashed have crashed because someone was able to remotely hack one. Which is why tesla sues someone for a ALOT if they hack their algorithm
Dolby Launches Dolby.io, a New Media API Platform for Developers
ah yes,

google, facebook and amazon have clearly died from their acquisitions as well.
I think that's the actual complaint: the stone squeezing is happening at the expense of everyone but the customer or Grubhub. It'd be more sustainable for the actual businesses or the delivery persons if Grubhub took less of a cut or charged more of a delivery premium. (Implied: I value the sustainability of restaurants as more important than preserving the convenience/luxury of food delivery, and for edge cases where it's more of a necessity I'm sure we can come up with ways to address that.)
30% is totally reasonable for the cost of delivery. As you point out people hate paying for delivery in spite of the marked increase in cost/service.
Where things get complicated here is that a lot of takeout services will require businesses to offer items at the same price given to pickup/takeout orders. This constrains the restaurant's pricing while providing a large benefit to the delivery service. If the restaurant could just charge 30% more for people using the delivery service then fine. Instead they need to either make take out customers pay more which usually means making your neighbors and long term customers pay more to subsidize a large well funded company.
Hope Bangalore restores it's lakes as well, it would be nice to have a state/national level policy to ensure that we don't endanger our water bodies and reserves.
I agree with this and it makes me chuckle to think about how much Google has distorted outer world view. A tech company isn’t nuking their legacy software!? I’m shocked!
We hear you. We agree this was a mistake, and over the ~three years since then we've listened to the community, for example by releasing local processing for Kite.
They followed up the SLAM with a SUPLEX off the TOP ROPE.
Faster (To Code) If Statements
A few more, in this case, games that fit the relaxing element really well:

A Short Hike - PC/Linux/Mac you hike up a mountain and, discover things and people along the way.

Journey - PS4 game in which you travel through a beautiful dessert landscape.
> A person’s “preferred name” is their name, their “legal name” is something else, and it’s our duty as software engineers not to muddle the two up.

I strongly disagree, having dealt first-hand with the fallout of identity fraud. These escape hatches negate the purpose of names. The problem with storing "legal" names is the custodial burden of storing any personally identifying information; however, the benefit of dealing with a bona fide person may outweigh the cost.

In the case of an academic institution, it is completely reasonable to use a legal name as the standard. If a person doesn't like their name, then the onus today is on them to change it. This article doesn't propose any constructive alternative, that maintains the integrity of the academic system which is relied upon, in an important way, for things like visas, scholarships, and employment.

The preachy disagreeable manner that this article was written in doesn't help. The appeal to collective cause indicates a defective and illogical mode of thinking. The argument as presented lacks a logical basis, instead trying to appeal to emotion through example and anecdote. Who is this person, to dictate my duty? And furthermore to decide the meaning of basic terms, such as what a name is?

No thanks.
Silas Marner by George Elliot. Changed the way I parent my children.
I'm fully OK with the distinction because of the licensing process and strict requirements on engineer-certified work, but as someone with a CS degree from a Canadian university I can tell you with confidence that my friends in the software engineering pathway had probably 90% the same course load as I did.

Really the only major difference at our university (IMO) was that they had a capstone project they did as a group and took two semesters, while mine was done individually and took one semester.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm. Dillard has a way with words that is both eloquent and a little violent, and she influenced how I write just as much as Strunk and White's Elements of Style.

Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach for its captivating presentation of some very complicated ideas (at least to the 17 year old kid who read this for the first time). This book was published around the time that I was growing from hobby programming to writing software as a career, and it exposed me to non-trivial proofs, LISP, and recursion in general.

Vernor Vinge's The Peace War. It's a bit stupid, but . . . I want to make the tech in this book become reality :-) Bobbles are sheer fantasy, of course, but the Tinker tech stack would be a lot of fun.
Like it or not, Google and Facebook are becoming the leading patrons of news
In my experience most people use them interchangeably with no distinction between them. The only time I've seen anyone show disdain for one term vs another is here on HN.

I've never cared what people refer to me as, and I've never seen anyone voice a preference for it among people I've interacted with.

I call myself a Software Engineer, because pretty much every job title I've had has used that term.
Anybody know what this is supposed to be called in Chinese? The article just shows four question marks. (I thought it was an encoding error at first, but after curling the page and inspecting the character byte sequences, it looks like they're really just question marks.)
Engineers are typically required to have a license, have agreed to some code of ethics, and typically will have a membership in a professional organization. Like mechanical engineers and the SME, or electronic engineers and the IEEE.
> unjust laws in the past that were enforced regularly that we look very much down on today

What else would they be referring to, besides perhaps the internment of Japanese Americans, Jim Crow, or other laws that have absurdly little in common with the shelter in place ordinance that's keeping Tesla's factory temporarily closed?
Wow that’s a great talk. Thanks for sharing!
Ha! I saw that book at a book store, skimmed it, and laughed because the author (perhaps unknowingly) has actually written a manual of basic spirituality!
I'm suspicious of any attempt to place so much importance on the name of a degree. I'm not even convinced there's a meaningful distinction that can be made between the two. Computer science topics like finite state machines are central to software engineering, and engineering ideas around correctness, safety and reliability form the basis of a lot of CS research.
I suggested Toni Morrison and held without a doubt that she was the greatest living writer until her passing last year. She'll likely always hold that top spot in my mind, no one can compare. Go read "Sula" or "Song of Solomon" or "Beloved" or "The Bluest Eye". Her work will make you a better human.
A remote desktop connection is not anything a million other programs don't provide, and doesn't replace any of the reasons I use a vpn.
This article is all over the place, with some elements of truth. The essence is that Indian universities don't provide good education - that's been known for decades now. This is reflected in how many Indians have been going for higher education to Western universities for decades.

> There are currently more than 3,500 engineering schools across the country, and about 90% of graduates do not have the programming skills to work in software engineering

That's because there are non computer science graduates as well?

> In India, you need a ‘traditional degree’ before you pursue your passion,” he said. “And that degree in almost all cases is engineering.”

Not true, this depends on the region. Engineering is way more prominent in South India than the rest of the country.

> With programmers everywhere, annual salaries for entry-level jobs have remained at around $4,500 for the better part of a decade

This is referring to the outsourcing companies I'm assuming. Ironically, majority of intake of the outsourcing companies are graduates whose major is not computer science. So the presence of "programmers" should not have an impact on the other engineers.
Sadly where I live during covid times this is not allowed :(

Some places, like bakeries and ice cream store can let people pick up orders, but food trucks for example can't, they must operate with doors (and windows in case of food trucks) closed and only send orders with delivery services of some kind.

And yes, delivery companies are expensive, a food truck owner I often chat with about business told me iFood charges them 30% of the total value, some restaurants then opt to have high food price, others just charge a lot for the delivery service, even then they might lose money (for example of they charge 5, but you buy only low margin dishes that cost 100, they lose money)
GeoPandas
The Beginning of Infinity, by David Deutsch. It talks about the kinds of ideas that lead to progress vs stagnation at the level of individuals and societies.
Feel Pat Cadigan's work might be a candidate, but agree
They're considered the same nowadays mostly because they've been doing overlapping jobs. Even worse, 'entrepreneur' is something that tells me absolutely nothing concrete about what the guy does.

But to come to your point, in my mind - an engineer is the one who designs the software, a programmer is the one who actually writes good code to make that design a reality, and a developer is a blanket term for someone who does both (or more) jobs.
Tracking Covid Tracking Apps
Laptops and smart phones are everywhere these days, regardless of income level, so accessing remote work is not a problem. I think the only reason remote work might hurt low income people is due to lack of business owners taking advantage of available remote workers.
Those services will be there no matter what, true. And yes you can use it to discover new restaurant. But YOU, as an individual, can decide to not use them. Another thing I suggest is for you to ask the manager / owner of the small restaurant you frequently order from. Just ask point blank, would you rather me ordering it through the app or ordering through the phone. Based on their answer, you might actually change your mind.

At the end of the day, would I rather give 30% away to Uber, or would I rather pay directly the restaurant. I prefer encouraging small business, especially RIGHT NOW!
Yep. Combined with the requirement for fresh ginger juice it would seem the best protocol would be to dissolve sugar in warm (for easier dissolving) milk in a jar, let it cool to room temp, squeeze the ginger directly in the milk, stir, seal, put in a 62.5C sous vide.
Every time there's an article on hn highlighting how a vulnerable/at risk/marginalized group of people is being put further at risk the typical response is exactly yours: selfish instead of charitable.

They're not miserable people simply because you don't get to have another luxury. They're circumspect and compassionate for not simply being complacent and instead exploring all of the effects. You do realize the authors themselves benefit from remote work right?

Guess what: if the world is going to improve for poor people then we rich people are going to have to forgo some luxuries; reagonomics/"rising tide raises all ships" doesn't work (how well are the poor people in SF doing?). Casting aspersions on people (authors here) for sounding the alarms on yet another impending structural shift that will further weaken the poor is a special kind of immoral.
This should have a label of (2019) -- article is nearly 5 months old now.
Look at someone like Billie Eilish and her Apple Music-exlusive content. Obviously not literally "rock", but becoming a global star is still very much a thing.
Providing remote control options is probably the first step to automating the last 10%, too. Once the control and feedback channels are completely digital, it’s just a matter of time until the decision-making is too, at least for jobs where wrong decisions are not too costly.
So what about this:

- Copy GRUB, bootlines for your system, your kernel and initrd to a WORM media like a bootable CD-ROM.

- Boot using CD-ROM.

- When boot completes, remove the CD-ROM.

Now you can't attack my boot kernel or boot process because I've just physically separated it from the system and taken it with me. Even if it was there, the media is read only so you can't modify it.

If I need to upgrade, I need to burn a new CD. CDs are cheap.

Using actual CDs would be impractical for many users, but a parallel could be implemented on a system with micro-SD card readers supporting removeable media and a physical read/write or connection switch. Which, if we're talking about physical switches for camera and mic, why not boot files?
Pat Cadigan's book Fools has some truly bending sections
Do you remember any cool examples of an algorithm bazooka?
Coding in Stenography, Quick Demo [video]