skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, taking things ad absurdum in either direction will lead to catastrophe.

The perspective of MMT is that government can and should tax out money at a rate that keeps the economy from inflating beyond the scope of our control, and inject it at a rate that sustains the velocity of capital. Making this perspective the dominant one in discourse, however, would require a lot more public trust in government before people got comfortable with the idea of governments taxing us for our benefit.
And MPEG (through MPEG-LA) has long been known to be fairly active in litigating (or facilitating litigation) of the patents they administer.
Everyone _may_ be a bot.
A friend used to have a great ebay sideline in reselling poorly listed items at a higher price.

He'd search for reasonably high value items that had been listed with spelling mistakes in the name so that they didn't show up in searches, or showed up too far down the results to be noticed. He'd then buy them and immediately on winning the auction, re-list the same item but without the spelling mistakes.

His secret trick was using a copy/paste of the text and images from the historically highest priced listing that had sold for that same item, which ebay made it easy to search for. By the time it arrived in the post, he'd already sold it on at a higher price to someone else. He just relabelled the packages, sent them on and pocketed the difference.
> or to design a system where it's clawed back through paycheques.

It would be no different than e.g. the existing payroll tax, or income tax withholding. You'd just notice it as a reduction in your paycheck. And if your income is high enough, the UBI can simply be a tax credit.
Thanks a lot for the helping hand!
>Why shouldn’t I as an advertiser not be allowed to choose which content I want my products to be associated with?

That's easy, because the law I propose will decree so.

As for the moral reasoning, because (a) advertisers are scum, and (b) they should not have powers over content publication. The same reason advertisers putting a billboard don't get to dictate what cars can and cannot pass by it.

>It amazes me how willing HN posters are willing to give up power to the government.

I'm all for giving power to the government, which people vote for, and have established mechanisms to control, instead of private interests that talk by throwing money.

If anything, my problem with government is that enough of it is dictated by those same interests (lobbys, private interests, advertisers, etc) as opposed by the voters directly. But that's another thing to solve, and giving more power to those interests is the opposite of the solution.
The sum of annual subscriptions across all newspapers I'm interested in is exorbitant.

What if I could pay on a per-article basis? I wouldn't have a problem paying 50¢ or $1.00 for an article I was interested in. It's not practical for each publisher to set up micro-payments. But, if there were an intermediate agent that accepted and managed payments for individual random articles, the money could be aggregated and remitted in a lump sum to the publishers. Sort of like an old-fashioned news stand.

What the newspaper business needs is a middleman who will collect micro-payments from me and millions of others, aggregate the money, charge my credit card once a month, and pay each publication weekly or monthly for the collective readers who have selected articles.

The middleman could accept PayPal payments, or I could open an account with my credit card, and pay once a month for all the individual articles I have read.

There is a Website called Blendle that proposes to do this. However, only a subset of articles are available. Publishers are reserving the prime content for full subscribers, and leaving Blendle with the crumbs. That's not going to work.
> In a sane legal system it would boil down purely to who owns the copyright

Nope. Most countries have rights of image/personal rights in their laws
Existence of competition doesn't stop courts from considering a company to be a monopoly. You could have used a Mac and Netscape in the 90s, but the US went after Microsoft anyway.
Yea, that is not very good for such a wealthy company. Other companies match up to the max allowable with no vesting period.
I'm curious how this plays out in practice. Should every company just start offering bay area salaries to everyone, since bay area salaries are at the top end?

How do you decide what a software engineer salary (since we're talking about pure skill and not location) should be? Is it $30K, $80K, $150K, $400K?

Do you see the problem and why I don't think this will happen?
> good subset of people who dont really care that much about their careers

Caring too much is a bad bargain. The companies don't care too much about you and me
This is no surprise, I commented earlier on this with another company but figured I can re-use it here:

Both me and my Wife's company have pay bands based on geographical region(most employees know nothing about this and most companies employ these salary COL changes for relocation) and certain regions you can take a big pay cut. Say your salary in the bay area is 100k for example, move to the South, say Florida and it typically drops 30%(typically as low as they chop your salary) so your new salary is 70k, Denver area is 15% paycut etc. These numbers change somewhat from company to company but they do exist for most companies and should be factored in.
why does it bother you? you're thinking like some individual laborer in a weirdly abstract sense, not like the person paying them. hint: you aren't paid based on your worth, you're paid based on, in general, the lowest that your employer can afford to pay you to not leave for a competitor.

capital on the aggregate always tries to get labor to work for the lowest possible price that they can. that's why negotiations go on between workers and employers. that's why if you don't negotiate, you get bowled over.

software engineers seem to think that they are this ultra elite labor class whose "value" is somehow tied completely to their intrinsic skills. that all goes out the window when software engineers begrudgingly accept massive pay cuts to take their insanely comfortable salary and lifestyle to a low COL area. that ought to tell you everything you need to know about your intrinsic "value": you lose immense power when you don't live in a place where you can quickly and easily get a job with a competitor.

if software engineers learn anything from this, it's that they are being paid a premium to essentially not change companies.
I really like uMatrix, but I don't want to spend my time tweaking every page I visit before I can use it, that's why I compromise with uBlock Origin. uMatrix is safer but impractical for most people.

I'd be happier if Firefox itself asked for permission before allowing web servers an websockets, but even this wouldn't be terribly helpful, as any authorized website (like agar.io) could then scan you.
It's the same name as https://ulysses.app, which is a very, very good app for writing long-form research articles, thesis etc. I wrote my masters with it. May wish to reconsider the name if you are looking for people to be able to find it.

Nice work, what you have though!
A file format, used by one company, isn't going to change the world.

JPG and PNG are here to stay. Love it or hate it... they are the lowest common denominator for image formats.
How can it be otherwise when it "should be"? I get that it is vexxing to the workers in the high COL area but why would it be done otherwise? How could it even work otherwise within the constraints. The only reason to pay more for higher COL jobs is if they get more utility.
From a UX perspective, they do a little too much "experimentation" which equates to buggy clients but the actual tech is insanely complicated but universally controlled.

They have a C++ layer for each client that binds into Android/iOS/macOS/Windows, etc.

And as for audio and their upcoming video hand in hand with Joe Rogan podcast being an exlusive now, the way they operate in guilds/pods is one of the first examples of this democratized workflow.
Probably not, except when anti-porn laws intersect with this issue:

https://ncac.org/project/youth-free-expression-program/sexti...

So in this case, yes, a child can be punished for posting pictures of themselves, financially and worse. Otherwise (even in Europe?) I doubt it.
California's not still extending the lockdown. Restaurants are beginning to reopen, and almost all businesses are expected to open in June.
On the bright side though, cities might become more diverse (instead of being tech bubbles where only programmers can afford rent). It may also undo some of the brain drain happening to cities in the middle of the country, which could revitalize / modernize them.
No, you really don' have to wonder that.

That's a deeply stupid and racist conspiracy theory that you're promoting with no evidence or logical reasoning at all.
>- Near-Instant Gratification

>There is something great about having code you wrote be actually executed by thousands of people every day. So few people get to show their friends and family a site they visit often and say "I did that thing there." Maybe it will wear off eventually, but it's still my favorite.

It has never worn off for me! I've worked in automotive for over 20 years, and it feels great every time I see something I worked on drive by.
That doesn't address GP's point. You can redirect encrypted traffic all you want. That won't help you read its content.
it’s usually split in 24 monthly payments. also, when it was a large chunk the contract said it would be pro-rate it.

also, anecdotally, it you were fired they would not ask for the bonus back - it opened a whole can of worms in the wrongful termination bucket

so op definitely did not read his employment contract
> This privacy stuff has gone to absurd extremes.

Maybe you don't care about it. But others do. And laws are for protecting everyone. There are lots of factors involved and many aspects to consider. Your conclusion of a "sane legal system" with only one exceptional circumstance "like revealing medical information" is just trivial and naive.
I always see comments like this from individual contributors. I'll give you the managers perspective.

You may be worth $150k, any one individual engineer could be worth multiples of that!

Look at your entire engineering team, from best to worst. Is not there some inflation of salaries in the SF Bay area? The bootcamper that is making $110k out of bootcamp? Are they really 73% as effective as you?

The marketing person down the hall? Do you contribute more then that person today? Yeah, probably. Without marketing to get the word out and sales to actually bring in the cash, how much would your contribution be worth?

You have to look at the whole system as a manager. And yes we pay the bootcamper $110k because we hope they'll grow into be a great engineer like you.
What? Not without extra pay, that's for damn sure...not just "some" companies. That's ridiculous. I got overtime when I worked retail for crying out loud...
Sorry, but these opportunities exist today, even when people work from office (pre pandemic). Which is just to say: the existence of opportunities does not help the argument.

Coworkers offer a great pool of like minded individuals that can relate to people. You have to interact with them, and relationships are inevitably built. This is fantastic!

On a personal note: the office is a social environment distinct from my personal life. I enjoy both: hanging out with coworkers after work talking about a hairy problem, working together with coworkers to fix on call issues, and then hanging out with personal friends on weekends.

To be clear: I have mixed feelings about remote work. I can see the benefits it offers but I love to be around human coworkers. I’m not sure how invested I would feel.
I think you're overestimating how much would be paid out. Taxes can go up on the employed by roughly what they receive in UBI, unemployed get UBI instead of unemployment benefits. It all balances out.
with citations such as...
Ask HN: How are you preparing for your remote intern?
I imagine many of us are in the same boat - we've mentored many on-site interns but due to COVID-19 we're now managing a remote worker for the first time. How are you preparing for this?

In a more general sense: Managers who have never managed remote teams, what have your experiences been transitioning to a remote team and/or on-boarding new employees?
The fact that WFH under current circumstances is close to WFO under normal circumstances, I think that's vindication for WFH.
I’ve had one of these for a few years now. It sent me an alert halfway through March saying our usage was trending high.
I kind of understand where you’re coming from and as an employee I agree... but on the other hand when you relocate from TUL to SFO you expect a COLA, right? Why would COLA only apply one way?
Remember how Facebook (the subject of this thread) chose not to?
>Using HEIC apparently [1][2] requires a license and is patent encumbered[3]

College board could have added "iPhone HEIC license surcharge" for those users - that would have gotten Apple attention :)
Volvo's been working on building self-driving garbage trucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJSHXr8i-ZU
So let me get this straight, you don't see how the largest most influential form of public communication( youtube) deciding to moderate the public interest via a 3rd partly that is governed more by politics than actual health is somehow not a problem. In your last sentence you said "I don't see", it's because you must be blind.
Absolutely. We had the same policy. If primary wasn't sure what to do, they could ping secondary to regroup. We even had a third "last line of defense" which was basically always the same 3 people, pinged if nothing was acked in the first 30mn.
> image viewers do not trust the file extension and ignore it

Not all of them; for instance, if I rename a .jpg to a .png exension and try to open it with Gnome's EOG, it presents an error saying "Not a PNG file", instead of showing the image.
I think it's actually the opposite and I'd be wary of moving remote full time quickly at the moment. The face time with your boss while the rest of the team is remote would be hugely beneficial to your career.
Exactly right, I used to be a subscriber and keen reader but lately it has been ridiculous headlines like this one ... https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georg...
EA Is Releasing Command and Conquer and Red Alert’s Source Code
Similar things have been done with QR codes as well.
Wait a sec, who takes care of your kid when you are away? Most ppl with kids would pay for day cares or they have school as well. I’m not understanding how your day can be occupied unless the kid is 0-1.
Yeah, that was my point. If a parent feels that they have to sue, i.e. if they feel the state's assistance is necessary to get their child to comply with their wishes—then that's because they're in a situation where parenting isn't working / they don't have any of their own leverage over their child "left."

And if they're in such a situation, then what do they expect the state to do? The state, in the end, only relies on their leverage. (Except in certain exceptional circumstances, like if a child is reported as being suicidal.)
The article you linked isn't great.

It attacks a study that no one finds credible, which labeled a company's entire SG&A as "marketing" and found that "marketing" so measured was 10x R&D. It also predates the BBC link.

So, what you meant to say is "calling SG&A marketing is not really useful," which is true. But that's not what the linked BBC article did at all.
Do you go around projecting your memories on a public display accessible to anyone, any system, any algorithm, any time, possibly forever?
Generic cross-browser cross-domain theft (2009)
>I'm mildly surprised WFH is lower.

Schools are closed.
I will gladly take some amount of a pay cut to move out of the Bay Area, but obviously it's very dependent on how much that is. 15% less to live in Lake Tahoe? Yea, I'd probably do that. 50% to live in Seattle? Obviously not.
More, %10-20 for Amazon in bay area vs seattle
Strange, the video link in the article is to YouTube. It plays fine for me.
Might be hard to get the scoop for stories... although everyone is in the same boat.
> Based on my experience with the various AWS SDK libraries, I don't think Amazon has very good developers, or perhaps they have good developers but a poor development culture

Dude, have you fucking seen the Android libraries? They're awful! At least the AWS SDK libraries are like that because they're all autogenerated from a spec.
Giant 3D wave sweeps over South Korea's Gangnam District
Where Do Eels Come From?
Question on equity split and cofounder onboarding timing
If I start a corporation and buy the shares of the company and file an 83b and later bring on a cofounder, do they buy their split from the company or from me? And how does the 83b work at that point, will they have to pay taxes on those shares throughout the vesting period or can they file another 83b?
"Pager duty" is an abusive practice anyway.

If the company thinks its applications are important enough that it needs people around 24/7 to work on them then the company should hire enough people to have 3 shifts a day.
There was one period in my life at a 401k administration place where I was responsible for making sure the transaction data for all of the clients made it to AIG every night. For months, I had to do the transmission manually at 7pm each night, which meant not much fun for me ever. I never even got a thank you, and when I finally managed to get it automated, my position was eliminated. At least they gave me a pretty good severance.
Bad News: Clickbait and Deceptive Ads on News and Misinformation Websites [pdf]
Feel free to drop into the survey (takes < 2 minutes) so I can keep track. Appreciate the feedback!
Was that all covered by your first semester course? Because if so, that’s more impressive than a first semester course and MIT, CMU, or Harvard, let alone what a public school can offer.
I enjoyed reading the list of explicitly excluded software. My current approach to installing linux on a laptop is to start with xubuntu, add dwm, and remove the desktop, ibus, pulseaudio, and a bunch of other stuff. I discovered that Firefox will not play sound without pulseaudio! My next project is removing dbus, but many things on the system seem to depend on it. I think linux is a beautiful thing, but the mainstream distributions are messes of competing, redundant subsystems and massively bloated interface layers that do very little except make the system less reliable, slow, and hard to configure.
> Yes, they could hire cheaper in Birmingham, but they can't hire _you_.

Unless you move to Birmingham. Now they can hire you. And if you want to live there then you'll probably take the offer because it will still be better than the local options in Birmingham.

Employee pay has always been about "what does it take to get them to work here" and not value to the company.

If there is something in Birmingham that you value, then you'll be willing to take a pay cut to be there.
Well, they roll out a platform where people can upload content. That is the one of the main services they offer, YT should be subject to the local regulations for uploaders and viewers, applying no other discretionary/arbitrary limits than those imposed by regulations or by technical reasons. Imagine a content platform would consider that videos created by <insert group of people> do not align with their values.
If a pay cut nets you more money by not living closer to SF that’s a win
I've worked from home for about 15 years. I have some friends that work from home. My brother does too.

The answer to this really depends upon the person. I've worked from home since I graduated from college, and initially I would eat, sleep, work, and play games all in the same room, because I had roommates. And I was fine with it.

Some people can't do that. Some people need a dedicated workspace. Some people need to get dressed. My brother works from home, and he still wears a tie everyday. Because that's what he needs to do to get into "work mode".

I'm not saying any of this will work for you. But just wanted to let you know that while this is a thing for some people, you still might be able to get that feeling when you work from home.
Pretty much any mobile industry stat. Most have Android at a bit over 50% in the US and Apple at a bit under. Worldwide, Apple is under 20% market share. Remember, iOS is just Apple whereas Android is Samsung + LG + HTC + Google + Oppo + OnePlus + etc...

Examples:

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
I'm helping out with a program for students (myself being one of them) that lost their summer internships due to the pandemic, called Summer of Shipping. Currently looking for more student builders and experienced mentors to grow out our initiative, but we've gotten some great numbers of both so far and want to reach as many people as possible. We're a pretty nice group and we've had a lot of great conversations so far in our comms channel. Open to developers of non-traditional backgrounds too.

If anyone's interested, check out our website at:
https://summerofshipping.com/

Meetings are every Thursday for demos, presentations and networking over Zoom. We're currently on Week 3 but our doors are open to anyone at any point. We accommodate both people who prefer to work individually or in groups! :)
A number of organizations that make a chunk of their operating income off events and have made them virtual still seem to be trying to collect possibly reduced but still hefty ticket prices. There's one event I was planning to attend in June that's now virtual and the $650 registration is a bar that I'm having a bit of trouble getting over.

And, yes, a number of magazines in recent years have added premium events to their revenue streams.
That's not just a matter of learning. The kinds of things you can achieve are different. If you want to become a director of some big engineering organization one day, you'll need to build up your position within the companies you work and not just your personal brand.
Facebook has a form for removing pictures of children, the privacy standard I see limits it to under thirteen but I imagine that's based on local law.

I'd guess they went through the courts to prevent future pictures on Facebook or other social media sites.
Perhaps the examiner’s program accepts HEICs and the frontend was unnecessarily limiting. Many systems are like that, and it’s frustrating that the College Board’s wasn’t.
Do you ever plan to do the same thing for the HP-48 series?
Same reason I donate to NPR: to support quality journalism.
all the checks - a proper check would be reading the contents and parsing the image.
Keeping the press alive is a worthwhile endeavor.

I'd rather the world not turn into Youtube News coming out of some basement with no staff that actually goes out and investigates. Instead he is able to carve a bubble to share what he/she thinks as news.
People disapprove of everything that involves "segregation" of different sub-cultures, even when that segregation is mutually beneficial. The American ideal is a spatially-uniform melting pot.