skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment was edited to show that iOS does in fact do this.

But even if it did send HEIC, if you're going to fail to handle "any" format, then you better specify the one you can handle. By the same token, why shouldn't my computer convert every .docx to PDF, or some other "more universal" format?

Instead of specifying the requirement programmatically, they spent their time sending out tweets and writing help docs.
It feels like there's a real market here for people that just want a phone that works as well as a 70s phone. Maybe with voicemail, although again, it should work as well as a 70s answering machine.

(Related: At this moment, my wife is trying to video chat with a friend for the first time. Ho-ly crap is it a fail...)
For some reason I feel like this is more of a way to reduce payroll and eventually outsourse most of the company. If everyone is working remote then it is only a small step to offshore everyone at that point.

Edit: Wrong word used
If I were complaining about price gouging in a hurricane and you came strolling around and told me "hey, that's how economics works" I'd say you missed the point entirely.

In other words, my issue isn't with the mechanics of capitalism.
> The distribution targets only the x86-64 architecture and the English language.

Deal breaker for me. But the author should be commended for stating it up front. Far to often, only the benefits are presented but none of the flaws so you have to investigate new tech deeply to find out if it is right for you.
But does that mean you would start working 2x the hours if you moved from somewhere else to SF? :)
Not just to sysplex - the correct comparison is not "le random Dell server with RAIM configuration", but HPE NonStop and/or carefully husbanded vmware vFT configuration - and that's for single mainframe cage.

For the last decade or so IBM had been selling pretty much all mainframes with hot-swap FT cpu books, and the standard purchase model is very cloudy - you lease them (so it's all OPEX, instead of CAPEX), and in fact IBM will happily sell you "on-demand usage based pricing" for that lease. It's just that you can order that machine to be in your datacenter, but many clients simply use IBM's lesser-known cloud offering.
Perhaps you've heard of a little video site called Netflix:

https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-uses-druid-for-real-...
Correct. This is also double trouble when Microsoft changes the names of the same product for a future release.
I think it depends on the area - pretty much every house in my local market has a basement.
Cities are horrible places to live. Literally the only thing keeping me in them are jobs.
Most of the discussion about any products such as coffee makers, bikes, etc are manipulated and placed there by the companies selling those products. The front page is also heavily manipulated, political posts often end up there artificially.
Even though this is an interesting story, I'll make a prediction this post will be flagged into oblivion, as an earlier post will testify

https://news.ycombinator.com/itemid=23258169
Would anyone using RabbitMQ as a replacement for GCM/FCM on Android mind sharing their experiences?
Just five months ago users were getting permanently suspended from Reddit for mildly criticizing GallowBoob.

You can see it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstKarmaWhores/comments/eb146l/...

I doubt that he would walk away from the website even though a number of users would be happier.

There are hundreds of fantastic moderators on Reddit that genuinely help people and there are also a few people who want to feel powerful by manipulating others.
I'm a Clojure fan but I'm not sure a modeling and simulation problem such as this is the best use case for it. Sure, you can do it, but it probably wouldn't be my first choice. Last I checked, Aerospace software is still dominated by C/C++ and Ada (still alive because it found itself a niche), and there's good reasons for it. The satellite simulators I worked on had to be able to execute actual flight code from the vehicle, so you needed to get fairly low level.

Nowadays I write web applications like everyone else on the planet and use Java, JS and/or Clojure (when I can get away with it).

But cool little project, nonetheless.
1. input type=file can be used to upload any file format (or any non-format, for that matter). If you want specific file formats, you make your intention clear.

2. Please try to read the entire comment. iOS does default to JPEG when uploading, the accept attribute isn't needed.
One thing you'll find about US culture: Even the most stringent, freedom-loving, anti-government types will fully embrace draconian and byzantine laws provided they're issued at the local level. If you want Laissez-faire at the local level without a cabin in the woods you must eschew local government and live in an unincorporated part of a county (and then move in a few years once that gets swallowed up by a growing metro area).
On the flip side, perhaps COL will go down as well.
Is it going to be a thing on HN now where the top thread for every announcement of a company embracing Remote Work will be from someone complaining about not liking Work-From-Home and 50+ replies discussing about "WFH vs office" or discussing their own personal preferences? I am starting to be astonished by the amount of supposedly-intelligent people who are completely missing the forest for the trees.

What we are witnessing might be a historical shift as big as Nixon re-opening with China, and the top comment is really complaining about some missing perks? How about start thinking of how many people who live in these big tech centers only because of their jobs and how many will just leave these cities once it is become accepted practice to work at a Canadian company while you live in the Caribbean? Or maybe start thinking that people who used to complain about H1B workers bringing the salary down now having to face competition from some random guy in Romania who can code circles around you and can accept a job at one quarter of your salary? Or how about we discuss the opportunities for startups that will come from this?

Also, start thinking if you are a VC and soon you will actually have to leave Sand Hill because no one will be crazy enough to move there to sleep on someone else's dishwasher hoping to make it big.

Personally, every announcement from an established company that is moving to a Remote-First (or Digital by Default, call it whatever you like) mentality is thrilling. Is anyone from Shopify here reading HN? I was already planning to apply for them but this announcement made me even more interested.
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Yup, to the extent that the US decided that it needed to ensure that UK libel law could not be enforced against US writers: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10940211
https://archive.md/J8tpy
People have talked before about how this sort of strategy can be potentially business-savvy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19130482
> Just because a few tech companies are giving up their space

That hasn't happened yet either. It's more like "we're going to stop expanding".
That is the best way of achieving long lasted change - solidarity mentioned.

However China is different cup of tea. They don't care about image as they can suppress and buy PR - Tibet.

They massacred their own youth, organized mass organ thief etc. They have different approach to (de)valuing human life.

I am afraid that HK is under a CPR steamroller slowly crushing the resistance.
exciting! i wonder if this will set a precedent going forward for any other software impacted by G2A’s very grey area tactics .i do believe there could be a marketplace which facilitates swapping keys for other keys, setting aside any monetary value and basing it on a persons perceived value of the game they would like to play.
Though presently Taiwan is ruled by the DPP who is pro-independence, the other major party which has been often in power, the Kuomintang generally tries to foster a "Chinese" identity rather than a "Taiwanese" one and have always had a vision of "Reunification" with China, eventually. So the political dynamic in Taiwan has a bearing on the matter.
https://archive.md/XBbjV

https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2020/5/21/21265699/faceboo...
I can't speak for other cities, but when I used to live and work in SLC the addition of lots of new underground parking helped bring the downtown back to life.
The articles seems to indicate that the upload crashed, so they probably don't have the files
Linking to a ngrams graph that shows "environmentalism" graphed against "civil rights" as evidence that environmentalism is just a fig leaf for segregation is beyond flimsy. Surely this must be the arch example of correlation ≠ causation.
This is for US but you can get on multiple lists at the same time. However you have to be able to travel to that center on a short notice. And there might be false calls where things don't work out. So most people can't list beyond the local and adjacent regions within a few hours of driving distance. However you can switch regions and carry your wait time credit over.

As for why the region-by-region setup probably because its a big country and patients can't travel from one side to another. Also its difficult to change because any change results is someone having increased wait time. And some of the states don't like to share their organ streams with others. The reality is those states with larger organ pool is because more people die there for whatever reason.

I've also been told that only a small percent of deaths result in viable organs for donation. I think like 2 out of 1000 is what a transplant coordinator told me.
That's HackerNew's job.
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Plus the backend doesn't move fast. The .net framework only got a json serializer recently. I am not holding my breath for system.drawing to handle HEIC!
> What saddens me the most is to see those kids who grew up with a smartphone in their hand trying to convert a picture by renaming it

Why shouldn't that work? I think it would be pretty great if changing the file extension popped up a helper that asked me if I wanted to convert from HEIC to JPG?

Really, no-one should have to think about file formats when they're trying to do something that has nothing intrinsically to do with file formats.

Seems more like a failure of software engineering, to me.
I would say that there is a spectrum to backing the claim of "due process" w/ time constraints. For example body cams can really help validate that there was a gun, pointed at someone, and the person was threatening...

IMO Governments need to be quick to integrate technologies that can reinforce the true spirit of their laws such that true justice (not just legalism) is applied.
Odds are I can meet the bar of employment without that, so no. You have _some_ leverage as an employee to make it work for you imo.

But if you reduce my pay, you're gonna make me take stock of what I'm giving you and shift the balance in my favor if I can easily get away with it.
I would not withhold blood from anyone who needs it, no matter how much of a jerk they are, but I am leaning towards the (admittedly unpopular) belief that members of society should have an obligation to donate at least a minimal amount on occasion.

Blood is a funny case because we have a huge never-ending need for fresh blood, and a great number of people (est. 1/3 to 1/2 the population) are eligible to donate, yet very few do. Globally we're so desperate for supply that, even though the WHO has set a goal of 100% non-paid volunteer donors due to safety concerns, we do still have to pay people, and America sells a lot of blood overseas to all those other countries who are too cautious to pay their donors cash outright.

Tons of people are perfectly willing to donate blood. That's not even the problem. In the aftermath of a disaster, blood centers near the disaster area often have so many donors they have to throw some of it away. People are not that afraid of needles, or unwilling to help their fellow humans. They just don't, usually.

Living in my developed country with all of its benefits has costs. I pay taxes to help fund the general welfare, and may be called to serve on a jury, or even go fight in a war. Calling on a few people to give blood doesn't sound too onerous to me.

I don't claim to have the answer, but I think everyone agrees we can do a lot better than what we've got now.
Because they get paid $300k/year.
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It is probably cheaper this than deal with the chargeback of the credit card and then put a real person to answer the tweetstorm. They are close to a monopoly, a happy customer will return sooner.

Or if db48x is correct, perhaps they are just nice.
> stepping into stopping out of control discussions.

I mean, if your goal is to "control" conversations, yeah, that's going to be a lot of work. What's the point of that anyway?
Youtube isn't in charge of what is credible or not. Youtube is in charge of what shows up on youtube or not. There are many categories of things that can't be on youtube, not just things youtube thinks are incorrect.

Should youtube overstep its bounds, that makes it easier for competitors to enter the video streaming market. It seems like libertarian leaning people forget half of their philosophy on this issue.
Strange, they really wanted it for 13 and allowed it to be committed post feature freeze, but then all discussions stopped after April. And I couldn't find anything else in the mailing list.
This is college board we are talking about. I guess parents will just have to pay for another exam and hope its graded fairly.
> But one thing other professions have that we lack is (1) fairly worked-out fundamental theoretical bases, or at least long experience to draw on, and (2) legal enforcement of standards.

A world with (2) without (1) would be pretty miserable.

Trying to do this today wouldn't be enforcement of standards, it would be "pray you got it right."

We could build standards for building more-robust software, but every piece of software would become vastly more expensive. We would need massive improvements in tools to avoid that.

And then there's the whole security angle... Is it a failing to have your software be impervious to attackers? To what degree? You wouldn't expect most bridges to withstand a determined attacker...
Not really. The majority of things cost the same regardless of where you live besides real estate, which is extraordinarily distorted from actual value.
I think never using a calculator is just as misguided as always using one would be. Using a calculator is a skill in and of itself.
Motorbike noise is quite real. Hopefully electric motorbikes will grow more common over time and cut down on this widespread nuisance.
To be fair, there were plenty of people working into creating a transistor, so if Bell Labs weren't there, somebody else would have done it. It is not even clear that they were really the first.
> calling Karol Sikora a "professor of medicine" hides the fact that he's an oncologist; if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field.

Then why is Bill Gates the de facto lead on curing covid?
And a single city with guns would be able to topple Rome with modern weaponry?

To be clear, neither I or you are certain what the majority of HKers want to trade for democracy. Realistically if they want democracy so bad, what else they can do other than the protesting they are doing? Long term striking seems to be something they can do TODAY, RIGHT NOW. Equiped with weapons or not, one of the bet they have to make is that the international community would not sit idlely while many HKers get killed.
The hardware isn't even that good. What you're really paying for is the idiot proofing (i.e., input protection) and the warranties. Which -- even speaking as someone who has designed competing hardware -- is often a good tradeoff.
Where do you get that idea from? Everywhere outside of major tech hubs the cost of living is significantly less and "quality of life" is actually better. I moved to Cleveland and yes there's less "trendy" things like restaurants but there's so many parks and places to go and activities and casual events
That's my guess, looking at how they made the accept attribute.
I agree with this take but it's not going to be great for the SF devs that bought houses they can't afford.
Which is why GP proposed giving students the opportunity to email the files separately.
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Basements do not react well to earthquakes either.
Some people follow the big accounts directly, so their posts are guaranteed to get early traction then build off exponentially and make the front page all the time.
This should really be the pinned comment, as it does tell you everything you need to know. You've always had to move somewhere more expensive/with a heavier tech center gravity to have your career take off whether it's in terms of clout or total compensation (both of which are inextricably intertwined).

Where this development fascinates me is that it vastly increases the pipeline into the FAANG BigCos. I'm sure that, not to be outdone by FB, other members of FAANG will be having serious conversations that are along the same lines as this. Even if your career at a certain company plateaus because of satellite syndrome, you at least have the door open to moving to where the action is if that's what you prioritize.

But for me, so long as the real world reflects the asymmetry of capital allocation at central nodes, so too will salaries reflect that. I don't see any point in protesting that. I feel like it's more valuable to try and figure out a way to speed up the diffusion from central nodes outwards which already appears to be happening, and which this story is part and parcel of.
> Truth is the answer to lies.

I haven't actually seen evidence that this is effective in the modern social media era.
Ouch. Maybe CA should just give up on housing and have everyone commute in daily from a different state.
Companies set prices in accordance to labor market supply and the marginal salary they need to offer to get someone. Not some specific idea of egalitarian fairness.
Add me to the pile of those who don't like my salary adjusted arbitrarily based on where I decide to live.

I don't think companies that want to attract upper-tier engineering talent will be able to get away with it either.

Good engineers:

A) Are outnumbered by job openings non-trivially

B) Return many multiples in value of their total
compensation cost

C) Are well aware of A and B from a negotiating standpoint

If I'm operating in the same market orbitals as Facebook, I see this as an instant hiring advantage. Simply tell candidates:

"Not only have we shifted towards remote-focused teams, we won't arbitrarily grade your salary based on where you or your family choose to live"

The increased costs will be a pittance compared to the potential 8-9 figure market advantage gained in 18-36 months by having consistently won hiring battles.
In theory yes, but there are so many asterisks attached to building a house. You need to run through a gauntlet of bureaucracy to even get permission to build on your land. All of this immensely increases costs and becomes a tool for limiting new housing.
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This is an extremely self-limiting and myopic viewpoint on employment.

For instance, the only person who can classify income as disposable or not is me. No one else is allowed to make that decision, or is even deserving of knowing the information at all.

If your hiring manager is giving you the song and dance about calculations on your cost of housing and milk, you need to turn around and go elsewhere.

If you think you’re a cog in a machine, yes, you can determine your value this way.

If you feel you have inherent value in and of yourself, your attitude will change about work and employment.

The value I provide to a company has absolutely nothing to do with where I live. If I’m a good hire, I’m a good hire.
I doubt most people will take the risk of gaming their employer.
I too am not enjoying the 100% WFH right now.

BUT I want the flexibility to WFH 3/5 days a week. I don't mind living within an hour and a half commute, and coming in 2 days a week. Going every day... painful.

In theory I could WFH before, but as things weren't really set up for that, I only did it once a week if that.

So in that regard, I welcome this kind of thing. If companies can work out the logistics.
what’s missing is the conversation of how many deaths we’re going to see from the lockdown itself in the form of suicide, alcoholism, drug overdose, domestic violence, mental health etc
But there is value in living in those higher CoL areas (hence them being higher CoL) that you sacrifice living in a lower CoL area. You sacrifice on space to live in SF, but you get all the other benefits which is why people do it. If I sacrifice the SF benefits, why do I then also have to sacrifice my CoL/pay ratio without any additional gain?
> because they effectively own their oil industry

Why can't we, as a society, come together and take ownership of our data, and sell it back to the companies using our data for profit?
> Which almost nobody does

This seems like an issue with how the product presents that choice or ability to users.

For example about half of the people who make it to the end of my video courses write in and give me feedback based on a 7+ question form I ask them to fill out at the end of the course. I ask very specific questions that could likely be answered in 1 minute or less each. Out of thousands of submissions, a huge majority are positive.

I don't ask for feedback or anything early on, and do my best to avoid giving someone extra "work" to do. I present it in the form of "hey, I see you made it to the end of the course, your feedback is helpful so that my next course is even better aligned with what you want...".

Folks are happy to provide feedback in that case.

I'm one of those people who typically turn telemetry off when I can because in a lot of cases it's not clear on how it'll be used unless I read a 100 page TOS or I simply don't trust the company is telling the truth on how it'll be used. I shouldn't feel like I need to diagnose my network traffic with WireShark just to double check a company isn't harvesting usage stats about an app I'm using.
Fair context to provide. In a previous comment [1], I argue the case for keeping both UBI and single payer healthcare.

Cash alone makes a poor safety net, because humans are humans.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246811
In this thread: SF engineers realize how well paid they are. Did not complain about 2x salary bump when moving to SF. Will complain about 0.5x when moving out of SF. Signs of realization that pay is only weakly correlated with skill yet to be seen.
You could still live in a much cheaper area of the same state. In the case of CA, drive 4hr out of SF and you can find houses for $100k that would be $1M in the city, with much more land.

(Not something I would prefer, but many would.)
Probably because it kind of ignored my point. For example, r/pics has thirty-six moderators. Some of them are undoubtedly inactive, but it's still obvious that moderating a single massive subreddit is an order of magnitude more work than can be done by one person and therefore giving one person moderator rights over multiple does not increase the amount or quality of moderation. One person cannot use that power to do more good for the site, so the question is what are they using that power for and why do they deserve it?
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