skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were submitted in time, but then rejected a day later, it seems like those cases can be resolved by some manual work by collegeboard to convert them
Assuming GP is right about the patents, the College Board would open themselves up to patent suits by using that without a license.
I agree that the side that is more deceptive & manipulative in their persuasive tactics will tend to be the ones with less potential substance, my point was only that such a scenarios isn't necessarily the case. Even an "honest" person can find themselves coming to the correct conclusions for the wrong, faulty reasoning. In such cases They are only accidentally correct. In the hands of someone that understands that facts don't win arguments, but none the less believes their "side" is correct, it is all too easy to justify sensational, emotional arguments, rhetorical flourishes, etc in an "ends justify the means" sort of way.

I don't have an answer on the issue of news organizations being poorly suited here. On the one hand, there is an appeal to your the idea you convey that something is better than nothing. However, that status quo is also what has lead us to the current situation. There is a correlation with the rise of 24-hour news networks and the internet with the increased vitriolic, polarizing, and propagandist tone things. The need to fill air time was a big part of that. I don't wholly think that was the cause. There was some trend in that direction already:

Note to readers: This next part is not intended to cast blame only in one direction. It is simply one concrete example of the type of things that became commonplace.

Around 1990 Newt Gingrich penned a memo for titled "Language: A Key Mechanism for Control" It went on to explain how language could be used to manipulate people, complete with a guide for how to use demonizing dehumanizing language against political opponents. Over the years it was systematically disseminated through his party, and when Newt became house Speaker around 1995 he literally made it required reading. Shortly after is around the time that the term "liberal" went from being a fairly neutral description like "conservative" to being a hated moniker for a political opponent. (Though right-wing, alt-right, etc., fill that purpose. now for the other side)
Scare quotes belong around 'miss' not 'gifts'.
> Practically the entire field of PL research was swallowed up by FP and continues to be dominated by that paradigm (e.g. dependent types), despite the vast majority of PL users being disinterested in them.

I couldn't disagree with this more. I'm biased because I really like PL research, but when I look at modern languages like Rust, Haskell's shadow is plain to see. ADTs, immutability and parametric polymorphism for instance.
I've seen cats bond with people who don't feed them.

Some cats are food motivated. Others are affection motivated. Some are both.
And preply
I don't see the connection between inflation and inequality. Inflation is relative currency growth vs true economy size and productivity.

Pay ratio caps don't seem that productive in several ways. For one humans are tricky in that they don't just lie down and accept the laws you want that go against what they want and instead undermine and loophole it in ingenius ways. Trivially that would encourage "nesting doll tiered" subsidary companies and contractors to bypass the limits.

Second the high end of income wouldn't even be affected as they make their money largely from investments not salary or wages. Even if they got the seed for investments from their high salaries - like every retired athlete who managed to stay rich and even get richer after endorsements dried up.
Obviously not, a child cannot be punished for what they don't understand. For "children" between the age of consent and majority it becomes somewhat more difficult; being a civil matter it would probably be down to a balance between the rights of the child and the wishes of the parent (which normally would be to the benefit of the child).
> Why should I hire someone and pay them a bay area salary if there are equally talented folks in that geography that are perfectly happy making what's market for _their_ location?

Right now, you wouldn't. However, if going full remote turns into a trend, then you're not competing with other talented folks in that geography making what's market for their location because they don't have a location, but rather with every other company which offers remote work. They're remote. Won't this drive up market standard prices for engineers in places where markets are less populated by tech right now, while lowering the market price in places like the bay area? After all, if I'm a company, why would I pay $BAY_AREA_ENGINEER more money for the same job I can get done by $KANSAS_ENGINEER for less? Remote work, if taken to the furthest conclusion, will obviate any discussion of "location" based payment because every engineer would be in the same location: the Internet.
The point is the business wasn't declining until she changed the mission.. In addition to her Apple wealth, she owns roughly 100 million shares of Disney. 68 staff cuts at $150k/year all-in cost mean she'll save roughly $10M/year.

So she could sell 0.08% of her shares in Disney at today's price and these people would be employed for another year to work on the mission that she / the collective chose.
Complete and utter bullshit.

A look at the homepage for William M. Briggs tells you the kind of person he is - it seems every article he's shared repeats obviously incorrect nonsense from biased sources. A quick lookup shows that he's also attempted to use statistics to deny the existence of climate change.[1]

But these are just ad hominems, nothing I say actually shows that this article is completely incorrect. To look at the article we can see that the first graph shown[2], by a self-claimed statistician, doesn't make any sense. I would tear it apart but I can't even tell what it's supposed to be saying. Are the X and Y axes the same? Why is there a curve if the data is sorted by deaths per million?

In the next graph[3] data is arranged better. We can see that there seems to be a correlation between there not being a coronavirus lockdown and lower deaths. It doesn't mention that the United States (one of the more lethal dots, in lockdown) has conducted 1.11 tests per million people versus Ethiopia's 0.03 tests, Myanmar's 0.01 tests, and Coromos and Burundi (all four of these being exemplary countries with no lockdowns) not having any data on testing whatsoever.[4]

What Briggs fails to keep in mind - which I don't see as anything but willful ignorance being that he's a statistician, is that correlation is not causation. There's no logical reason lockdown would cost more lives than lax restrictions.

He should be ashamed of even thinking suck bollocks given his education but I think he lost his sense of shame long ago. I just hope nobody's foolish enough to believe a word he says.

[1] - https://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/01/william-m-brig...

[2] - https://i2.wp.com/wmbriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lo...

[3] - https://i1.wp.com/wmbriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lo...

[4] - https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-country-by-country?co... (scroll to the middle of the page)
> it's causing my nephews serious issues since some of their remote learning tools use flash which Apple refuses to support

That's really not Apple's problem. Flash Player is dead. Adobe has declared that all support for the plugin will end in December 2020, and every major web browser has indicated that they intend to discontinue support for the plugin in advance of that date. Some desktop browsers (including Chrome and Firefox) have already disabled Flash content by default, and the Flash plugin for Android was discontinued in 2012.
1. I think both parties are at fault

The testing system for not using the <input> tag appropiately and Apple for using a closed, patent encumbered format as the default when most of their users don't know about software patents.

> It's also not clear to me that this patent license is actually an issue in terms of decoding and converting file formats on the backend.

It's reasonable to assume that it is.

2. Sure, the college could pay, but looking at the broader problem here, saying that colleges should accept closed formats would make it really hard for open source online testing systems to proliferate, and all colleges around the world would have to pay royalties to the HEIC patent holders.

Even if they were to implement an open source decoder, unless you have plenty of lawyers, the legal uncertainty of the situation could be unacceptable to many individuals/institutions.

3. If the format was open in the first place, maybe we would have lots of open source decoders and maybe the library that the testing system developer used would have support for it, and would have transparently worked without the developer knowing about the format.
Doesn't that happen in the US already? Farm work, hotel cleaning, groundskeeping... all heavily reliant upon immigrant labor.
People are actually downvoting the idea that rents will rise as high as the market allows? Hilarious.

Rent rises when: there are high paying jobs around (SF, NYC); there is public investment (subway stations, schools, parks); or, yes, when everyone stumbles across an extra $1k/month (UBI).

All of these mean "the market" (aka tenants) is able to pay a higher price, therefore landlords raise their prices and capture it.
My apologies. I misread your intent.

I thought you were suggesting that images should be sent as raw octets for the image, rather than picking a compression format. But that raw data is extremely large, and therefore would have horrible impacts on bandwidth and latency.

That said, you're right. Trying to be clever about what people are sending results in a lot of hidden complexity and bugs of various forms.
Technology We now have helps the shift To WFH, Covid accelerated it by maybe 5-10 years depending how long it lasts
The trick is to ban visitor smartphones and not to have an account, which is the only way to actually disable Messenger.
You are assuming a business and industry is a god given right. If a business fails to get applicants, they need to raise wages or relocate to where there is labor. If they need more income to pay for these workers then they will charge more. If the price they charge for their goods or services is too high for the given level of demand, the business will just fold.

And that's OK, there area a lot of parasitic zombie companies around that could use a culling, wasting peoples working years doing inane tasks rather than starting a project of their own and innovating. As they say, imagine if Mozart never held a violin but was busy working double shifts flipping burgers for 30 years instead.
there's a lot of good personal finance apps out there, mint?
Comp today varies per city because job markets are per city: at every moment each city has a fixed number of applicants and jobs, which creates a market rate.

In the long term with enough companies doing remote work though, this starts to blur the boundaries between job markets and we might expect salaries to start to be affected by other cities, in the same way that different suburbs within a city share the same comp rates.
The advice I've seen given to American photographers, especially after a blowup over pictures, is that if you photograph a crowd, you don't need a release (it would be unreasonable to expect you to track down everyone in the picture). But if you photograph a subject or small group, you're supposed to ask if you can, and if you're doing it for commercial purposes in particular, you should just have a model release form handy and ask them to sign it on the spot.
Both can be true. Ad revenues have been hit by COVID for sure, but the remaining ad dollars have gravitated toward higher-quality and more credible news sources. Clickbait and hype merchants like VICE, Buzzfeed, and latterly the Atlantic (the Buzzfeed of the Aspen Institute set) have suffered disproportionately.
Indeed. I've always hated that question "what do you do" (meaning your job) and usually answer it with "about what?"

I understand it's a pretty straightforward way to look for common ground and introductory topic of conversation, but there's a massive implication which I consider socially corrosive.
thats not how the free market works. im not sure where people got the strange concept they are paid what they are worth to the company. or that they are paid based on how hard they work.

its literally just supply and demand like everything else.
> The chances are better than even that I wouldn't be considered a "cultural fit" with the company (I'm a bit "long in the tooth," and I've found that's a "showstopper," these days).

Anecdata: I'm 40+ and as far as I can tell, I fit in just fine.

> Also, I specialize in writing native Apple software in Swift. I don't think that's a stack they are really interested in.

A recent earnings release said that 90+% of FB ad revenue is from mobile. Between Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsAp, IOS is definitely a company priority (although I don't think we've publicly released stats on Android vs. IOS).

I don't actually know if/how-much Swift we're doing vs. ObjC (I'm on the server side of things, not the client)
I live in San Francisco and I see indignities on our streets on a daily basis.
I'm surprised how much rationalization towards the billionaire class is being employed to reason against sympathy and sustenance for the working class individuals impacted by this.

The billionaires have all the advantages, and often hold a moral and political posture that they promote socially that are at odds with these actions.
Looks alive and well to me...

https://youtu.be/uk2YZfnsOPg
People should be warned that working remotely has been career suicide for as long as I've been in tech.

Being "out of sight, out of mind" from management generally means you're passed over for promotions, and often the first to get cut during layoffs.

It's just human nature. It's easier to layoff the person that's been working from across the country (or another country) than it is to layoff the person at the desk next to you that you've worked beside for years.
Dunno, I read through half of the post and have not figured what actually the problem there? If 15 minutes you have not responded while on "pager duty" your manager get notified? Phew. I mean if you are infrastructure worker, you kinda need to go and fix the infrastructure that is expected by everyone to be efficient and up 24/7. Imagine, your internet goes down once a month, you will be among first to complain how sh... I mean bad, your internet provider is and threaten to switch to other option. Internet goes down often, and there is a person or a group that goes to the affected location and fixes the issue during day/night/rain/snow. Now think about people who's livelihoods depend on AWS to be up, or customers being able to purchase products on amazon.com... business owner, track driver, manufacturing worker, and bunch of people who have work and income because those workers do. If programmer's job was so easy, everyone would be able to do it. Problem with today's society is that we see people's success and desire a piece of it, we do not see work and sweat that was put into achieving that success. Programming not for everyone, if you not used to stare at the screen 16 hours/day, maybe there is different career for u somewhere.
It's not about where you live. It's supply and demand. Those companies artificially limited their supply and provided a ton of demand within their narrow market. They are now opening up to new markets and spreading out the demand accordingly.

Forced analogy time: It's like if I decide I'll only buy peaches from the organic farm down the road. They charge $20/lb. I calculate that I get $21/lb worth of utility. The Farmer is happy.

A few years later I decide that purchasing organic peaches online for $15/lb fits the bill, and utility dropped slightly to $19/lb but still better in comparison. The farmer is no longer happy.
> You've made a calculation: my value to the company is greater than $150K, and $150K is a price you're willing to pay to leverage that value.

You are in for some surprises then. Companies don't pay you just in relation to the value you deliver. Most companies pay the least amount required to get the value you deliver. Now if you are competing against engineers who are willing to accept lower salary due to low CoL in another area, the company would offer less.

Offcourse, that is not how things should be.
But that's just, like, your opinion. How can you be so sure WFH isn't going to be just a fad?
Let me be contrary: who shut down millions of businesses and put millions out of work?

Well, I'd blame the pandemic itself.

Sweden provides an imperfect but interesting what-if scenario for countries wondering what would have happened if they'd imposed little to no lockdown restrictions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-sweden-economy-t...

Their economy is still taking a very severe hit despite retail businesses remaining open there, because people are shying away from making purchases and visiting shops.

You can (correctly) say that many governments took the decision out of peoples' hands. Perhaps the people of country XYZ would have made a different choice. But Sweden's example suggests that economies would have been screwed pretty hard no matter what.
I've always wondered how these sort of pager-duty notifications worked for heavy sleepers.
Me too: it took until 6 months after I started differential calculus (AS-level Pure 1 (UK)) before I grokked what the "d" in dy/dx meant (just like this person: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/65724/difference... ) - before then I was treating the differentiation operator as a magic, irreducible, symbol and only getting so far in the course because I was remembering and applying the mechanics of differentiation (i.e. by-rote) instead of really understanding what I was doing.
I've been mostly reading the WFH debates here on HN and this seems to have come as a shock to many advocates. You know, companies already had offices in different places you could already move out of SF to elsewhere and this was part of the deal. This isn't anything new, there was never the option of taking your Bay Area salary and living it up in Laos.
Actually if you move to Thailand with your FAANG salary it's likely that the HR team will have a conniption fit. Thailand is--or at least was until recently--considered a prime location for dodging taxes. That is a problem for any company that wants to be SOX-compliant.
He probably spent a ton of his own money running for president.
As far as infrared communication, they didn't have problems with HP48 like 20-some years ago. i think the rationale was that it only allows limited short range communication, thus was not much of the concern.

Though, I'm curious why some of those "disallowed features" exist, particularly for keyboard and touch input...
(Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on British/Indian/Chinese history/politics.)

As far as I know, Gandhi's strategy worked because the British public eventually couldn't take it anymore that their military was gunning down peaceful protesters.

That's where the analogy fails: Given the circumstances, I don't see the mainland Chinese public standing up for HK's rights any time soon.
90k for an Oklahoman is a bit overpriced if you ask me ;-)
> People studied the UBI idea and recognized the costs of giving money to everyone are so enormous that it's unworkable.

Not really. There are UBI models that are more or less zero cost - taxes are increased by roughly the UBI amount for employed workers, and for the unemployed the UBI would be similar to the unemployment benefits they would lose.
Contractions dont hit all companies equally, especially this one. Amazon is hiring warehouse workers to keep up with the demand.

And we have an unprecedented government bailout. Cash payments plus massive increase in unemployment benefits. Someone losing their job today is not hurt as badly as someone losing their job in 1929 or 2008. We're taking on a lot of debt that will have to at one point or another be paid back. Either by inflating our way out of it, which hurts the bankers that make loans to the very indebted median american. Or by collecting taxes, which would put the burden on people that pay positive effective tax rates and couldn't really be imposed on people that currently net recieved money from the federal government. Or by austerity measures, which are politically unlikely and would still wipe away a good bit of market cap from these big companies. Paper money isn't real money.
I did not know I was reading brainfarts of Steve jobs wife when I browse Atlantic ... I am not visiting that site.
It's actually a big bureaucratic problem to give people several thousand dollars and then demand most of it back later. Most people don't notice income taxes since it comes out of their paycheque. It would genuinely be tough problem to educate people to not spend their basic income, or to design a system where it's clawed back through paycheques.
employers pay their employees based on supply and demand, not based on value. the supply and demand is historically based on a geographic locale.

one could argue this is how you make your own purchasing decisions.

now, with remote workers, this becomes interesting and not as clear cut.

i'm not making a judgement on whether this is fair or not (that's a whole other topic), but rather just pointing out how the calculus is generally made today.
it may be way write physics, math calculation with pen and paper than trying to type that in the computer.
You agree that UBI will not fix poverty and/or wealth inequality, as cost of living will rise exactly to the level necessary to guarantee "slight poverty," but are still a proponent?

I would be interested to see evidence that it's the welfare system itself that causes these stressors, rather than the poverty itself, which is what you seem to be stating here. Why would that be the case?
>People are allowed to have opinions in opposition to that of the sitting government, including ones that sat well before we were even born.

Yes, but they need to justify them. Disregarding tradition goes both ways. You can't brush off the German conception of the law and then just go "well that's censorship bro", which is honestly 90% of the discourse on HN on these issues.

The notion of a 'concordance of legal values' is highly intuitive. There's a very strong case to be made that laws are not sacred, that they serve the public good, and thus ought to be balanced. It's the free speech absolutism that is purely an artefact of American culture, practised virtually nowhere else to this degree.
China launches new Twitter accounts, 90k tweets in Covid-19 info war
I also live in the city to go to museums, art galleries, the symphony, plays, comedy shows, concerts, restaurants, happy hours etc. I have no interest in living outside the city and I especially have no interest in maintaining a house.

And there is no way I am going back to going to an office to work.

YMMV
I have established real meaningful relationships through work as I'm sure most people do. What I'm saying is that many of your relationships at work will still be shallow even if a few are not. That is draining for introverts who also can't sustain the same number of relationships at once.
My commute (used to be) a 20-minute-long walk, and I did enjoy it as well.