skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Appelbaum is and has been a scumbag

I do not know him, do you? Most accusations against him that I have seen have been either by the person being sued or some form of hearsay.

It is not too unlikely that he is a scumbag to be honest, but it is still something that I do not know.

> and, indeed, defend them in particular

I contest this claim. He did not defend Appelbaum in this instance, in his declaration even he claims that he is unaware whether Appelbaum is a rapist. The lawsuit is against Lovecruft specifically. Regardless, I do not believe that scumbags do not deserve to be defended. Everyone does, as long as the defence has reasonable points that is.

Btw, can't this post of yours be interpreted as defending Lovecruft if we follow this logic? If so I find this ironic that you try to criticize Bernstein of something that you are doing yourself.

> I also agree in public criticism of entirely legal misbehavior

You must love sites like Kiwifarms then. It is one thing to have open criticism and debate and another to have dog-piling and harassment based on roumors - the ability to defend yourself and have others defend you is one of the most important things that distinguishes the two.

> and freedom of association

Do you also believe that people should be free to refuse to deal with minorities by any chance? This is something that is implied by the freedom of association after all.

> I don’t respect people who defend scumbags socially

Again, the pot calling the kettle black. I do not get this logic to be honest, I will explain why with an example. Let's take a scambag, Jeff Bezos for example, and I start saying that he is a murderer out of nowhere. Is nobody allowed to defend him or ask for evidence just because he is a scambag?
Another source for anyone not in Seattle who wants to learn more about it: https://sccinsight.com/2017/10/30/close-look-proposed-head-t...

That's from 2017 when it was introduced but it's a good non-partisan explanation, including the many problems with the proposal. https://sccinsight.com/tag/head-tax/ has newer posts.
I recall the shift from jpeg to png as a web default. Many sites would not accept one or the other. Eventually, png became more and more popular and "won." The same can happen with other formats, but it takes time. Any any site/org/company that deals with these uploads or displaying the images needs to be clear on what they can do and error out early when they can't do it. I recall "sorry, you tried to upload a png file, we only support jpeg" messages with links to details about the difference and how to convert them. And mime inspection worked back then too, so changing the extension was not good enough.
> Most people work more than they need to because they realize that the future is uncertain and having savings will be beneficial if there's trouble at some point in the future. Give the same people a trust fund that takes care of them and that they trust to last for their life time, and most will stop working as hard. They may still work, but much less and most likely on very different things.

Where does this "trust fund" come from? It doesn't just magically appear.

What you are actually saying is: you don't want to have to exercise prudence and common sense and planning for the future in your own life, so instead, you want the government to forcibly take resources from other people (like me) who do exercise prudence and common sense and planning for the future, and use those resources to provide you a "trust fund" to take care of you. If I can't avoid having my resources stolen from me, my only other option is to stop producing any excess over my own minimum needs. Which means the "trust fund" you are counting on is no longer there, because now nobody has any incentive to exercise prudence and common sense and planning for the future--because you punished all the people who did that by taking their resources away.

This is (a) incompatible with having a free country, and (b) a very, very bad idea in general, since society cannot survive if people do not have any incentive to exercise prudence and common sense and planning for the future.
Robot trucks are perfect for those areas; cheaper, faster, better.
> Lagos or Jakarta salary

This is fear mongering to say the least. Nobody is stopping those companies hiring from the said regions today. And it is super unlikely western engineers would want to relocate to the said regions given the choice.

Let's all admit outsourcing is a thing and it has been for more than 20 years. The reason outsourcing is dialed back is much more interesting to understand, and offers insight from perspective other than costs.

The high CoL in Bay Area is not sustainable. Software engineering is already democratized in a way, Bay Area no longer holds monopoly.

The high salary here is a reflection of prosperity of past decade of internet bloom, but there is no momentum to keep it that way as the party will end never-the-less eventually.

If anything, I see those remote working as a welcoming trend, to redistribute tech talents and money across US/Canada. Yes, the salary will go down, but it probably reflect better the reality we are already living.
Ha, not at all, I didn't know there was one!

Ulysses makes it easy to insert text, but hard/annoying to make edits, so what you end up with is often a stream of consciousness—hence the name. Cheesy, I know.

The entire app is a really stupid text area. In fact, I was amused to discover how difficult removing certain features was.
A news reporting [1] and video [2] of the incident.

[1]: https://hongkongfp.com/2020/05/08/shocking-unlawful-illegiti...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zxtYUFl5Hg
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I'm neither a historian nor an economist, but as far as I know, there's been quite a few ups and downs like that throughout history, with Florence and Spain being the most prominent examples that comes to my mind. I'd guess that the major issue with going even further back is that there simply isn't enough detailed data.
Smittestopp – Summarizing the expert group report on the Norwegian Covid-19 app
The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff
Actually it currently houses less than 3000 people, and is serviced by enormous green space. That's not remotely comparable to a 9000 seat cube in an urban setting. I can't speak to Croatia, but having travelled in the former Soviet Union often what makes such places livable are the enormous (by Western standards) amount of amenities which survive from Soviet times - skating rinks, public parks, ice skating rinks, bowling alleys etc. Added to which is a grey economy of apartment run stores selling fresh and preserved produce.

Also - and I have no idea how you'd quantify this, lack of negative comparators may play a part. When most people in your city, be it Mariupol or Tallin, also live in enormous modernist silos, it's not a source of resentment.

Finally it's important to note that by comparison to any US city, Croatia has a tiny crime rate, especially in terms of violent offences. It's a safe, relatively ethnically homogeneous, socially integrated country. This is not similar to the lack of social cohesion in play in the American context.

https://cafebabel.com/en/article/life-in-mamutica-the-bigges...
Need some evidence for that.
They edited their post. Also, numbers don't mean anything without context. Why is that out of control spending?
It's the same here, but not where I lived a few years ago. It's just not practical in the densely populated inner city. Garbage containers can't be lined up at the street, are stored in back yards etc, and you still need people to pull them to the street and push them back.

Where I live now, that job now is done by the home owners or by staff of the apartment buildings. The job didn't go away, it's just no longer done by the garbage collectors.
The irony here is that it is the most privileged students who will suffer this the most. It's the ones with the fanciest phones that will run into this bug. Usually these things go the other way -- usually it's the poorest who have to deal with these kinds of things.

Edit: See the reply below about iPhone SEs using HEIC. A point that I missed.
When I was waiting at the royal free (UK) , one of the doctors doing my bloods for compatibility - mentioned they had people fly down from Aberdeen.

And not all of a donors kidneys are ok two of us got called and only one kidney was viable.
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> If they had enough time to warn people ahead of time, they had plenty of time to push a fix to their system for this

At the very least, a message that appeared at the time that one attempted to upload the image with instructions on how to fix the problem on the spot. How hard could that have possibly been?
This is perhaps the most interesting part:

« In the course of the UK undercover policing relationships scandal it was revealed that one of the authors of the "McLibel leaflet" was Bob Lambert, an undercover police officer who infiltrated London Greenpeace; John Dines, another undercover officer, was also Helen Steel's partner for two years. »
> The point of work is to not have to anymore so you can follow your passions.

So Bob needs to work so Fred can follow his passion for surfing and video games?
I would argue mainstream media is literally propaganda, or at least the US government is legally allowed to broadcast propaganda [1] — either directly via direct government intervention— or like what is now known to be the case in Turkey, for example, where parties buy out the media to gain favor from a given political group.

My point is that the majority of people actually watching these news outlets see it as news, not entertainment or propaganda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America#Smith–Mundt_A...

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EDIT: Reviewed your CML link from spring of 1990, interesting read, but really fails to do critical analysis of the specific regulatory changes by name, what impact changes had, etc. Beyond that, stating obvious, it fails to cover all the material events since 1990.
The 1st time I worked at a company with "on call" we had this concern while trying to define the policy/rotation/etc. It was always "well, yeah I can be on call sure, but this specific Tuesday at 7pm I have this thing". We solved it in 5 minutes: just have a primary and a secondary that gets the page after 10 minutes. Solved. Go get your groceries, if it's bad luck and the page happens during the 45 minutes where you're out, your buddy will get it.
Really glad I got a chance to work on a team that values personal time. Overtime is basically non existent for me.
If the rhetoric is solely around "government spending" then the perspective will always be that UBI is "too expensive".

But the money doesn't just vanish when it enters people's bank accounts. All of a sudden, banks have a lot more collateral against which to borrow and invest, by virtue of the fact that the bank accounts which store the UBI have money in them. People spend that money and it enters and moves through the economy. The government taxes it back out via sales taxes, income taxes, capital gains taxes, etc.

I think, in general, it's worth having an economy that keeps moving. If you let too few people have too much proportion of available wealth, the consumers won't have any to work with and your economy will be entirely dependent on luxury goods for a tiny proportion of the population.
This post convinced me to apply to Amazon. At the end, he says working there overall is pretty good. The pay, the impact. "Burned out" here doesn't mean he quit, he just scaled back his workload.
Technically speaking , many European countries already have "Basic Income". ( France , Sweden , Norway...)

They are reserved for individuals "Not Active" though ( Unemployed and not looking for a Job ) over a certain age.

Those "BI" massively lower poverty , which usually massively reduce crime-rate , drugs related usage etc...

With 700€/Month you aren't gonna far anyway, you have enaugh for food and rent , and that's it...

For America it's different, America cannot technically afford "BI" because the entirety of the US economy has been built on having 20% of the population living under the poverty line in order for good & services to be cheap and consumed in mass.

Having "UBI" in US would create a skyrocket inflation because worker who are paid 10$/Hour would drop their work and stay at home and do something that is more profitable for them.

Hence , the American culture revolve almost entirely around production of good and services for happiness.

In France few workers drop off the "Industrial" economy , they buy a Farm and live of "BI" and their own agriculture and go back to the city to buy commodities ( Gas , Cosmetic etc... ), it's common in Italy and Spain as well IIRC.
It can be! Hasn't worked so well in practice, however:

https://foldingcoin.net/

Not much going on there... seems the last on-chain transaction happened about a month ago:

https://xchain.io/asset/FLDC
http://calculusmadeeasy.org is better rendering of the book
Given how many people are moving to Seattle every year, far faster than new housing can be built, I'd say that an effectively negative unemployment rate has, in fact, been one of Seattle's problems, and that slowing hiring down would, in fact, help things.
For people not in the US: AP mean "Advanced Placement";

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement_exams
> The idea of a "head tax" is utterly nonsensical in that it's an incentive to NOT hire people

If your goal is to reduce rents by reducing the number of people living nearby, then it can meet the goal.
sadly, there is not. zoom is not face-to-face meeting.
> adding support for one more image format

I seem to remember that HEIC is quite patent-encumbered. Could this possibly cost them a lot or be more complicated than you seem to imply?
How are you proposing to run a complex system that essentially powers a big chunk of the entire internet and can go down any second without on-call?

If a big selling point of your system is the ability to be on 24/7, on-call is inevitable. But it definitely can be way less gruesome than it currently is at Amazon for a lot of teams right now. For example, my on-call schedule is extremely relaxed and low-stress, it is never a worry I actually have or something I dread ahead of time. But getting rid of it completely is simply impossible for a lot of "always online" services.
Last couple of companies I worked at, they are already outsourcing "average" work. We had a QA manager in the bay area, and then he had a team of six people in SE asia doing QA/QA automation. On the engineering side we had a team of 20 engineers in eastern Europe working for less than 30k/year usd working on bug fixes and test coverage, UI fixes, modifying legacy code from the original monolith that didn't change a whole lot etc

In the bay area we only had five engineers, mostly focuses on architecture, R&D, new products etc, and even then they only came in two-three days a week mostly for face to face meetings. The VP had a lake house in tahoe and would work remote for 2 months every summer.

I can see a bunch of legacy code maintenance/qa work moving offshore further, but there will always be a core group of five to ten engineers who meet at the central office a couple times a month. Remote will increase but humans still need face to face contact periodically.
Hey everyone, since we're on the topic -

Is there an open source computer algebra system designed to run on one of these microcontroller-level devices that might serve as a replacement for the math capabilities?

Something at least as good as DERIVE, and doesn't resort to Python - something barest of metal?

Because I've always wanted to make a calculator...
Work from home is an old term from decades ago. What we have now is best described as "pandemic lockdown office". The actual state of the art is mobile work. With mobile work, you are in control of where you work - whether home, in your garden, on a nice place, in a shared office near your home, or in a company office that should be available when you need it, even if that's every day.

Also, ideally, you should be able to meet your colleagues once in a while to discuss important matters and keep a human connection. But surprisingly lots of trust and friendship can be maintained at distance.

Take time to refresh, slow down during the day and try to maintain social contact despite the lockdown (whatever your local conditions are, you might have to use remote methods of course).

I've been able to work well those last two months but can't wait to hug all my colleagues - miss them as well.
Ok. I think you are right.
Selling friends or peers to an establishment for pizza and beer is not really how a trusted human relationship works.
Related "Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20023209

For personal finance there's https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/ They have a huge wiki and in the right-hand pane there's links to similar communities and those specific to other countries.
And THAT is exactly the issue. "Misinformation" uses the prefix "Mis", which is "...a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,” “wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating: mistrial; misprint; mistrust."

As the Covid-19 situation, prognoses, diagnoses, testing procedures, and far more are PUBLICLY ADMITTED to be flawed, it is RIDICULOUS to silence ANYONE, let alone legitimate experts, even if they are engaging in WILD speculation.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH ONLY MATTERS WHEN THE SPEECH IS DISLIKED.

Think over that...deeply...speculation and experimentation may save your life....or not.

wa inna Allahu Al Alim
It's most likely a standard "at will" employment yes.
I can see that. But the same reason that I am against the government regulating tech is similar to why my position on gun control has gone from being pro gun control to anti-gun control.

The government would probably go out of it’s way to make sure “Focus on the Family” content would be allowed but not “Black Lives Matter” just like they shut down the government in Michigan but the same conservatives passed laws for stricter gun control when minorities started exercising their 2nd amendment rights (the Mulliford Act).
It actually trends down, likely because children have historically been used as a retirement plan of sorts, and of course you'd never be sure how many of your ten made it to adulthood.

Financially comfortable and well educated families tend to have less children, this is a pattern that has been repeated many times across country and cultural borders.
>How are critical systems managed otherwise without having to 3x your team (assuming you want 24hr coverage with a 8hr workday)?

They typically aren't, you need to hire more people then. In anything defined as critical I would suggest that being well rested is also a requirement rather than having a team of people who are so overworked they develop mental illness.
Our cities are going to be so sad after all of these changes. Knowledge workers are all going to be in the suburbs or working from home. Restaurants and bars will be shuttered en masse. Parks and shopping plazas will be empty. Trains and busses will be ignored in favor of cars.

This really does look like it could be the end of new urbanism and the revenge of the suburbs.
Yes it's clearly the case, but it's not clear that there are any market benefits by the government forcing all app stores to sell all software, irrespective of the platform the software runs on. This would effectively deny all businesses the ability to work just in their niche/forte and destroys the "competitive advantage" (economics term) of most/all businesses.
> If they had enough time to warn people ahead of time, they had plenty of time to push a fix to their system for this

Yeah, no. Absolutely not. All of the testing for their platform would have to be redone, and if a bug is found, then what?

You can argue that they should have done a better job notifying users, but to argue that "of course they had time to push a fix in the week before the most important testing period" is just nonsensical.
People working in probabilistic programming can be seen as working towards AGI, in some ways.

I'd take a look at the work done by Tenenbaum at MIT and Goodman at Stanford. There are also lots of academics related to them in different places. You can reconstruct this graph by looking at Google Scholar citations and co-authorships.

A great starting point is: http://probmods.org/
Agreed. My wife and I are both agreed that we want no pictures of our children posted online until they're old enough to make the decision for themselves. This is something we both believe very strongly since we've seen firsthand the inhuman way technology treats human data (we both are engineers).

However her mother does not respect our wishes and we occasionally find something she posted online or used when teaching a class. It's very annoying, but we just argue with her when she does it rather than doing something legal.
Just ballparking it:

Seattle population has grown by around 23% [1] and inflation means $1 in 2010 has the spending power of $1.18 today [2], you'd expect a 45% increase (1.18*1.23) just accounting for population change. According to seattle's open government website, their budget was $6.24Bn in 2020, and $4.13Bn in 2010, a 51% increase. So just ball park spending has grown probably less than 0.5% per annum over inflation in the last decade.

[1]: Acutally 2010-2018 - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=seattle+p...

[2]: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2010?amount=1

[3]: https://openbudget.seattle.gov/#!/year/2020/operating/0/serv...
I am in the same boat. For some reason I feel anxious about getting vaccinated for COVID knowing the development of the vaccine has likely taken short cuts to get to people. I am also not anti-vaccine.
It isn't. The point is that critical systems should and would require more members on a team.
I think it goes both ways (in fact, most of this post seems to go both ways in that Amazon sounds brutal but OP could have taken actions to mitigate it). If your team is going to be requiring on-call, you should say that during the interview process. "Are you willing to work nights and/or weekends" is indicative, but is still too vague. Some might interpret that as just "sometimes you might have to work late if you are on a tight deadline", not as an on-call situation.

However on the interviewee's side, if you see something in a job description that asks if you're willing to work nights and weekends, that should be an immediate indicator to you that you should ask why you possibly would have to work nights/weekends and in what capacity. It's the interviewee's responsibility to ask questions like this even if the employer isn't immediately forthcoming.
Oh well. I ended up adding these rules to uBlock Origin, suggestions for improvement welcome:

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