skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know she doesn't literally have $22 billion in a bank account, but she could obviously scrounge up enough cash to pay these people if she wanted to.

The Atlantic is not a "declining business". It was profitable for a long time before she bought it, it expanded because she wanted it to, and the decline in revenue is likely temporary. They aren't losing subscribers and they aren't in danger of failing anytime soon.

If she invested in The Atlantic to create long term change, and its subscriber base and reach is growing (which it is), then she shouldn't care about a short term decline in ad revenue. Dollars can certainly be deployed more profitably elsewhere, but you're not gonna accomplish any social change if you base your investments on quarterly profits.
Contact tracing with a Raspberry Pi Zero-W
A dataset showing that restaurants had zero customers during lockdowns can't possibly be accurate, since they're still open for takeout. I'm sure there's some real trend being exhibited here, but how do we know people aren't just not using OpenTable?
I'm disappointed that all the replies to this sentiment are "lol, it's supply and demand". I mean, maybe that's it but it's not a very useful thing to think about.

As someone who's run two remote companies now, I have struggled with this dilemma as an employer. Because I agree with you, if a person is worth $x to the company, their location doesn't change that.

The flip side, though, is that I also want people to be on relatively equal footing. Not everyone can move to optimize their relative adjusted income, and the problem with a salary number is that it doesn't reflect status. An entry level SF salary will get you a house + a lake house in Oklahoma. A person who owns a vacation home is living an entirely different life than someone with a roommate in Oakland.

If you _don't_ adjust salaries for cost of living it makes that even worse, because suddenly you're probably paying less than someone in SF or NYC needs, more than what most people need in other states, and paying a crazy high localized salary to someone in Vietnam.

All that said, we're doing the same salaries regardless of location. And I'm still not sure that's the right choice.
Thats funny, I always thought it was business' lobbying the government to change policies..
Okay, I could buy this argument on somewhere like Chan. HN though?

I can count on a single hand the number of times a thread has gotten hopelessly out of hand. Most people have reasons for their positions, for or against. That they may not necessarily agree with your own, or be politely phrased enough for your personal tastes doesn't detract from the message.

Software companies have treated the User's machine as their playground for years with little or no resistance, because most of the technically savvy were A)employed by them B) kids or niche enough hobbyists to be safely ignored. or C) cared not a lick as long as things worked.

I've been trying to warn places for years this free-ride will end as soon as larger swathes of the population are both socially and technically savvy, and large groups of people are in a position to put in substantial resistance in terms of implementation behaviors they are willing to support.

I'm a hardliner against hiding anything* from the user. It's creepy, and inspires nil trust. Companies have only themselves to blame when they start taking advantage of user's ignorance. I spend half my time making the various degrees of learned helplessness foisted on people by tech companies a thing of the past for user's I support. It takes time and persistence, but it can be done. Not a one of them appreciates the wool having been pulled over their eyes.
I wish people did not assume it's ok to upload photos of others to Facebook et al and were more aware about the implications.

We don't have kids but I do not want photos of myself posted to Facebook. Family meetings are always super uncomfortable. Some family members tell me in advance they will not upload the picture to Facebook but other people simply get upset with me.
They were profitable for 8 years before she bought them.

https://www.axios.com/the-atlantic-to-expand-adds-100-people...
You pay the extra cost to hire people in an expensive market (e.g. a high CoL locale) because you want a part of the talent pool. Now, is the talent pool in SF uniquely amazing, full of 10x developers compared to the 0.5x developers everywhere else in the world? Or is SF simply such a large talent pool that it's hard to staff your business without an office in SF? I'll let you decide.
Most of the people I know are fairly new graduates, so that would skew things.

My friends and I spent most of our lives since grade 9 doing school stuff or stuff to get into school stuff. In my case, couple that with introversion and an aversion to most normal activities and the easiest thing to do is be good at the get into school stuff.

In university, most of my social activities revolved around the startup world, hackathons, or other competition-oriented activities as that is what I was good at. I went to one hackathon a weekend in my final academic year.

So I became good at a lot of these types of things which all revolved around the academic world.

I am not in university anymore, but I can still fill my time with the kinds of competitions and challenges in that world. If I couldn't, I doubt that I would know how to use my time. Even with those, I spend a ton of time commenting online.

Most of the people I know are in the same kind of boat. They were good at one or two things (might be science fair, research, conference organizing, etc) back in university which consumed their time. Then they left and are now left wondering, "now what?"
I think it was not only the British public, but also their international peers. The presence of international reporters put a lot of pressure on Britain.

By the same token, the HK protesters' strongest asset is the international perception that they are passionate but peaceful protests, and it's why China is so eager to label them as riots. If they were to employ significant violence - say, start shooting cops - it gives China infinite license to crack down with disproportionate power. And they have that power available (see the convoys of military trucks that they moved to the border, enough to stretch beyond the horizon).

That's why China's strongest strategy is to infiltrate the protesters and provoke violence, or just dress up soldiers as protesters and blow up some replaceable infrastructure and blame them for it. Then roll in the army in uniform in response, lock the city down, and remove anyone who causes trouble, in the name of public safety.

Having widespread armaments throughout HK does not play in the favour of the public here. It makes that violence much easier to provoke, and legitimizes any response. China isn't afraid to lose soldiers and cops to bullets, they're afraid of looking like the bad guys (the optics of another Tienanmen square).
Those are all fairly simple, I'm talking much bigger stuff. (I actually had a Titanium, but it also has a 68k.)
Assertion: A throwaway account is probably more likely to be banned than an identified account -- why else would anyone bother with throwaways?

If the throwaway account is banned, the original link-giver would lose their good standing. (sorry, I should have highlighted this to the original reply)

We can argue about whether the assertion is actually true, but even the perception that it might be true will make people reluctant to give out an invitation to someone wanting to create a throwaway account.

If I had my own named account in good standing, I suppose I might be willing to use it to create a throwaway account for myself, provided that I was careful to only use that throwaway for... I don't know... "lightly" controversial content that is only likely to be downvoted rather than abusive content that is likely to be banned. (Not that I would ever actually create a throwaway in order to be abusive! Just trying to think like a troll).

Actually, I guess that's what we wanted to encourage anyway, right? Controversial content should be fine; abusive content is not. Maybe this would work after all...
Ask HN: Best third party spam filtering?
We and our customers, for many legacy reasons are stuck with using Rackspace Email as our email solution. It works fine, but has the most atrocious spam filtering. Despite over a decade of complaining, Rackspace never fixes it. It sends obviously legit emails to spam (like Amazon order confirmations) and delivers the most obvious spam messages to the inbox.

We'd like to turn off their spam filtering and rely on a third party solution like https://www.cudamail.com/. We don't know anything about these services and I found Cuda Mail just by Googling for "Outsourced Spam filtering service"

Has anyone here used such a solution and, if so, which one seems to be the "best" that members of this community might recommend?

Aside - we can work around the problem for our own internal emails by simply forwarding emails to Gmail and relying on Gmail's filtering, however, our customer base is VERY un-savvy technically and we'd like a third party solution to simply solve this problem for our less technical users.

Any help or recommendations would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Compatibility with multiples browsers / platforms is usually the responsibility of the website/application.

Historically Apple has implemented what they want to out of various standards, protocols, etc, it shouldn't be a surprise.

Of course, it's not my preference when we're waiting for different operating systems or browsers to behave the same way, but that lack of compatibility has been going on for decades.
I've had a lot of fun with this recently.

One of my favourite gemini sites is this [1] page where a guy is hosting music that he's made over the years.

[1] gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space:1965/~sloum/

The platform is really nascent but I think has a lot of potential. If I get some time I might hack together a client that's better suited to me than the extant ones (although bombadillo works great for the moment).
If the company was hemorrhaging money on employee salaries by being based in SF then why wouldn't they simply move the company somewhere else?
> (e) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest

Right, so it’s not as absolute as the original comment made it sound.
In your thought experiment the cost isn't being borne by the worker, it's being borne by the business.
While working at IBM years ago, I participated in some of the suggestion programs that the company provided. Safety related suggestions that were adopted were rewarded with some fixed amount, perhaps it was $500 (I don't remember the exact amount). Suggestions that saved the company money were also rewarded. The reward was something like 10% of the company's first year savings.

Suggestions that saved a couple of dollars on the packaging of PC could, for example, be worth quite a bit. The best suggestion I heard of was made by a co-worker (before I worked at IBM). He was the first to suggest that bar codes be used on IBM's ubiquitous inventory tags. Since everything in the company, like desks, monitors, keyboards, etc. had inventory tags it would have been a huge labor saving suggestion during the annual inventory of everything.

Unfortunately, IBM didn't use the suggestion for a couple of years and according to the program's guidelines my friend wasn't eligible for a financial reward when the idea was actually adopted.
Instead of a laser gauge, you could try using a camera hooked up with some edge detection software and use that to estimate the width. It probably wouldn't be as accurate, but it would definitely be cheaper.
Their memories die with them. Social media doesn't.

I'm glad to see EU taking the necessary steps here.
It was an option to live wherever in the United States though. Every place I've worked remotely based in SV/SF has paid accordingly despite me and the other engineers not living there. Startups & BigCos alike.
You know, I never understood this. Limits (how a function behaves as dx approaches zero) are much easier (for me) to understand than infinitesimals (an idea which obviously can't even exist on the real line), and it's much harder to end up in contradiction.
Even if that isn't the case, the integrity of the Intercept has been called into question and all would-be whistleblowers would be wise to prefer institutions that have a better record of protecting anonymous sources.

Has Greenwald or the Intercept made an official comment on how they helped the federal government go after a whistleblower?
Salaries are mostly driven by how hard it is to find an employee, not the value they produce. If the model is to hire someone to be in the office, you obviously need to pay based on your location and local cost of living to be attractive. Completely logical to pay $300k in SF and $90k in Tulsa.

Now, if you really go all in with distributed workforce, the problem becomes "why pay $300k for the guy in SF while I can hire the 'same' guy in Tulsa for $90k?"

Instead of the guy in Tulsa being upset that they're not being paid as much as their buddy in SF, it's the one in SF who should wonder if they'll be able to keep their salary at $300k for long.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard this I would have about $78 to $96 (estimated).

Been tried. Many times. By numerous entities, and some media orgs themselves. It doesn't really work. The issue is people.
You're trying to figure out if you can afford that house based on your monthly pay?
Your comment is funny because in essence, it's kind of true. Economy only works as long as people keep buying (heh) into the idea. I agree that the form of our economy can change substantially but human cooperation via barter and trade is a sound institution on this Earth, and this pandemic has shown that if people are unhappy with circumstances, they will simply pretend as if everything's fine.

Makes me imagine an "end to civilization" where there is a large contingent of folks pining to return to normalcy while the world literally burns.
10 years of Front end Development. I quit
After 10 years of Frontend Development, I think I quit. What the HELL happened? I did some Vue.JS dev for a couple of years, (thank god Vue exists) but recently decided to dive into React & its' ecosystem. Is this: https://material-ui.com/styles/basics/#hook-api considered progress? I think I know what happened. Many ex-backend devs entered the field and being unable or impatient enough to understand and do CSS properly, decided to inline and JavaScripIze everything. Then came the Educators, the Wes's, the eggheads, the Public Speakers, Facebook and the like, and managed to convince the world all this is a good thing. I spent half an hour looking into the Material UI documentation trying to figure out how to add proper styles. This is sad. Fuck all of it.
Lots of them are free with your library card. Plus, you don't need to subscribe to everything. Those dozen newspapers all cover the same stories for the most part, pick whichever one has the best writing on the topics you are most interested in and just stick with that.
Probably, but this is exactly what main street America has been dealing with for the past 40 years: buy a house close to your great job, but now your industry has gone elsewhere for cheaper labor and you're now underwater on your mortgage and even basic city services are going downhill.
Definitely, we have intentions and there are significant challenges, but certainly on the horizon.
Sure, that's fair, but I think there's reason for optimism this time. Many counties are actually opening faster than they'd planned at the beginning of the month.
I'm not sure what benefit sharing the screenshots would have, I'm not trying to out the mod or get vengeance.

The video I posted was about a Lake Oswego woman going nuts and verbally abusing some local PD who were handling the situation with elegance. My title was something like "this is why I don't trust when people senselessly dog on the police." It was removed because there wasn't anything specific to Portland or surrending area (not true but ok). I told the mod I would just repost with the title "this is why I don't trust when Portlanders senselessly dog on local police" and was told not to post. No rules broken, just intimidation and censorship.

I don't subscribe to the progressive/liberal/left/socialist ideology and I'm genuinely afraid to publicly share that fact in Portland. There are many people in PDX who will violently attack you if they catch wind of that fact. This isn't a secret. It's also not a secret that Oregon outside of PDX and Eugene are generally Red communities.

For instance, look at the protests in Portland last year. The counter-protesters were far more disruptive and violent than the visiting protesters, but the typical Portlander wouldn't see it that way. In my own discussions with them, they see Trump supporters et. al. As being fascist and as causing violence simply by existing, thus justifying their pre-emptive violence.
How is QAnon violent? How does their violence level compare to Antifa?
Let me preface by saying this policy is a serious threat to my compensation - so I hear you loud and clear!

That said: this is the reality and, as unfair as it sounds from the employee's perspective, it makes perfect sense. Facebook does not pay Bay Area compensation to its employees in other parts of the world. It should be no different for those in different COL areas around the US.

Not only does this suck for current employees, but new hiring will be a nasty wake-up call. If a candidate in a different city thinks they'll cross their arms and demand Bay Area pay, there will be multiple other qualified candidates in that city & around the country more than happy to accept a competitive offer tied to their COL.

*Spelling
The NCSA and Cern web servers had the ability to let users on a system publish content from a specially named "~/public_html" directory. At UIUC, the engineering labs quietly enabled this functionality for all engineering students.

Within a week, dozens of students had their own web pages up, and by the end of the year, hundreds did. Encouraged by their initial success, this encouraged students to stand up their own web servers so they could run cgi scripts, etc.

As far as I knew, there was no equivalent taste-test for providers of Gopher content. You either stood up your own server or got special access to someone else's server, both of which were hard to do at the time.
The description of the defendant as "a grandma" is definitely meant to get you on a particular side of the story before even reading it.
I was a contractor at a company that announced that developers would have to work through the nights and on weekends at times, and they couldn't take any extra work days off. So, if you had to do an upgrade to production and it took all night, you were still expected to work all day too. Oh, and you didn't get paid any extra for the overtime either. One person asked about work-life balance, and the response from that manager was that when you chose a career as a developer, you signed up for this. This is what happens when this kind of abuse becomes rampant. The managers then declare it comes with the job. Such BS! BTW, that guy quit along with anyone else reasonably competent.
This is the difference between being an owner and an employee.

As an owner, your work is valued by the income it brings to the business. As an employee, your work is valued by the amount it cost to replace you with another qualified worker.
> I am still worth the same amount as I was before!

True, unless the company thinks you're more valuable by having you on-site.
HEIC has been in wide use for three years now (about half of Americans use it, knowingly or not), and this was a one line change on the upload form that the College Board didn’t include.
FB was at least a few years away from growing into a Public company when all this went down.
I also wanted to point to Numworks as an alternative calculator. It uses a 216 MHz ARMv7-M Cortex-M7 microcontroller and is almost open-source (both the hardware and the software, called Epsilon).

https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/

There was (and probably still is) a Numworks pet peeve of mine, though. As far as I understand, on many kinds of calculations (e.g., calculating a power of a number, or a derivative at a point) the Numworks software does an artificial "rounding" step with the purpose of presenting "nicer" results to high-schoolers in trivial cases. See https://github.com/numworks/epsilon/pull/1376 and https://github.com/numworks/epsilon/issues/1373 . It seems like the Numworks dudes have no concept of the accumulation of rounding errors :( ?

On top of removing precision intentionally being a weird choice, the implementation is too naive as far as I understand. This is basically what they do:

result = std::round(result / error) * error

See, e.g., https://github.com/numworks/epsilon/blob/c92b770112e38bd906a...

Would it not be both faster and less destructive to numerical accuracy to just clear some least significant IEEE 754 bits?

EDIT: forgot to mention it is approved for the SAT and ACT already.

EDIT2: More relevant to this thread; one can not run assembly on the Numworks written from the Numworks (it would be hard to fit all the prerequisites on its RAM and/or flash, e.g. Epsilon does not even have a file system), but it is possible to write C++, C, or assembly on your Linux or Windows PC, compile it and push it to the Numworks.
I'm __guessing__ that Facebook will have fully remote teams and orgs where this is less of a problem and will have ample opportunities to come to HQ. They fucking send their interns to other offices multiple times during an internship!
I had a similar thought and then realized that this describes Apple News Plus. It’s one place you can pay for articles and I assume there are licensing or per-article agreements just like a streaming service would have. Granted this is more geared toward Apple users but nonetheless, this is an existing manifestation of the idea you can pay for and use today.
If there were one onion link posted in these comments I would have expected it to be https://local.theonion.com/dolphin-spends-amazing-vacation-s...
That was covered by a two-year IB (International Baccalaureate) course in Computer Science running from 1997 until 1998. I attended a private school (the International School of Milan).
Because the Bay Area is one of the only places where the supply of potential employees is high enough to meet the company's demand.
That has absolutely nothing to do with what he said which is in no way linked to its status as an individual contributor.

The real point is it's not about what you are "worth" but about your market value. If you are away from Silicone Valley where you could find a similarly paid job, your options are more limited. That's a loss of bargaining power and Facebook thinks they can get away with paying you less.
The thing about remote work is.. it could become a global marketplace now for talent.

The big companies could get to off-shore again in a global remote-first re-jigging.
Your comment has nothing to do with spending. So what makes the Seattle budget out of control? That was the original assertion that I took issue with.
Garden Radio lets you listen to 17,000 radio stations from the whole world
Seriously, my dad made $150k as a physician... in suburban, central Virginia (not NoVA). This would be what, $400k in the Bay Area? We lived on 6 acres with a barn in a 3 story house with a pool, surrounded by forest.