skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cue to the horde of new startups that will be 100% remote and eat Zuckerberg's lunch.
Remote will be the new open space, with all the buzz words, feel good stories and even the blind eye towards its obvious defects.

Seriously, everything is documented, you can grow without worrying about floor space, you get access to a larger pool of talent, you are probably imagining more.

Current managers may not like it, but hey it is okay to be old, leave it to the young to innovate.
It's not the same, but if you have an Apple device— News is something like 10-15 dollars a month for a large aggregate of sources.

Pressreader is also pretty good, but web-based. https://www.pressreader.com/

The Toronto Public Library even offers free subscriptions to it with a library card—so I'd check into your local library.
>The ideas of Galieo, Socrates, Jesus etc. fall into this category. That is to say those figures did not promote public health opinions that undermined a global cooperative effort in a time of crisis.

Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, "Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat."

(...)

Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, "Listen and understand. A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it. (...) For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him."

(Matthew 15:1-2, 10-11, 19-20)
What will actually happen is the UBI money will FIRST go to smartphones, new jeans, Starbucks coffee, and the necessaries of life will come in second.
I would assume most mods don't put "reddit mod" on their resume, for one.
> True, if you ignore the fact that China is a government and YouTube is an internet video portal.

That's the way the west perceives the situation - although over there they might see this as 'powerful unelected corporation which is legally mandated to maximise profits arbitrarily censors with no oversight, in a country where these unelected corporations control parts of the government'.
Open source maintainer apologizes for having a daytime job
By that reasoning Enterprise edition of Windows is worse because users actually can turn the spying off
HEIC is based on H.265, so there is a whole separate organization dedicated licensing and litigating its patents.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideology. It always leads to repetitive, predictable discussion, which is off topic here, and usually turns into flamewar as well.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, the added staff and that lead to the pay-wall they have which was helpful and a long-overdue idea.
A better way to approach it is:

Imagine in your home city overcast clouds, dark skies. All of a sudden there's a downpour of a rainstorm. After a whole night of raining, the next morning, why does the sky appear blue and clear?

Is it that all of the clouds were destroyed and that they will never reappear again? No - it's because the clouds were carrying the mist and the water vapour, which "precipitated" out of the sky as liquid since the water droplets are heavier than air.

After it rains, the clouds disappear. The clouds didn't go away into nowhere. You can be skeptical about whether I'm writing about a magical statement, but you can observe yourself that after a period of intense rain -> the clouds go away and you can see the blue sky and clear across the city all of a sudden.

Will you be skeptical about this scenario as I described it?
Are you using FDR, a democratically elected president, as an example of a nimble but unaccountable billionaire?
The more interesting question is not whether that was your experience but what the aggregate data might say about that.

It seems to me that companies that don't make that adjustment are spending a lot more on labor than they need to, but it may be that for certain types of businesses that it just doesn't make a difference in the overall financial picture.

There are very few businesses/industries that have a revenue/employee (or profit/employee) ratio like high-tech companies. And so fine-tuning employee compensation geographically may just be lost in the noise of their operations.

I doubt that practice is consistent across other business types though and it also suggests that employees at these businesses should be asking for even higher compensation!
These photos are being deemed unacceptable after the fact. That's part of the issue. It was ok that they were taken and first published (apparently). So a major part of this issue is that someone continues to control a photograph based on their later decisions.

They are not alleging that the photos were taken against the parents' (or children's) will. It seems to imply that a person carries a perpetual license on their likeness.

Maybe that children are involved makes this case special (unclear here). Or maybe someone who liked a photo of themselves one day gets to demand it be taken down later. Imagine a couple dating put up a photo. They break up and a couple years later one is getting married and demands the other takes down that photo.
"Chinese" in this context pretty obviously means "acting on behalf of the Chinese government", not "having Chinese heritage".
Here's one datapoint from gitlab. Fullstack engineer using their comp calculator can drop 40% (moving from 1.0 to .6 location pay multiplier) moving from SF to a cheap area: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
Zuckerberg is a dick.
could be this how religions started?
The Vector Generation (UK climbing history)
I think the reality is that you never get the best of both worlds. Companies will not spend on expensive real estate and amenities for people only in the office 2-3 days per week. Either there will have to be big sacrifices (open offices with no reserved desks/seating/equipment, like how consulting does this), or there will be no office offered at all.
In reality, the reason why these have failed in the past is human psychology. Think about this with something other than news -- we all have $800 smartphones, but stare at the app store thinking, "hmm...do I really want to spend 99 CENTS?"

When you subscribe to a publication, you have to make decision once. You think about the amount of money against all future potential articles you can read, and decide from there. When you're paying for EACH article, all of a sudden you have to make that decision with every click. Is this article REALLY worth 50 cents?

Not to mention, this incentivizes the totally wrong things. People say they hate clickbait, but the aggregators and social networks that now act as gatekeepers force that kind of behavior -- publishers of course only get paid when you click through to their article. And in this case, it's even more profound -- we're no longer talking about a few cents from display ads, but 50 cents to $1.

For what its worth, we're trying a different tack -- especially when it comes to local news: https://blog.nillium.com/what-can-napster-teach-local-news/
Exactly this. I work for a FAANG and live in Texas. If employees leaving the bay area could leave and maintain the same level of pay, I'd expect a bay area salary as well. With the lack of a state income tax and relatively low housing costs I'd be living like a king! According to NerdWallet's COL calculator I could pay off my house after a year with just my salary increase.

Edit: And if I moved to the bay area I would absolutely expect a COL increase
If this is a leading indicator that remote work is going to become mainstream, I am anxious at the prospect of new grads / junior engineers' ability to get their foot in the door.
I agree that the grandmother should respect her daughter's wishes and take them down.

I would disagree that it is the role of the government to enforce this.
Basic understanding of information technologies, scripting, coding, data tools, and maybe things like jupyter notebooks will be kind of like being good at excel, word, and photoshop are today. Processing data through distributed parallel services and/or building custom FPGA or GPU services won't be common knowledge to the graduating class of 2030.

I suspect that it'll be the same... but different. There's always an edge to be found and good applied logic practitioners then, like now, will be paid well for their time.
Yea, that's something else I forgot to mention. I chalk it up to OP possibly being inexperienced/naive (I think this was his first job out of college), but I have worked with a lot of companies and all of them require you to pay back at least part of your signing bonus if you quit within a year.

When I graduated college, all of my friend group discussed it and we all took out a small chunk of the bonus to go on a small group vacation, but the rest of the bonus got put into an investment account and not touched for at least a year. That way if we did decide to leave, the money was easily accessible to be paid back. I know not everyone has that flexibility, but it's probably the best way to approach signing bonuses if you're not 100% sure you will be at the company long term.
A similar argument could be made for a whole host of subscription services (gyms, television, etc.) but I think they all keep the subscription model because the mental transaction cost of buying a small amount of the product creates a huge barrier to use. Mental transaction cost is the stress that the buying decision places on the buyer. Someone once said that the only two prices on the internet are free and infinity, so any incremental cost is stressful. Additionally the prices needed to sustain a per-unit sales model are so high that nobody wants to buy. A great recent example is ski resorts. Before the Epic and Ikon passes, day passes were expensive but not insane. With these passes, however, the ski companies have decided to dramatically increase the daily cost and lower the subscription cost to maximize revenue.
Gryphon – Swift to Kotlin translator to share your app’s iOS code with Android
How HAPI Is Your App?
See also:

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964366

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828995
Given Google's size and power it's only natural the Chinese and plenty of others would have insiders. How far up the influence ladder they've climbed is another matter.

Just the same, the US is doing it as well, abroad as well as at home.
Because it reflects how the writers solve problems. They needed a website. Did they spin up a docker container of wordpress, install a theme and some plugins until it looked the way they wanted, and write content in an in-browser WYSIWYG editor? Or did they write their content as HTML, and copy it to a server running HTTPD? Those two solutions represent different values, different philosophies, about how to use computers. It is good to see that the author's website-building approach is consistent with their operating-system-building approach. It lends credibility to the sincerity of the project.
I think the point is not hiring in Lagos or Jarkarta, but hiring closer to that salary level. Facebook has already indicated salary cuts may be forthcoming for those who relocate out of the Bay Area, and we're still in the very early stages here.
But what's the value of this arithmetic muscle memory, in a world of ubiquitous computing?

It’s the same as knowing the editor commands, of whatever text editor you’re using, so that you don’t have to look them up constantly while working. It’s the same as knowing the basic functions and methods of the libraries and frameworks you use so that you can type them quickly without going to look them up.

Auto completion is a powerful tool but, in general, it’s not very helpful if you don’t know at least a prefix of the name of the function you’re looking for.

Basic arithmetic skills are like math literacy. If you’re constantly having to look words up in the dictionary then you probably won’t get through Lord of the Rings.
What myth are you reading? There are lots of things we forbid

We can decide that it's too dangerous to encourage people to commit violence, for example

We can still change laws (and have recently!) about what types of posts are acceptable. I want a world where we democratically decide that revenge porn is illegal.

But it doesn't even seem like you read my post, much less the link.
Tell HN: My permanently deleted Facebook account reactivated without my consent
Hello HN community,

I permanently deleted my Facebook account about 2 years ago. Sometime in April, my wife and some family members asked me whether I had reactivated my Facebook account. To my surprise, the account had all the previous pictures and posts, even though Facebook promises to delete all your data after 30 days (I believe) of asking them to delete your account.

I've been searching around, and it seems Facebook does not have any sort of customer support. I have clearly not logged into the account, as I don't remember the password for such account.

What should I do?
I love Tachyons as well, and am happy to see the project hasn't been abandoned in favor of far more complicated things (I mistakenly thought that was the case)
Yes, and print ad revenue continues to march towards the cliff, and then Covid 19 killed companies digital ad budgets and that cratered.

These are all circumstances affecting nearly every media company right now.
Show HN: Open-source crisis line for groups
I don't think I understand. Would it have been more ethical in your system if she hadn't hired them in the first place?
My intuition for the verb 'reveal' is that the subject need be in some way active in the object being de-obscured. A server responding to pings reveals itself because handling incoming connections and sending packets in response is an active process. If the leather had undergone some sort of chemical process, say, an oxidation, and this had made the script apparent, I think it would be reasonable to say that the fragments were revealing the lettering. However, as far as I can see, nothing has changed about the scroll, nor even about our technological ability to interrogate it - rather, someone simply attempted to look closer than had been done so before.

Etymologically, 'reveal' is of the same heritage as 'unveil' - both are essentially analogies to the removing of a veil, and as such have the connotation of action. Only in a poetic context would I personally think it appropriate to use 'reveal' in a passive sense - as in your example of objects revealing themselves on exposure to light.

This is of course just wot i rekon. I would probably chose 'divulge' over 'reveal' in the title of the OP article.
> Why can’t I have a view that colors words according to the library they came from, or any other high-level categorization? e.g. Show me all the words that have side-effects or perform “dangerous” operations.

This. Highlighting side-effects would be especially helpful in language where this isn't clear, like JavaScript. »`sort()` is red so it must be destructive.«
Was that 4x the salary truly 4x, after subtracting out the costs of living?

I got an offer for an on-site job in London the other day, that would technically be ~1.5x salary boost - and ~5x the salary I had the last time I worked for a local company. But after subtracting out the costs of living, it turned out it would be effectively a 3x salary decrease, and at the same time a significant degradation in the standards of living. Turns out, London isn't a particularly friendly place for a couple with a toddler to move to.
Once I discovered utility classes, I found it so much better than BEM or any derivatives of such. I don't want my styles to know what my components are, I want my components to use predefined styles.
She exposed herself with bad OPSEC. NSA was going to find her eventually without the tipoff from the Intercept once they published.
True, but it's pretty labor-intensive and scripted bots help to relieve that burden as well as providing amplification capabilities.
I actually haven't looked for a job locally in 3-4 years. I'm currently working remotely for a SV company.

I did do a few interviews with AWS for a TAM/Engineering type role earlier this year. They
had no quibbles with $175K. I actually lost interest when I found out it was a 25% on-premise
role at client facilities. If I had known everyone
would be working remotely now, it might have been
different.
You’re not wrong. I just quit the industry as well; the multiple levels of webpacked transpiled bullshit, react modules for spacer divs and “type safe CSS” really got me down. Between ass backwards code, renting mainframes from Amazon, and surveillance capitalism I realized that everything I loved about commercial web engineering has gone to shit.

I have no idea what my next move is but right now I don’t really care.
App::FatPacker will turn your (pure perl) script and its dependencies into a single file for deployment.

App::staticperl will build a static binary with the perl+C dependencies built in.

A lot of the time, it's better to use a plenv + Carton, mind, but if you want a single file for deployment, that's a solved problem in perl land too and has been for years.
I keep remembering how we'd just meet over video rather than shlep all the way to the other end of Google's Mountain View campus.
Please avoid making bad jokes, take it to reddit
It depends what you want to do? Do you want to build a processor from scratch? A basic processor for core RISC-V is actually quite simple. The RISC-V I specification (all the core instructions not including multi/div, none of the privileged spec) is not complex.

Implementing something like the story talks about is obviously far more complex.

If you're mostly interested in putting together existing processors that can again can vary in complexity, there are some things with 'batteries included' where you can just spin up an FPGA image that works then go poking around, others where there will be significant work in integrating things into a working system.

I'll give a plug to Ibex (https://github.com/lowRISC/ibex) which is the core I work on, it doesn't have an MMU and is targetted at embedded applications. It's a 'real' core, in that it's suitable for taping-out into a real system but still quite simple to understand. OpenTitan (https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan) is a notable project we're also working on that uses it, it's an open source root of trust and will give you a working RISC-V SoC you can put on an FPGA, you can easily carve out the security things leaving you with a RISC-V core, some SRAM and various useful peripherals.
> In the memo, Bradley says that sales, editorial and events staff are all impacted.

There will more than likely be events to run in the near future.
You may this payment daily with something called ads, they cost like $0.00150 for an article, but we all hate them.
I agree about it being scary that the browser doesn't do more to prevent connections from from "localhost" to "not localhost".

https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault/issues/578 was for an issue with remote servers accessing the localhost ec2 metadata service that aws-vault can run, that worked exactly by using DNS rebinding. It was fixed only a couple weeks ago, so it seems like this is a developing area and if I were on a red team or pen testing, I would play around with more.

I visualize the "localhost hole" problem of blindly trusting localhost as an air gap in a pipe (like [0]); anybody could come along and either drop poison in the pipe, or redirect the water coming from the top to their own bucket, or both.

[0] https://districtsales.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/tru-gap-...
These companies already have CoL adjustments based on whether you live in the Bay area, Boston or Austin.
So they did have a dress rehearsal, it just wasn't high fidelity, and on perhaps the most critical part of the process.
They increased about .5% inflation adjust per year from 2010-2020. That again does not mean that spending is out of control especially when you consider that 2010 was still in the depths of the great recession.
Is Dolu1990 the primary developer of everything SpinalHDL related?

I'm genuinely impressed with his effort.
Linux distributions manage to provide updates (and keep the machine running and secure) without telemetry. They were already doing this before Microsoft implemented automatic updates in Windows. (And, in fact, Windows had updates before it had telemetry.)
For what it's worth, I do not think people in the past were more informed than people today. If anything, more people are more informed today than at any time in history.

What we're seeing is the breakdown of consolidated narratives. It used to be that people's beliefs were all wrong in the same way. You'll note that this looks basically identical to everyone being well informed.

Now that we've moved into a regime of information abundance it looks like the world's gone crazy, when really it's just decohered.

That said, youtube as a vector is spreading the most virulent memetic viruses we've ever seen. Hard to say how it shakes out though, memes aren't all bad. Everything good we've ever done started off as a meme too.
>Of course that is in an ideal situation. Sometimes you don't have enough notice for this (COVID stay-at-home threw me off).

Sometimes the impulsive behavior gets the better of you too.
>Most other cultures place way more importance on family than we do in the west, in many even today, kids continue living with their parents until marriage.

Hunter gatherer and agricultural societies often have labor segregated by gender roles, with men, women and children spending more time apart from each other than a family in lockdown.
Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
If you put 10k impoverished persons in a small area then that meets the definition of a ghetto, which is a minority group living in one part of a city. It will gain a stigma, it will become under served by the commercial sector, and those with an address in that area will be treated differently.

It would be better if we could have decentralized housing for the homeless such that they are welcomed into more affluent communities and their financial status can be kept private. This is obviously more expensive.

Its not an easy problem to solve.
It means you’re adding at least that much value to the company - or at least that’s what whoever is hiring you thinks.
Query plans are heavily optimized, and map-side joins are used extensively. The use of optimizations exploiting memory makes the so-called in-memory computing of Spark no longer relevant because Hive also uses memory efficiently. Hive community is actively working toward Hive 4, so I guess the future version will be even faster.
Not being able to go outside has nothing to do with WFH.
the other thing is, without proper price controls (rent, basic food stuffs, transportation etc) business will look at it as a chance to jack up prices because "free money"

the other aspect is, no amount of ubi is going to cover huge medical costs that the current u.s system incurs, as well as higher education for those thst really do want to improve themselves and contribute

so (i think) ubi isnt a bad idea, but it needs to be coupled with other structural reforms and price controls to prevent being a huge potential diaster
Am I the only one bothered by people talking about “censorship” in this context?

A private company chose to remove content from its service because it considers that content to be bad, and probably in violation of its terms.

Did the government force it to do so?

Is somebody preventing the owner of the video from hosting it on their own web site?

Censorship is a real thing in the world, and so is crying wolf.
Being of Service: By Far the Most Effective Way of Selling