skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context: I'm a somewhat privacy conscious consumer. I opt out of "useful personalization" as much as possible. I find it gross that my ISP looked at all the other companies out there monetizing my data and thought they'd get in on the action too ("Hey, cool, let's inject unique IDs as headers!"). ISPs have never been my favorite companies (e.g. before the adtech epoch, the historical surfeit of games around introductory pricing, the "threaten to cancel" song and dance for achieving price discrimination, deals disallowing usage of some sites without users proving they also have a cable subscription, etc).

I look at residential ISPs offering Disney+ subscriptions, Apple Music subscriptions, Hulu subscriptions, etc, and - while I understand the draw for some - I consider "here, have a 'free' trial account for something you wouldn't have bought otherwise that helpfully auto-renews!" a definite negative. It's just another way companies can pay to get their foot through my door. In my ideal world, my ISP is a company that earns a healthy margin in exchange for making sure the dumb bit pipe that connects me to the world keeps working most of the time; continuing to earn that healthy margin is the height of their ambition, and a predictable monthly deduction from my bank account is the sum of our interaction.

I've seen advice in the past that buyers who want to avoid the "smart TV" tracking ubiquitous in consumer TV models should check out TVs that are marketed as commercial displays. This got me wondering: would similar logic hold up in picking a commercial ISP as opposed to a residential ISP?

There's a "small business ISP" in my area offering 1 Gbps symmetrical access for $250/mo for a shared line or $850/mo on a dedicated line + $750 installation.

Handwaving the building owner's permission here, it seems to me that $850/mo split eight ways between all the building tenants must yield a massively better load factor than residential ISPs give for a monthly price somewhere between the introductory price and the actual price for 200/100 Mbps Fios when I last had it in 2019.

I suspect we'd even come out ahead by splitting the $250/mo. Even one other tenant buying in would put the price in Fios territory. Doing $250/mo solo wouldn't necessarily be prohibitive either, but >$100/mo would be a pretty steep privacy premium.

My questions:

- Is anybody on HN using a commercial ISP at home today? If so, how has the experience been?

- Is my assumption - that independent commercial ISPs are less likely to bother with privacy invasive measures to wring out extra profit - a reasonable one?

- It seems like if one went through the trouble of doing this for one's own building on principle, one will have done most of legwork required to be able to repeat it N times. Does anyone have experience running a very small ISP? I could imagine this working quite well as a co-op model.
the effects seem to grow with time...away
Because a much higher share of the US smartphone market is iOS (close to half overall and over 80% of teens and young adults).
But we should never take "the target businesses that hang out here" as a "given".

If you aren't open to less working ours and less output, you will never get management's boot off your neck.
With this I think there is a unique take: typically those who feel comfortable having children are better off. Those who are better off get rewarded for having children. So it can be a "rich get richer" problem. If you are currently childless you might end up subsidizing your coworker's choice to have children to your detriment.
I don’t know if that’s the policy or the reviewer simply screwed up but if the developer doesn’t bother to explain, yeah, too bad.

Let’s not pretend that explaining what your app does is a huge burden that only few can overcome.

You sign a business deal with Apple to distribute your app, you are expected to do your part. If you think that this is something you rather don’t do, then don’t work with Apple.

I don’t think that having to explain how your app works is a unfair burden in the business.
Gitlab seems to disagree. A lot of this is probably just transitional pain.
Totally nothing happened in 2014 that involved Russia, da. Definitely not a war.
Dear boss,

My team is really struggling with the challenges that have come along with this global pandemic. Everyone is doing their best given the situation, but we aren't able to deliver the same level of productivity on a consistent basis. Can we setup a call to discuss adjusting expectations and shifting workloads in order to keep everything running as smoothly as possible?

Sincerely,

pojzon

There is an email template for you.
Do you have any links to some blog posts discussing it (the "doing it right" approach)?
I would agree that it definitely depends on the use case.

I will definitely check out Syncari - just opened the landing page and it looks great!
But they are unhappy about their managers' decision to favor their colleagues.

If you give a tax rebate to anyone who's last name starts with A, are the other people not allowed to be annoyed, given that they have to pay more taxes to make up for the rebate?

"Why can't you just be happy for the A people?" feels weird.

Just pay those not taking time off for the time they would've taken off. It's not a complicated concept, it shows appreciation for them working harder than they'd need to if their colleagues were around.
It is exactly same as mega.nz does now. Unfortunatelly it is prone to leak of full URL by malcious or buggy browser extensions. And does anyone know what is sent with Chrome URL check?
Worldwide, the median annual salary is $3000.
Not nearly alien enough.

Plague has co-evolved with human civilization, for reasons adequately explained in Guns, Germs and Steel, among other places.

The ability to understand it, and take rational steps to mitigate it, is rather more new. SARS2 is arguably the first major pestilence to strike a human civilization which was coddled into the illusion that no such thing can happen to it.

Our spectrum of responses to that are fairly predictable to a student of history, but mixed with the peculiar impotence of a people who thought they had the power to stop this sort of thing, and have discovered they do not.
Any management that isn't looking at the current situation and planning for another year of the same – or worse – probably needs to find a new role.
No it isn't. They still collect payment before actually giving you the package. They just do it at your door.

This scam is apparently about paying after something had been delivered, which most sellers won't offer, and even then only to companies, so it must involve the seller getting scammed too.
Yes, but Windows XP was in widespread use until recently and is still in use in a lot of places. I don't know where "netmarketshare.com" takes their user statistics (Google just used them when i searched for that) but it reports "1.26%" for Windows XP, which i think is still a large number. There are still so many users of Windows XP that Microsoft released a critical security patch last year despite XP being official EOL for years now.
We all make mistakes, but his comments you link to do show a huge error in judgement. The intention of the US government to capture Assange has been well documented since 2010:

> "It's certainly my belief, based on what the attorney general said, that they have already got an arrest warrant for him and they are just waiting for the appropriate moment in the appropriate country," Toobin said. [0]

(I can't help but find it ironic that in a thread about trying to silence a whistleblower, your comment trying to hold someone accountable for their past mistakes is being voted down).

[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/01/sweden.interp...
And the internet classic The Animal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwSmCyL_c0
I can see why it may take years to determine if the infection rate has been significantly lowered.

But what is the timeline for determining if there are serious deleterious symptoms?

If we get to the point where we know a bunch of vaccines are safe, but not necessarily effective, could these be approved for anyone who understands the risks?
The pictures are staggering.
Agree on the detaching from Google. I found FastMail to be a good middle ground until ProtonMail catches up with usability and stability.
Yes - if you're not a lead in any sense its unlikely you'll get buy-in.
a) The internet and chat applications can be used for illegal purposes. Should web browsers and chat apps be restricted?
b) same with GPS, web browsing, email on the device, etc.

Call recording is a very useful function to many people. Entirely breaking it is unnecessary.
Title should reflect that this is the opinion of one guy, Reed Hastings.
That is an extremely strange order of priorities, right?
Oh really? Wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the link!
I think the designers of many of those models would disagree with you.
It's trivial to change the listing on Amazon. I've seen tons of Ship of Theseus listings like this where I'm looking at a reusable bag or a pair of headphones but the reviews are talking about shoes or a book. These listings usually sell genuine product that's cheap or crappy. The scammers usually use generic review text like "Great product! Thanks!" or "Worked great out of the box!" or "Exactly what I needed!"
It pops up when there is a HTTP 404 status code or similar returned. So these false negatives are likely due to the specific sites that are configured in a wacky way.

(Don't get me wrong, it is still very annoying for the user regardless what the cause is.)
Absent any other details as to how Mr. Hastings has come to his conclusions I'm left wondering if

“Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative,” Mr Hastings told the Wall Street Journal.

Doesn't ACTUALLY mean "managers not being able to micromanage by proxy of physical presence is a pure negative", because in lived experience this has been at the root of much resistance to WFH in my career: managerial loss of control and influence
At least in the US, the pandemic has changed everyone's life created stress for everyone. These policies seem to indicate that non-parents don't have an additional burden worth recognizing. It is easy to see it this way too as most of the managers and executives at big tech companies are parents.

For young non-parent tech workers, this may be the first time that they have to figure out how to feed themselves during the work week. I know many people who moved from home, to school, to big tech work were all of their meals are provided. This was one of the big perks they were sold when joining the company, and now it has been pulled out from under them. Some of them know how to cook, others don't. Either way, they have to learn how to manage working food preparation into their schedule.
Thanks for the links.

I'll have to hunt around a bit harder, because it seems that in general, the people who talk in the most detail about browser rendering don't seem to understand the rendering processes in non-browser apps, and vice versa.

For example, all of the discussions of GPU usage that you linked to all seem to skip over the fact that (most) native desktop apps do the same thing implicitly c/o the toolkit they're using. If your ListView widget is ultimately drawn using Vulkan or Metal etc., then the exact same set of abstraction processes and delivery to the GPU are going in a a native toolkit app as the browser (which is not suprising, really).

AFAICT, React has no access to the browser render tree, and it can only control the DOM. As such, it is really positioned at a very different level in the "drawing stack" than, say, Qt. At the same time, as you point out, it also isn't particularly close to the widget layout models of "classical frameworks" (even constraint-based versions as have become more common in recent years), because it deliberately tries to prevent you from having too much direct control over the current DOM - that's supposed to be driven by the state.

I wish there was a more fruitful meeting place where the experiences of 30+ years of "classical frameworks" could shape and in turn be shaped by the decade plus of "web frameworks". I think that the former has a lot offer the latter and the latter has many ideas and insights that could probably improve the former.
The actual title of this article is:

"Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects"
I’ll guess that their point was that it depends largely based on your social circle.
It would also be inversely correlated with age, as the likelihood of having contracted the common cold increases with the amount spend interacting with people throughout your life.

This doesn't reflect reality, as its correlation isnt inverted.
This is business! Billions of dollars are at stake. This is far too important for things like "research" or "science." We make decisions based on the gut feelings of charismatic white men. Charisma is proof. If reality disagrees with charisma, reality is wrong.

(Politics is even more this way...)
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There is also a considerable body of work on so called Software Rejuvenation, to mitigate software aging phenomena, lead by Prof Kishor Trivedi, from Duke U
IPFS Case Study: Fleek
It has a good effect on hiring, I'd guess.
If a standard work day is 8 hours and management expects you to do the work of 4 people then I'd argue that the company is already bleeding money.
Curious, how long ago was that? I visited last year and got a tour from Angel. Yea, they had a lot of old hardware.
Bust the Police Unions
Regulations.gov API
Philip Morris Asia Plan(2009)
That's why I said "talent." You don't need to play an instrument to make music anymore. You don't need to draw to make digital illustrations. You can get away with a computer, the right software, and your imagination.
The Nazis themselves were censored before seizing power, and some say it helped radicalize them. Maybe censorship doesn't work all that well at its ostensible purpose?
> And if the answer is that the tax code is way too complicated that it's prohibitively expensive for the government to build a site as comprehensive as Turbotax, then fix it!

"Fix it" only makes sense for bugs. It doesn't make sense for features. TurboTax, accounting firms, entire professional organizations (CPAs) live off of the fact that the tax code is hard to understand. Maybe it needs to be difficult to properly align incentives. Maybe it doesn't. But it's absolutely intentional.
I, personally, think there is insufficient focus on doing what is doable in the here and now. Society is reshaped all the time, every day, by every choice ever person makes. If we aren't even trying to push it in X direction because we are spending our energy justifying not bothering to try that -- "because it's too tough" -- then that strikes me as self-fulfilling prophecy.

I get really tired of self-fulfilling prophecy. Given what is at stake, I think we can and should do better than simply justifying our failures to adequately rise to the occasion.
Do public taxes pay for my care when I’m old?

I thought we just got Social Security which is a fixed rate.
It's not much better with older kids either; I have 3 teens with mental health issues (depression/anxiety/migraines/ADHD) which have gotten worse with 6 months sheltering-in-place.
I would love to go back to a Nokia 1100

the biggest advantage is the battery performance, If you are travelling trekking etc, the phone battery reliably can work for a week easily, no charging worries.

It is distractions free phone with just calls and SMS,

It is very robust device, very light weight and sturdy, I have dropped it from a height 4 floors and into a swimming pool and it still worked perfectly fine. The b/w display is high contrast making this the phone ideal phone in construction / industrial site, the modern day equivalent is the overpriced CAT android phone.[1]

I would pay good amount of money for a boxed one today. After few months( android or iOS) of usage I find the charge hardly lasts till the end of the day, and you are running around trying to find a charger, or lugging a battery pack.

Yes modern phones are computing device and consumes less power for what they do, however a mobile phone is a phone first, if I can't make calls at end of the day , what good are all the apps and features

[1] https://www.catphones.com/
I'm not really sure what your point is? That other marginalized groups exist?

As a society, we unfortunately discriminate against people based on lots of different factors.
Yep. If you want to see something scary, go browse reddit.com/r/childfree

It's an entire community of people that feel like heroes for not having children, and despise the thought of even having to come into contact with a child. It carries a similar religious fervor to veganism but it doesn't actually help anyone or anything.
As others are saying, any worker vs worker animosity here is a depressing and pathetic waste of energy.

Focus on management. Remember money is relative, but total working hours is absolute.
I think Chinese authoritarianism may be best though if as a rent based system much like resource based economies such as the Gulf states, except that the ‘resource‘ they are extracting rent from is a capitalist market economy. It’s a strange beast for sure. One thing the Chinese authorities do not lack is competence. They make horrific, catastrophic mistakes, sure, but they are incredibly organised and disciplined. They will turn in a dime and execute whatever strategy it takes to set things ‘right’, as defined in their terms with ruthless efficiency. They must not be underestimated.

I think western institutions are being underestimated. The whole point if democratic systems is their flexibility. We will simply adapt and grow new institutions. We have the dynamic systems of social discourse and public accountability to do so. Authoritarian systems find this hard to do because their top down architecture limits them to solutions envisionable by a single authority. They have no way to do public input or to generate a range of options, or try things and have them fail. It’s fine. It’s part of the process.
How are they doing backups of the software and data?
Number one is fast available COVID-19 tests so I can get these kids out of my house during the day :)

But since that’s taking time... Build good primary school education software and couple it with teacher training. Right now it’s a mishmash of garbage.

Finally, for the privileged folks who can afford it, vet all those Reading/math tutoring services and maybe even build a marketplace that credentials people to tutor kids remotely.
that doesn't jive with my initial take, although admittedly, i've only read the first few chapters so far and have yet to get back to it. i got the initial sense that the greed is harmful, and the beliefs around greed make it worse, so a little greed leads to a lot of bad feelings. it's not minimizing/forgiving of the actual greed in existence though.

i'm in general agreement of the book's overarching thesis that people are mostly good. we wouldn't have a functioning society if that weren't true. it's just that our spidey senses are horribly tuned to the modern world of very few actual dangers, which are mostly hidden away in institutions (centers of power) rather than our neighbors to whom we tend to cast the suspicious eye.
On Job #3 since being injured.

Chronic conditions ebb and flow, sometimes I’m a great employee and sometimes I’m horrible. Hell sometimes I can’t even see the computer.

Turns out people/companies get tired of it after awhile.
So limiting meetings and working solo when I can on large tricky projects is how I’m rolling.

I can solve stuff most can’t. I just need a lot of time to do it.
Because it's likely my best shot at financial independence. There's no other line of work I can pursue without taking on tens of thousands in student debt and starting over career-wise.

I've worked in several industries in my life, and it's not like tech is unique this way. In a lot of ways, finance is much, much worse. It would be great to have enough money to pursue whatever goal or passion I wanted, but that's not my reality.
Because Intuit, H&R Block and others have spent enormous amounts of money and time lobbying federal and state legislatures and executive agencies to ensure they don't.

My state had developed a free filing system and had successfully tested it with selected tax filers for a couple of years. It was due to go live the following year for all state tax filers. Intuit and others successfully lobbied the state legislature and newly elected governor to ban the state from moving forward with deploying a solution.
I'm working from home since 2014 and this is the main argument I heared when I still was employed.

Going freelancing internationally finally shut them up.
That's very noble, but do you believe that your choice should be forced onto others?
Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, who decides work policies for thousands of his employees.
I'm a parent and a cancer patient. I have no problem if someone complains about the time off I take. Though I don't think anyone would complain. I keep it to a minimum, and I make up for it when I can.

Some people are going to sacrifice their personal life, and their health for their careers. I decided a long time ago that I was not going to do that. I accept that others may climb the corporate ladder faster than me, and I agree that they should.
Why does the title exclude “Netflix boss” that is on the original?

Excluding it gives a false impression this is something more than a self interested opinion.
TFA == "The Fucking Article"
Non-Posix File Systems
Sorry Reid, but I'll never set foot in an office again. Working 100% remote saves me way too much time, not to mention money, and I've long since sorted out staying connected work colleagues (I've been working 100% remote for ~6 years).

Not needing to factor in commuting when choosing where to live is a godsend.
I mostly agree... however, given how many "news" sites are now going back and completely changing articles (headlines, content) without any history, I think it's a mixed bag.

Link rot isn't the only reason why one would want an archive link instead of original. Not that I'd want to overwhelm the internet archive's resources.
Fair enough, but that's a problem that could be solved by adopting those 'socialist' measures that are normal in other first world countries. The individual parents are not in a position to make any changes there and their lives are as expensive - and probably more so - as the lives of singles. Resentment is a ridiculous response to a societal problem.
A Covid-19 Vaccine: Polarization Between Media and Anti-Science Sources
Let me quote a few things from Octal's App Store page [1] (emphasis mine):

> Octal is a modern, full-featured Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) client ...

> • Read and share Hacker News stories ...
> • Upvote stories and comments you like ...
> • Submit new posts to Hacker News ...
> • Log in to Hacker News ...
etc.

> About Hacker News:
> Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, its content can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

On the one hand Apple is selling the dream of a privacy and security focused utopia, where all apps are well-curated and malware does not exist. And demanding a 30% cut of revenue from many apps in the process.

Then on the other hand presumably two of their reviewers could not be bothered to read the app description or do a few minutes of independent research to figure out what Octal and Hacker News really is.

It's hard to see what value Apple is providing in this case.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491
I see. Well I think that makes your option even more clever.