skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We know that Apple, Google, and the big monopolistic companies conspired to keep wages down.

True, but Facebook was the one that busted the cartel by ignoring the anti-poaching agreement and hiring employees away anyway. Not the government! That seems to prove that the job market is at least competitive enough for cartels to be unsustainable in the long run.

> I believe that if these companies were broken up - you would see wages go up rather than down

This is clearly contradicted by looking at the job market. The fact that the best paying companies are pseudo-monopolies like Apple and Google, or extremely well-funded startups/unicorns that aspire to pseudo-monopoly status by spending their way there with VC money, is evidence that tech monopolies are good, not bad for tech wages (at least if you're good enough to land a job at one of the monopolies).

If the companies were broken up they would make less money, and the reason why software engineers make so much money in the first place is that the pseudo-monopoly created by network effects allows for massive profits, at least some of which trickle down to the engineers. Software engineering is not in any sense harder than any other kind of engineering. The only reason why FAANG engineers make more money than electrical or civil engineers is their employers make way more money too.

The thing about monopolies is tech skills are portable across verticals. So if you have a monopoly on search, you can squeeze advertisers for money because there is no competition. But you can't squeeze your employees the same way, because they can jump ship to other non-search-engine tech companies and their skills will translate. So the monopoly power in the search space allows them to make a lot of money while the lack of monopoly power in the job market means they have to give some of those profits to their employees to stay competitive in hiring.

> Yet, most of them are unable to afford a house

You can definitely afford a home on a FAANG income (especially if your spouse also works). Let's say you make $300-$400k / year and your spouse makes another $100+k. You definitely have plenty of options within your budget.

Maybe you can't buy a large single family house in the middle of the city, but do you think the typical banker owned a McMansion with a yard in Manhattan? You can't bring your provincial suburban values with you if you want to live in a big city.
Not sure if this clip was cut or not, but VASA (and almost all other ATC channel) trimmed silence part.
great work! just curious - could you describe your product development timeline for Waypoint at a high level?

how you came up with the idea, how you iterated on it, and how you decided what features to include and not include in the initial release
In response to people in this thread claiming Glassdoor will remove reviews if you pay them:

Maybe our company was just unlucky with the sales rep assigned to our profile, but altering reviews was something they made clear would not happen regardless of if we paid or not.

At the time our company was getting negative reviews meant for a different company in a different country with a similar name. It was a major hassle to convince Glassdoor the bad reviews weren’t legitimate. Eventually they were removed but it required a lot of persistence emailing / calling them every week and providing evidence the reviewers never worked for our company. Meanwhile we were stringing their sales person along hoping that would make it easier, but I don’t think our sales rep had any sway.

I dislike Glassdoor especially for small companies where 1 unhappy person on a team of 15 can ruin their employers reputation from the perspective of future hires. IMO they shouldn’t allow reviews on public company profiles until there is a critical mass of reviews such that any 1 review won’t dramatically swing the star rating.
We have a section dedicated on that with specific CI systems called out: https://www.waypointproject.io/docs/automating-execution

Generally speaking I like to describe Waypoint in CI similarly to Terraform for infra. Prior to Terraform, all CI environments had this messy step that was like "create/manage infra" and it was mostly homegrown scripts that are cloud-specific.

Today, CI systems often have "deploy" which are similarly: home-grown logic that is platform-specific (kubectl for K8S, packer/terraform for VMs, etc.). We believe the "deploy" step in CIs can be replaced with "waypoint up" or "waypoint deploy".

The link above shows you how to do this.
You're obviously mocking this whole thing but the fact is that if you can get away with it, you can use that valuation to acquire actual smaller companies and talent and if you're running an online business and acquire a lot of customers (even if selling $100 bills for $95) you'll have huge distribution that you can then sell whatever you come up with next.

Or as they use to say, we lose money on each unit but we'll make it up in volume.
If this were true, Trump wouldn’t have so much trouble with them.
I'm not Mitchell but I think this page already answers your question:

https://www.waypointproject.io/docs/automating-execution

So basically you can integrate waypoint to your existing CI/CD solution.

Kind of using it as a Makefile for pipelines, if I understand correctly.
Also worth considering is open source software grants for academics. This would increase the number of people in academia who are major contributors to open source projects. Added benefit would be that, as practicing software engineers, those people would be good at teaching software engineering to their students.
FDA approves first treatment for Ebola, a Regeneron antibody cocktail
I am just annoyed by people saying Linux or Windows is more secure. It such a non argument. If someone is just plain stupid, clicks all links and downloads all kind of crap no amount of OS hardening will help him.

I agree that article is crapy and I wasted my time reading it.
More people should use uwf (Universal Write Filter), especially if you're already sailing high seas for enterprise editions like LTSC.
You're telling me!!
The language is basically a hybrid forth-lisp. I liked it, sadly my HP-48G bit the dust a while ago and was not recoverable (water damage, lost a lot of things).

And it may have been easier to use a PC, but PCs aren't portable. The calculator could easily move with you. This is not a trivial matter when moving between desk and lab and the field. With today's laptops and smartphones a calculator like that is less useful compared to the alternatives. But in the 90s and 00s it was definitely handy.
May I suggest that in this case the poster’s real problem was that he posted an identical review elsewhere, which is indicative of not behavior and will leak information about GD members which GD will then take the blame for?

Not suggesting GD is all wine and roses but they may have a point here.
I have a 28S and a 50G. While the 50G is more powerful (newer), the 28S is my favorite.

For programming custom functions the full keyboard is a lot more convenient. The 50G is too cramped, so it was hard to get into programming it, just too inconvenient whereas the 28S was a joy.

Love the clamshell. When using it for programming I lay it flat on the desk fully open. When using it purely as a calculator, flip it backwards and use handheld.

The build quality (except the battery door of course) also feels better. The 50G keys don't have the classic HP feel anymore.

The only real complaint I had of the 28S was not being able to save code between battery changes. I wish it had a backup battery to keep memory while changing the main batteries.

Still have my 28S and still use it most days, although sadly don't find much reason to program it anymore.
I'll admit that I was bit by Glassdoor astroturfing. The company had an almost 4-star average review and the first three pages were glowing 4 and 5 star reviews.

My first week at the company was nothing like the great workplace describe on Glassdoor. I'll spare the details, but suffice to say it was the most abusive workplace I've ever seen.

Later, I realized that all of the 4 and 5 star Glassdoor reviews started after a specific date and arrived in a short burst. If I went back far enough, the reviews were consistently 1 or 2 stars.

I tried to leave a fair 2-star review using the most dry and basic facts without any exaggeration or hyperbole. It stayed up for a month before disappearing without explanation.

Glassdoor is not a place to find honest company reviews.
According to https://rust-random.github.io/book/guide-rngs.html

Chacha8 has a throughput of 2GB/s and xoshiro256++ has a throughput of 8GB/s

For Monte-Carlo, the RNG is definitely the bottleneck.
For load balancing of short tasks the RNG is the bottleneck.
If this works for browsers, it will work for many other programs...
To be fair, the ATC led the pilot to the conclusion "jet pack". It was not an independent observation from the pilot. It could have very well been an aircraft drone.
Ooops, burned :P
More irritating to me, is most solutions essentially boil down to “give me (the author) all of the power”. For example, this page suggests hiring a “ethics expert” to perform an “algorithm audit”. Unsurprisingly the author of this page has started an ethics consulting company. Because there’s no way that they could be biased or use their power to benefit themselves, right?
Get a Powerline and ethernet adapter for your laptop. Won't link here due to spam, just search 'Ethernet Powerline' on Amazon.
The way Apple distinguishes itself from the masses of cheap phone manufacturers with their ultra low margins is through its premium brand. The idea that Apple "just works" is part of this brand, and they fight against any claim that it doesn't, even if it's true. It's very important to them to push the idea that their operating systems are the best ones available into the brains of their users. In some industries, like the music production industry, if you don't have an Apple device, you'll be laughed out of the room. The brand is probably the single most valuable asset that Apple possesses.
In "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", Julian Jaynes argues that before human intelligence was experienced as reflective, self-conscious internal monologue, early humans would routinely experience "command hallucinations" which they ascribed to gods[0].

In a setting that was designed to induce awe, reverence and altered states of consciousness, an idol could prompt believers to hallucinate an appropriate command. Today, we may say that a painting "speaks" to us--perhaps these statues did so literally to the people of their time.

If that is true, then defacing these statues would be a viable strategy to inhibit their ability to trigger these hallucinations or visitations. Rivals of a religion would easily be able to cut off believers from a direct experience of their god.

[0] https://www.julianjaynes.org/about/about-jaynes-theory/overv...
> Should I expect to run a modern DE on my smartphone from 2011?

No. That's a phone.

> How about my desktop from 2005?

Why not? That's approximately within the ability scope of the Pi4 and Pinebook Pro that I have.

DEs haven't really improved so significantly since then that they should need that much more power.

Their need for more computing ability has more to do with shoddier development practices than it does features.

The problems with KDE that I noted were mostly crashes and general broken behaviour; performance is more a Gnome3 problem, it only recently was capable of running on a Pi.
> [ATC] Flying object, was it a UAV or was it a jetpack?

this has occurred enough times that this is now a question ATC rattles off. just.wow.sad.
Hate this argument, because many of us deliberately live close to workplaces - and often for environmental reasons.
Everyone thinks the stock market is crazy.

The government is crazy - printing trillions of dollars this year, plans to print trillions more. The currency is will be devalued, inflation will happen. Investors see that and are getting out of cash and into stocks/crypto/property.

So is the market really up, or is it just the outlook on the dollar is down?
It's better to cross-check rather than relying on a single source. Another option is Blind. Sometimes people also leave workplace reviews at Google.
In trying to understand Apple's position on App Store policies, it may help to think of them as a retail store. For example, substitute "Best Buy" for App Store.

Can I tell my customers that 30% of the price of their widget goes to Best Buy at purchase? No, that's privileged information in the contract.

When my widget is on a shelf at Best Buy, can I advertise a lower price at Amazon.com on the box? No, of course not. They'd never place it on their shelves.

If I have to redesign my packaging so Best Buy can put a spider wrap around it, do I get to bitch about that to my customers? Nope, just a cost of doing business. It's "irrelevant" information to the customer.

I'm not suggesting this justifies their behavior. It's just an analogy that happens to fit Apple's world view of their App Store.
Broadly, I agree, and I've written a lot about it in the past[0].

OCI images are not quite as bad as they used to be. Linear caching is no longer baked directly into the image format, instead it's an assumption that has been carried forward by Dockerfiles and docker build.

Docker folks are working on at least the docker build part in buildkit[1]. In the meantime though I prefer Cloud Native Buildpacks, which are able to perform layer rebasing as an update operation.

Disclosure: I have previously worked on buildpacks technology for Pivotal, now VMware.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M2PJ_h6GzviUNHMPt7x-5POU...

[1] https://github.com/moby/buildkit
Thanks! Openland is almost intentionally very close to FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram in its user experience. We want to make it super familiar and easy to participate for everyday people who join for access to special communities and people we have on the platform.

Today, our biggest and most distinct advantages are on the organizer side. Automation and integrations are key for larger organizations and individual leaders to launch and operate their communities. With Openland there will be more communities in the world.
Or just open up the apk in e.g. apk studio and replace the bundled cert with the one from your mitm proxy. Effectively, that'll repin the app to your proxy specifically. There are more exotic pinning methods that this won't solve (the forever cat-and-mouse game) but it's good for many apps.
A 40KB Optimization Saved Us 50TB of Bandwidth
I haven't used any of these but recently I went down a rabbit hole of reading about prototype-based vs. class-based OOP, which took me to NewtonScript. It went prototype-based (inspired by Self, the common ancestor of NewtonScript and JavaScript) and because of this, many "classes" could have default data and functions point back into the ROM, meaning it was possible to have hand-held GUI apps and OS with 128KB of RAM.
Does Espruino take advantage of this technique to save on RAM, and does using JavaScript's prototype-based OOP make it more suitable than Python for low-memory situations?
You are likely getting downvoted because your complaint doesn't make any sense.

Autocompletion isn't a standard feature of any major NLP library, and blaming it on Python (currently the most popular language for NLP) isn't a good argument.
Since I can't edit my comment, I'll correct it here. As others have pointed out, I bought and returned the "Base Station" because it only had 2 coils and needed precise placement. I have not used the "Base Station Pro" (but will give it a shot, since it has some advanced tech). I jumped the gun on my comment, so the above comment is not accurate.
> Also it will make API patentable

That's not true though the reality is even worse. Patents have a limited term of 20 years.

If they win this case it is based on copyright law which has significantly longer terms. Currently that's valid until 70 years after the death of the content creator.
>I know of two specific examples of ReactOS code that as of a couple years ago were identical with Windows code.

Cool; if they're specific then you ought to be able to cite them for the rest of us.
> What kind of dystopian platform is Apple running where police have to look through everything you type about your own product to make sure you haven't written any thoughtcrimes?

What do you mean? Do you think it would be fair for Apple to allow developers to serve change logs with racial slurs or political conspiracies to young users? Literal toddlers interact with the App Store on a daily basis. The release notes are not a place to spew bile, so obviously they must be moderated to some degree. We can argue over the acceptability of them trying to blame their failings onto an innocent developer (if that was actually the case), but obviously you should not be allowed to type whatever you want in a text field that gets served to their customers.
>Both platforms bans anyone mentioning the supposed "whistleblower" (whom actually only had newspaper articles as 'evidence'), bans anyone mentioning Bidens kid, bans anyone mentioning the death of Clintons ex-staffers, Wikileaks content related to Dems is blacklisted, and they remove videos of Bidens gaffes for being "manipulative" when it's just clips from livestreams.

This is just plainly false. I've seen much of that discussed on both platforms.

You're just making stuff up to support a narrative.
Hi Mitchell!

A problem I had with Gitlab Auto CI/CD was that even though it fully abstracted away Kubernetes and Helm, when something went wrong I was suddenly confronted with having to learn and understand all of it.

Then when I fully understood it, writing my own simple .gitlab-ci.yml was orders of magnitude easier and simpler than using the big abstracted auto ci/cd system.

Waypoint seems to be similarly abstracting away a lot of complicated details. Is there a philosophy about what waypoint expects of its users, especially when deployments break out of the cookie cutter standard situations?
> Zero Trust week

Hm, they'll be able to see every password, every url, every video frame... That's a lot of trust required to me. Cool tech though
It’s a good advert for their own product. I wonder how much that fed into the decision - “encourage the trend that feeds us”.
>I was a kid once too, and we would make all kinds of drawings and penis jokes, but never in my years has a nose come across as phallic.

I agree.
Spotify, Machine Learning, and the Business of Recommendation Engines
Fund manager: ‘Nightmare’ US stock valuations driven by ‘young, dumb’ investors
Show HN: New JS Library to revolutionize Problematic ATC
Good context, thank you. It's an unusual name for an account that has so much karma.
Controllers work in sprints with breaks in between. I don't think anyone could do the job for even 4 hours straight (in anything other than the sleepiest tower position).
Please don't fulminate on HN and please don't take threads further into flamewar.

These things are in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd read those and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Yes, this is high on our priority list. In general, we'd like to work with every business-in-a-box platform (Coursera for teachers, Shopify for sellers, Spotify for musicians, etc.) to help their creators run customer/follower/fan communities.
From an elevated powershell/cmd:

net stop spooler
cd *:\windows\system32\spool\printers
(remove all files in this directory)
net start spooler

Stupid, but this fixes like 80% of windows printer problems, most of which IME are random one-off issues with a document getting spooled and the printer not being activated
Trello’s UX is awful. I wonder if there’s a correlation between remote and poor UX? I can think of other examples of famous remote companies with bad UX.
What are your opinions of fake Yelp! or Amazon reviews being removed?
Manufacturers either on purpose, or by accident, have made Consumer Reports reviews not super useful, at least from my experience.

The ability to match a product reviewed by Consumer Reports to something I can actual purchase has become pretty difficult over the years. This would be less a problem if brands followed some kind of trend in overall reliability, but it seems like individual models vary widely in quality even within a specific brand.

So when it comes down to trying to find the specific model of something being reviewed, it seems like that model was discontinued, replaced, or not available at the retailers I use.
What do you mean by "Extremely easy sharing of data between apps"? In my experience it's quite difficult to get your data out of one app and into another one.
It’s funny because it changes based on whoever writes the article. Management thinks that management should get final decision power, academics think that academia should get to audit the code.
It's the inflated demand created by retail traders sitting at home . Most of them invested in the companies highly active in the media like TSLA, ZOOM etc.
Thank you, I was worried it was a little too rambling.
All over the western world we urgently need political leadership who are interested in investing in holistic prevention of expensive worst case scenarios. We don't have viable safety nets and support systems but we do have a burgeoning 'homeless industrial complex' that is intimately linked to the prison industrial complex. This is profoundly wrong IMO and I am very vocal about that.
This lack of a safety net coupled with labor and cost intensive care for the mentally ill and addicted is corrosive to society on so many levels and fundamental to everyone's quality of life. The only way to change this is to be extremely noisy and aggressive about what our 'leadership' is doing IMO.
I am partially motivated from a young bay area relative dying from opioid o/d this February after his family had burned through a huge sum on rehabs, chasing after him + the emotional burn out toll. We are headed in the wrong direction...
I think the contracting model (which has it's place!) is really at the root of the problem. The time for contractors is when you need something that is very rare in the world or you need a large temporary expansion of capacity.

A lot of government contracts are the kind of work that will be consistently taking place over decades and can be done by any of hundreds of thousands of similarly competent people. Imagine if you didn't even need to write a contract, didn't need a bidding process, that could be substantial time and money saved on its own.

Then with FTEs minor initiatives like finding interesting internal libraries to open source can just happen. What I'm saying isn't a new idea (really it's an old idea) and I very much admire those who are actually taking the risk to make this kind of thing happen because the failures can be very visible and successes sometimes aren't.
Isn't this something that has been shown in history time and time again? Look e.g. at recent German history: Nazis abused data collection to find and kill Jews and political opponents, and soviet Stasi invaded privacy to find, imprison and torture political opponents. Beyond this concrete evidence, there is also the indirect impact by the "chilling effect". I believe many or most of us experienced this effect already. So I'm entirely certain that the negative impact is easy to see.
before you get involved and put your name on it take a look at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341022

former MS kernel engineer saying that in no way is is possible its not using stolen MS code.
As someone who doesn't live in the US, I should tell people here that legalizing "bad" actions can be a net good. The lobbying market is big, and you can't extinguish it; You can only make it a black market. This makes the laws more suited to the interests of "shady elites." Consider that Google serves the whole world a very valuable service; What do the corrupt beneficiaries of most other countries do? They have near zero output.