skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost like they think that people get primarily paid based on the dollar amount of revenue they generate. The salary of employees is conditioned on a multitude of factors, mostly relating to supply and demand, industry norms, the quality of their work, how much better they are than the median employee, etc etc. Profits made are obviously a factor, but less so when there's a high supply of potential workers.

tl;dr: You get paid based on what you can demand. Money and power are never given, they are only taken. I have been both in a position as an employer and an employee and people who worked for me didn't get raises unless a couple things were true: they were good at their job (i.e I valued and needed their labor) and they went to me to demand more money. If you don't demand more money (or are not in a position to demand more money, like many low-skilled employees), you're (probably) not going to be paid more.
Youtube reached market saturation a few years ago, and having accomplished this, began a ten year program to destroy itself by extracting profits at a market-competitive growth rate.

Backup whatever videos you enjoy now. It's going to get worse.
Sold for $150, released in April 2015. End of life was Dec 2017. 3 years after that it breaks. Eh.. 5.5 years is a good run. Do people really expect software to work forever after it's reached end of life? Even with Windows updates? And hardware changes? What does "end of life" mean to people if it doesn't mean what the words say?
Difficult road to reconciliation after victory in the Nagorno-Karabakh war
I mentioned the BBWC because the first few links I found to buy the card didn't include it.

Nice to see firmware available - in 2014 HP started requiring support contracts or warranties to download firmware updates for the servers which really turned me off them. I didn't realise RAID firmware wasn't included in that (for some reason iLO firmware isn't either, but I think that's probably because it includes OSS). For this reason alone I'd avoid HP on principal.

I'm hoping one day I can find a reasonably cheap RAID card that still supports using hte BBWC in JBOD mode...
I think that's separate from whether it has lived up to the hype or not. It's pretty much changed everything, whether you think that's good or bad or imperfect.
Not even sure why this isn't the top comment.

>Ok, maybe not so much the original 2007 model

It was. Original iPhone was extremely hyped before it was announced in the tech / Apple circles. In case anyone arguing that is a small niche, the same argument could be used for Games as the OP used in examples. It is very rare to see Technology Announcement being used on Front Page newspaper.( Remember that thing we used to buy every day?) And this wasn't just in US alone.

Original iPhone ( 2007 ) was only available in US, and it was very expensive at the time, $499 with contract. And Apple was selling every iPhone as fast as they could make it. And around the world iPhone continue the same strategy of only contract with iPhone. Arguably it wasn't until iPhone 5 before it was readily available , I guess Steve Jobs relented on making iPhone Just in Time before passing away because it could never match the huge demand.

And yes, not only did it lived up to its hype, it was more than anyone could ever imagine.
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iOS Privacy Prompt Starts Rolling Out
I don't know why anyone plays it when Catan, Ticket to Ride, Scythe or 100 other games exist now. It's boring and slow. It's contentious. There is no real learning opportunity (very little risk management, strategy, relationship building etc). You just roll dice and wait for 3h...
Colonel Sanders was a real man who made chicken, though. He’s just as much a fiction as Dave Thomas who founded Wendy’s.
I think they mislabeled parts A and B of figure 2. The explanation from the text sounds like the opposite of what the figure is showing.

Interesting conclusion nonetheless.
Couldn't this be sample bias since you were spending 8 figures? At that level of spending, you might be getting a proportionally higher 'correct' target demographic.

For small-time advertisers, FB knows these folks would have less capital to fight back against poor ad practices.
> For starters brexit has already costed UK more than all of their EU membership payments they have ever made combined.

Do you have any sources on that?
Yes, the robber barons, as originated in the UK and the rape of their colonies = the American Revolution, followed by India, Malaya etc., and the Great Game. In time they fell, now they emerge under as copyright empires, Disney etc.
It is true that electric vehicles would be far ahead by now without the IC subsidies, but, additionally, Lead Acid held them back. Nickel-Cadmium was later and better, but it took the Lithium era to really bring them back to life.
A great power falls apart
This poster appears to submit this link exactly once every 31 days.
I’m happy with my perpetual LR (4.X) license. Obviously I don’t use anything that would need internet access such as a third party API and I understand that anything that relies on a third party API is never really perpetual. I’d be annoyed if a library “expired” crippling my software though.
Disclaimer: I didn't read the article and am simply responding to your sweeping generalities.

> Nobody fires employees just because they speak funny or some other stupid background.

What planet do you live on?

To make things perfectly clear, all other things being equal, if someone is fired for a mistake that those with a different background wouldn't be fired for, then they were fired for their different cultural background, regardless of the given official reason.

> having in mind what kind of reaction the company will face after firing a black employee.

In case you have forgotten, it is possible to be dishonest about why someone is fired or let go.
Speaking on behalf of US residents:

We can imagine it.

At this point the most successful grassroots political movement of the last several years acted on behalf of a dictatorial head of state and took guns into state capitols to explicitly threaten state-level politicians in order to convince them to give everybody a deadly virus. And is threatening to do the same to the national legislature in a couple weeks in order to convince them to create a new category of President For Life.
> Should a company be forced to pay a license for external IP in perpetuity because they once sold licenses the way Adobe did?

This shouldn't require a perpetual license. Adobe should have been able to license the software for as long as they were selling Lightroom 6, with the license expiring when they ceased sales.

This, of course, assumes a sane license. Something is profoundly wrong with your licensing terms if they require the addition of a timed killswitch hidden in software installed on customers' devices.
Next time the topic of "advertising funds the the internet"^1 comes up on HN, remember that this ad-riddled mess disguised is the "content" that advertising "is paying for". As I recall the early www, this sort of survelillance submarine "content" was absent in the time before such "funding" was available.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551106 Bloggers, journalists and their believers refer to the www as "the internet".
Christmas Is Bird-Counting Season (2016)
There's a book called Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by Zachary, G. Pascal

The book itself is pretty interesting but there's one line in there about how Dave Cutler always takes his vacations on time, every time without question.

It never goes into any more details but that seemed totally at odds with what I expected? At least when hustle culture and the idea that leaders don't take breaks seems somewhat prevalent nowadays (or at least in the mid-2000s)

As someone whose parents don't take vacations all that often, and came from a small town where there's that sort of "I'm a good person because I work harder than you" mentality, I was kind of hoping Cutler might reveal his philosophy of why he takes holidays without failure.

Maybe he just likes holidays and I'm over thinking it haha
As far as I can tell the AMD Ryzen chips are much much faster than M1.
LED lighting, especially in its application to bicycles.
Everyone said working from home is impossible, but it's been the best part of 2020. I dont see myself going back to the office (fulltime) ever.
> Adobe’s earnings have been shattering expectations in recent years, sending the company’s stock soaring over 700% over the past half-decade, so the Creative Cloud subscription model has definitely been a savvy switch.

While like many here I prefer other solutions, the marketplace is validating Adobe’s approach.
Does this transfer to online lessons? As of right now, there's a plague that we're trying not to transfer right now. (As far as I've heard, online lessons are not that great, relatively speaking.)
I've always been impressed with peoples' ability to create these neat projects within exceptional constraints.

I've never attempted something like this myself, but I'd like to. My questions:

How long does it generally take to build something like this? This one was built in just five days, which actually seems incredible to me.

How much expertise do you need in the problem domain to be able to pull something like this off?

Where does one come up with the initial idea?

How do you assess feasibility?
I’d take a look at the material and his writings before making that kind of judgement. Besides being smart, he seems to have a lot more humility than most of the people who give advice about startups, and he’s seen an unusually high number of startups throughout the process so he is in a great position to observe what works and what doesn’t. I’d much rather hear what he has to say than someone with one successful exit, mostly because I’ve come to trust his mind observational skill and his humble demeanor over the years.

Most of these videos had counterintuitive information that I was happy to have heard before getting started — especially since I came from a completely different industry. They won’t tell you near everything you need to know to get started, but nothing will so as far as these things go I found them to be very helpful.
This is, uh, obviously not true.

Feel free to provide me with a link that will "send stuff to an attacker" with only me clicking it and no other action.
>Science is objective

Nothing done by humans is objective. Objective systems don't, for example, have massive reproducibility problems.
EU provides trade, geopolitical weight, smooth proceeded across borders (no passport or customs checks from Poland to Portugal..), reduces friction and competition between the neighbours (first big policy ~60 years ago was the Common Agricultural Policy CAP, which provides common subsidy levels and avoids conflicting subsidies/races to the bottom), enables standards, builds trust in institutions across borders (from passports to taxes to the legal system), provides great trade agreement terms with third countries and visa-free travel to 50+ countries, and most of all it always was and remains a peace project.
Along the same vain, Siri was launched in 2011.
Yup. Here is a good video explaining how it works: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1UzTf0Qo37A
No. However fast is your Internet, it is still slower to send data out on the Internet pipes and back again than doing local computation.

5ms ping to your local Stadia server is at least 5ms of additional latency compared to a high end PC. Add virtualisation costs, CPU steal time, packet loss, video compression and decompression etc for another measurable increase.
UK threatened several times in the negotiations to basically make itself a tax haven...
Anybody got any resources, starting points to where i could learn this cool stuff about qemu and bare-metal programming etc..?
One of the points of corporate ethics is to avoid pissing off the public so much that laws get enacted to regulate you.
Pianos consume some amount of space. That's just a matter of fact with the instrument. A good digital piano in the $600-800 range with proper weighted keys will probably use the same amount of space as a dresser along some wall.

If you seriously want to learn and play piano, even as a hobby, that is the entry level.

I also disagree with using any of the popular apps as anything more than supplemental tools, but there are some very good adult lesson books can definitely form the backbone of your learning. As long as you're aware that posture and technique is a struggle for self-taught pianists, you can look for videos and make some conscious effort to improve at it.

Buying an $80 smaller midi keyboard is a good way to get a cursory feel for things without spending the full amount.
Atheist or hard agnostic?

Agnostic as in “I haven’t had an experience to suggest there is a God”.

Atheist as in “my faith-based initiative is to totally believe there isn’t a God”.
Because sending a light beam 10 miles away is slower than not doing so, obviously. Light isn't instantaneous in this universe.

It's surprising people still don't get this. Operating a computer miles away will always be slower than operating a computer centimetres away. You can be smart about it and optimise as much as possible, but Google isn't running alien tech that magically is orders of magnitude better than consumer hardware so that it overcomes the distance issue.
I for one am happy to see this.

I often see the argument that technology can be good or bad depending on how it's used, and I would agree with this. However, too often the solution to preventing misuse proposed by people is "don't think about it", which doesn't seem like a good one to me.
But... this is very unnatural in the middle of this discussion.

Anyway... Thanks, and you the same.
I honestly don't know the answer to this: How much are people able to choose to work on OSS projects vs. being told "This is the project you're working on."

Also, OSS tech that's in service to ad tech may still not be enticing. Even if it's not directly used for ad tech, everything you would do for facebook would ultimately be for the purpose of ad tech. Rationalizing that your particular work has non ad-tech related applications seems like just that: a rationalization. Other companies offer OSS work opportunities, as well as the opportunity to carve out, say, 5-10 hours a month to the project of your choice regardless of your day job.

I'm not coming down on one side or the other of such a moral choice. I don't think things are that simple. I think it's a spectrum, and people should weight these things when making a decision, if they have the luxury of doing so.

And I have to say, at this point ad tech is probably only one of a few major problems with Facebook content. News feeds, memes, etc. that are rewarded with shared & likes for being the most inflammatory/emotionally manipulative are at this point at least as bad as micro-targeting of ads, and I personally think are much much worse.
This article is mostly about scalar functions.
Right, so just put software and services in the paragraph. I doubt this is the license in question, but the warranty terms here https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/lightroom.html are Adobe warrants to the individual or entity that first purchases a license for the Software for use pursuant to the terms of this agreement that the Software will perform substantially in accordance with the Documentation for the ninety (90) day period following receipt of the Software when used on the recommended operating system and hardware configuration.

Which isn't a whole lot better than "good luck".
No. In fact in one of his recent videos Andreas talked about some of the challenges he and other Serenity developers have had getting it to run on real hardware. QEMU, it turns out, is very "forgiving" even when emulating real HW (i.e. not virtio). That can make it challenging when the code meets real clock-synchronized circuits for the first time.

I do like the VM-based OS approach for hobbyist OS's, though. Unless one is specifically interested in the challenge of supporting actual hardware, I think the "QEMU first" approach is the way to go. It simplifies the otherwise-vast problem space and encourages other hobbyists to try out your system or join your development effort.

My first hobby OS project (~2000) was done by repeatedly writing a floppy image to 3.5" disk and booting it on an old junk laptop I had. It was painful and since then any hobby bare metal programming that doesn't involve microcontrollers I will happily do from the comfort of my modern machine and a VM.
Building in public an infrastructure for freelancers and consultants, welcome
Ah now, that's misleading. The constitution was defeated in two seperate referenda in France and the Netherlands.

The details numbers of said constitution were filed off overnight in Brussels, and the lisbon treaty was born.

I voted against it, twice, even though I'm a federalist as it was profoundly undemocratic.
Oy vey, veering off topic, but whatever...

BAM is a sequence of zlib-compressed blocks. Each of them has a checksum, and any corruption gets past it with probability 2^-32. Any sane software will give you an error. When in doubt, just decompress the stupid file using gunzip or zcat, those will verify the checksum. Don't guess, check.

But if you insist on using software that just ignores the checksum (I think, not even samtools, which segfaults(!) on misspelled file names(!) is that awful), all bets are off. Decompressing a corrupted file yields nonsense that doesn't even have the same length as the original data. BAM would also quickly get out of sync, and subsequent records would contain complete nonsense. You'd know if you saw that.

However...

> you are positive that BAM files should be self consistent?

That is a loaded question. In addition to being syntactically correct, BAM files should maintain a few variants that are hard to check. They rearely do. BWA(!) produces inconsistent BAM files, and I've seen many, many scripts in the wild that produce complete bullshit that only happens to work in a very specific setting. Like I said, you're probably using some awful software.
The Brexit referendum was the answer to a long running battle within the Conservative party between Eurosceptics and the rest dating back to the early 1990s. As such Brexit may be seen to be a success. It has united the party behind a common policy (those who objected have been kicked out) and healed the division.

Even better (for the party) they have created a 'foe' which can be blamed for Britain's ills with political impunity. If Scotland leaves the UK - which looks likely - they will be close to guaranteed a majority in parliament. Their recent election majority has given them the opportunity to ignore, weaken or ignore controls on the executive's behaviour.

For all his buffoonish behaviour and administrative incompetence Alex Johnson is a ruthless political operator.

I make no comment on the benefits or otherwise for the UK and its people which should be obvious by now.
The math is different for non profits as they are excluded form income taxes where a for profit company is going to be heavily discounting the value of that income stream.

Thus, it would generally be better for the non profit to simply take a loan out based on the income stream and invest that.
Presumably what he is leaving out is that the increase in white-spots led to more amniocentesis, which then confirms the Down syndrome. If you did amniocentesis on all babies, it would of course increase the diagnosis rate even more.

Whether this is a bad thing, as he claims, depends on whether you believe screening was being done optimally before, and that will depend quite a bit on things left out like the utility of not having a Down baby. (He doesn't present his working out the entire scenario, as it's just an aside, but hopefully before Jordan went around telling people how to change their prenatal screening systems, he did work it out a little bit more than back-of-the-envelope.)
Not to burst your bubble, but assuming you mean USA, it's not over yet. There's still a sizeable portion of people who honestly believe Trump won. I don't look forward to the next few weeks.
More false positives from ultrasounds could lead to more amniocentesis true positives simply by increasing the number of amniocentesis performed. Without more information it's not possible to tell.
The same arguments I used to make against MATLAB are used against Python on HN. Yet both are as or more more successful than your favorite language (from where I’m sitting).
If you listen to what a lot of YC partners say, most of them never say anything that is very insightful. Most are generic advice that can be applied to anything. And some partners have already spent more time at YC than actually founding startups, which makes me think how useful their advice really is. I, myself, don’t really find much value in them. But I am sure young 20 something founders gobble their advice up.
So, which is it, "will usually work" or "pure chaos"?
The answer on StackExhange is very good, but misses the history of why 4:3 exists in the first place, which had a great deal to do with mechanical reasons. This is well explained on Wikipedia's entry on the Academy ratio[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_ratio

The evolution of aspect ratios---4:3, Cinemascope, Anamorphic, 70mm, etc.---is fascinating. There's a constant trade-off between aesthetic and technical requirements with a lot of really cool innovations for the time.

For my money the most interesting format is anamorphic[2].

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format
That's a very Europe centric view, though.

It essentially makes compliance to EU law optional for companies operating in the UK. That's a huge advantage. Choose to trade on EU terms with the single market, or choose to trade on other terms with different international targets.

That may not be precisely what you want, but it's not a bad deal for the UK, it's just a different set of terms.

Plus, the EU will do better without us. We've always just complained and delayed their desire for further deep integration between countries.

To paraphrase Boris' quote of 'Having a successful, independent UK over the channel isn't a bad thing for the EU', well neither is it bad for the UK to have an independent EU to trade with, where they can crack on with what they want to do without us disrupting it.

Edit: people seem to be taking this as me 'selling' brexit. Just wanted to discuss the situation, at least it kicked off a chat!
PR, Guam, Saipan and CNM, USVI (except visafree)
I got one for free, handed down to me by my partner after she upgraded, the stakes were pretty low for what I expected out of it.

It’s great! I silence the hell out of my phone (on top of having almost all notifications off) so the watch vibrations are useful to me for not missing messages I care about.

Super easy to read 2FA codes through SMS without digging up the phone. The LastPass Authenticator has a watch integration but it’s never worked for me. I’m sure there are other authenticator apps that work for the watch though.

Logging workouts is easy, it’s fun to compare rings with my partner but we’re not serious about it and don’t really need the watch to get motivated about being active.

Hands down my favorite feature is surprisingly the maps integration. If you just ignore the baseless memes about “Apple Maps bad” (works fine for me these days, but I saw how bad it was at its inception back in the day too) and just use it, you get the watch integration for free too. The vibrations for left/right turn are a very nice feature that don’t require averting attention at all, but you have the option of viewing the watch for a quick preview of the maps route (distance to next event and a visual, i.e. right three lanes to exit right).

Just some feedback from a guy without strong opinions for or against the thing.