skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that perspective, I know the “ick” factor is at an all-time high right now about shared surfaces, but I’m not sure that will last forever. We’ve seen a variety of models across our client base. For people coming in frequently or with specific desk set ups, hot desking may not be the answer. For those wanting an easy set up 1-2 days a week while they attend in person meetings, it might be. Our software supports both dedicated desk setups and flexible desks for that reason. There is likely not a one-size-fits-all for every organization, role, or individual.
Seeing as this is HN, perhaps you would care to explicate a reason why.

Does GNU not (at times) restrict the distribution of software that end-users might find desirable, in order to protect their rights as a whole? Why do you think that is bad?

Has that restriction not resulted in the creation of a high-quality, user-freedom-regarding codebase despite (and in fact because of) those restrictions? Why can Apple’s policy of mandatory curation not have a similar effect on the market as well?

It seems self-evident that a lot of the privacy improvements in recent androids (like filesystem isolation in Android Q) probably would not have occurred without the impetus provided by Apple’s competitive pressure in this area, so you benefit from this even if you choose Android and “the BSD model”.

Like, I completely get that this is a developer-centric community and you see it as Apple gating access to the user base that makes you money. And as a user I see it as Apple blocking nefarious practices that developers clearly race to use as soon as they're allowed, in order to make a couple more pennies off my privacy and worsen my user experience. I don't think it's intellectually honest to pretend there's some huge Apple userbase who's champing at the bit to have Facebook have root access on their phones, they already have Facebook now, and Apple's curation forces Facebook to tone down the worst of their excess. Just like it wouldn't be honest to hear Microsoft whining about how it's not fair that GNU is restricting user freedoms because Microsoft isn't allowed to distribute code that links against GNU source. No user would want Microsoft to link against GNU code, Microsoft might want to do it because it would make them more profit, but you shouldn't put words into my mouth as an Apple customer.

And if you really did want to "sideload" onto your iphone, the only real barrier is having fifty bucks to get an apple developer account. Then you can sideload whatever you want. Similarly, a Microsoft developer account will let you sideload any UWP apps you want onto your Xbox, I've seen tons of people using it as an emulator console recently and that's certainly quite a thing for a walled garden.

Discuss, if you have points to make. Don’t just grump that “Apple bad”, that’s low quality posting.
Facebook restricts the sharing of news in Australia
Yes, it has been shown [1] that these models can memorize information even if it only appears once in the training data. It could potentially cause issues with privacy and especially copyright. However, in this case it's not relevant because they didn't release the model weights.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07805
Is Niantic Google's case?
I need more context. Is that a lot? Is that low? Is it a big change from before? In what direction?
Right, it pluralizes just like Attorneys Helvetica.
We can't even explain all physical phenomena, so good luck with banning anything that depends on the gravity of earth to function, because we don't know what gravity is.
It would help if they said more clearly what 23% of people not feeling "safe" meant.

Does that refer to driving safety and hitting other vehicles or people? Does it mean personal safety while sitting in a taxi / Uber? Safety while riding Muni?

It makes kind of a lot of difference if that number is being used to justify whatever specific thing that addresses "safety" they're planning to do, doesn't it?
You can "contract" through a body-rent(or is it head-rent? not sure) company. Or if you are in a jurisdiction that permits it, directly contract with your current company.

If your preference is a permanent job, management is the answer. You have the choice.

Well, of course the domain makes a lot of difference. Seems to me the requirements are very narrow: permanent, not management, existing domain, salary > 1.5x market salary. Can you not compromise?

I'm not in that kind of position, but I'd say, what's wrong with hedge funds? What's wrong with management? What's wrong with keeping your 1.5x market salary?
>Is there any major geopolitical development that is generally assumed to be inevitable, and how might modern technology upset the assumptions of the powers-that-be in their planned response to that event?

PRC reclaiming Taiwan. Probably biggest friction point for hot war between great powers in 5-30 year time scale.

Technologic assumptions is ability to complete / disrupt kill chains of modern anti ship missiles and implications on expensive naval assets to maintain hegemony. My long term assumption is that cost benefit analysis will favour missiles. Interception typically requires multiple equally expensive interception vehicles + limited magazine depth means navies outside of friendly A2AD will be difficult to sustain long term. Right now it's a battle between unverified Chinese ability to complete kill chain which requires a host of external inputs versus US ability to shoot down increasingly sophisticated missiles. I think technology is going to make kill chain increasingly irrelevant, cheap disposable UAVs + machine learning means eventually there's going to be cheap monitoring systems and shortened local kill chain - no need to use satellite or other sensors to track target if processing shifts onboard. I remember someone speculating about kamikaze commercial drones that target airplane intakes autonomously with sufficient training dataset.

My personal assumption is past the missile/interception conundrum is a world where naval force projection is supplanted by system of global UAV networks and mutual air superiority - it's easier to shoot down manned vehicles than unmanned because unmanned doesn't have to limit maneuverability to keep meat bag alive. Basically a status quo where defense becomes impossible. I'm imagining a conventional UAV first strike that wipes out an adversaries ability to make war, but in context of mutual air superiority between large power blocks, this works out to conventional MAD where starting war means immediately losing capability to sustain a war. Flournoy said she wanted Pentagon to develop capability to sink entire Chinese Navy in 72 hours. Imagine that but for assets and industrial base, in a world of UAVs, where more money goes into acquisition costs, I can imagine smaller countries being able to build sufficient arsenal to upset balance and unseat hegemons.
I’m curious - was your office hotelling pre-pandemic or is this a new model?
>There are countless examples of black-hat techniques to break PageRank

there are also countless of adversarial examples to trick ML algorithms. In fact this is in many ways worse because of the 'idiot savant' character of ML systems, which are almost always oblivious to context and can be tricked in ways that aren't apparent from the design of the system.

In contrast to systems that are legible or even formally verifiable ML systems are entirely unable to provide any guarantees. When someone breaks pagerank at least it's apparent how they broke it. When an ML system mistakes a turtle with a fractal pattern on its shell for a gun nobody knows how to fix the system in any reliable way, other than feed it more data and pray.
I think both sides are in the wrong here. One of them is Mark Zuckerberg and the other is the Morrison government, for a start. But not only because of that.

The Murdoch family's claim ... I mean, Australia's ... is ridiculous. Facebook are totally within their rights to stop using Australian content and not pay for it. If the law is so sloppily worded that it arguably defines the Health Department website as news, well, it wasn't Facebook who drafted it.

On the other hand, this does stuff around a lot of innocent bystanders, and Facebook could easily have given a month's notice that they were going to do it. Which is, ironically, one of the things that the law would require them to do. What ever else Facebook might have demonstrated by their irresponsible reaction, they have shown that this law isn't all wrong, rather some parts of it are urgently necessary.
Well unfortunately for humanity, people who are "curious learners and experts" are most of the time bad managers :)

But the way this works over the long term is there is a cycle...a sort of ebb and flow of who gets in and out of authority positions.

The Novelty Seekers/Curious/Neurotic personality types are quite bad at anything as boring as herding cats day in day out for years and years. It just drives them nuts. The Conscientiousness personality types love it. Its what they do best and it works out great with problems that have known solutions. Its when problems get more complex/ambiguous where curiosity and imagination matter that they start blundering and looking incompetent, and thats when the doors open for the neurotics to reenter the arena. This is where they shine. After they find imaginative solutions if you keep them incharge of day to day ops they start blundering away too.

Managing these transitions is no simple thing.
I have concluded over the years that scrolljacking is always bad. It’s not possible to do it well, as the browser platform doesn’t provide the primitives needed to make it work. I have seen I think two implementations that were almost acceptable, but they still failed badly in the end.

This page is made much nicer by disabling JavaScript and removing the nice-scroll class from the root element (they did that part badly too—without JavaScript, you can’t scroll at all until you remove that class).
I’ll gladly pay more through Apple just because I know it’ll be trivial to cancel later.
My credit card expired and they sent my account to collections. I still subscribe because I like the work their journalists do, but when I read an article about how they're dying I don't really feel bad for them.

(I am also tempted to cancel my Wall Street Journal subscription when I accidentally read an opinion column. Not sure why real journalists let partisan hacks put their opinion columns right next to their real work. Strange business model!)
> How do you get someone’s phone number today? You just ask them.

There's a lot of subtle assumptions in this. When you ask for someone's phone number, you are already communicating with them in another manner. Much of the trust in this is derived from that other communication channel.

For example, when I walk into a building that says "H&R Block" on the side of it, I know that the time and money spent into establishing a business with a legitimate appearance, is a significant barrier to say, a scammer. I can be somewhat assured that the person inside, if asked, will give me a phone number of someone who is actually capable of doing my taxes.

A situation where trust cannot be assumed is more like a phone number written on the wall of a bathroom stall at a rest stop: "call 555-5555, I'll do your taxes".
Housing services are included in CPI and PCE inflation indices.
I've never been able to cancel any subscription with ease, so nowadays I always use Privacy to get temporary credit cards. When I want the subscription cancelled, I try the provider's website, if it doesn't work, I just cancel the card all together.
Edge cases can crop up while you're en route.

My go-to example: you're driving at night, two-lane road, and there's a minor accident in your lane ahead. You crawl forward to the point where you can pass the accident, and then what?

Someone involved in the accident is directing traffic. In the dark, with no safety gear. On the other side the traffic is backed up, so you see headlights facing you in the lane you have to use to pass the accident.

To me, that seems like an insanely difficult problem for a computer to deal with. A human driver, that's easy, but a computer?

(Having said that, I'm historically terrible at predicting just how fast technology is going to advance, so it's safest to assume I'm wrong and this will turn out to be easy.)
>carry out your wishes regardless of any other factors.

It will carry out your inputs regardless of other factors. That is a very important distinction, especially in this case.
This is 90c/KWh. Arguably very expensive rate for electricity. Not sure if related to the Texas/ERCOT grid situation, as the DC tie-ins are not that substantial.
Gödel's Theorems from the History to the Demonstrations
Seconding that - managing for ~15 years, with 15 years eng career before that. If you're a manager who spends 80% coding on anything but a small team (<7 people), you're letting your team down.

You might think you're doing a good job, but you really aren't. 20% of your time are only 8 hours. Even if you just spend half an hour with everybody on your team of 8, 4 of those are gone. You haven't spent any time yet coordinating the team as a whole. You haven't spent any time planning. You haven't even answered e-mails yet. Neither did you do any signficant coaching. Nor did you spend time hiring. Or even writing a job description. Or planning compensation. Or helping your two star engineers who are at loggerheads to come to an agreement. Prioritized the backlog? Set up a triage process? Spent way too much time to find out why your junior is super-withdrawn and doesn't ask questions? Set them up with mentorship? How's that design review coming along? Talked UX of the latest "luxe UI" ledge? Got yelled at by them because one of your engineers decided that specs are just suggestions? How's that training program for the new toolkit coming along? Also, the team is kind of nervous because the big project will end in 9 months, and there isn't a new big project yet?

TLM roles are the biggest mistake this industry makes. They work beautifully for 3-5 people, start crumbling for 6-10, soak 100% of your time for 11-14 people just managing while you despair you can't do technical work any more, and become an incredible way to burn out people at 15+ direct reports.
I quite like weekly wrap-up newsletters, like Python Weekly. I prefer RSS for just about everything else though.
I'm fine with paying for quality news.
Because he has no idea what he's talking about. HN people are absolutely clueless on economics but insist on talking out of their ass at every opportunity.
It sucks but like with any streaming site - it depends what they have permission to stream. Just because they have the rights to a Blu-ray release doesn't mean they have the rights to stream it. This is where physical discs and pirates MK files shine.

I have the same issue with Lubitsch films - Trouble in Paradise's only physical release is a Criterion DVD! Yet, it comes and goes from the Channel.
Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
Haha! My very first thought on reading the parent comment was "Hillel Wayne would be all over this!"
The article is from 2014 and speculates that peak oil is going to trigger societal collapse. Given the advances we've seen in solar and battery tech just in the last decade, I feel fairly confident in stating that this is looking increasingly unlikely.
Used to be during the 1980s bubble era of Japan that you'd wave hundred dollar bills at taxis to wave them down.

Japan wasn't always thrifty. This was a cultural change induced by the bursting of the bubble.

A generational cultural change could just as easily happen to the USA too.
Love it, definitely gonna start doing that now! Thanks!
I think this maps to 0.90/kwh, which is ~7x the normal retail national average of 0.13/kwh.
Will try this route - have never tried two copies of macOS...thanks!
You have some serious counterparty risk if the short is on something exposed to a btc/crypto drop
A framework of framework of frameworks. Good job JS community!
If they are not connected, what is driving up the cost?
will also try this! Thank you!
I believe that this is new. I received an email from them about opening orders by address on a first come first serve basis with $99 deposit.
> Just because an activity was widely condemned by ancient religions does not make it evil in fact

i can't believe we still need to explain this to people
I find it depressing that cars aren't already talking to each other. I drive on a lot of winding, rural roads with zero visibility around the bend; I'd love to know that there's a car coming the other direction, even with no driving assist technologies at play.
Blackouts happen elsewhere too. New Orleans today:

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/orleans/rotating-po...

at the direction of MISO, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator.

The company describes itself as similar to an air-traffic controller, monitoring the flow of electricity across 15 states and one Canadian province.
Who do you charge when the brakes don't work on your car? When the airbags don't activate? When your rain sensor doesn't work?

Believe it or not, your car is not that primitive when compared to a self-driving one in terms of the number of things it does autonomously.
My grandfather bought a mansion in SF (Dolores St) for $8K in 1934 (approx). You can optimize for a 1929-style crash (hold cash), and you can even plan for hyperinflation (anything but cash), so the trick is to figure out which way to go.
I’d say most people flocked there for prestige and compensation. Perks were just icing on the cake.
The scale embedded in the map maxes out at $150... So I would say it's a lot.
Imagine having a business model so fragile that your only line of defense is to obscure the cancellation process through these tactics. Do they really think that they can curve their churn this way?

I mean best you’re doing is getting maybe another month or so of revenue from a customer who is just pushing the pain of cancelling because they are busy or lazy.

And at the end instead of getting what could be a dormant customer who can sign up later again, what you get is someone who hates your company.

What an incredibly stupid way to erode the brand of a publication, whose major asset to survive is precisely its brand.
I did EE in Canada and numerical methods were definitely taught in 2nd year of undergrad. Why wouldn't it be?
This is a lot. $1000/MWh is $1/kWh. A kWh is leaving 10 old school incandescent lightbulbs on for an hour. Usually this costs a few cents.
This. I've been using privacy.com for all my online subscriptions. I just cancel the card I used to sign up and call it a day.
Do wholesale prices directly translate to consumer prices?
Demand, Texas isn't the only location experiencing severe cold weather that it isn't prepared for.
The scale on the map appears to have a filter maximum of $150 so I would guess it's 6 times their expected maximum, so very very expensive. Here's another region to compare to: https://www.pjm.com/library/maps/lmp-map.aspx
And again in 2018, as we all know too.
Who would you blame if the algorithm could be printed on paper?
I think it might be related to this:

https://twitter.com/MattOswaltVA/status/1361442090979262465
HN desperately wants to discuss economics but will not take a single second to read up about macro beyond some crank Austrian stuff. It's an entire field of study! There are people who devote their entire lives to investigating just one corner of it! These threads are always packed with software engineers who are absolutely full of it and want to talk confidently about a subject they have absolutely no background in.
> The Fed has an incentive to keep them low - they'll get mass bankruptcy and mass unemployment otherwise, contrary to their full-employment mandate.

News to me! If that's their mandate they have utterly failed. Where is this written?
Does this extend beyond California?
900/Mwh is 90c per kwh. Normal wholesale is about 5-7c. Retail national average is about 14. Higher cost states are around 20c with Hawaii near 30c.
Likely corresponds to the nationwide spike in natural gas prices.

Even in California, natural gas prices are an order of magnitude higher than usual. Prices appear to have hit ~$90 per quadrillion BTU, versus a typical price of ~$2 per 10^15 BTU

https://www.naturalgasintel.com/data-snapshot/daily-gpi/CALR...
Yes, that would not work. It would have to be a hands-free operation as in a headset. You cannot both use both hands to assembly a furniture and then hold you phone at the same time.
Texas isn't the only place with cold weather right now. Even if other grids haven't collapsed, they're surely under higher strain than normal.
It's a pattern that's easy to replicate.
> isn't that why VC exists

Not entirely. VC exists for things where debt doesn't work. You can use debt to fund some things, eg. real estate, because a failed business still has a valuable asset to sell.

If a vc funded tech company goes under, the only thing to sell is source code, which is not nearly as fungible.
> I do not want sideloading, I do not want alternative stores, I do not want the so-called “healthy competition”.

Good. Don't use them. Do you use every single feature of your phone? Of course not. There are probably features you don't even know about.

So don't use them. The mere presence of the feature doesn't obligate you to use it.
> why does no one care?

Because most people just want a check every two weeks. No one wants to rock the boat. Office workers, even tech workers, are so removed from the result of their labor, it's hard to get motivated about anything except a nicer title and more money.
In the article they make it fairly clear that the survey was about people’s experiences driving in San Francisco, not general living etc.
> For a serious newspaper

Unfortunately this is now a debatable topic. Their headlines have been trending towards the National Enquirer for years.

IMHO, they should crash and burn.
> Only if what they are doing involves a part of their public duties

This is about politicians using Clubhouse to talk to their constituents. It qualifies.
Wonder if I gave my mechanic a handie he'd find less wrong with it during my yearly inspection..
To me, email is a two way communication tool, and while getting one way communication is perfectly fine in email, just getting updates from an org or on some topic or from a journalist makes way more sense using syndication than subscription. Particularly, the client/recipient handles getting the messages as opposed to the publisher.
The examples. Though I think I could find pedantic fault with any example while still agreeing with the point.
Isn't the usual advice from Search & Rescue professionals to stay put? For example,

> “It’s best to stay in one place because the searchers will get to that place,” Strong said. Moving just a mile creates a search area of three square miles, Strong said. Move two miles, and the search area expands to 12 square miles.

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-youre-lost-in-th...

I imagine that advice becomes better every year, as response times improve. Of course, if there's no reason to think rescuers would be able to fix your initial location to any reasonable precision, then I guess you have to use your head.