skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We are taking the position that people who are rich enough to buy into Team's ecosystem and throw lots of money to Microsoft might as well throw a little bit of money to Element to keep funding Matrix development."

This is a mistake. If they're already paying for Teams, then what exactly is the incentive to "throw a little bit of money to Element"? They aleady have a communications tool (Teams), so a) why are they going to pay for another one, and b) people who already bought Teams most likely do not care about the values Matrix stands for.
It is way worse than cigarettes, on so many levels. It is much more profound than one would initially assume.

Social media and modern micro targeting advertising, which plays strongly into your individual hopes and fears (to maximize the likelihood of getting a response from you—which is abusive), creates a validation feedback loop commonly seen in Cluster B Personality Disorders.

Young people (as in developing minds that have not mentally reached adulthood—occurs around age 25) have been primed and trained to make fake, empty, and unthoughtful posts needlessly (i.e. daily or several times per day) just to gain “likes” (also known as approval) from their peers. They also post to social media so that the algorithm treats them nicer, even if they are unaware of this on an explicit level.

Psychologists have been warning about this: how an entire generation of currently developing minds is going to be a lot more narcissistic and a lot less empathetic than previous generations due to this invasive and traumatic long-term exposure.

I am luckier than most: as an adult (with a print-related disability) I almost never have to go on websites that serve ads, as I have access to special libraries and news repositories (with breaking news sources) that legitimately keep me endlessly entertained (see this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26829865). I also use the paid audio apps Blinkist, Audm, and Curio to augment those databases. I probably have not used YouTube in 6 months, due to the above and I am no Luddite! The only social media account that I have is HN.
Leading without the backing of management

Quit the job

Found a job that allowed me to have the resources and flexibility to truly lead (not simply have the title)
The Power and the Silence
Just use salt water?

It's even cheaper and more shelf-stable than potato, and there's quite a lot of it on the planet.
This was with gas. I think I did try preheating once, but it was just too much prep work for regular use.
When employer says “unlimited” they actually mean “take as many as you like as long as your manager is happy with your work” so I doubt you can formalize that in the offer. It’s good deal tho for people who can deliver the goods
The peloton treadmill is uniquely, unnecessarily, gratuitously dangerous. Peloton could have spent $5 on a guard over the back, but they didn’t, probably because they wanted it to look cool.
Ask HN: What projects post team compensation on their website?
I recently came across a project where each the compensation of each team member was shared on their website. I can't remember what it was! The team was based in Europe and I think donations was an important part of their model. But I'm curious about this trend in general and where anyone has seen it?
What motivational bullshit. Why should the GP continue working hard for little reward?

It's easy to tell someone else to be unhappy and poor isn't it?
I never really understood these pep talks, given by strangers but like they really know you. I see this on twitter too:

"Hey you, you are beautiful"

"Hey, you are doing a great job this week, I'm proud of you"

The Twitter ones are telling everyone who reads that they did a good job this week. It's a public message. How can it have any sincerity?

I understand the desire to console the GP here, but the Twitter ones make no sense to me.
I'm not normally one to stand in the way of vitriolic hyperbole, but we were talking about "no comment" vs what was actually said. I am on the "no comment would have been worse" team. Please don't sign me up for any other teams, especially not the child-killers, thanks.
Yup , yup and yup... 20 years ago many lessons learned
It’s not a niche opinion that Instagram is considered harmful for a person’s health. Products that are considered harmful to health need extra scrutiny when children are involved.
> The Consumer Product Safety Commission this week took the unusual step of issuing an administrative subpoena to require Peloton to disclose the name of the child who died and the family’s contact information

Can't believe the company sent out an email to all of its customers announcing that incident in the first place. That kind of thing never should have left the legal department.
This is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin.

Poor people don't need small LED lights and it obviously won't charge a phone. Not sure what the whole "the potato is not, in and of itself, an energy source" is rambling on about. Boiling a potato takes a lot of energy, obviously way more than a battery/potato can deliver.

Here's the rat attractant battery - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Potato-battery-basic-com...

But jumping to the mathematics I simply don't believe it would be cheaper than a battery

I do believe a potato has a lot of energy, I'd assume much much more than a D Cell, but to turn that to usable electrical energy cheaper than a battery I'd be very surprised. I doubt this, but are unsure.

[edit] Here's someone who ran their clock for 6 months on a potato (Still not proving either way which is cheaper) -
https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx3AUA83YPS7DMP/
I would imagine the main thing is not wanting people to or derive confidential company information, like how a certain marketing strategy is going or some other piece of data you can get from analytics.
IonQ Systems Now Available Through Qiskit
Coins are a great hobby. Something at every price point, with art and history to appreciate.

My current “serious” collecting project is to assemble an AU quality US half dollar type set, but I also have a few themed collections (sailboats, trees) composed of mainly dollar bin world coins. Both ways of collecting give me a lot of joy.
The law itself doesn't feature the legislature's response, which is what I take issue with.
I've been in software since the 90s. I feel as bad about things as I've ever felt, by a wide margin.
> Does anyone know a community where one can find people to help individually ?

Yes! https://codingcoach.io/

I enlisted to be a mentor but found I wasn’t prepared or ready for the time commitment quite yet. The folks who reach out are often in a bootcamp or self taught and looking for a way to break into their first tech job.
There was Warren, too, but your point stands. If we can't hold a president to account for their own campaign promises, it hardly makes sense to hold them to account for the promises of the candidates they defeated...
I guess one could just not give their kid a phone, or if they do, make it a BlackBerry.
Cigarettes destroy your mouth, lungs, and cause cancer. And they’re so bad we passed laws that you cannot sell them to minors. I’m no fan of Instagram, but if you don’t want your kid on social media, don’t let them go on social media. Should we also ban porn sites, Internet forums? Since search engines can be used to find inappropriate websites or set the wrong expectation about body image, sex, etc - should that all be banned?

I don’t care for social media but I certainly can’t get behind all this unnecessary cancel culture.
> This website is definitely running at 20-30fps max on my phone

And what specs does your phone have? It doesn't even run on mine - a Moto E6 that is probably representative of the phones used by the average American user, and probably better than the average user globally.
They're less risk-averse than I expected. I am guessing there are other constraints they are having to plan around, making "fix fast" highly desirable. I would have expected them to go to "nope, upload the real fix and take a week to test it" but they've gone with "85% of the time this works" Instead.
I will always take a high salary over any kind of bonus structure/program. I worked for a big aerospace company and earned what I considered to be a pretty mediocre salary but we had a profit sharing program that was about 4% of your annual salary, plus we frequently received spot awards and a decent holiday bonus (one year I got a bonus that was worth approximately 2 paychecks). It was nice but it always felt inconsistent and unpredictable, and then one year they basically stopped all of these programs and also restructured our benefits programs such that they were contributing far less to our health insurance premiums AND they stopped paying into our pension fund (yes, we had a pension!). At that point I calculated my total compensation was actually significantly less than it had been in years past and there was no reason for me
to stay. I found another job with a 50% bump in pay and since then I have only accepted positions where I could count on a consistently high salary or rate (if I do a 1099 kind of project).
Iwish the article described the cost, size, and rarity of the two metals, but instead it focused only on the potato
Well, it's only $1/mo difference for the smallest droplet. As you go up in tiers: $2, $3, $4, $8, $16 dollar differences.

I think it's a little scummy that they go out of their way to hide it and make the more expensive options the default, though:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3173176/115132649-...

DigitalOcean is going downhill fast after the layoffs, I'm not optimistic about them in the long term. I'd love to know what they burn on marketing, because their video ads on YouTube are crazy.
Since this is about veterans, are there any orthogonal articles reporting on what the government is doing to prevent these suicides? Like avoiding sending people into wars (which, citing some examples here, create PTSD, a lot of sorrow on the field, relationship problems back home due to long deployments without enough contact, difficulty in getting back to a normal job and merging into civil society after returning, etc.).
It's already way too late to hyperventilate about insta for kids. Most of my friend's and colleagues kids are on tiktok and they are around 9-12.

You can't take away phones from them else they feel peer pressure.

People over here are blaming facebook but video apps like tiktok should carry a heavier burden for a lot of the personality disorders in kids
AstraZeneca vaccine disinformation on Twitter [pdf]
Only pulling security updates once a year probably puts you at higher risk than you're protecting against by firewalling outbound traffic.
Sorry for being glib, but I'm reminded of this comic:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/energy
One quite popular and compelling family of ethical theories is utilitarianism, wherein "ethical" roughly means "resulting in the greatest happiness and well-being for all". Taxes and the public infrastructure and spending they support are clearly tied up in the well-being of most if not all in society. Taxes paid or not paid by corporations presumably impacts prices to customers, returns to investors, the success, failure or extent of public programs, and future decisions of taxes levied against individuals.

How are taxes _not_ a thicket of ethical issues?

However, I think a really ambiguous question is whether we should actually care about _corporate_ taxes over questions like treating capital gains income on the same footing as wage income. One expects that when corporations don't pay taxes, their shareholders eventually reap those savings as capital gains income ... so isn't it eventually taxed?

I'm assuming here that only large multinationals engage in this sort of scheme; if there were a whole economy among rich individuals who always push their transactions through Bermudan-Irish shell companies, then perhaps it might never get taxed at any rate?
In that same sense cigarettes and bicycles are comparably harmful. Both products are attractive to kids, in different ways, but ultimately harm them - also in different ways.

As a parent, it’s your responsibility to choose what risks your children are exposed to. The basis of the comparison is that use of either product entails a certain level of risk, just as every single thing you can possibly do entails a certain level of risk. However the risks associated with each of those products are not comparable at all, and neither is the reward side of the equation.
Didn't they already have a large market share before selling to Facebook? They might not have grown as quickly, but considering that they had a foot in the door, and people were already considering Facebook to be the "old-person" social media, they might have done well otherwise.
Thank god its not Ray K. I half expected it to be either the Kurse or Malcolm Gladwell.

She's a Thiel Fellowship alumnus. So pop, but not gawker pop..

I have this old saw going off now "a fool and their money are easily parted" -the last real intellectual I spoke to repeated it over dinner: they were an (emeritus now, I guess) professor of philosophy and they specialised in highly paid consultancy to boards of directors to "make them feel better" (his words)
Think of it as tax engineering: companies build devices to avoid paying too much taxes. It's a thing, you'd do it too if you had enough money to justify the investment in such engineering :)
It’s a sad situation all around. Do you trust the public professional or start paying?

Then once you start paying - how can you stop?
Same experience here. Eventually it just happens. Felt really
sudden to me: one day I was a lone wolf, next I had a pack.
Living up to your account name with this hilarious response!
Why C++? For game programming (2006)
The google analytics tags have defaulted to loading asynchronously for many years now.
"and other beautiful relationships"

Can this site just grow a pair?
I’m back to a traditional place after unlimited. It’s annoying waiting to accumulate time, but I prefer the lines being clearer. The way my old company did unlimited felt like a cheat to not have to pay a vacation accumulation out if you didn’t use it, but you also felt like you were put on the naughty list for taking too much vacation. If you took beyond a certain amount of leave, someone from higher and higher up the chain had to approve it. Well, you can’t the time of day from the upper echelons of management, so getting your only exposure with them to get approved felt like getting a spotlight put on you for the wrong reasons.
As someone who has never heard of this before, I have a question. Why would anyone want it? For me as a dev, modern windows' greatest thing today is WSL. Why would you want to muddle around in the windows app ecosystem at all? WSL2 with docker and VScode is pretty great.
I don't think it's prying to care about your employees and want to make sure they are ok. Asking for at least first level details should be done IMO.
There isn't a book out there that doesn't promise to show its contents to the reader. If we're dividing books into those with a clear promise vs those which are broadly about an area, compare and contrast "How to Draw in Charcoal" with "Thousand Dollar Artist: Why We Need Charcoal Drawings".
I am slightly bothered by terms such as "Writer's Curse" and "Writer's Block". Doesn't this apply to all creative disciplines and any creative pursuit? What's special about the process of writing?
You’re arguing a strawman. This is like when someone has an opinion against war and the war hawks ask, “Why do you hate America?” I don’t think there’s any equivalence between tobacco products and social media. I personally use social media to stay connected with family and some college friends. Do some people have a toxic relationship with social media and pretend to be the Jones’? Absolutely. Some people also have an unhealthy relationship with food. Should we prevent McDonalds from selling happy meals? Should we prevent companies from selling sugary cereals?
> I’m not staying at a job past 5 unless I have a share of the company. Screw that. Every startup owner thinks they are unique and that’s why 90% of them fail.

Not all companies are the same, and not all companies are startups. I'm back working at the same company which was my first job in tech. Not for the second time, not the third either, but the fourth time now. I was first hired there over 22 years ago in tech support. It's always been a good place to work, that takes care of it's employees (even if it can't pay a huge amount for some positions, there's always a lot of recognition that everyone is needed to make it work, and everyone is appreciated), and I never left because I disliked the company or the work, but because I wanted to focus on school, or explore a new opportunity, or work with family, etc. Our customers love us, and my fellow employees generally like working here, to my knowledge.

They don't expect me or my fellow employees to work past our normal hours (except when on call, or it it's a night-op for sysadmins, which you can generally just take chunks of time off the next day if you like). Yet people do work a little later to finish stuff, or check in to make sure something they did earlier in the week isn't causing problems over the weekend. Because they care about not making problems for their fellow employees, and not adversely affecting our customers, which have a high opinion of us.

All that is a long way of saying that not every company is a startup or behaves as one. People in silicon valley are somewhat conditioned to look for the startups and make that gamble, but there are other choices, and they aren't always nearly as bad as people have been led to believe. Many jobs that are considered shit work can be rewarding if approached the right way. Even IT or programming at a bank can be rewarding if you're lucky enough to have management that mostly gets out of the way and if you cultivate a relationship with the people (the other employees in this case) that you're serving, and see how you make their life better an easier (and there are always opportunities for this, if you pay attention).
Agree. I do this all the time.
They claimed they have evidence, however it's not clear what the evidence is.
I have never ever been able to get a good FM signal out of the RTLSDR. I even have one of the expensive ones where they improved the shielding.

Luckily this is less of a problem where I am as all of the stations I'm interested in are also broadcast via DVB-T.
The spreadsheet editor is really underrated. I haven't found a single other E2EE notes app that supports spreadsheets.
I'm not a web developer, but at work I run a couple small app servers for internal tools.

They have business logic specific to our product, and owned by the company, so although I'm doing a lot of pointless "plug together HTML" work for my learning, I'm also doing stuff that, AFAICT, has to be original code written by me.

Did I manage to successfully duck out the entire web trend already? When I was a kid, the web barely worked. When I was in college, web apps were a strange novelty Google was working on. When I started my career as a developer, I heard murmurs that web was the only kind of developer left. 10 years on, I'm still working steady and still not a web / mobile dev. I learned a little TS and started using Rust for backends, and that's about it. I knew SQL from college. The web trend came and went and I only learned how HTTP works in the last 5 years. Doesn't seem like the hardest thing in the world.

Is it just a combo of luck and privilege that I missed it?

> If tech is going to replace industries, it’s going to start with replacing parts of itself first. We’ll be the first to know how this is going to go down.

Probably. At first it was funny - Software was a coal vein that just kept going deeper and deeper the more we dug, and high-level languages kept lowering the barriers to entry, making more programmers who each made more money.

Some day the vein's either got to run out, or widen so much that everyone is a programmer getting paid nothing. Since I have enough money to save, I'm hoping to retire before the sigmoid inflects fully.
I've had that experience too. I've gotten a big raise, a promotion, and a tiny raise all off an employee "report card" that has had the exact same letter scores each time to the point I think the majority is copy pasted.
It's not. Sexism, like racism, is prejudice + power.
Comparable question: why do pro bass fishers go fishing so much?
Row machines are my favorite. Only cardio machine that gets me out of breath faster than running. Deadlifting is probably faster. Large muscle groups taken to the limit need lots of O2. Nothing works calves as well as mid-foot running though. Maybe a bicycle?
I get a LOT of bot traffic with bogus user agents. Google Analytics does an okayish job dealing with it. Looking at web server logs and trying to reconstruct traffic patterns from just real users would be real chore.
Why prohibit my kid from doing something when I can abdicate my responsibility to the child completely and rely on mass hysteria or government intervention to do my job for me? That’s basically the argument against what you’re saying.
also a good tui is hyper efficient
Pretty sure my old job did this. People on programs that were successful would get a little bonus. This ended up changing to “every program across every sector must meet all business goals for bonuses to be paid.” That made it impossible to get a bonus when some programs were experimental or R&D type things that were kind of expected to run on a deficit for a while.