skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Google even good at retaining employees? The average tenure appears to be 1 to 2 years. [1] [2] [3]

Hardly enough time to even know the impact and costs of what you developed and shipped. Kind of makes you wonder what type of work force you're creating when a large percentage of them are constantly leaving. Maybe for ICs this isn't a concern compared to Directors, VPs, or maybe Staff SEs?

[1] https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/employee-loyalty/full...

[2] https://buffer.com/resources/employee-tenure/

[3] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/17/thi...

I mean it intuitively kind of makes sense. If you work in a city with many other high paying prestigious jobs, why wouldn't you job hop? There's little risk, whereas if you were in a city that had very few prospects you'd probably stick around longer.

I live in Boston and I jump around every year'ish getting more salary at each place I've worked at. If you worked at Google (or any other prestigious company), I imagine it's far far easier interviewing else where. Especially if you jump from prestigious company to prestigious company.
Right but in that scenario their usage of Fortnite on iOS won't follow normal market behavior. e.g. a cash injection to the public (stimulus, etc) would result in a bunch of iOS players converting to PC/console.

Similarly, more than 0.07% of the population of the U.S. is incarcerated. That doesn't mean they want to be there.
But it can drive down the cost of going to a specialist if your device has parts available, etc.
I already get 1080p on Netflix in Firefox on Linux.

However, Amazon Prime on the same setup gets me 720p at most. (This is a regression because I _know_ I used to watch the first few seasons of The Expanse in 1080.)

Which add-ons allow you to watch Prime in 1080p on Linux? I wasn't able to find them.
there's nothing I wouldn't give up to save the world...
But that's not a 1:1 comparison because you are not forced to use them, you're free to go to another one, or not take them and use checks or cash or bitcoin or whatever you want.

If Apple was not making it mandatory to go through them, it would be another story from my point of view.

Note that payment processor fees are massively regulated in the EU as well, with very low limits. So by that precedent the EU coming and saying "30% is way too much" wouldn't be out of nowhere.
Wouldn’t it be nice if banks charged a fixed fee for a loan no matter the size? Visa/MasterCard/etc are not comparable here because they are financing transactions which do have percentage based mechanisms such as % of fraud or % charged back.
I had the pleasure of speaking with the founder way back when they were super early. Was really impressed but didn't have a very good use for it for me.

So glad to see them grow into what they've become today :)
Yeah, I was in college and startups through the mid-00s, adopting Mac at Tiger. It seemed like maybe Leopard was the breakthrough anecdotally, where Boot Camp took away the "but-it-can't-run..." that was the last factor keeping people away, even though no one ever seemed to actually end up ever running Win after all.

I'm not sure what IT purchasing looked like in enterprises and SMBs through the '00s, but I wasn't able to get an Apple machine at a non-tech mid-size employer in the late '00s and it seemed like developers at big employers still had PCs.

I've always been issued (and supplied) Macs since the early '10s, and I'd say at this point, given how bad macOS has become, it ultimately does boil down to the fact that "being able to build an iOS app" is a valuable feature, and no other company can offer it.
Apparently close to 30% of household income right now is from government payments. I think on average people are getting the equiv of $15/hr from gov checks. So for people to want to work it’s going to have to exceed that by some non trivial amount.
Nobody has been experiencing normal remote work during the pandemic.

Normal remote work lets you go out and do fun stuff with friends after hours (which you have more of with no commute), spend more time with your kids (who have been at school for most of the day), or even explore other cities or countries (if you have that kind of remote arrangement).

All the pandemic has shown us is basically all knowledge work can be done remotely, and most sales work too.
I think the "life is short," phenomenon that recently occurred to everybody due to COVID is also playing a part. People are thinking, something along the lines of, "I could have died and my gift of life has mostly consisted of working for this shithole company for the last 5 years."

Employers might want to consider hiring more people in smaller shifts. Maybe an extra person and put everyone on 3-4 day shifts rather than 5-6. It'll be interesting if this phenomenon holds.

Of course the US workforce has been constantly squeezed for the last 40 years, so maybe the COVID was the breaking point. No more cheap labor because people are unwilling to live with their parents / not have health insurance. People really mastered how to live cheap over the last year as well.

Make no mistake, COVID was a seismic event in the US economy that will have lasting changes.
It is hard to fool an IP-address-based blocking system. Because it's easy to fake a domain name, but hard to fake an IP-address
>you're never going to always have a Kinesis available

My lifestyle was stationary and uncomplicated enough that I used the Kinesis for 99.5% of my typing except for those times when my RSI was so bad that I abandoned 10-finger typing and switched to typing very slowly with the eraser end of a pencil (for which I usually switched to a standard keyboard).
I'm surprised you need a source for this. Literally half of the server software out there refers to itself as "<thing> server".

Apache [1] "The Number One HTTP Server On The Internet". This is not referring to the machine hosting, it's referring to the software that you run to provide a service.

Postfix [2] "mail server"

IIS [3] "Web server"

I could go on...

[1] https://httpd.apache.org/

[2] http://www.postfix.org/

[3] https://www.iis.net/
Described my workplace :) Just this morning had staff meeting about 'come to office from June 1st' announcement.
I think it is an open question whether we truly will be able to safely run untrusted code in a high performance manner on commodity hardware.
Just read the description as well. "Self-authoring" seems to mean simply having an agenda that informs your behaviour. This could be interpreted as manipulative, but not psychopathic. Psychopathy requires a cluster of other traits such as deficient emotional responses and lack of empathy or control.
As recently as 2011, KO had a P/E of 9.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/pe-rat...

There are two ways that a P/E can return to a quasi-normal value. Either the price can go down or the earnings can increase.

The mean and median values, since 1880, are about 15.

"This time, it's different" https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
Nice. This seems too dangerous for me though. I kind of like how optimized the main HN site is for mobile because I don't spend as much time on it. Infinite scroll should be illegal!

My only suggestion is to add links in the top navbar for ask, show, shownew, and jobs.
In this case I think it is accurate given forum post evidence, but possibly dated to 2019 given other dates on the page and the fact that Big Sur is not mentioned.
> It seems that people already in that situation are already very vulnerable and AirTags don’t really add that much new vulnerability.

It doesn't add more "functionality" in the "tracking" use case, but it does make it more widely available to everyone and possibly easier to use than custom tracking solutions built with ESP32 chips.

I'm not saying to block the sale of AirTags, but they should really think through and make it impossible for misuse, otherwise reconsider if the value provided by this product is actually higher than the potential for misuse.
No, my point was that the most secure device is a device that cannot do anything - I'm familiar with security by obscurity. The point of the example was to give extremes, everything v. nothing.
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Different thing though.

When you uploaded your PHP script, you uploaded it to a single server, and it ran on a single server. Unless your provider were doing some kind of load balancing (doubt it).

With serverless you upload your 'script' to the 'cloud' and then it will run on any number of servers, usually assigned to one when it dry-runs. Then it'll unload from the server afterwards. And therefore unless you have a bottleneck (like a database server) then you can essentially scale as far as the cloud will let you.
I buy beans and use an aeropress. Even with expensive beans it's way cheaper (5x?) than store coffee. When travelling though ones option are more constrained.
Yeah, I don't know how someone can look at housing prices say, 1990-2020 and say there wasn't inflation after the housing crisis. House prices dropped, but not as much as they "should" have to eradicate the evident bubble of '00-'08, despite the very public beating housing & banking took. And 2-3 years on they were shooting up again!
Sure, fraudulent transactions exist. The difficulty is figuring out how much it matters.
If a business can’t pay a living wage, automate the role.
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What does that have to do with video streaming services on set top boxes? It kind of sounds like you're determined to make a point here no matter whether it has anything to do with the topic at hand.
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If we’re making that comparison, absolutely. Both are in the ads business, but I get actual utility from one company’s products and the other company’s products make me feel worse at the end of the day.

I realize that many people love social media and derive happiness from FB, but it’s just not the case for me and the main reason I couldn’t work there.
> Making an electronic device more repairable would make it more complex (again, not in every case, but in general).

Right to repair isn't about forcing manufacturers to make devices more repairable. It's about giving you the right to repair it in the first place. Right now we have paired components that can't even be replaced by genuine parts from a donor device, board components that aren't purchasable by anyone other than the OEM and a complete lack of access to repair documentation from OEMs.

Even the most skilled repair technicians in the world with the best equipment money can buy aren't able to repair your device because they can't debug it without documentation, or they've reverse engineered it but can't buy the parts because they're not for sale, or they've taken the parts from another device but they won't function because the OEM software locked them to the device they came from.

Linus from Linus Tech Tips said it best: "The vast majority of the opposition to right to repair comes from people who either haven't had it explained to them properly or from folks that are on board with right to repair even though they don't realize it yet"

https://youtu.be/nvVafMi0l68?t=91
I'm purely utilitarian (I don't derive any sense of community from my workplace), but I still strongly prefer working from the office. For a number of reasons:

* Access to company cafes means I eat healthier, spend less time cooking/cleaning, and save money on food.

* Face-to-face interaction with co-workers makes debugging problems much easier (no more wondering what they're seeing on their screen; just walk over and see).

* Arriving at and leaving the office provides a fixed start and end to the work day where I can completely detach from work outside those hours.

* There are no internet connection problems when my workstation is hardwired into the company network.

* It's much easier to get exercise/go to the gym when I'm already out of the house.
This really feels like a losing battle - especially the part where you only get warned about being stalked by the AirTag if you have an iPhone. Having the technology to know where things are is great but we need to figure out how to account for bad actors somehow.

I don’t have answers but tech companies can’t create the tools that enable harm and then wash their hands of it. Good for Apple for doing _something_, points for effort.
CentOS for my long running systems. Even with stream I expect that to be more than stable and predictable for my needs, meaning low feature-creep. I use the ElRepo kernels with CentOS and even that has been quite stable to my surprise.

Alpine Linux for temporary instances when I just need something stood up quickly. The VM and docker container images are tiny. The supported packages are almost always up to date with upstream. The setup is so fast and small I can basically run the entire thing in ram.
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Nvidia shield was okay. But expensive
Recurring ,reliable revenues especially in large cap tech and payment processing (such as Visa, PayPal, MasterCard) is the main driver of the stock market and is why the market has done so well even though the economy feels weak otherwise and there is unrest. If companies can keep generating profit margins of 10-30%/a year, that is $ that must go to shareholders in the form of buybacks, dividends, or share price appreciation. This is what a lot of people get wrong about the stock market. Big companies, in tech, especial, are more profitable and dominant than ever. Never before have such companies generated so much cash.
Peak hackernews comment.
This is an inane comparison. Murder is not the same as me being satisfied that every app publisher under the sun cannot make their own app store to pollute my phone further.
> Open source code and device schematics shouldn't be a significant security threat.

You don't see how a completely open device could be insecure?

> As for the second point, I should be able to install whatever software I want on my device...as its mine.

This is a valid opinion, but the whole point of contention is whether you can do anything with a device simply because you've purchased it, as opposed to what has been exposed for you to do.
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They've got a whole study about it, if you've got time to read it (I haven't :):

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...
30% is industry standard. Spotify takes 50% fee from Anchor; Tencent takes 50% fee in its China Android App Store and owns 48% of Epic Games.

If you mention Tencent fee in Tim Sweeny Twitter you'll get instantly banned.

Amazon's Twitch also takes 50%. But everyone's mad at Apple since they produce products and services everyone buys, even Google engineers mostly use iPhones and Macbooks.
The problem is options/derivatives trading. That is straight up gambling. There’s a meta market where you bet on the behavior of the market...
network effects have nonlinear impact in the size of the network. there are other products which do the same thing. none of them has that scale.
This isn't a new trend. Companies have been peddling their ways of life since well before the 1990s.
I suspect that a minority of people would choose to repair their old phones even if they were more repairable. When your phone dies, it's a good opportunity to buy something new and more fun. I don't know for sure but I don't think this would stop that much consumption.
How does that explain it's enduring modern appeal?
Buying an AirTag is more accessible to vastly more people than rooting phones and side-loading apps.
I think the suggestion to cooperate with Google, like they did with COVID-19 tracking, is a great idea. I'm not sure they will go for it, though.
The windows seems actively develop about linux develop environment recently. The implements wsl2 few years ago. Bring gpu accelerate to wsl2 last year. And they recently implements wayland on wsl2 for full graphic support. Although guys here probably don't really like about ms very much. I think they will able to attracts some *nix developers.
The problem is that planned obsolescence is not in fact everyone’s business model.

Apple’s penetration into the US market is not because the iPhone matches Android in terms of sales, it’s because iPhones last longer and get handed down or resold. Apple literally continues to sell years old devices.

That isn’t planned obsolescence.

A really simple step in the right direction would be mandated labeling showing how many years of software updates the device will get and statistical expected lifetime.
> Let us remember that big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook generally have 49.9% of their employees contractors.

These are not the same type of contractors as 1099 contractors such as gig workers. Contractors at these big companies are usually employees of a staffing agency. They don't get sweet tech company benefits, but they are generally employees and have nothing to do with gig workers.

> Why nearly 50%? Because that the highest amount you can have without additional liability. If they could get away with it, far more than 50% would be contractors.

Which liability are you referring to? I've never heard of this and would love to look up what you're referring to, but you aren't being specific.
Beware HN: The rise of weaponized "abuse" reports
Reputation management companies are hired to clean up Google search results for their clients. They usually send scary sounding emails, or letters demanding some "unauthorized", "sensitive" or "threatening" content (created by a user) be removed. They can't use a DMCA notice because it isn't a copyright complaint. If you do not give in to their demands, they will send the same scary sounding notices to abuse@[host], abuse@[registrar] and abuse@[dns provider].

The most unscrupulous reputation management company I've ever dealt with (izoologic) has apparently figured out that "phishing" is the best way to get what they want. They claimed a user-generated page on my site was phishing for credentials (because it happened to mention their client's name and had a login form on it). I got this from Namecheap:

"""
We are writing from the Namecheap Legal and Abuse team.

It has come to our attention that phishing content is displayed on your website at the link:

[URL to an entirely innocent page]

As a reminder, phishing is expressly prohibited by our Universal Terms of Service Agreement, paragraph 7. "Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)" at https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos.aspx

We need you to act promptly in removing the reported content within the next 24 hours. While we always try to avoid having to interrupt our customers' services, if we receive no response from you or no action is taken within the mentioned time frame, unfortunately, we will be forced to suspend the domain until the matter is resolved.
"""

From my logs, I can see Namecheap didn't even visit the page before requiring me to take it down within 24 hours. If I had been on vacation, apparently my domain would have been suspended.

If you accept user generated content, you need to be vigilant about handling these weaponized abuse complaints. They can take down your business in a day if you are not paying attention.
The good and bad days are not equally likely to be equally good/bad, though. Long-term, the market tends to rise; the good days will outnumber the bad in either quantity or quality.
I would argue that is rational for the engineers who become less employable if they aren't doing the latest stuff and creating new libraries.

The interests of engineers are often extremely detached from whether development is cost effective and maintainable by others.
I really want a heated cupholder now - how did I never hear for this before. This is a gamechanger.
Ah yes, remote within 100 miles of a Facebook hub. Which are... NYC and SF. Not exactly "remote" by my definition if you only have the option to live in the suburbs of a major metro area.
I think that's true for sure. In fact, I know of more workplaces where when doing the hiring, previous experience with Google is a negative rather than positive, as previous ex-Google employees have introduced more problems than solutions, together with strongly holding a "better than you" attitude towards others.
Ultramarine was a huge success in Renaissance art. The blue is still mesmerizing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine

See Sassoferrato's Madonna:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sassoferrato_-_Jungf...

Turner and Van Gogh used this special Indian Yellow, imported from India, and made from the urine of cows fed mango leaves.

https://hinduaesthetic.medium.com/the-mystery-of-the-origin-...
How should Apple charge for the costs of building and maintaining SDKs for 3rd parties? There are plenty of UIKit SPI that undoubtedly took a lot of investment to turn into API. Apple also seems to spend considerable development resources building API which simply would not need to exist if there weren’t third parties on iOS (e.g. IDFA and its associated controls). Sometimes they likely have to develop new technology, such as 3rd party integrations with Siri or CoreAudio. Finally, there’s also the maintenance burden of API which Apple no longer uses but third parties do. I’m sure there’s more work in providing a platform; this is just what I can think of as examples for now.

Who should pay for this work? How would you go about accounting for it when calculating the “cost” of operating App Store? Is it fair to say that all this cost should be capitalized into the hardware price of an iPhone, given that most customers use only a small subset of the features on iOS? Should developers be charged by API call, similar to the business model of a cloud platform?
Could you do something similar to how sports memorabilia is marked?
Apple Music, am I the only one bothered by this
I must have lived a sheltered life because none of these concerns crossed my mind.
Oh I absolutely agree. Like another commenter said below, another similar thing are payment processors fees, but it works because 1. you're free to use another one, or checks, or cash, or bitcoin, or anything else, and 2. the EU has strongly regulated their fees and imposed massive limits on what they can charge in %.
Your article is from last September, using data from last July. It only takes ten seconds to google, but I guess it takes a few more to check timestamps or think critically about the results.

Using more current antibody data, the CDC released updated estimates yesterday [0] that there have been ~115 million actual COVID infections in the US. That makes the 2x-3x number pretty reasonable (especially since herd immunity is supposed to kick in around 70%).

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Tailwind is great. I use it everywhere just because i don't want to write/keep css files.
For components i use Elastic UI.
Maybe, but it’s all over the place and thus might cause confusion for readers who will later see 'right to repair' and think it means that Apple should be forced to send iOS 14 to their iPhone 4S.
If it is owners of Apple devices, isn't that by definition their own prerogative. Like if they didn't have app store at all and had only used their apps, would Spotify still complain?
My work keyboard has red (linear) switches which are slightly quieter than my neighboring coworker's membrane keyboard. I've been thinking about getting some O-rings so it can be basically silent.

Honestly I think a good enough membrane keyboard is probably good enough. Above a certain baseline functionality, keyboards are all about preference. I like the ones that come with HP business desktops (model KU-0316), which tend to be pretty consistent. I've heard lots of good things about Logitech, but my only recent experience is with the MK320. It's decent for typing but has a weird nav key arrangement.