skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one buys them.

Pfffft. OK! Clearly this is incorrect... We have whole companies like System 76 built around selling Linux desktop systems. We have whole divisions of PC manufacturers for selling Linux desktop systems. If nobody was buying them, they'd cease to exist.

Non-developers largely don't buy them, that's all.

Also, many developers are aware that Linux runs on anything, so a large portion of Linux users just install it on whatever hardware they already have. The rest buy systems from Dell, System 76, etc. or build their own.

> because the basics are so poor e.g. broken sleep mode, driver instability, poor battery life, changing UI etc.

Developers obviously buy pre-built Linux laptops that have none of these sleep/driver/battery problems. I work with some of them. If one makes a sensible choice and uses a desktop environment like XFCE, they would notice that there's much, much, much less instability in the UI when compared to Windows, macOS, Gnome or KDE.

Personally, I prefer desktop systems and I have never had to spend more than 40 minutes getting Linux running on any desktop PC that I've tried it on outside of my Mac Pro from 2012, which was only problematic because it's not a real PC with a normal BIOS or boot procedure it's a locked down Apple terminal.

I've seen way, way, way more problems with macOS and Windows than I have with people running Linux in our office. Certain mice and keyboards won't even work on a Mac!
Miners technically do have seigniorage authority since they can collectively decide to change the underlying cryptocurrency.

Miner's de facto control of the network is a huge problem. It's why Bitcoin will never solve its energy use issue, and why Ethereum set up a "delayed difficulty bomb" to force miners to accept changes to the network.
> 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).

Some people enjoy socializing at work.

> All the pandemic has shown us is basically all knowledge work can be done remotely, and most sales work too.

For sales, can be done, but can it win over the face to face sales?
There are obviously a lot of factors that go into the decision making process of whether you should take a particular job at a particular wage. But at least two are 1) how much you're getting otherwise from other sources, and 2) competition from other sources of labor.

For 2, consider this: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/l...

New entries in Q4 2020 down 78% from the year before, and that's on top of a general downward trend in net immigration to the US that's been happening for a decade. Is this temporary because of Covid? Probably. But immigration at the low end of the wage scale is a factor that drives down the wages. Anyone who has ever lived in an apartment complex in Santa Ana and seen neighbors with 14 people packed into a 3 bedroom apartment understands why. Native born Americans simply aren't willing to live like that. The expectation for what constitutes a baseline reasonable lifestyle isn't the same.

For 1, these comments about "experimenting with UBI" or freeloaders living off the government seem to miss the point that augmented benefits are a temporary pandemic relief measure. Of course the low end of the labor market is abnormally depressed right now. That is on purpose as part of a calculated, intentional public health response making it easier for people to decide not to work. Lo and behold, many are now actually making that decision.

For some reason, there seems to be this widespread notion that this is a permanent change, but it isn't. You're still not technically allowed to just quit or refuse to work because you want unemployment, but go ahead and look at the actual description of what constitutes a Covid-related reason to apply for relief: https://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/UIPL/UIPL_16-20.pdf

If your place of employment was closed, if your kid's school was closed, if you were ever diagnosed, had symptoms, were quarantined, or anyone in your family was, your head of household died, you need to care for some who was diagnosed. None of those are usually reasons you're allowed to claim unemployment benefits. Now they are.

How long will this go on? Who knows, but definitely not forever. This is also the answer to why businesses don't just offer more. Prices are subject to a ratchet effect. Offer more now to overcome the inertia of people choosing to stay unemployed during an abnormally favorable time to be unemployed and you're very likely to have to permanently pay higher wages even when the enhanced benefits are gone. Businesses are getting relief, too, and are willing to gamble that they can wait long enough for wages to come back down.
There's a fairness argument that can be made (but probably should only apply to primary residences only) - you buy a house for $100k in Seattle 10 years ago - now you want to move to another neighborhood into an identical house, but both are now worth upwards of $500k - you'd have to come up with the tax difference on the "profit" even though all you're doing is moving between nearly identical properties.

Also stock sales are more easily "structured" to avoid this tax (sell half this year, half next year) whereas a house has to be sold as a "whole".
For a whole 30 seconds of fight action?
> It depends on what you work on. Of course if you work with iOS development your surroundings will be mostly macOS machines since it's a hard requirement, no surprises here hence my comment about bubbles. Otherwise statistically speaking, macs are not the default developer machine as per surveys.

Again, I didn't framed it as default machine, that comes from the comment I was responding to. Personally, I probably would have said something like "default machine for developers working on products that target non-developers" (I'd have to think really carefully about how I'd word this actually, because I'm well-aware of the statistics).

Actually, I'd love to hear your framing of this. E.g., major tech companies usually default to a MacBook for developers. They're usually the most common machine at tech conferences. Unfortunately both based on anecdotal experience again, maybe you disagree with those too? But if you agree, how would you describe that if not the default machine for developers then? Not being rhetorical, I honestly struggle figure out the best way to describe it.

(Also regarding this "Of course if you work with iOS development your surroundings will be mostly macOS machines since it's a hard requirement, no surprises here hence my comment about bubbles." I was specifically drawing on my experience before iOS development existed, when I worked in web development.)

> It also depends on who you admire. For example Linus, someone I admire, uses a AMD Threadripper 3970x. And the best engineer I personally know, uses a Thinkpad with Debian.

Clearly, but why is my following the work of people who I admire (mainly product-centric apps and website) elitist, but your following Linus, etc... not elitist? That was my question here.
but that is not a fixed cost though, although it is small relative to the price of a pizza
Reaper is also the DAW that built many of Harmonix's games, including Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
I remember several years ago, there was a quote in an article with the former head of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, where he dismissed AWS with a quote along the lines of, "Just one of our business deals is bigger than the entire AWS business."

Same hubris as Steve Ballmer about the iPhone.

https://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U?t=64
There’s another aspect: there’s a horrible lack of common decency and respect by supervisors and managers of low-wage workers. Having worked menial data entry, warehouse, grocery store, fast food jobs, I’ve interacted with far too many stressed-out and abusive/abused bosses who cannot cope with the razor-thin timelines with minimal workforce (which seems to be the norm) and ultimately exhaust this irritating heat onto their subordinates and fail to show a minimal amount of respect to their employees to the degree of hostility and abuse.

This isn’t so much of an “all bosses suck” trope (I am happy and lucky to be at a healthier work environment at the moment). The sense I have is demands from the top continue to be more and more unrealistic as decisions are made to cut costs without truly thinking about it may start to rot the foundation beneath.

In my case, $18 sounds like a lot of money, but I wonder if this just means the work will be exponentially more stressful and unhealthy.
Feds tried to induce inflation for the last 20 years, it’s good for them since they can just print more money. They largely failed to do so since dollar is so well propped by international demand.
ISP lobbyists to sue NY for requiring $15/m internet to low-income households
I find the 'expensive tissue hypothesis' (based on brain/gut ratio) quite persuasive.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive_tissue_hypothesis
That's the point. Absent any competition (which there won't be, because everyone is subject to the same minimum wage), the cost is fully passed on to the customers (ie. "everyone else"). Therefore your conclusion is incorrect.
FWIW, it's going to be immediately challenged in court. WA supreme court has struck down all income taxes in the past, and it's pretty unclear whether this one will pass muster.
Not really, a Java applet could load and call into native DLLs, and once you're in native code, you can do pretty much anything on Windows.
So if earnings increase 3x the P/E goes back down to ~10.

KO has excellent margins - last time I looked they were around 60%. That means prices * sales only has to increase by 5x to bump earnings up 3x. Food prices have been inflating at 10-15% recently; 15% inflation over 11 years will get you there, and that doesn't include any growth in sales at all. These aren't unreasonable assumptions, given the macro environment: another 1970s inflationary episode would do it. (Indeed, Warren Buffett made a lot of his money investing in Coca-Cola and See's Candies during the 1970s.)
If you play any games on your computer, then odds are high you are familiar with using the WASD keys for directional movement and the space bar for jumping.

If someone is moving forward (W) and strafing to the right (D) while jumping (Space), they will have reached the key rollover limits of their 3KRO (3 key roll over) membrane-based keyboard.

This means that if they ALSO try to fire off one of their abilities (let's say they have to press "1" to activate their ability), they won't be able to activate it unless they first let go of one of their movement keys.

This is a lot less noticeable in a more advanced keyboard that can do 6 key rollover. It's pretty rare that someone is going to be performing 6 simultaneous actions in a game.
Definitely sarcasm with 'And stop asking questions.'
OK even if I accept your argument, I still don’t believe that gives apple the right to stifle their competition by forcing them to jump through arbitrary hoops. Like I’ve said - they are already giving Spotify access to Siri. They just make it deliberately painful. And as a software developer I really don’t think it would be remotely difficult to route calls for music to an alternative music app. They are already doing the hard work of deciding if a request is for music or something else.

By your logic Microsoft are also fine to force everyone to use internet explorer forever because they put so many hours into making windows.

That’s an argument that was lost 20 years ago.
Yes, if you included real estate at the 250K number, you'd hit a much broader target than you would for stocks. But eliminating real estate entirely is a huge break for rent-seeking large landlords and developers. Probably should've simply chosen a higher dollar threshold for real estate.
Another step on the road to having more UX and UI designers get involved with Open Source. It's really exciting to see!

Especially happy to see Tantacrul delving into the history and mission of the project. It's one aspect that many UI/UX designers miss which causes massive amounts of wasted effort.
I agree that Google management made this decision mostly on gut feel. But I think that it aligns with my own gut feel, which is that it’s going to be very hard for a fully remote team to invent the next Waymo car or iPad or whatever, and I also think that it will be very hard for a junior engineer to get the same learning remotely as they do colocated with 20 year tenured engineers. If I was CEO of Google I would have made the same decision.
> obviously the investors 95 years ago in the F.W. Woolworth Company and the Kennecott Mines Company didn't do quite as well, which is precisely why nobody would write an article today about buying and holding Woolworth's stock.

I don’t know about Kennecott Mines, but Woolworth’s never missed a quarterly dividend payment from 1926 until 1995, and they resumed again in 2003 (they are now named Foot Locker, FYI). Nobody who bought Woolworth stock in 1926 lost money if they just HODL and passed it on to their kids.
Streaming from Zoom and other conference tools for doing real time transcription
Hi - Has anyone figured out how to stream audio and video from Zoom to do video analytics? If the solution can be applied to other conferencing tools, then that is a bonus.
Hard-drive seek noise is not something you will avoid with this case. I can't comment on the stock fan configuration, because I replaced the PSU with a Corsair SF-450 and the fan with an Akasa 15mm PWM fan.

The airflow is relatively ok, the exhaust fan is directly opposite (and pretty much centered on) the harddrive cage, and the backplane is organized in a 3x2 configuration so it leaves some room for air to pass between the drives. The motherboard is flat on the bottom of the case, so doesn't impede the airflow, but also doesn't benefit much from it. If you need lots of CPU power, an active fan on the cpu cooler is recommended.

The drive cage itself and the trays are metal with hard-plastic rails, similar to QNAP, but the build quality is surprisingly solid. There's no audible resonance from the case due to the spinning drives. The case feet are padded with soft foam, vibrations don't travel from the case to the shelf it's resting on. I expect it will take a year for the foam to compress, but it's a nice touch. Other than that, yes, seek noise is pronounced. It's not something that bothers me because it's not in the living room, but I wouldn't want to put it next to my HTPC set.

My main criticism is the chosen positon and form factor of the power supply: it's mounted at the same height as the drive cage and projects inwards, leaving almost no room for the hard disk connectors (angled molex connectors for HDD power are a must!). They should have used a Flex-ATX form factor instead of SFX, and mounted it length-wise across the case's back plane. I have half a mind to get a Dremel and do that myself, but the other half is winning out for now.
Our shared pipeline used to create child pipelines and we wouldn't recommend them.

If all the shared pipeline jobs show up in your consumer project pipeline, you can easily extend them or overwrite them entirely.
I have a Dygma Raise. Love that it is split with a normal (not ortholinear) layout. Still getting used to the layers.

https://dygma.com
You shouldn't be able to "choose to not be employed", someone else is picking up the slack for you and you are taking away benefits that could be used on someone that NEEDS it (disability, elderly, etc.)

When others see that you can just give up and get paid, they will also become burnouts.

Eventually you will run out of other people's money.
Kind of. There are conflict rules so consultants don't share specifics about clients. We tend to share general trends and stick to long term relations. I've seen situations where the partner has been consulting for a client for longer than most CxOs tenure.

It's still less of an issue of a competitor poaching your key people. And by not hiring consultants, you do risk getting behind on a lot of practices.
That's not an accurate summary. You can take over the browser by chaining exploits. Sections 5.1 and 5.2 show two examples.

Needing to chain isn't as bad as a full breakout, but in practice, attackers can and do chain exploits. (pwn2own has some really impressive chains, but those are about breaking out of the sandbox)

If you had written the code in JavaScript, this class of vulnerability would be impossible.

Also remember that WASM doesn't actually improve peak performance over JS. The asm.js subset of JS has the same performance.

WASM does two things 1) it makes performance predictable by ensuring you don't fall off a cliff of the JIT 2) It improves parsing time because it's loading a binary format rather than parsing JS.

e.g. notice that the headline here is about load time, not execution time, which would be more important: https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
Your writing doesn't give you away as a non-native English speaker. Please write HOWTOs!
Credit card fees are already regulated the EU, i.e. card interchange fees are capped at 0.3%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union

As to why it's not a fixed payment: I'm not sure if some of their costs/liabilities would scale with the size of the transactions?
Somewhat related question: where/how did you acquire that data? I have been meaning to run some simulations on the S&P 500 historical daily closing data, but I can't seem to find a place that provides the data covering for the last 40-50 years.

Thanks in advance for your answer!
You can always install the old version, Apple just doesn't think they can optimize new iOS versions to make old phones work well with the new software (and the bloat/feature creep within).
That moonlander looks cool, but I place my keyboard on my lap while typing, so it wouldn't work for me. I like that the switches are replaceable, and it's funny that the first thing they mention about what matters in switch selection is loudness but then fail to list that attribute for any of the switches they offer!
Yeah, the majority of phones and servers run Linux. It's "mainstream infrastructure" instead of a consumer brand, but not out of the ordinary for consumers or businesses.
That's actually a separate area of practice: "Human Capital Consulting". In addition to laying off people, they also do systems integration for stuff like payroll.
Not sure if this exempts all real estate. In other areas they often exclude the primary residence. I think it's because for most people, that's their biggest asset and would represent a huge loss of wealth for the lower and middle classes. Especially if they are selling it to move into a retirement home (they'll likely need that money to pay for it too).
In 1994/5-ish I had a compendium of HOWTOs published in book form called "DRx. Linux", put out by Linux System Labs. It was awesome, and THE way to get Linux configured. Good memories.
That lasts until the IRB embarrasses the University:

https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/education/2021/03/...

https://www.bridgew.edu/racial-justice/messages/research-sur...
The same kind of folks who didn’t/wouldn’t care to know a thing about anything outside of America before the “information” age now have the luxury of getting the most simplistic representation piped into their heads via clickbait and mass media.
Hey its Friday, so I'll bite on the argument hooks.

Overshooting is defined as missing a defined target.

The target here is movement across a specific distance. Moving this distance is not missed. In fact, the target is hit with greater speed, lower costs, and lower pollution compared to whatever else you have in mind.

Less time to hit the defined target with a higher efficiency yields the performance.

Surprising other drivers has nothing to do with this empirical performance, and is a subjective measurement.
> especially if it's earmarked for childhood education.

If it's earmarked for childhood education then don't be surprised if other childhood education funds are reallocated elsewhere.
I/O Co-Processing on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Real estate has a powerful lobby and many property owners are well-connected themselves. A lot of people own property and don't see it as free money. They empathize with property owners. Though it's easier money if you're politically connected and/or already wealthy.

Stocks are held by rich people and techbros, in the minds of the public. Whether something is valuable or not valuable depends on who you empathize with. Right now occupations held by the wealthy are disliked and unpopular.

Really you should just tax income at high rates and investment at near-0%. When people cash out their investments, tax them at ordinary income rates. This is how your 401(k) or IRA already works. You'll need to raise taxes on the affluent who spend instead of save, but that's not a bad thing.
Re the shared logic, Java and C# have the concept of "interface default methods" which is what I'd use for your case, if I understand it right.
> Now the author has shifted "right to repair" to mean mandatory first-party device support and design requirements around repair-ability.

I'm sure mandatory first-party device support is better for the manufacturer than giving people the idea they should be able to control what software runs on their device. I wonder if that stance is a lack of imagination on the author's part or something more deliberate.
> Second place was 4 years.

What about mid-2000 to late-2006?

And that's in nominal terms, because it underperformed cash from mid-2000 to mid-2013 (and quite longer against bonds).
.. and P=NP
How is that the point? The studies I've seen tend to say that minimum wage hikes tend to come from profits.

E.g.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/203233/1/1667730924....
Precisely, the iPhone does not work like an Apple ][ or an IBM PC. After "support" is ended you cannot install software on your device. How insane is it, I'll repeat: you cannot install software on “your own” device.
?!? I said ISP emails, which a lot of people still use. Outlook/Hotmail are 10mb though. And outlook client is 20mb received.
> 80% sure the last place I worked at had Non-Disparagement on hire.

You can always red-line the contract. Still, if I saw that, I'd be pretty worried. It's saying you can't even review them on Glassdoor, and I'd wonder what they're hiding.
Verizon said to weigh sale of Yahoo, AOL
I think it's even narrower than you point out, as it should be 250K of gains, not just of stock sales. If I, for example, sell 260K of an index fund that I bought for 240K, I shouldn't owe this tax. However, if I sell 260K of stock that I got at basically 0 monetary cost as a company founder, then I'd owe the tax.
> This framing can make it come off as though the wages were fair to begin with.

This framing passes the buck for inflation from the government onto businesses that have no control over it whatsoever.

When the money you have buys less and less, the wages suddenly become less and less "fair" without the employer doing anything differently. Who's to say that their business has increased enough to support the higher wage?

This is, IMO, why basic income is critical because it puts the cost of dealing with inflation directly back on the government itself, rather than the small businesses that are constantly framed as paying "unfair" wages.

If the taxes to support it come from the people at the top who've reaped disproportionate benefits...GREAT. But the small businesses at the bottom struggling to keep their doors open are not the enemy here but they will absolutely be the ones that suffer the most from wage-based legislation that they can't afford.

And let's not forget that the moment such legislation passes, it just encourages more automation or exporting of jobs to other countries where a fraction of the original wage is somehow "fair".