skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author directly acknowledges that money can be used to measure value:

> I’m going to tacitly accept [...] that “value” can meaningfully be expressed in terms of United States dollars

That doesn't mean you can just sum up a bunch of dollar figures and have the total make any logical sense. Doubly so when you are arguing that the sum represents value you created and not just the values of things you interacted with.

Like if a bank teller takes $5000 dollars and deposits it into a customer's account, they haven't created anywhere close to $5000 because the owner already had it when they walked through the doors of the bank. And if you add that number to the bank teller's wages and the price of a safe deposit box at the bank down the street, you haven't discovered the value of the transaction... all you've got is nonsense.
And this of course means that CIA does not make malware.
In reality, the only measurable value wrt Amazon is it's retained net profit.
For its shareholders, it is the net capital gain on their investment and dividends.

Edit:
Were it not for the above, assuming an efficient market, the resources would be allocated elsewhere and therefore they cannot lay claim to others profits and value add, considered a cost in their results.
In NYC, I have exactly one broadband provider. Spectrum (formerly Time Warner). Their highest end package is 500 down / 20 up. I can't get FiOS because, even though Verizon contractually agreed to wire all of NYC up for fiber, they lied and didn't. So, my only other option is Verizon DSL with offers 'up to 7Mbps' down.

T-Mobile is rolling out their home 5g internet now. It doesn't support streaming yet, but it hits around 200+ down and 25 up on my phone, so it may get there.
The section discussing (inter/intra)agency turf battles reminded me of a recent article discussing how the pandemic has led to some significant reevaluation of what the role and purpose of traditional "commuter rail" is within public transit as a whole (particularly focusing on the MBTA/Boston, contrasting the quote from Frank DePaola):

https://www.governing.com/now/taking-the-commuter-out-of-ame...
Or they just ask, which is essentially how prism already worked for user data.
I'm sure the intended purpose is to vent frustrations, but maybe also to make aware those who've turned their eye from the US's terrible tyrannical and oppressive nature at home and abroad in favor of tribal political trivialities.

It's not an incorrect statement either. I'd put the US up there with China, Russia, Big Tech, and the UN for forces of evil in the world right now.
I had similar experience. I had regular bedtime out of necessity. At the time, I was ambivalent to it and a bit jealous over friends who went to sleep whenever. They regularly went to slep very late due to watching movies out gaming.

Now in retrospective, I am glad I learned to cut activities and go to sleep. Paid off in college, actually. And I plan to do the same for my kids.
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Please send links to discussions/commits. I remember it as these technologies being inherently botched and pretty much unbotchable, and the group moving on to Wasm - which isn't a fault they could be blamed for, they're not yours to command. I'm very sure that if you knew how to unbotch it you could've simply submitted into the discussion and would've been accepted.
Yes, and to go along with this newly-acquired process knowledge, they pull in an SAP rollout. Massive amounts of money to be made here.
>> quantity of labor

This is something I don’t really understand about American business. In my experience it’s pretty common in America to have “superfluous” jobs - the Walmart greeter for example, valet parking attendants etc. etc.

Now on the one hand you can say these roles aren’t superfluous at all, they’re required, maybe some people find a valet convenient (does not compute for me), maybe some customers spend more in your store after a cheery hello at the entrance.

On the other hand, society works just fine without these roles and at lower overall cost.

Is it a workaround for capitalism’s failings? Like “hey of course there’s a job for everyone who wants one” kind of thing and we’ll just quietly eat the cost because the flaking out on society payments (taxes to cover rule of law etc.) is cheaper overall than having a couple of extra minimum wages on the balance sheet?
Or rather, an increasingly large number of people's personal hobbies essentially consist of reading, tweeting, blogging, and talking about politics.
No, they were expected to wake up soon along with everybody.
With, say, 1200 dots per inch it would be nothing to sneeze at...
it will get worse, since nvidia lifted some IOMMU limitations in their consumer cards: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5173/~/g...

this is a big deal especially since ai tech advanced.
or Microsoft.
Thanks for the feedback! Next.js' i18n support adds a routing and language detection layer, which can't be easily replicated with `next export`. We're open to contributions for this, but it is a difficult problem to solve. Feel free to leave implementation suggestions on that issue.
I’m pretty sure you can’t run 16 bit programs on 64 bit Windows.

You can easily emulate a 16 bit computer though.
Is that the US and how long ago was that 2 digit fee?

"...there is now very little in-house expertise left."

I don't really see this being an issue. If they are taking market share from the private sector, then it's likely that private companies will make cuts to preserve profits and those people can be hired by the government. If not having in-house expertise was really a problem then no companies would ever be able to expand. Instead they hire externally and hire consultants.
Wave Broadband literally doubled my bill out of the blue last November-- not because a trial pricing period ended or anything, but just because they could: I was in an apartment building where they were the only option. It's irrelevant now because shortly after that I moved to a different location, but they're just as bad as Comcast. Private ISPs delenda est.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26971486
Where does a candle go when it burns?
> user: grammarnazzzi
> created: February 23, 2017
> karma: 17

You really came out of the woodwork to defend this guy and shame the accuser. Zero posts in months then a flurry here. Gross.
> iPhone sale to user is irrelevant.

Thank you. I agree. The iPhone sale to the user is irrelevant to Spotify's return.

The rest of the post is yelling at a cloud. I have not given my position on any of that so I have no clue to whom you are arguing with.
> Payments from government are what make tax payments possible

Can you expound on this a bit? I think I am not understanding what you are stating. The way I read it at this point is that the taxes on a government payment is what makes the tax revenue possible. The math doesn't work here in the way I am understanding it. Unfortunately the link is to a book which I cannot read directly.

>Superior businesses with better productivity can grow

Businesses typically gain productivity as they scale. So that little delicatessen on the corner that makes the most amazing pastrami sandwich and is a neighborhood gathering spot is very very inefficient but is serving a great purpose. If all of these types of businesses die we are left with McDonalds which if anything isn't 'for the people'.
>Should I use this for [serious application]?
>Probably not. This is a toy - it's not the best nor the most performant way to emulate an old Macintosh. It is, however, a quick and easy way to experience a bit of nostalgia if you're not trying to do anything serious with it.

This accomplishes it's goal and an interesting/unique way to learn about many different technologies and how they can link together. That it brought someone joy is not a good reason to deride our field.
“Air quality is a real threat in many countries but not anymore in the US”

Couldn’t be more wrong.

As the author casually admits, we know nothing without experiments. End of story.

What makes your statement so wrong is that it takes decades for the consequences to show up, if they are measurable at all, in non experimental studies. That is exactly the same reason that cigarettes were considered safe for so long. Health consequences take decades to show up and without experiments all we get are loose correlations. Air quality in many places in America is getting worse, the size of the population in these areas is massive. To declare to potential health consequences 60 years in the future without any solid experimental evidence is the same as the doctors of the 50’s telling patients to smoke up, there’s no evidence cigarettes are bad. Exactly the same.
You can get the titles pretty easily from BigQuery:

SELECT DISTINCT title FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE type = "story"
AND NOT dead
Don't forget Canada's crown jewel of tech consulting, CGI. Responsible for the disastrous first version of healthcare.gov
It's not really about the user spying though, it's about the decision of making the user default of "yes, please track my usage so you can make your product better". I would rather have you ask the question first even though I mostly say yes, but transparency is key here.
It probably reduces security - if your phone gets taken by a government to be analyzed.

Authoritarian governments would probably require side loaded apps.
What does "force of evil" mean anyway? It seems like a subjective measurement based entirely on tribalism as a foundation.
The unions.

And the contractors pass on the cost because the bigger the final dollar amount the more opportunity there is to squeeze in profit.

And the beurcrats rubber stamp it because the bigger the amount of resources they control the more powerful they are.

And the politicans ignore it because it provides them more power to do favors and a bigger haystack in which to bury their nepotism and unethical meddling.

It's self serving waste all the way down.

The fundamental problem is that nobody anywhere in the chain or responsibility wants to spend taxpayer money with precision, efficiency and care because doing otherwise is in their best interest, as is every other party, except the taxpayer who has no choice but to bend over and take it.

It's not just a union problem. But rest assured the unions are doing all they can to perpetuate it as it benefits them.
Yeah, I highly doubt there's any targeting there. The big tech Co.s are practically fronts for the US Gov.
As a former American expat, I felt this deeply. A lot of the online financial analysis tools, like Mint, looked cool. But since they had a US focus and I was not in the US I couldn't take advantage of any of them. And once GDPR came into effect I was effectively locked out of any of them.
In our economic system, those who produce the most value to other people are able to eek out profits while still helping the purchaser. That incentivizes people to produce value and focus on things that help people the most. Linus undoubtedly has produced incredible value and efficiency gains for the world, and those who want to see such efficiency gains continue want people like him to be rewarded for their behavior.
This reminds me of Tesla's pricing page which shows your future gas savings deducted from the total cost of the car...
And for projects internal to companies, there is usually no market or bidding (last time I heard of, anyway): here's the department's budget, go and deliver. You didn't manage to spend all of it? Next quarter, we're cutting your budget, and giving you a bigger project. Oh no, now you've overspent? Well, that's your fault really.

As the proverbial wisdom goes, "to improve a dairy's profits you'd need the cows to give more milk and eat less food, so feed them less and milk more often".
> Fundamentally, Phantom Secure was a hardware company. It sold modified BlackBerry handsets that had been customized to communicate only with other Phantom Secure devices. On top of that, it ran an email system that routed encrypted messages through Panama and Hong Kong. As a result, conversations were nearly impossible to intercept, and if law enforcement did snag a message, there was no way of decrypting it.

There's free/open "encrypted chat" networks which may be more or less secure than commercial gray-market/criminal products. Is there any free-of-charge and open-source software for running your own infrastructure for messaging, blocking unencrypted communication and Apple/Google "phoning home" (perhaps through an unlocked-bootloader phone running AOSP/LineageOS), blocking data exfiltration through USB MTP/ADB/exploits (and possibly safeguards or automatic wiping upon hardware/RAM/CPU/TPM hijacking), automatic timer/face/accelerometer-based screen locks to prevent a phone from being used for long after being seized, and automatically wiping devices if they don't receive a signed "all clear" message from a server every few days (to guard against putting a phone in a Faraday cage to block out remote-wipe signals)?

Of course this is mostly idle speculation, and I haven't tried implementing any of these ideas, even though I feel they would be useful to many.
NASA seems confident enough in SpaceX's ability to award them a contract for Starship to take them back to the moon.

"This is but one of many genuinely shocking aspects of NASA's decision a week ago to award SpaceX—and only SpaceX—a contract to develop, test, and fly two missions to the lunar surface. The second flight, which will carry astronauts to the Moon, could launch as early as 2024."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nas...
Yes, I would love to know what they were triggering on.
I've been using KDE connect since it was first released. It's improved massively over the years and is a solid tool for managing android phones from the desktop. It's one of the first things I install on every new device.
Hey! Thanks for the kind words and glad you're enjoying Next.js. It's (basically) impossible for us to recommend a _single_ state management solution for all users, because state management means different things to different folks. Depending the industry and scale of your application, it also changes your state management needs.

I wrote an in-depth guide on this here: https://leerob.io/blog/react-state-management
Some LEGENDARY eight-amulets:

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This one is even MYTHICAL:

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Now how can someone (easily) put them on this blockchain?
We are now in a race to see if the last people on the moon are still around to congratulate the next people to stand on the moon.
The reason Accenture is as successful as they are is because they have a top-notch sales engine. But it’s well known they’re just as full of BS as the big 4 consulting firms, except the big 4 have some niches that they’re really good in. As far as I can tell, Accenture is a consulting sales engine with an offshore body shop attached.
Yeah that makes a lot more sense, I was so wrapped up in tinfoil I didn't even think about the TLS. Thanks.
I don’t think this is an achievable goal for a kernel, since it has strictly more permissions than user code. There are some parts of user code that simply cannot be made faster by changing how they’re written: no amount of rewriting in Rust/C/C++ will help if the relevant kernel primitives are not there. The kernel must move with the times, and incorporate new features as they are (tastefully) decided upon.
Ah Interesting. So is the concept of futex() similar to how a process in kernel mode will yield the CPU by putting itself on a wait_queue and call the schedule() function before it issues an I/O request then?

I realize that one is userspace and the other kernel but would the above be the right mental model?
It's unfortunate that this was the fate of some important science in the USSR.

The story of Vygotsky is similar. His psychological/pedagogical is still pretty influential to this day but he was largely rejected in part because his work challenged the legacy of Pavlov.

Shame that this was the state that was supposed to be rigorously scientific.
Could that lie stop being perpetuated anytime soon? It was poorly communicated, but done for valid reasons.
Answering the call, placing a call, or just having an incoming call ring? I’m maybe in favor of the first, slightly opposed to the second, and would find the last so infuriating that I’d shut it off immediately.
Note this is specifically for server caching state: https://leerob.io/blog/react-state-management
....what? I am honestly having trouble parsing your meaning.

My family mostly has iPhones, and we have several group chats with me in it on Group MMS. They work fine.
The good ol' days when spam was the worst thing on the internet.
This was the first thing I thought of. Thanks for posting.
Humans have the option of trying to be ethical as well and a lot of people would question if the CIA always behaves ethically.
Would you be willing to chat (either here/privately) a bit about how you went about buying this land, where and how much it cost you, etc.? Completely understand if you want to keep this information private. I tried to look at your profile for a social handle/email, but couldn't find it.
Huge fan. "Carrying the Fire" was one of the greatest finds in my (rural Florida, 1970's) high school library. I'd never heard anyone say "I bore easily", let alone someone as responsible as an astronaut, I was awed by the vulnerability, and encouraged that boring easily wasn't necessarily debilitating. A great book, a great man.
It is a little weird though.

- Apple has built a world wide empire selling these products in this way people seem to like

- As a result Apple has funneled that money and made world class hardware that's better than everyone else and leads in security/privacy

- Therefore we should force them to break their model because the others that didn't follow suit have hardware that sucks

That's not the most charitable interpretation, but there's some truth to it.

There’s some extra irony that the others in this case fuck over their users by leveraging their data to target ads.
Yes,

This is my favorite infrastructure project concept: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/offshore-wind-far...

help with hurricanes, direct DC to the entire country, tons of jobs for maintenance, etc
I feel like solid bedrock is actually a perfect soil type for engineering. Other towns has to account for moving sandy or clay soils, diverting or pumping out their ground waters (sometimes it's even easier to actively freeze large areas of land).
I would kindly ask you to read the article I linked to before passing judgement on my extremely short summary.

I skimmed the paper, and its contribution is a study on how vertical turbines seem to behave in a very small turbine farm. It does not study whether vertical turbines make more sense than horizontal. But the only reason we see it here, is because this article makes some pretty big and unfounded statements about the current horizontal wind turbine approach.

So we're here because of misinformation.
Link in bio became a valuable online real estate to the creator economy
That's fairly typical for large staffing companies. The problem with Accenture was how aggressively they went after other consultants. You really needed to watch your back because they actively tried to make the rest of us look bad. I saw it a couple of times and had friends who experienced the same thing. Its best to make sure every damn communication is documented with them in the mix.

It surely wasn't everyone, but enough of their onsite people pulled stunts that I am very wary of them.
I'm almost 40 and when I look at a bright screen when the room/environment is not bright enough, I get a migraine within minutes. (And the migraine would stay for days)

The only way I can work as a software engineer is to have the screen be relatively dark (dark themes on code editors, terminal, github, or pretty much any app I use extensively). That said, I don't really need "dark mode" on an OS (e.g. macOS). Making menu bars etc. dark has a pretty minimal effect; the vast majority of the screen is code editor / terminal 90% of the time, and that's what really matters to me.
With comcast in my area the unofficial strategy is to require you to sign up for a new plan every year to slowing tick down your speed and increase costs. If you stick with your old plan the monthly doubles. Right now I'm paying $60 for 60/3.5 with comcast. A few years ago it was $30 for 100/3.5 I have no other real options, it's gross.
I mean I agree with you that it was wrong to use the word 'rednecks' to refer to people protesting at the Capitol. However this doesn't seem at all to be an example of what the other poster claimed, of people who loudly object to racial slurs and yet 'mock rednecks and Wal-mart shoppers'?
You can still use `next/image` when outputting a static site, as long as you use `next start`. Using `next export` removes the server entirely, meaning you can't optimize images on demand.

There's an open issue to explore optimizing images at build time, but for now, you can use https://github.com/cyrilwanner/next-optimized-images
I'm pretty sure consulting firms exist primarily because they provide labor liquidity.

> Few people truly love working with consultants

This is kind of a prejudiced view, as consultants are often there long-term, and no different than other workers in practice. The only difference is who's got the formal responsibility for their contract.
The language also had some false starts (in 1.0 / 2.0) and some interoperability baggage (with ObjC). But arguably, it is in a steady path now. If Apple continue the current path, in 3 or 4 years, it will be much more interesting.

Of course, in our industry, whether anything can continue the current path for another 3 or 4 years is a big unknown itself.
I would be expected to be stay at home, because school schedule wouls force me so? And if I was divorced or husband was sick, I would be screwed?