skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the commits of another of the paid contributors, for that same time period:

https://github.com/babel/babel/commits?author=nicolo-ribaudo...

Looking at https://github.com/babel/babel/graphs/contributors, github.com/nicolo-ribaudo has been, for about the last year, the most active contributor on Github, but as recently as March 2021 was only being allocated $24,000 (annualised) from the collective.

Another interesting thing I found digging around is that the creator of Babel (https://twitter.com/sebmck) is relegated to the very bottom of:

https://babeljs.io/team

With a link to some odd throw-away Github account: https://github.com/kittens (edit: the link is fixed now, github.com/nicolo-ribaudo merged my PR almost immediately)
Knowing the high probability of this, I’m curious how everyone will change their day today.
Miami Mayor Tries to Build a Tech Mecca, One Tweet at a Time
> I'm not sure where to go next, can anyone give me any advice?

Have you contacted the FBI and Europol? A police report is the first thing you need before any company starts taking you seriously about crime being committed on your billing accounts.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber

https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime/report-cybercri...
The problem is that when you share your internet with a neighbour partaking in illegal activities, you may get yourself in trouble.
I didn't include all devs. Of course a "normal" developer doesn't make this much. As a lead developer you earn a lot of money here.

I know a couple of senior (non lead) developers who earn this much.
Sure, but then you have a much larger hiring pool. Focusing on SV limits that pool and ups the price.
> So does focussing myopically on deaths, which aren’t the only thing that costs Quality-Adjusted Life-Years.

Now you're just fear-mongering.

> Children have a much lower rate of dying of acute COVID symptoms, but do see more than enough long COVID effects, including MIS-C, to be worth protecting against.

There have been 3200 cases of MIS-C in the US. 36 have died.

https://www.cdc.gov/mis-c/cases/index.html

The rate of MIS-C is exceptionally low -- possibly lower than the rate of severe adverse events for the vaccine itself: "Overall, MIS-C is a rare complication of SARS-CoV-2. A May 2020 systematic review from 26 countries reported a MIS-C incidence of 0.14% among all children with SARS-CoV-2 infection"

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n385

Give this vaccine to 1M children, and at a rate of 0.4% serious adverse (i.e. life-threatening) reactions, you would expect 4000. An unknowable portion of those will die. Moreover, there will be 20,000 reactions severe enough to put a child out of school for a few days. There are about 25M kids age 12-17 in the US.

Your sense of risk is seriously miscalibrated.
Apple Merging 'iCloud Documents and Data' Service with iCloud Drive in May 2022
In Finland you don't buy apartments/flats, instead you buy a share of the company that owns the block.

The housing-company takes a fee every month which is used for common-repairs, replacing the roof, etc.

If you rent out your flat the tenant pays for their own insurance to protect their possessions, and the housing-company takes care of things like leaks, broken windows, etc.

So being a landlord is mostly hands-off. You have to advertise and pick your tenant. Then once they move in if they have problems with their stuff they take care of it, and if they have a problem with the water, etc, they call the housing company.

So being a landlord of this kind of property is almost entirely painless and hands-off. Of course if there is a big repair, like a new roof, or pipe-works, then the fee paid to the housing company (which the landlord will pay) will go up sharply for a good few years.
No, MWI has no randomness. All versions of you exist and are as real. The moment after the Big Bang, the fact that we would be having this conversation in the year 2021 on Earth was certain. This is an absolute requirement from the linearity of the Schrodinger's equation, which means that every state is uniquely determined by the states that came before. If you could measure the state of the universe with enough precision, you could tell today what I will feel tomorrow. And sure, each copy of you may experience a different comment, but they are indistinguishable, and all possible comments will be experienced.

In CI there is indeed true randomness, since only one 'branch' of the wavefunction is actually happening.
I am just looking for a side gig, so I don't mind competition. In fact it helps me. I don't need to do much market validation.

Thank you for pointing me towards these.
My understanding is that you aren’t sharing a general connection to the internet, you’re specifically letting Amazon devices tunnel some data back to Amazon’s parent servers. You’d also likely have a pretty good case against Amazon if using their product as directed caused your trouble with the po po
I ran an OpenWireless guest network for a while when I lived in Colorado with no adverse effects. https://www.eff.org/pages/openwirelessorg
Thanks for sharing this! I'd be super curious to learn more about your workflow - feel free to reach out at louis@shelf.so
> This makes you wonder who ends up paying for all of this (with time, energy, money, mental health).

The employees who are force-fed "security" crapware that some clueless CTO or other high level manager got sold at a golfing course (or got bribed to do such as Netskope did, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27047474), evaluated it on the specsheet as "fulfills the requirement of the insurance" and passed the can of turds down the line, for one.
This sounds great in theory and we know how it works in practice.

Amazon head 2M counterfeit items to destroy in 2020 only. What do you think how many counterfeit items were sold on Amazon in the last 10 years?

They joust found 10 billion items. Nothing to see here, the policy that you are referring to is working perfectly. These numbers are a tiny fraction. Right?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/amazon-seized-an...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-blocked-10-bil...
Dull doesn't mean you can half ass it - I worked for telco billing systems and getting it right to the penny is important.
Should Amazon be paying for use of customer bandwidth?
The UK does treat SKILLED software engineers as skilled professionals. It's one of the highest earning professions here. What other jobs do you know where there's an earning potential of £80K+ outside of London while working regular 8 hour days? Not many I'll tell you that. If you want to be earning £200-300k then set up your own company. Almost no one is going to be employed by someone else on that money. And those that are, big law firms etc., are working 16 hour days 6-7 days a week.

Many US developers are overpaid. That's the reality. The pay floor has been shifted too high and so the ceiling is even higher. We mustn't kid ourselves, the skill floor in software development is relatively low. Why should a graduate front end developer get paid 6 figures? There's some good ones that deserve it, but there's also some really shit ones who will never learn and grow as a professional.

I've worked with good graduates and I've worked with shit graduates. The good ones get rewarded. The unskilled ones who don't learn, don't. I think that's fine. 6 figures for entry level grunt work is just an unreasonable amount of money and the only reason the US gets away with it is because of the pay floor.
You could abstractly structure the computation as a graph (there are many concrete approaches to that) and only recompute the parts that change due to changed input or changed intermediate results.

If you have multiple outputs you can also have a scheduling/prioritization system for the subtasks.

And yes, use interrupts or multiple timers to detect only changed parts without having to compare current input to previous input.

It's basically the same problem as updating a browser DOM in response to application state changes.
I wonder if the gas pipeline with all its pumping stations is completely self-powered or it is dependent on the power grid.
I really liked playing with this and comparing different topics.

Like Google Sheets vs Microsoft Excel.
Not true, see the link in my sibling comment.
Played the game as Drawing Evolution on AirConsole over the pandemic, will check out this version.
Mods: be good to get the title changed to something less wildly misleading
You're assuming fictional consumer behavior based on theories that do not comport with reality. Nike's markup isn't correlated to what they pay for labor. There are plenty of other shoe companies that pay the same for slave labor and charge only a fraction of what Nike charges. People who pay $100 for a shoe that costs .50 cents to make aren't the "rational consumers" whose behavior is supposedly described by economic theories.
I'm using my neighbor's wifi (with his consent). It feels silly that every apartment in a building has its own wifi, I can receive at least 8 wifi networks from my laptop
Love Airr! Tried it but did not manage to make it part of my daily routine - the audio highlighting feature somehow did not feel natural to me. However, I was really impressed with all the transcripts they generate - I think those could be super useful for me, once I have finished a podcast and want to retain key insights. Feel free to reach out by email - I'd be curious to learn more about your workflow!
> Seems like all it allows is to talk to Amazon (using some proprietary protocol)

That seems mostly OK then...
History of Giants in Gene: Scientists Use DNA to Trace Origins of Giant Viruses
That problem is of our own making by giving the government the power to assume IP Location == Probable cause.

That problem is easily solved (in the US at least) by enacting more stringent 4th amendment protections for people and more properly limiting the governments police powers. This should be done anyway regardless of the proposed suggestions about public wifi
I got an almost identical comment when I said HN doesn't support any formatting, except for italic and link formatting.

Inputting by hand (or maybe with a script - who cares anyway?) random Unicode characters to show that rich text is actually possible is the opposite of "smart" in a discussion between reasonable adults.
Insurer Stops Paying Ransomware
yeah.. here the fintech has a race to bottom because EVERYONE has a 2~2.5% fees cap so the only way these providers differentiate is by providing more service for same or less cost. other than that, even the 2% fees is too much because of legacy "credit card companies". there is something called "netbanking" which has zero fees for everyone and people prefer that. one issue with using this is, once the transaction is through, there is very little recourse. in extreme cases when there is a breakin and someone steals your money, the bank is called, then police and then its a matter of litigation to get money back.
the "upside" of using these companies and "credit card" is the option to charge back and disputes. if they are charging 2% for that, well thats good enough but not more than that
That's very interesting, i never thought about pairing as a tool that help people with ADHD stay focused.

At ThoughtWorks we do promote pairing, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you out!
Sure. Same reasons “Jeffrey Dahmer invited me for dinner” hits differently than “Mum invited me for dinner”.

The two companies have a different track record on privacy.
Those who retire don’t get too public amout it.

And most who could will in fact keep working in some capacity, either because they’re excessively paranoid about the capital markets or they enjoy work too much to quit.
Alternative title: Puppetmaster heeds puppet's call to action.
Yes, and boost.units, and to a limited extent, std::chrono.
Sure, but good luck explaining that to everyone in my apartment building.
SpaceX has been hiring game developers for years now, they even showed up at GDC once to pick up game devs.
How do you tell from a portfolio who is good or bad?
> Convenience is way too alluring for the general public

Despite being technically-savvy, and ready to hack away at systems for max configuration; I too prefer convenience for a lot of things. That’s the magic of modern life, you can save time on so many “complicated” things.

Disclaimer: I don’t use Amazon Echo specifically.
Didn't Apple make it completely obvious that people will do everything for only a tiny bit more convenience? Anyone owning toilet paper in an apocalyptic world will be king!
It is illegal but very common. Many of those emails with unsubscribe links are unsolicited. They either spam all their former customers no matter if they have opted in or not or they just buy links. Yes, the unsubscribe links work but what they do is in obvious violation if the gdpr and other laws.
sous vide. Means "under vacuum". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous_vide

Edit: I read a bit more on this, and was mistaken. Here is my original explanation: Basically a vacuum pump to lower boiling temperature; this puts a ceiling on achievable temperature for water-rich foods.

Actually, nowadays it looks like it's just slow cooking vacuum-sealed food in a temperature-controlled water bath.
Thx! I'd be curious to learn more about your workflow - feel free to reach out at louis@shelf.so
By 'abstractly structure the computation as a graph' you mean 'structure the journey of the rocket as a graoh'?
How does open source get money? According to the original GNU Manifesto from the 1980s

> All sorts of development can be funded with a Software Tax:

The GNU Manifesto arguably concedes OSS won't make money

> In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html
We Let an AI Write an Article about NFT's for Us
https://writesonic.com/ AI WAS USED
Wow this investigation is garbage.

- The gross generalization saying that it couldn't have been enabled because they failed to enable it I their specific situation.

- The gross extrapolation of saying that the driver must have been in the seat when it happened because the driver was in the seat when the car started.

I mean, how useless is that of an investigation.
Where is the log analysis, witness reports, and camera images of points closer to the crash site.

I feel very disappointed in the NTSB.
There are loads and loads of places where houses are built faster than population is growing, or population is just falling, period.

Prices. Keep. Going. Up.

It has nothing to do with population, it has everything to do with interest rates and mortgate terms.
In which case they'd remove the AirTag and dump it in the trash. Most thieves are not stupid.
Frontier is open source now and they're looking for help to port to Linux:
http://scripting.com/2021/04/28/154140.html?title=oyTheHuman...
I admittedly fail to see how that Twitter remark survives a naive sanity check[1]. What am I missing here?

[1] https://github.com/hzoo
It's not limited to Amazon devices

>Device manufacturers interested in creating devices that work with Amazon Sidewalk can view more information on the Sidewalk Developer Console.
In some cases it's just the inevitable effect of the OS vendor being the browser vendor.

For example, DRM video in Safari is decrypted in dedicated low power hardware as the DRM system is in the T2 or M1 chip, because Apple built FairPlay into the hardware.

Chrome uses Google's own Widevine, which isn't implemented in hardware, so all the decryption operations are done in software on a Mac (with a subsequent hit on battery life). On a Chromebook Widevine is done in hardware, so the battery is better (and you get trusted with better resolutions by content providers because it's more secure). And if Apple were willing to port Safari to Chromebook's it would suffer an about turn in performance penalty.
It wouldn't be ideal, but cities have been without power for several days if not weeks before.
Because shared networks have never been a security issue...
Not directly, no. But the water plants do require electricity to pump/filter/sanitize water to fill their reservoirs. A prolonged outage will cause the clean-water reservoirs to drain empty.
Don't give up yet Keep-alive
Yeah but wifi's not only used for the internet - would've exactly want everybody accessing everybody's stuff (printers, webcams, NAS, etc)

Obviously there are solutions to that but a layperson won't manage it
Charging these by marinas with solar shade seems obvious fit - it protects the boat from weather plus their batteries can balance grid as they are only used like 0.01% of time.

Question I have - do hydrofoils use ground effect to generate extra lift?
You have it all backwards. Not working if you can avoid it isn't lazy but completely sensical. Holiday and leisure time shouldn't even be considered a break from work - instead working should be considered a break from living ...

Having said that I believe work and life can go hand in hand very healthily. The reality though is different. Work is for most people just financially compensated abuse.
There are a few companies trying it, I watched a podcast where one developer in New York had this one:
https://www.helium.com/
> What other jobs do you know where there's an earning potential of £80K+ outside of London while working regular 8 hour days?

Woo, £80K, for people in the top 2-5% of the game (going by salary distribution). Such rewards. Just don't look over the pond...

> If you want to be earning £200-300k then set up your own company. Almost no one is going to be employed by someone else on that money.

And that's part of the problem right there. In the US you can aspire to getting salaries in those sorts of ranges, one day, if you're good at what you do and make good choices.

> 6 figures for entry level grunt work is just an unreasonable amount of money

Sure it is! But unless you either strike out on your own as a contractor (which I have) or leave software behind and go into management/consulting/whatever, six figures is effectively unattainable at all.

I'm not disputing there are a lot of really not-that-great software people around, or claiming we should just hand a bag of gold to every new grad. But there is vanishingly little in the high end for the better people to aspire to. Which is why people either transition to management, go independent or just plain leave.
Cross-Entropy Loss and Its Applications in Deep Learning
Ask HN: How to determine the value of this company?
The company has what I consider a valuable asset and therefore I find that the determination of the value of the company cannot be solely based on turnover/profits.

The company exists for 15 years, is run by two persons and the yearly sales of URL filtering solutions is less than USD 250,000.
The assets are a URL database with 53 categories and content categorisation bots with two AI engines.
The URL database has "only" 16.9 million entries but covers 99.77% of all URLs used by a large Telecom in the USA.
The coverage percentage varies; it depends on country and client type and is for some clients 99.90% or even 99.99%.

We consider to sell the company and start a new business in agriculture.
The "burning" question is how to determine the value of the URL database and the categorisation bots, and ultimately determine a reasonable/just asking price for the company.

Thank you for suggestions.
The numbers you're citing say that 19% of black and 30% of hispanic people surveyed don't plan to get vaccinated. The equivalent number is 24% for white people.

Moreover, empirical reality differs from polling. In New York City, for example (a big, liberal, multi-ethnic city), Latino people lag whites by 12% in vaccination rate; black people lag by 17%:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-vaccines.p...

Whatever people are telling pollsters, it differs from their actions. Maybe they have "plans" to get vaccinated, but they're not doing it right now.
Nothing. jchw was just querying whether I’d put it in deliberately. I didn’t; it was the wording that flowed out of my fingers (and then I decided to keep it).
If babel was a commercial product it wouldn't have trouble getting enough funding to pay these salaries. 10000 users paying $100 would get you $1 million revenue.
There's a misalignment of incentives, though. Hiring a PR person is different from signing a contract with a promoter/publisher/marketing partner.

The PR person wants to be noticed by journalists. They get paid the same regardless of how much money the creative makes. But their next gig depends on being noticed by journalists.

The marketing partner wants to sell lots of whatever it is that the creative makes. They're on a % of sales (or more usually, it's the other way around and the creative earns royalties based on sales). They need to build an interested audience that they can then market to for other creatives.
I have very cheap 0.1g precision scales and reasonably cheap 0.01g precision scales.

Tablespoons (for example) are often equating to 10-25g which even the cheapest, nastiest 1g precision kitchen scales can handle with greater precision and repeatability than using an actual tablespoon

It’s only when measuring half teaspoon stuff where I’ll either just use a teaspoon or pull out precision scales—it all depends how important it is to be accurate with an ingredient.
You know, I've spent the past two weeks tinkering with a toy x86_64 bootloader/kernel, and I think that x86 as an ISA is okay. Not great, but okay. Yes, 16-bit addressing modes are restrictive, the encoding hack that enables addressing of r8-r15 in the long mode is probably against one of Geneva conventions, the constant proliferation of control registers is vexing, and CPUID will one day probably be able to dump a full 10-volume PDF of Software Developer's Manual into the provided memory... but still, it's kinda okay.

But what's absolutely terrible is the interface between the CPU and everything else attached to the mainboard (and with the mainboard itself, for that matter). The interrupt handling somehow gets worse when moving from PIC to APIC, ACPI is nauseating, I/O ports are insanely opaque, and the default memory-mapped devices are organized in such a way that there are irreparable wholes in the physical address space that you can't use anyway. Having physical RAM start, say, at address 0x800000000000 and everything below it be MMIO would be pretty convenient, but it can't be arranged for legacy reasons. The legacy boot sequence is appalling. UEFI is marginally better, but is itself an impressive bag of worms.

Holy fatcats. I hope RISC-V will have saner peripherals, but kinda afraid that it won't either.
The latest Firestick software update is a great example of this. The new UI/UX aggressively de-prioritizes apps from content producers in favor of a "feed" that lets them push their own content and intermediate content producers from their customers. They even go as far as to deliberately hide your saved items/watch next items three levels deep in a menu.
Or run a spam bot from your IP and get you in trouble with Google.
>If I am Japanese citizen operating a root DNS server in Kyoto, why am I suddenly subject to EU regulation and scrutiny? This is new.

No it isn't. If Facebook targets EU citizens it's under EU law no matter where it is located. It's the same the other way around. The only difference is that US companies are used to do what ever they want.
how's the keyboard compared to 2015 macbooks?
If you hit that you normally salary sacrifice pension to drop you out of that.

Also the UK has very generous matching for pensions