skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many workplaces lunch breaks are not paid. I view my lunch break as a sacred time for myself and as an introvert I use this time to recharge. Unfortunately employers don't see these schemes as discriminatory.
Any team building stuff means that HR didn't do a great job at hiring and since often it is difficult to let people go, they do that to "patch things up".

Regarding optional programs, sure these exist - unfortunately you are unable to get a cash equivalent if you don't want to use it.
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Less 1984 and more Fahrenheit 451. There is no central authority imposing this to exert control on the masses: consumers are imposing it on themselves willingly and industry is just giving them what they want. Juvenal redux.
> The style coincided with an increasingly data-driven and hyper-personalised tech world, while also having a nostalgic, cartoony feel. “I think it's desperate. It's a desperate attempt at trying to be human,” he says.
Yes, you could in principle convert any memory within a given loop into a separate unit. You just gotta pick between the tradeoffs between having more I/O and software/hardware units, versus having more memory within specific software/hardware units.

You just gotta find a balance that works for your requirements and constraints. In my application (it was medical devices), we found that stateful loops fit nicely.
Mine will sound the warning beep sometimes when cresting hills or approaching a temporary steel plate in the road, but it doesn’t actually brake.
Only remotely related: How good is their Nova editor by now compared to Sublime Text? Currently wondering if trying it once more is worth the time.
Wasn’t the entire point of 5G to reduce the cost so that this dystopian ‘internet of phone home day bypassing all your security controls’?
What is a statement that might be out of any ideology?

Also note that rationalism is an ideology.
Willfully missing the point is typically a negative quality.
Here in the UK I know that at least BT broadband modems set up a public Wifi, which is segregated from you own but uses you VDSL link for backhaul.

It looks like this is the same thing.
I think HTML emails are unnecessary.
It's only useful for advertising, marketing and tracking.
If you want to show fancy css and design, link a website.
If email was used as what it was designed for, writing electronic letters to each other and not spam and ads and marketing, we wouldn't have any of these problems.
How does this put a moat around IoT? This is creating a network that didn't previously exist. How does that hurt innovation? If you don't want to be a part of this network you can just... continue what you were doing before. Now at least there is an option.
Wow, only just found out that LcMurtry has died. Lonesome Dove has had a profound effect on me and still remains one of my favourite books, if not the.

If you haven't read LD I highly recommend it even if you're not a fan of the Frontier setting - it's so much more. When reading it, the picture I got of each character was so vivid that I felt that they were my personal acquaintances. You celebrate when they triumph, and share their pain when they lose. I still think of Gus and Woodrow almost as friends of mine just because of how well I've got to know them and the connection you form throughout reading the book. The overarching story is a rollercoaster of an epic adventure. The only thing that bothers me about it is how it's not a household name.

RIP Larry.
Shhh the first rule of wifi black holes is that you don’t talk about wifi black holes.
So armed Amazon goons kicking down your door and bringing you to the dungeons of the Ministry of Customer Obsession to be tortured with fake cattle prod knockoffs?
Eventually, but currently 7.50 an hour is much cheaper than a state of the art burger flipping machine. Once that changes, I assume the unemployment rate will rise and legislation against inequality will be needed.
Isn't there a saying along the lines of "infrastructure is cheaper than developers?"

I've mostly seen it in a cloud computing context, meaning it's cheaper to pay for more/larger servers than it is to pay developers to make their code more efficient. But it also makes sense on a more basic hardware level.
I don’t understand why salaries are so low in Europe.
I work in New Zealand, not exactly a tech hub, and I’m on $220k p.a. (mid career). $160k US, 130k EUR. 39% top tax.

I wouldn’t say I am significantly above average and I’m not in management (architect/principal engineer).

Similar story in Australia. Not quite US levels but decent compensation, I don’t feel taken advantage of.
This will probably end up breaking the device.
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Wow that’s really sad to hear, hope both of your situation has improved
DII, not D9
A similar company: https://freightfish.io/
Honestly I'm not sure how that follows from my comment at all.
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I think it's because building software is a team endeavor. Just because individuals are smart doesn't mean that the end result will be great.
Well there is a cost and the challenge of having to deal with all the various carriers across the world. Wifi is mostly universal.
This is a pretty cynical take. Often, companies provide value in some way to some people in the world.

Imagining who those people are and how you are helping them can help provide context to what you are doing.
How much Watt do they have now 20 years later in 2021?
Don't forget to cut the HDMI Cable too :)
The definition of a Trojan horse, except you had to pay for it.
So discover them. Roll in your piles of cash from those easy picking bounties. Prove your point because otherwise it seems like a rather lazy claim.

Somehow I think it is significantly harder to actually do.

The position itself seems like sophistry: Was Internet Explorer the most secure browser when it was obsolete dogshit that supported little?

These "more/newer is scary and dangerous" positions appear on literally everything, always, and they're always based on a wink and innuendo. But I would posit that gmail supports little because it's overwhelmingly dominant and they simply don't have to. Gmail has little market pressure to do much of anything.
Thanks, surprised to see so many downvotes on an idea, I expect more of HN.
My answer is a home projector. It’s not 4K but it’s cheap and puts out a great display. It’s also just a projector without any applications or network access.
While I agree about the culture glorifying overwork (recent post on HN) and the difficulty of using health care / PTO at times, numerically my employer-backed health care plan is actually quite generous.

My $0 premium health care plan has only a $2000 deductible, $6000 out of pocket max, 20% coinsurance for “big” procedures, $10 copay (regardless of deductible) for primary care, and I actually get PAID a $500 yearly health stipend for going to the gym.

On the other hand, I’m a 22 year old male who goes to the gym several times a week, eats home-cooked nutritious and healthy food, and works a desk job so...

Edited: Copay is deductible-agnostic
Most have a dedicated WiFi board that is separate from everything else.
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If there's no damage, it doesn't take that long. We had a blackout in 2009 in which the national grid of two countries (Itaipu is shared between Brazil and Paraguay) went down; I'm looking at the official report right now, and it took less than half a day to restore nearly all of the system for this country. Of course, if there's damage beyond the redundancies, it can take much longer; see for instance the recent blackout in the Amapá state, in which two transformers at a key substation were damaged by fire (and the third was under maintenance).
I’ve never seen this implemented well in a real-time setup. I’ve come to associate it with everything falling apart and otherwise being taped together in weird ways to function.

It sounds elegant, but I’m not convinced there’s a benefit to a model of abstractions of abstractions like this unless it’s done at the language level. In practice, I’ve only seen this produce a web of race conditions, performance issues, and system complexity. My experience is anecdotal.
I was turned off from the platform because there was a lot of low-effort, personal branding motivated content on there.

Articles that are regurgitated help docs for example. Another example is nearly anything that is tagged #todayilearned.

Too much noise, not enough signal.
Lol u kidding bro I need to check my IG notifications!1
We’ll need another one of these in a few decades.
The N protein is evasive, I do not believe your body can mount an effective (neutralizing antibodies) defense. But I guess you are right, your body can still fight it which is overall better than just fighting off the virus with vaccine protection
Sounds like an HR compliance issue
The media does not care about the accident itself (nor the NTSB findings) so the results wouldn't make headlines. Let's see how many newspaper will retract their fake news about this particular accident...

What they care about is all the rage they can spark from anything seemingly bad that can be associated with Tesla and/or Musk.

I'm sure they would change their coverage if Tesla were paying billions to them through advertising. But they don't, so here we go.
The big question is will the new M1 iPad be allowed to be a real computer if the user wants it to.
Everybody who is not working for FAANG-level/SV is underpaid. That's like 90% of the developers in the world (I include myself), so don't feel bad :)
I think the far more serious crime in tor is child pornography.
This is just the beginning of more pervasive tracking. If my neighbours both have echos, it will be a lot more likely that any products I have can be tracked. As more and more products have cheap lower power tags, even something as cheap as a tin of beans can ultimately tracked.
And then the tv bricks when it can’t access the network for 10 days.
It’s a real shame that the otherwise very capable iPad cannot sustain an enormous subcategory of professional grade software, solely because of Apple’s policies.

People know this going in of course, but it doesn’t make it any less of a shame, especially now you can spec out an iPad Pro with the exact same specs as the laptop I use for work.
> 95+% of people don't use torrenting/pirating. That worked out fine. Not great, but it's not the total failure you make it out to be.

Have any data to back that up? I do:

"More than a third of music consumers still pirate music."

"In 2016, 57 million Americans were still pirating music in one form or another."

"Illegally uploading or downloading copyrighted materials takes up nearly 24% of the bandwidth used in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific"

"57% of computer uses in the Asia Pacific and Central/Eastern Europe regions confess to having pirated software at least once."

https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/

> No, but it would add more friction if you did not have a choice of legal exchanges

"legal" in this sense means very little 1. because they are already doing something illegal so why would they care what interface they use? and 2. Making a site "illegal" in one country is very easy to get around - or else would you have to essentially advocate for a Great Firewall (which is still pretty easily circumvented)
If they were getting a fulltime salary and not actually working on the project, can't they be accused of commiting fraud?
China census: Data shows slowest population growth in decades
Meyer-Briggs is bunk.
assuming there is greater difficulty to achieve things as someone with a particular quality than the difficulties others face in achieving similar things leads one to naturally consider that without those difficulties perhaps they would have achieved much more.

Harrison Bergeron once removed of his obstacles would surely have conquered the world and been the greatest dancer and thinker of his generation, were it not for Diana Moon Glampers and her ten-gauge double-barreled shotgun.

If this lady's achievements were on a par with Walter Warner's, then we should discuss how much more difficult was it for her to do these things as a woman. It might not have been as difficult as we assume, as we compare the misogyny of her era with those of eras that we know better. I would think poverty was more of a hindrance than gender in her time, but I do also suppose gender was some sort of hindrance.

on edit: changed thinking to thinker, changed difficult to difficulty
> The app should continue to function for a long time, but won’t receive further updates

Just a warning for users and devs alike: Nope, it probably won't. Apple's track record for backwards compatibility isn't terrible, but it's also not flawless. I had an app in the store from 2011 until the end of 2017.

iOS 14.5 broke this app for some reason (I don't know why). No warning for users and if Apple follows some kind of SemVer, it's weird that a minor version breaks an old app.

Note for devs: Find a way how people can export their data from the app even if it's not working anymore (for example, by writing to the Documents folder and exposing it to the Finder)

Note for users: Assume that an unsupported app can and will break in an unpredictable way. Backup your data regularly.
In all the embedded code I’ve seen there is invariably a “while(true)” somewhere. Is this not the same?
If Amazon Kindles can do it, it's probably not too hard for the likes of LG, Samsung, or Sony either.
NASA ups price of a private stay aboard the ISS
WHO has changed Indian Covid-19 from ‘variant of interest’ to ‘global concern'
Thank you; this is great news! Looking forward to it.
Workplace wellbeing

Wholesome workplace

Workplace is a family

and a myriad of other touchy-feely terms are just plain bullshit. Whole industries have cropped up to support the efforts of managements to keep workforces in control and deflect resentment (people don't leave companies, they leave managers ! and other crap)

The ground reality is when the company feels you are not needed, all that touch-feely stuff goes down the drain.

No, my company is not my family. I may have good friends and great co-workers, but, at the end of the day, I only have the amount of loyalty to the company, as much as it has towards me.

Perhaps its time the internet comes up with training sessions that promote the real face of large corporations.
40-years since Omar Blondin Diop death, Justice is yet to be served
It seems you and I have had wildly different experiences with criminals.
> Did working conditions really got much worse over the past 20 years?

In terms of salary and purchasing power in Western countries, yes I think so.
Very few companies would risk those lawsuits, especially in Europe the fines can get rather exponential for repeat violators and I don't think it's much different in the US either. If the unsubscribe works, that is the end of the story for me, and a reminder to check for small newsletter checkboxes when signing up to things.

I very rarely get marketing mails from any reputable company that are completely unsolicited. In most cases it's a followup from trying out an offering or updates to products I'm using or are adjacent to those. If I'm not interested, I either ignore them or unsubscribe if it's repeatedly not interesting.

This is a much more effective "spam" strategy compared to "all HTML is spam".
I've seen videos of "couching sessions" on the internet. I don't think they're entirely work-appropriate activities for my line of employment.
What would be a related use of this? How come they funded this?
According to the Reddit AMA last year SpaceX use: "C & C++ for flight software, HTML, JavaScript & CSS for displays and python for testing"
"one of the biggest causes of stress in the workplace is a lack of decision-making power among workers."

You know what's also more stressful? Having to make more decisions in domains outside my circle of competence.

Give me total autonomy in my area, while also not burdening me with having to contribute to EVERY decision.
I recall a Fox News segment a few years ago (can't find a link to it now) about how encouraging sharing in schools would lead to socialism/communism.
I meant the org should have stopped paying an employee if he didn't work.
Since they’re deliberately marketing that the iPad has an M1 chip, I think they have dual booting in mind for the future
Come on people, why the down vote. I meant that as the compliment. Look at my user name.
Because supply and demand? What sort of answer do you think you'll get?

We get it, anglos are a lot more rich then averaege europeans. Congrats.
Maybe entitled is the word but I think people just want to be miserable in peace, rather than having clown shows to remind them that they are indeed miserable.
Can’t we just disallow email messages from anyone that is not either in the organisation or messaged by a user before? No more ransomware, or at least not as easily.
And some of the tweaks can cause instability or data loss on different models with different quirks.
Per there account or per mine? I can rotate MAC address pretty easily
I figure that this scenario is all but inevitable at this point. Most people just don't care -- and those that do can go live in Faraday cages like weirdos.
> There's also a nice picture of one deployed on the moon.

That was also one of the many issues that cropped up during Apollo 13. They too had an RTG on board that was supposed to stay on the moon[1].

According to the book "Lost Moon" by Lovell and Kluger, a potential explosion of the Saturn V during launch was accounted/planned for, but the RTG "coming home" together with the LEM wasn't.

IMO the book was a bit hazy on how that situation was addressed exactly, but according to Wikipedia that RTG is currently resting somewhere deep in the Pacific[2].

Also an interesting read on that topic is the SNAP program itself that developed the technology in the first place, even shot entire mini-nuclear-reactors into earth orbit[3] and resulted in some stereotypical 1960s nuclear safety shenanigans/mishaps during testing[4][5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Experiments_and_scie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Reentry_and_splashdo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A#Safety

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_...
Well, it feels modern now.

In 2030, it will feel clunky and old, to the sort of people who pay attention to these things.

2030 designers:

Ugh, you're still using squircles? Your icons should have translucent gradient blurred backgrounds!

Everyone knows large x-height sans serif fonts are untrustworthy lawyer text. Small x-height grotesks convey likeability.
> So discover them. Roll in your piles of cash from those easy picking bounties. Prove your point.

Sure, I already did. I earned the second highest bounty for Fastmail back in 2019 for exactly this kind of exploit. Since then I've reported to dozens of programs (OpenSSL, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, ProtonMail, Hey, Missive, Yahoo Mail, Yandex, Spark, Trello, Missive, AWS, Google Chrome) and rolled in a few tidy piles.

I have also written various pieces of open-source software that would have detected and prevented four separate zero-days, affecting Microsoft (and almost every AV engine, browser, and zip parser) [1][2], Gmail [3], Apple Mail [4], and countless open-source email servers [5].

Now it's your turn.

[1] https://github.com/ronomon/pure

[2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot19/presentation/fifiel...

[3] https://blog.cotten.io/ghost-emails-hacking-gmails-ux-to-hid...

[4] https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-vulnerability-i...

[5] https://snyk.io/blog/how-to-crash-an-email-server-with-a-sin...
I'm probably be gonna laughed at, but I don't understand why these developers don't publish their apps on Android.

If you get screwed by Apple, why not go to the other field?
The story was widely reported as a driverless Tesla crash. In fact, there are no driverless Teslas. Furthermore the Autopilot driver assistance feature was not even used and could not have been used. It's too bad you will never buy one of their cars because of Musk trying to correct this story, because their cars are quite good.
Probably best as I'm sure many will have the word "backdoor" echoing throughout my head reading all that.
> consumers are imposing it on themselves willingly

Without reasonable alternative and without consent is like a LEO version of 'willing'.
I thought you were describing Bluetooth for a moment.
Just to add to that: NH is on it's way out of the system now, after 15 years, and it should have another 15-20 years left in it's RTG.

Meanwhile, there are actual interstellar probes being planned, in addition to several missions to the outer solar system (and which could end up in interstellar space afterwards).

And there's a ton of missions planned for the inner regions of the Solar system -- space exploration is still a thing and there's a lot of exciting things happening.
Hacker News: Raw raw, libertarian objectivist open market capitalist fetishm for the win!!!!

Also crab-ass Hacker News commenters: how dare those commies make more than minimum wage writing open source software!?!?!?
Also you need to lift your fuel and you might get into a rocket equation type problem. Fuel is less dense than water so one might imagine it contributes a little to buoyancy but aloft, you're paying to lift it along with the cargo.

Fuel means range so that all might get back to the mission: ferry or transoceanic.
Yeah, working conditions have become much worse. I am not sure if there is data to prove this, but my gut feeling is that employees are more productive and their compensation has not kept up to the increased productivity.

Alternatively, I would really love to keep the same pay levels, but reduced working hours, to account for increased productivity.
And that’s why ”flat organisation” is not just a meme.
I've followed the conversations around actors, and i'm really curious to see what the end-result will look like, considering the actor model seems to have been designed independantly from the execution infrastructure. In particular, the concepts of mailbox, executor, etc don't seem to be very apparent so far.

By contrast, i see a lot of talk about actor "isolation", inheritance, reentrancy, etc... Which i don't see mentionned often in erlang / OTP style actor systems...
Or get your ip blackholed on AWS
Here I go, being skeptical about getting work done on iPads again…

…but is there any “pro” software like this that is succeeding on iPad that isn’t part of a larger cloud/subscription service?

I believe Office gets some actual use on iPad, and Adobe sure keeps trying, but is there really any notable pro apps that are succeeding on their lonesome?