skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One option that I have theorized in the past is to simply run the tor network at a very low bandwidth per connection.

As in, 28.8K or 56K or so ...

This would force tor into being a text only communications channel which would obviate many of the most egregious illegal use-cases.

You'd lose nothing with regard to freedom of speech and thought and communication. For instance, you can publish, and consume, a site like HN without any issues on 56K.
Lumber is so expensive now, I fear it's going to worsen the housing shortage and increase the cost of existing homes.

I know a small developer trying to build townhouses and he's unable to source the lumber needed at any price.
> will the company be paying a 5 million dollar life insurance policy for my family as beneficiaries?

Isn't life insurance a standard part of employment benefits?

So, yes, they will be.
Looking at the chart 2.6 percent seem quite average, so what’s the big news?
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What if I want an electric toothbrush AND a way to play my iTunes purchases?
Fuel, which isn't purchased as often since the pandemic started has maintained its CPI weighting and has gone down dramatically however.

Inflation is one of those things where if it's clearly stated as being extremely high can risk a lot of followon effects as everyone divests themselves of any direct monetary assets.
I like notepad but I wish it would remember what directory it was working in.
I know how to use Google, but can't find a real source for that. Please share if you have any :)
Care to cite evidence of this conspiracy?
>Excessive alerts is counterproductive because people eventually tune them out, which makes them useless.

You don't need excessive alerts, you just a place in the UI that the user can check and see if there's an alert or not. To make it even fancier, add a red dot to the "Find My" icon.

I don't understand why "excessive alerts" and the image of a constantly ringing iPhone is presented as the only possible way to notify the user...

>You'll get that every time you're on a subway/bus.

Yeah, so? As stated above, it could just be an entry "foreign airtag travelling with you" in some UI screen that you open and broswe -- tagged with the date and duration it happened. You can then blisfully ignore it (especially since it can also show "it's not here with you anymore" when you go to your destination).
Thanks :) And not just for reusability of components... React's memoization features helped me prevent so much unnecessary re-rendering (the grid alone has about 1000 divs.)
Anyone who paid attention in high school biology knew that the beach is close to the safest place you could be during a respiratory pandemic. The literature on fresh air and sunshine improving tuberculosis outcomes is a century old.
I would also argue freemium mobile games aren't nearly as fun as PC/premium games. Freemium developers are a different crowd and more like a typical SW engineer. I've done both. I'm looking forward to going back to premium games from freemium.
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Your perceptions of one-sidedness are coming from the force of your passions. I assure you that people on the opposite side of this story say exactly the same things, just with one bit flipped.

I addressed all of this in depth at the time (ironically, in a submission of the same URL that you posted, which wasn't killed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714003

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713701

That took hours, and I don't have hours to write anything new. If, after reading those comments, you still think there's something I haven't addressed, please double-check to make double-sure that I didn't address it. If it passes that test, ask me then and I'll try to answer. In the meantime, though, please don't post new variations in this endless sequence.
To take this further, we also need to reverse other purchases like Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, Zenimax, Doubleclick, PA Semi, and so on. We also need a new vocabulary and new concepts. We shouldn't rely on traditional notions of monopoly market share or "consumer harm" to decide when an acquisition/merger/stake should be allowed. We need a new definition to prevent gigantic conglomerates with immense market power, and then we need to enforce that law aggressively, in splitting up existing companies and scrutinizing future deals.
Is there any recourse that would force Facebook to comply?
Where does it literally say that?
My sources say yes [1] Looks like a few sites are down.

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/salesforcecom/
AppStore.app > Tap profile image in the top right > Purchased > Not on this iPhone.

Not all apps will be available for example Facebook Paper shows up for me, but can't be downloaded because of an OS incompatibility (at least that is what the message implies), but other apps that otherwise don't show up are still there, like early versions of Tweetbot.

It's not clear to me how Apple knows when apps stop working and then makes them un-downloadable, but it does appear many apps that have been taken down from the store can still be accessed if you previously purchased/downloaded them.
Massachusetts DPH reports ZERO new coronavirus deaths with 3M fully vaccinated
The privacy policy mildly states that they do not share personal data with facebook for ads right now.

But it also says they might do so at any time, at the latest when the EU okays it.

So yeah, at the very least it is too vague to be a proper privacy policy allowing informed consent
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I'm also eagerly awaiting Apple's flying pig announcement.

On a more serious note though, Apple won't let you choose which browser you're using anymore: what makes you think it will fulfill the criterion of a "real computer"?
Data science is a role, not a field. It's similar to but wider than the applied statistician role that is well-established in many fields of research.

You have a background in one field, but you are working to solve problems in another field (e.g. biochemistry). To do that, you must understand biochemistry well enough to be able to contribute. You are probably far from the best biochemist in the team, as you were hired for your methodological skills. In order to solve the problems, you may need tools from a number of fields, including statistics, machine learning, software engineering, data engineering, mathematics, and theoretical computer science. No matter which field your original degree was in, it's insufficient in both depth and breadth. You must keep learning new things and rely on others with complementary skills.

I work in bioinformatics, which is basically a more established flavor of data science. I have worked with people from a variety of backgrounds from electrical engineering to genetics, and everyone has had obvious gaps in their skills. Except maybe one or two people, but they are world-famous experts who are unnaturally curious about everything.
I don't quite understand the point that latency doesn't matter much outside of niche applications.

If you're using TCP, bandwidth depends on latency, and surely no one thinks bandwidth isn't important? This totally does matter in the hundreds-of-milliseconds range, you can use one of the online calculators to confirm this.

The other thing is that live video/audio isn't niche at all. Cloudflare could prioritize latency-sensitive traffic like that within its network, and deliver it as close to the users as possible on their respective ends.

Am I missing something?
1. the developer market is super hot right now, there are lots of jobs.

2. you seem a capable developer (i checked your personal website).

i would approach the relevant contact at the company and ask if you are needed at the office 100% or if there is room for another arrangement, perhaps coming in for key meetings or a few times a month.

if not, i would highly recommend looking for a job that supports you working as you’d like to work. if you can, take some holiday to look for and apply to job openings that allow remote work.

you are working in one of the best paid professions, there should be little need for you to stay and work somewhere that doesn’t support you working the best way for you.

trust your gut.

happy to help if i can.
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(I was not laid off, but my entire team save my manager was in 2020, I left, and in this recent layoff my former manager was also laid off)
That's how I read it too; and then the link could be seen as an elaborate QSL card.
Apple’s role is beneficial to the market. Their curation enables consumer trust.
You are still taking words out of context. Clearly the author agrees that cryptocurrency is not the singular reason behind *all* ransomware, considering he states it is not a new phenomenon. The sentence you took out of context relates to *modern* ransomware:

> The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency.... Modern ransomware could not exist without Bitcoin, it has poured gasoline on a fire we may not be able to put out.

The question is not if ransomware would still exist without cryptocurrency (obviously it would, it existed before then). The question is if it would still be as pervasive as it has become in the last few years without cryptocurrency.
You got the first part right... Governments are gangs....

However I have to completely disagree that governments are responsive to anyone needs, or that they are not committed to their own enrichment
Well the prices I see around me are up a lot more than 2.6%.

My latest sticker shock was at Lowe's.-

https://imgur.com/a/9UoXNdk
It does make for a somber website visit, when one frequents the Chapwood Index and starts contemplating about all of it including the consequences for the poorest of the poor, who are trapped: https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/comments/kr1k... (the original site seems to be down at the moment)
click bait tittle, they pay property taxes in NYC, just a much lower % rate.

> "The combined 89th and 90th floor penthouse at One57 set the new high-water mark for a single-family residence sale in New York. While the owner paid nine figures for the penthouse, the city only taxed the unit for $17,000 in property taxes. That's an effective property tax rate of 0.017 percent—about one one-hundredth of the average national tax rate."
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Playing cities and states off against each other for tax breaks and free money is very effective if you have the financial means.

The richest man in the world - Jeff Bezos - did exactly this to try and shift the taxation burden away from him and on to the rest of America with his HQ2 stunt.

This is indeed better for a limited class of people.
Taking short exposures and stacking also can help by removing the effects of periodic error in the mount gear-train (or belt-train).
Do you carry a normal $5,000,000 life insurance policy?
You are being downvoted but this is also my experience. My grocery bill is up more than 15% like for like (I shop exclusively online so it's easy to track) and more than that in total because of volume increases. My utility rates are up >10%. Housing costs are way up where I live. I would guess my overall baseline cost of living is up at least 10% when you remove the impact from lower commuting and eating out costs.
> If you have good tech chops, it has never been easier to find a job quickly, and never easier to set your own terms and salary.

What are you basing this on?
I'd say yes, of course. In an "ideal" bitcoin scenario, the more people get convinced that bitcoin is here to stay, the more it goes mainstream, the more people will buy it driving its price to astronomical values, until it reaches an equilibrium. But by that time, you have created a large number of nominally rich people. So a lot of people will have a lot of money to spend. Say you want to buy a house, you can overbid by a larger margin, because you're bitcoin-rich. But the people you are competing with are too. So you end up paying much more for the same. You have effectively created inflation.
It seems like nearly all tech companies these days are moving to fully remote hiring. Tell your manager that you’re staying remote indefinitely or you’ll be beginning the search for a new job. You’ve already had the last year to prove how productive of a remote worker you are. Bonus for you: tech industry salaries are on a massive upswing at the moment - if you do get a shiny new remote job, chances are you’ll also be able to grab a pretty sweet raise as well.
What Makes a Senior Engineer?
Hey HN,

I have been interviewing lately and am wondering what being a senior usually means from your perspective.

Since i have been working consulting and architecture gigs lately i feel a bit rusty coding wise and am wondering what the expectations regarding ramp-up and onboarding are in your organizations, without all the interviewing BS.
Suprised there is nothing in the "Q&A" that refers to wired devices. As if there is no choice.
That's a period of like 10+ months. Peak rental season is usually in the summer too. Most people who were on 12 month leases would have had an opportunity to sign a new lease in this time. Even if they didn't, it's not like rents have recovered, you can still get far cheaper rent in many areas and will likely continue to be able to do for the next few months at least.
>Usually, the local government owns the stadium, while the team and its ownership control the revenues. This arrangement leaves taxpayers on the hook for maintaining the stadium year after year, team or not.

From here: https://www.johnlocke.org/policy-position/publicly-funded-st...

The problem for sports stadiums seems to be a monopsony relationship. That wouldn't be true for a fab, which can sell to anyone.

It seems like this relationship is desirable because a sports team can't benefit from all the profit they generate, for example at restaurants near the sports stadium, whereas the city can, by taxing those businesses. I suppose there might be an equivalent relationship with respect to a fab, but I'm not sure what it is.
>The fact that a confirmed natural infection confers immunity equal to or greater than the vaccines is well established at this point. There are something like 80 documented reinfections worldwide.

There is definitely a lot more than 80. My impression is that the mRNA vaccines are more effective than natural immunity.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
In this case the theory doesn't have well-defined implications. The different interpretations of quantum mechanics, which agree on the observable details, disagree on the unobservable details.

It's like an entity within a game of life simulation trying to figure out if the simulation is being run by Xlife or Golly. There's just no way to tell, and no slam dunk prior to eliminate one of them.
I would lower the percentage it is right to complain about to only 99.9% (without non-lexical lifetimes it is probably only right 99% of the time). I have encountered like 3 cases where the borrow checker complained and forced me to make a worse design. I think I have seen more than 1000 and less than 10,000 borrow checking errors.
If you're using a dumb TV (monitor), and a device feeding it (Apple TV, Roku, Firestick, Chromecast), they typically come with a remote which will handle those needs.

I will admit, OTA TV (that is, via an antenna) will be... harder.
Yeah, not all Sherlock Holmes stories are in the public domain. As it says in the case you linked only 10 stories out of 56 plus 4 novels were still under copyright (now down to 6).

The Doyle estate lost the case you're referring to and Klinger was allowed to publish his derivative stories.

Disney could try to sue, but I don't think their case is any stronger than the Sherlock Holmes case if the defendant is only deriving material from the original Mickey cartoon.
Just post the in-store prices and there will be an end to the horror.
CPI is rigged in the sense that it is one attribute that status quo-apologists trot out to say “nothing to see here” when the real cost of goods is observably higher for all but the ultra-wealthy. “It’s not hyperinflation, it’s just that everything you conceivably want to buy is coincidentally much more expensive, because [reasons].”
Nice. What framework did you use to build it?
Probably never. If Apple does this, it will the the most brazen permission-hopping Apple has ever done, and developers the world over would probably instantly complain that it renders Apple's entire threat model useless. Furthermore, it could also be illegal for Apple to be the sole distributor of an IDE on a platform where their competitors lack the permissions required to run/debug programs.
Also used as a dye so maybe for food colouring?
This is such a welcome improvement, especially as we continue to make projects modular and component based.
I think parent meant coordinating a labor strike, as far as dangerous topics of work discussion.
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It 100% is an ad hominem response. I'm not trying to address his arguments whatsoever and am very low on Graham's hierarchy of disagreement. And again, I do agree with many of his points.

I just personally don't think banning cryptocurrencies (or pretty much anything) is the answer, and the very "ban-happy" attitude colors my impression of all of this and makes it less likely that I'd want to attempt to address their arguments, because I know they've very likely already made up their mind that they think the only solution is a government crackdown.
https://www.epsilontheory.com/im-trying-to-understand-hedoni...

"A Honda Accord cost $12,000 in 1990 and it costs $25,000 now.

A Mustang was $9,000 and now it’s $27,000.

The BLS has new car prices close to unchanged over the past 30 years."

Whatever you think of the validity of "hedonic adjustments", this is certainly not what I would expect when BLS reports car prices as unchanged during that period.
Two other[1][2] posts on this so far.

Still the scariest part, via the awesome great fantastic in-depth with-great-links-to-previous-stories staceyoniot coverage[1] on Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA, the alliance behind this Matter specification):

> The CSA is also focused on releasing as much as it can as open-source code, which strikes me as somewhat incongruous with the fact that to see or vote on the developing standard, companies had to pay to join the CSA and the Matter working group. However, the code is all available on Github, and anyone will be able to see it and download it for their applications and devices.

It's just so depressing thinking that there's this industrial standard for the most ubiquitous & pervasive devices on the planet, the things that fill our home, AND THAT WE CANT KNOW OF IT. We don't get to know how our devices work, even though there's a common language. It's miserable, anti-Enlightenment, and it enforces a cruel & brutal consumerism & keeps mankind from grappling with the role of technology in our lives. It makes me think of Steve Talbott's great write up, The Deceiving Virtues of Technology[3]:

> This odd association between technology and deceit occurs not only in our own language, but even more so in Homer’s Greek, where it is much harder to separate the inner and outer meanings, and the deceit often reads like an admired virtue.

I want honest, genuine technology, that gives me a fair shake, that says what it is. CSA builds upon the unreasonable, deceitful Thread standard to build another new web of control & manipulation, that similarly releases some source, but refuses to share understanding, refuses to illuminate what is happening here. We should not accept this dark technology into our homes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27121525

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122604

[3] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/devices-of-the/97805965...
Most of the big exchanges don't allow cashing out of coins run through those anymore.
Every operating system lets you run a process and subprocess. Until iOS/iPadOS came along, that is.
Not really, technically anyone can join the network:

"Part of the Made for iPhone (MFi) Program, the Find My network accessory program is designed for any accessory developer looking to connect an existing or new product to the Find My network. Third-party products must adhere to all the privacy protections of the Find My network that Apple customers rely on."

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apples-find-my-networ...
If by FUD you mean doubt in the validity of government statistics, you are correct.

But deceptive things should be doubted.
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Kind of related. I always found it interesting that the Terminator's heads up display noted no casualties as "0.0" -- and I always wondered how a computer/killing-machine from the future might calculate casualties.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oolP65DLQLY
What competition does[0] Apple have on the service of distributing iphone applications?

0: indeed, can, without stupedous efforts of reverse engineering that they actively oppose
There are kind of two questions in your comment so let me paraphrase and address them separately.

Why would the USGov want to support a show like Sesame Street, with its left-wing perspectives of collectivism/socialism/etc?

First, I would point out that while elements of "the government" are involved, this is not necessarily a government project per se that we are talking about. The Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation are private entities, but ones which exert a lot of influence including over the government in various ways.

In the specific example of Sesame Street, I think that espousing ostensibly left-wing viewpoints can still work to their advantage if it allows them to smuggle in other concepts which blunt any sort of revolutionary thinking. Hence, you had early season episodes which were about making peace with urban decay -- the cracks in your walls as imaginary friends, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0ffj__R4g&feature=youtu.be

"Official opposition narrative": https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Official_opposition_narrative

Was Cooney a witting agent of the state/ruling-class or was she genuine but useful to them?

It's very difficult or impossible to tell really. Generally, the way things like the Congress of Cultural Freedom worked was by first filtering for artists with a particular voice or perspective, and then subtly promoting certain perspectives, themes, and techniques for them to use in their artwork. This allowed the application of a great deal of leverage over the cultural scene without going to people and explicitly saying "we want you to make art for the CIA" (although I'm sure there were also more than a few witting agents).
Back in the days, I used to watch Spiderman cartoons, and was amazed by the small trackers Spidey put on people he needed to track, and got the location in real time. I wanted to see something like that someday.

This AirTag does seem very nice in that respect. But then I realize what a gigantic privacy nightmare this can be for a large portion of our population.

Stalkers can put a tracker on you, and you'll never get notified if you don't have an iPhone? What if the user doesn't even have a smartphone?

How does Apple think they'll handle this scenario? Can it even be handled?
Yep, ideas vs execution. You see it in books and music pretty frequently as well. Twilight is a great example because it spawned a ton of clones. Music was pretty insulated until fairly recently with some lawsuits over similarities being a bit... questionable.

Side note, this has been a really good thread to read and respond to.
That is assuming they have technical experience. You can just do a pen test for a fraction of the cost.