skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So - Amazon want to use 1/40th of my internet bandwidth.

Along with that goes 1/40th of the electric that the router and broadband modem use.

Then there were the costs for me setting up my own infrastructure with my own money.

At this point, I would expect Amazon to PAY me to use my infrastructure - not get it for free. After all, they won't send parcels to me without me paying for them?

This is a bad BAD idea. It will not garner any access over my network(s).
Not necessarily. I have used cheap food thermometers that took upwards of 60 seconds to settle on a temperature. If you weren’t aware of this flaw you could easily read the temperature after 10-15 seconds when it seems to be settling down and end up way off from the real temperature.
Beyond contemptible -- no-one has ever been jailed for "jigsaw identification" before (and many others provided more clues but escape prosecution), the real crime here is speaking out in defence of Assange and Salmond.
> This whole thread is basically a testament as to why the OSS model, unfortunately, is broken

This blog post for me is evidence that we can make crowdfunded open source work, as long as the people receiving the money know how to effectively use it. The team handling the economy of Babel right now, does not, hence Babel is not sustainable.

But, if you'd make the salaries a bit more realistic, Babel would have money over each year. But that's based on them not giving themselves one of the highest salary in the world. Let's see what they'll do.

> Very competent people are expected to write widely used software for a salary that basically merely guarantees subsistence.

"merely guarantees subsistence", what the hell? Maybe if you live in SF, but any other place in the world, this kind of salary is not even what seniors pull in yearly. My own anecdote:

> Not only a decent living, but that's a very good salary in most places in the world. As an anecdote, I've always worked in private sector IT (as a developer and manager), have around 20 years of experience and worked in both small and big enterprises and startups, and I've never had that high salary. If you'd offer me that for working on open source full-time, I'd be surprised. My expectation would be that there is a ton of people willing to work for much less, so why Babel had to go with that person?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27116591
Is it possible for a programmer with the relevant experience to apply for a role at spacex? Maybe as a consultant/contractor on non sensitive software ?
This is true, but I'd rather have an office with tea/coffee, a drinks fridge, etc, than the extra salary that the company is spending on providing that.

In part I'm paying 40% in tax so if I'm going to buy coffees it's actually more effective to have them provided by the company. But in general, that sort of convenience and benefit is often worth more than the monetary value.

Tea/coffee in the office is very different to a expensive social events, but it's all on a spectrum, and I value some of those things more than the money. I do however earn a good salary, this could well be different for many others.
Joke's on them, my closest neighbor is a quarter mile away.
I read the wikipedia page on shellcodes a few days ago.

It said the first thing they do is find a way of phoning home.
Recycling and modding would be great, but I'd also like to be able to buy a new high-end TV without smart features.
Let me tell you, delivery pressure exists even right at the very top. You think there’s no pressure as a CEO/COO beholden to 30% top line growth this quarter? I sometimes think about being in that position and it seems pretty scary too
You're right but it is pushing their advantage from the phone sector onto another and forcing out their competition in Tile. That sounds to me like monopolistic activity.
There's something about the article that I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe it sounds too much like an ad, maybe it's the hyperbole, like the author is suggesting he single-handedly "saved" this game from "certain death".

It's not hard to imagine the criticism if the situation were different. Imagine the headline "How my startup will save millions of companies on the brink of death by providing a way to have meetings remotely". The expected response would be "What about Zoom?".
Privacy paradox at work.
How Figma is engineering their way into an astonishing $2b valuation
It may not increase the supply of drivers but it may increase the amount they drive and how much they carry.
Just a protip, that kind of exaggeration is poorly received on the Internet because there’s no context to base it in. Even offline, it’s taken as a sign of immaturity and usually met with eye rolls. Probably best to remove it from your rhetorical toolkit if being clearly understood is a goal.
Aren't those cases mitigated by receiving support/supplies from elsewhere though? The thing about a massive solar flare is that this "elsewhere" would be facing the same issues.
Does this spell the end of any prosecution that relies on tying a router IP address to an identity? Seems like it would be trivial to claim that it was actually an unknown third party, connected via Amazon, that was using the network for "Illegal activity X".
I may be living in my own small little bubble but I don't know anybody shopping for anything because their smart TV showed an ad. Everything ads seem to do is just piss some people off.

Then again I remember that if commercials weren't successful, TV as we know it would not exist. People gobbling up ads and buying stuff because of that is why ads are still being used after all.

After all... https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
And housing costs have outpaced salary growth by a similar margin.
They don't sell it. But they entrust a lot of it to disreputable 3rd parties, who exist to track me all over the internet and then try to show me ads.
If your into huge old growth trees, and you find yourself in South Carolina USA, you should checkout the Congaree national forest. 26,000 acres of protected flood plain (wet lands) forest, the last of its kind, all the rest were cut down in the span of a hundred years or so.

I shot some video and we only walked the 2 mile boardwalk but I'd go again with a guide for sure. https://youtu.be/_4szw1gzBKc
The author is over simplifying evolution. A trait maybe passed on to children even though the parent isn't displaying it.

The easiest example of this across many species is homosexuality. As it seems obvious that it would reduce an individuals chances of having offspring. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13674-evolution-myths...

There is the added complexity that some positive traits are tied to negative traits. Meaning if the gene stops getting selected the positive trait goes away with the negative one.

And then there is culture. It is clear humans have become the dominant species of our planet (at least for now) and it is our culture and the technology it supports that enable this.
Now now. Let's not start that ephemeral idea of progress as being tied to peoples genitalia. Men and women (read People) have contributed enormously to said "progress"
I have a sous vide set up as well, and while I find that it works great for chicken and duck, I agree with you that sous vide does something weird to steak. It's something about the texture. I know Kenji has written a few articles about how meat changes over different sous vide cooking durations, but I also wonder if the length of time changes the way fat renders somehow. I don't think it's been well studied. Searching the internet reveals I'm not the only person who has noticed this, but some people do not notice it, so there's not really a consensus on what's going on.
I assumed that the common mutations were the result of travel. Is that not the case? Is the belief that the virus is hitting the same mutations independently in multiple places?
I am pretty sure this is not allowed in the TOS a homeowner signs with their ISP.....
Mandatory installation comes 3-5 years after insurance discounts for smart smoke detectors or whatever, to prod the last few hold-outs into "compliance".
As well as this, there are simple ways around things like pihole. Such as DNS over HTTP or even just hardcoding IPs as a fallback. I expect these to become more common as usage of pihole and similar methods increase.
So when I stand up a botnet controlled by a CnC server its illegal but when Amazon does it its "for the investors". Ffs
The requirement for working on Babel is being a Javascript expert and compiler engineer, not a good JS developer. It's 85k GBP, that is very reasonable for those skills.
No, it's E=(0.001M)C^2
That's the irony of closed loop control systems. They appear to be simple but the emergent behavior, particularly when there is a hierarchy of control loops, is incredibly complex.
I see a large number of code reviews per month, though.
In 2020, here are some companies paying $195k-$230k for entry level programmers - https://www.levels.fyi/2020/

FAANG is not on the list, FAANG pays $180k-$190k for entry level (Netflix does not recruit entry level much though).

So total compensation, entry level at some places is $15k higher, or more.
I would like to give Amazon 0% of my bandwidth. This is a harmful “feature” that the masses will unknowingly eat up and make life harder for everyone else.
But possibly only because they haven't yet added 'tech' to the hip abbreviation of their industry, and realised that data is valuable, possibly more valuable than whatever their actual business is?

I think people use 'selling my data' as an (inaccurate, sure) shorthand for 'collecting so much data about me and I don't really trust them not to sell it at some point'.
IIRC there wasn't much backstory on how it came to be other than a war between continents.
I disagree in the sense the architect should be hands off and a source of good practice, recommendations, and an all round enabler. But the dev at the coalface? They own the solution.
I agree, I’ve had pretty good results using MJML now for several years (and I’ve been doing HTML emails since almost the 90’s!)

This is a problem area where a good abstraction framework is highly useful in my opinion.

That said I don’t specialise in email, it’s something I do “when I need to”. So if I was spending more time doing this sort thing, I might be more inclined to move down an abstraction level back to HTML/CSS and improve my knowledge of various client support.

To just get the job done though, MJML is highly recommended.

I see also a lot of mentions on this thread about replying to emails breaking the layout. Part of me thinks we’re fighting a losing battle here anyway so there is a limit to how much time it’s worth spending to make sure even replies are formatted nicely across all clients. But the other thing to consider is whether the email template is just trying to do too much.

I try and keep my email templates very sparse, clean and simple and I generally haven’t had too many issues with reply/forward formatting (that I’m aware of).
Privacy is only one angle, a lot of it is about selling you content like TV/Films that can be promoted via the TV. Often goes hand-in-hand with advertising that has privacy issues, but much of the money comes from the consumer not advertisers. That's a more subtle one to market: buy this device that has fewer choices about buying content.
As always with the laws, there are exceptions and it is more complicated than one might expect.

https://www.thefashionlaw.com/resource-center/gray-market-go...
Early Modern Philosophical Letters
I don't understand how it doesn't turn Amazon Echo owners into ISP against their will, nor how a company can decide to use a customer's resources without consent (data usage/quota/cap, etc., electronic fog, etc.).
TVs without smart features used to be priced like TVs still are now; the one I'm still using cost me something like $300 several years ago.

Those commercial displays are priced for businesses to afford. It's not something the average consumer is going to reasonably buy - especially not lower-income people.

(As an aside, it's fucked that the cheaper devices that low-income people can afford are always the ones with the most surveillance.)
Tea and coffee ought to be a baseline in any office environment imo. I think it'd be worth it for companies to just pay for it, otherwise employees set up a tea club, spend work time doing it and fall out over it.
Agile, lean - the idea of moving faster because you're always sprinting, always doing things just in time - has taken a lot of slack out of systems.

Something has to give when you need to making up time, when there's no slack. That's where the wellbeing deficit comes from.
AWS Instance Scheduler for Every Developer
I read somewhere that sending very small spacecraft to far away places was something that was being considered. Unfortunately I don’t remember the details. We just need an artificial gravity machine.
You can, sceptre makes a number of models, all of which have no smart features at all. Aimed for the home market
Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing longest water channel of the ancient world
These are private LANs. They don't own a public network. It will piggyback on your home ISP. I'm pretty sure this is just to simplify IoT network discovery
You might find the Squants library for Scala interesting; it even seems like an apt usage of some oft-questioned language features.

https://github.com/typelevel/squants
This is definitely one of the more naive free market takes I’ve seen recently…
I am sure they will build that sidewalk stack into every possible device they can. It’s going to be a terrible thing given how Amazon has no scruples about surveillance and tracking. It will happily build back doors into this to sell to law enforcement too.
Regarding open source not getting funding: It’s been the most powerful source of volunteering work precisely because there was no money tainting or inducing work on to people. It’s a true example that society can work without capitalism. Let’s please not change that.
Repair is not always possible.. Consider a TV with a shattered panel. You'll have to depend on the manufacturer to make this party available, which usually they won't because they'd much rather sell you a new one.

I don't think there's anything wrong with government regulations. Yes they listen to lobbies too much but it's a different issue that should also be addressed.
Why do you think that?

I'm curious, not incredulous. I haven't worked on JS/used Babel in more than a year.
Bachelor + master

2 years of software engineering experience

2 years of teaching experience

Education:

Bachelor information science

Bachelor psychology

Master game studies

Research master computer science

(and tons of failed studies, extracurricular courses, student boards and jobs)

Notable fun achievements:

Graduated from first bachelor within 2 years.

Published my homework as a paper to a conference and it got accepted (with a lot of help from my teacher, this was no solo effort).

Hobbies:

Music (I think about it obsessively since I was 4, not great in making it though, I do beatbox okay-ish)

Mindfulness (not meditating, simply applying it)

Reading Hacker News (this is a legit hobby :P)

Hanging out with friends and talking about all kinds of things

I used to be the kind of person to want to know everything about the world and that's also how I studied. I gave up on that recently though.

---

Now you know me a bit better, albeit on paper, it's something ;-)
No evidence = No crime
Is there anyway to opt out of this?
There's also the factor that whoever owns the platform showing the ads doesn't care whether the ads are effective. So long as your eyeballs are tracking it, they'll get paid anyway.
> I'll assert again that I've never seen it actually work, not heard from any of my peers that it worked.

And I'll assert again that I have experienced it work (in two different jobs, although one was only for a day at a time), seen it work for coworkers and a few of my peers have had it work very well too. Additionally there are other people here in this very comment section asserting that they, too, have experienced it work.

For me, it had a very real and positive impact on the projects and was a good personal experience. Your assertions to the contrary won't change that.

Your comment reads very like: "So, I have no anecdotal evidence from my immediate peers that it can work so it must not work. You have offered me first hand anecdotal evidence that it can, I shall ignore that."

At this point, I have to wonder why you're even in this comment thread, since you seem so completely stuck and rigid in your beliefs.

I'm not saying you have to try it, just don't knock it if you haven't. I'm also not even saying that it will work for you. Maybe it really won't. But you're here adamantly proclaiming that it doesn't work and is a waste of time as if its some immutable truth when it really isn't, evidenced by the fact that it has worked for me and others.

Also, your car analogy is invalid. Its not at all like that. That's a bit like saying that you don't need to fly in an airplane to know they can't fly because you know other similarly heavy objects like rocks can't fly. That is, just because you know what would happen when being hit by a car without actually being hit by a car can't be applied to this very different situation.
> In part I'm paying 40% in tax so if I'm going to buy coffees it's actually more effective to have them provided by the company. But in general, that sort of convenience and benefit is often worth more than the monetary value.

I actually started of my working career as a factory worker (nightshift, 12 hour shifts, seven days a week). It was customary to bring along a flask of coffee and a packed lunch.

Right now, even though we have company-provided coffee, I'd rather they just give me the money to bring a flask of my own coffee.

It's more convenient, I get to make a trade-off between quality and cost as the situation calls for it, I get to switch coffees if I need to.

In current reality, though, you are correct - overall it's cheaper for the company to provide coffee instead of giving you the marginal cost of the coffee you consume. I just wanted to provide an alternative viewpoint.
1x Kryo 680 (ARM Cortex X1-based) Prime core @ 2.84GHz, 1x 1MB L2 cache

3x Kryo 680 (ARM Cortex A78-based) Performance cores @ 2.4GHz, 3x 512KB L2 cache

4x Kryo 680 (ARM Cortex A55-based) Efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz, 4x 128KB L2 cache

Vs 2 big 3.1 GHz and 4 small 1.8 GHz on the A14.

Comparing single core performance is kinda cherry-picking a benchmark where the A14 is supposed to be ahead.
If it happens again, you can stop a small problem before it becomes a very big one. Also, it is a good practice in general.
> I'd pay for privacy and control.

Then buy a monitor. They have HDMI ports so they can get whatever video feed you need. Some even have speakers.
There are two gotcha's (based on Swedish experience) your house company might change the rules not allowing rentals or simply deny you the right to rent because some renter broke the rules. The second one is the monthly fee, it is included in the rent but it can be changed by the management based on the building's need.

Another problem, at least here in Sweden, is that the law prohibits making an "unreasonable" gain on rentals so you can't compensate on bad periods by raising the rent.
Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings?
Ask HN: How can I store files securely?
I have tons of files that are of a sensitive nature, ranging from 2FA recovery codes to legal documents (e.g. contracts, employment-related stuff), copies of my passport, tax documents, financial documents, etc. Basically, a kind of digital ring binder.

Right now, I keep them in an encrypted "sparsebundle" volume (I use macOS), which I tend to just keep mounted, because it's tedious to type a password every time. This means a piece of malware or a hacker could gain access via some kind of exploit, Chrome extension, etc.

I thought about writing something that automatically unmounts it after a while, but I don't want to go into a complicated project.

I would like a solution like so:

- Allows me to organize files by folder, preferably as a real file system

- Requires a password (and supports Touch ID) after some idle period

- Is fully encrypted

- Can be synced peer-to-peer to other devices, so I can access the same documents on my phone

- Not stored in the cloud

Any ideas?
Agreed! Once in a century is disturbingly frequent when it comes to disasters like this. If it's even higher than that, then you start approaching a point where it's almost certain to be experienced during any given lifetime.
> A good couching session relaxes even the most stressed up worker

Depends on which side of the couch you are, I expect. The couchers (couch-workers?) probably do get stressed by providing couching sessions 8 hours a day.
Global competition will drive wages down. Right now SV is still were Detroit was in the 1960s.
The Meaning of Open (2009)
I can also add https://audext.com/ to your list. It also makes subtitles for videos quickly and efficiently.
Sadly not the same thing. This is using bandwidth from YOUR network.

And besides, you can disable the BT 'sharing' capability. May not be so easy with an Echo in the house...
Damage to Protective Shield Around Brain May Lead to Alzheimer’s, Other Diseases
Makes sense from a financial standpoint too since game devs are known to be passionate enough to accept lower salaries if they can work on cool stuff. Not necessarily knocking it (not my preference), but it matches exactly what I hear from people that work there. The recruiters even say the pay is low, but you'll have "SpaceX" on your resume so it's worth it.
Then I do not see how ceejayoz is, currently, being fooled by Apple marketing.
> including garbage collection.

Not only does flight control software typically never use garbage collection, it is also preferable to never allocate memory during the runtime -- all memory ever needed is allocated at program startup, and memory is not acquired or released until landing or some other major end event. Because memory issues are often the most significant causes of crashes, which you don't want to translate into, well.. a different kind of crash.

The creator of C++, Bjarne, wrote a nice paper on flight control software if you are interested in more.
At my high school it was kind of lumped into the Ideal Gas Law; Boyle's name didn't get much mention.
Handing it over during company acquisition is a form of sale.
Here's another perspective: this type of art style is in my opinion, quite childish and immature. It lacks detail, uses limited colors, and most often depicts people playing, or having fun. To me it represents the on-going "dumbing down" of tech. It shows how tech companies view their customers/users - children who need to be told what to think, what to buy, and how to behave.
You jest, but all I'm thinking about is just how unpolluted the 2.4GHz spectrum would be if everybody's house had a built-in Faraday cage, and how nice that would be...
Medical experts tend to be more capable of providing correct medical information than "community". Given the misunderstandings you held about incredibly basic properties of mRNA vaccines, you should determine that the people who taught you those misunderstandings aren't good sources of information.
They would have more money by cutting unnecessary expenses.

The optimistic way is that maybe harder work would increase revenue.
That’s actually not what racialization means. Racialization is the creation of race as a social construct. “Racial characteristics” aren’t fixed; the Nazis considered Jewish people a “race” despite what they looked like.

Race isn’t a real thing. It’s something we made up because it was a justification for why it was ok to oppress people with the characteristics we dislike (we tried enslaving people with lighter skin; turns out they were able to escape and blend in with the population).