skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't 100%, no. But I am not sure what you are suggesting then.

If you get the vaccine and are still scared and angry at people that may not have received it, there aren't many options for you aside from indefinite total lock-down.
That was also common in the XIX century as well: that's how Alexander Dumas and Charles Dickens were published.
Two identical companies, one in sheep's clothing.

I can't believe you'd compare a corporation to your mum either.
They bought mupad and integrated it if I remember correctly.
I can imagine there's more than one ISP who'd have something to say about open wifi networks.
The problem is the contradictory nature of commercial open source.

You want everyone to have access to the code but you also want to charge businesses. You can't have both. So OSS companies split the code base in to a community and a business edition. The business edition builds on top of the community edition which requires the community edition to either be GPL licensed with a CLA or a permissive license with the risk of competitors building their own business edition.
The customer isn't the last say in what is good for a society or economy, if Amazon puts a moat around IoT that's thousands of companies, products, employees, and unknown innovation all either gone completely or sucked up into Amazon.
You're right, nobody said I was a misogynist pig. I was exaggerating! But only in fun. And I really don't think I took offense at anything.
> Philosophers, mathematicians, politicians, and religious authorities sought her opinion on everything

By this logic, Ja Rule is the smartest man alive.

https://youtu.be/XYfKzzyWQjM
Can’t see the number of likes or can’t see that it is liked at all? I have a feeling removing the number helps but I know a few people who like to scroll through all the likes they get.
Again, that you don’t consider what I wrote a counter argument and are trying to dismiss it as ad-hominem to not have to actually generate a rebuttal or accept it says more about you than the opposite.

Society decides its morals, not I, certainly not you.
This. Also, in IPython, one can write greek letters by doing:

\Sigma<TAB>

which will get converted to an actual Σ.
> IMO, it's not just the importance of backups, but of having third party, redundant, off-site backups.

If your backups do not already include the above, then it is not a viable backup strategy.
Transport vs. Network
There’s six figure slackers at a lot of companies.
Oh that's an interesting aspect. I was on the lookout for immediate consequences. Thanks for clarifying!
Not just this, though this is a big factor. Often there will be hardware differences too. For example a Linux laptop might run more expensive hardware simply because it has better support with open source drivers (thus satisfies Debian et al users). Whereas a fair number of Linux users are more than happy to run closed proprietary binaries instead. So often Linux certified laptops will be different hardware to their Windows counterparts rather than just Windows machines shipped without an OS.

Then you also have the economics of scale where building a laptop for 1k customers would work out more expensive (price per laptop) than building the same laptop for 100k customers.
On the other hand, putting more a ton of pressure on the ancient broadband infrastructure is great. It's one of the few forcing functions we have to push ISPs into actually improving their service.
Signalling is the same thing as mutability. To signal is to flip a bit.

If code is data and data is immutable then code is immutable.

I am sure you see the contradiction in objectives.
They are not alone in this. Google has switched their UI/UX in the same manner. I haven't used Apple TV in a few years but when I last did they were headed in the same direction. Roku is likely not far behind in doing the same.
I tried editing code on a mobile, even tablet, before, thinking "I have all this downtime where I'm mindlessly browsing on my phone, think of how productive I could be if I could code during that time!"

The reality becomes that those places are usually too distracting for me to be in a coding mindset, and even when not, typing code using a non-physical keyboard is tiring and cumbersome. Even just the occasional mistype stops my flow as I have to back up and fix the letter or number now that I'm several characters past it.
> that's more 90k/year which allows for a decent living in most places

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?

> Probably not enough for San Francisco though

Good thing Babel, Open Source and everything else related to this has nothing to do with San Francisco but still the group somehow want to have SF salaries. Yeah, I wonder why?
I no longer go to hotels. I do no longer work on holidays. I no longer work at home if I have an office, and I no longer work in an office if I do remote work.
Coming soon, YouTube video guides on how to locate the rf ICs on the motherboard of your smart tv, and take a Dremel cutting disk to the section of the PCB that has the copper traces for the antenna.
> The biggest technical hurdle is the inability to run external processes on iOS and iPadOS.

> Apps on iOS and iPadOS must use Apple’s Javascript interpreter, JavaScriptCore.

Both of these really suck because they are policy, not technical, decisions. Even setting aside the arguments of whether JIT code is a security concern (it is not unless your security model is one where codesigning exists to prevent the addition of new native code) that you cannot spawn a new process, nor can you ship another JavaScript interpreter, is really unfortunate.

Allowing apps to spawn new processes is easy (I mean, just inherit sandboxing rules and resource limits…) and allows for a lot of new usecases, like robust crash reporting, web servers, privilege separation, and more. That Apple allows this on macOS and even uses it for its own apps on iOS just shows how useful this can be and how little it affects the security model of iOS.

Likewise, not allowing other JavaScript interpreters is just…annoying. Regardless of your opinions of JavaScriptCore, this is an unfair limitation on an already slanted playing field. Coupled with the fact that the JavaScriptCore interpreter (which the framework uses for anything you run in-process) is literally designed for low resource consumption instead of than performance makes this even more infuriating.
> There is no inherent ethics in any of these companies.

Didn't say that. Said they had a much better track record.

AirTags launched with clear consideration to privacy issues, like a stalker dropping one in your bag. They appear to have thought this out well. The recent anti-tracking changes to iOS that Facebook is squealing about are another point in their favor for me.

Are they my friend? No. Are their interests currently better aligned with mine? It would seem so.
From a business POV yes. I just dont like companies that lie. Of course at the moment this is still a rumour.
Interesting that his contributions apparently declined when he went full-time.
Welcome to Visualizing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Alexa, enable privacy" - "I'm sorry Dave, I am afraid I can't do that"
Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
What you're describing sounds totally different from the wellness program described in the article. What the article describes is something that seems to be totally targetted at individuals. If you desire them, and get paid enough, you could just get them yourself - there's no reason for the company to get involved.

What you're describing are more like team building. Enforced lunches or dinners with coworkers are not just about directly rewarding you with free food, but also enforcing some informal time with team members that you might not choose to spend time with outside of work (or even those you might but maybe wouldn't normally make time for). In many cases it's not even disguised that this is the goal. Although I might not always be a fan of spending time with some of those people, I see the benefit to the business and even myself and it's quite orthogonal from compensation.
There is nothing stopping TV manufacturers from putting a 3/4G modem in their products. The billing is likely insignificant compared to the value of the data they can exfiltrate.
Use tinfoil wallpaper.
As reading in Carbon Democracy from Timothy Mitchell:

“The organic matter equivalent to all of the plant and animal life produced over the entire earth for four hundred years was required to produce the fossil fuels we burn today in a single year”

Saying it otherwise: the natural ecosystems need 400 years to offset one year of fossil fuel emissions. When the ecosystems are still there and healthy...
"Laptops are certainly not overrated, and from my experience laptops have been the standard form factor for office work for over a decade, and longer in some sectors."

Yes they have. a.) Because of a status symbol ("why does only the tech department get Apple laptops?") and b.) because people want to have more options, the more the better. So if you have the option to move the Laptop, you get one no matter if you really move the laptop.

Yes I understand this, I have had 10+ Apple Laptops.
Do you want another security disaster? Because this is how you get another security disaster.
> The real problem with workplace wellness initiatives, according to Katie—beyond being inconvenient and vapid—is their obvious attempt to make up for the company’s poor employee benefits. ‘

The real problem is, wellness seminars are an attempt to push the issue on the employees. Just like "plastic recycling" initiatives push the guilt and the effort onto the consumer. It's a redirection strategy.
Oh yes, and this without taking in account the cement manufacturing, maybe 10-20% of CO2 emissions
> This marks the beginning of a new era for SpaceX, one where it will aim to routinely fly astronauts to the ISS

Does anyone have much insight into the longevity of the ISS from now? I can see it's approved for operation until 2024, so just 3 years, but could potentially continue to operate after that.

If the ISS does get decommissioned, how many years does that process take, and once it's gone, what purpose does Crew Dragon serve?

Not trying to be negative, hopefully by 2028 or even 2024 we will have concrete operations underway for continued space station development that could use Crew Dragon, but it does seem bold calling it a new era, when it's so precariously reliant on the ISS existing.
That's definitely true. I remember well when I wasn't able to afford a restaurant meal, but a manager was taking us out for lunch to quite expensive ones, my partner was crying that we weren't going out for ages and I am going to restaurants. That put me in a bad place mentally. She even asked me if I could get some leftovers home, but I couldn't get myself to ask that as other employees wouldn't ask. I didn't want to look like I have a problem (that is not being paid enough). So on my way from work I'd draw some of my savings and buy a small meal at inexpensive restaurant and pretend I got saved some food for her.
That's why I despise such programmes.
But then give it a network.. just no public internet access :)
Over here, yes, it has gotten worse since 2001 -- asian shops press much harder now, cheap remote labor really easily available ... competition vent through the roof. Longer hours, guilt feels stronger, sloppier work, inter-team communication destroyed (all-email in some language foreign to everyone), and -- still more lost deals.

This is for everyone, workers and management.

True, people maybe feel more entitled. But I think we also are getting introduced to a phenomenon new since 2001 -- having a solid "living wage" (which Trubune says noting else replaces), but burning out repeatedly, hating the job but being unable to quit, as providing for family takes more now than it used to in 2001, too.
Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps
> Donations are nice but not really scalable as a revenue model

Are you joking? This blog post is evidence that donations do work, but that doesn't mean you can just throw money around, you still need to allocate them effectively.

They are currently pulling in ~$166K a year, which can fund a team of developers anywhere else than the most expensive places. Since Babel is a open source and supposedly international project, there is no reason to pay the people working on it SF salaries.

They are doing the classic mistake of trying to optimize for getting more funding as well instead of focusing on minimizing costs, which tends to be much easier.

If they really care about being sustainable, they'll eventually realize this. But as put by sebmck both here and on Twitter, seems the group as no interest in actually making sure Babel survives but rather want to extract as much money as they can before it's too late.
>Does that sound like something they would let happend if they wasn't serious about their Linux efforts?

Hhhm I think the most remarkable parr is that it runs at all, really! .Net Core on Linux by itself shows plenty commitment.

The performance of it?
Considering NT was only developped by a single company, has to maintains a lot of stable/legacy driver APIs, and seems to have been on the backburner for a few years, as a Linux user I'd find it very humbling if our kernel still came out behind :)

It's interesting to see where this is all converging. It'll be easier to run Linux tech on Windows, and all the MS legacy still runs.

But at the same time maybe they're familiarising their loyal userbase with the outside ecosystem a little more than they should. If new Windows users are encouraged to learn Linux ways, at some point you're making it easier for people to transition
I love iPad but for many things. But as a software developer, creating on iPad scores pretty close to zero. Thank you, Panic Software, for hanging in for as long as you did.
Matching varies by employer and isn't a legal requirement. The legal minimum employer contribution is just 3% if you put in 5% and it's arguable whether 8% is enough for a comfortable retirement.

For most 40% tax bracket earners (earning less than £100K) once you get beyond your employers match, there's not much benefit to a workplace pension. A £100K earner sacrificing 10% in to a workplace pension scheme is only £200/year better off than someone taking home that 10% and paying it in to a self-managed scheme (provided they reclaim the tax).

Things change dramatically over £100K. Someone earning £120K and sacrificing £20K in to an employer scheme ends up £4400/yr better off than with a self-managed scheme.
> If a company has any wellbeing programs or even "free lunch" or "pizza Fridays" it's a big red flag. It basically means they don't pay enough for you to afford a pizza or lunch

No, and there are many companies that serve as counterexamples. Companies can offer both high compensation and small office perks, food and other gimmicks.
Xfinity routers seem to do this. I wonder how many of my less technical neighbors realize I can get on their internet?
You can't just swap the words without changing the analysis of what the resulting sentence means. Yes, the reaction to this is different if it's an Apple product vs. an Amazon product, because the two companies are different.
Anecdotally the way to achieve a high salary in the software industry in Sweden is to do solo consulting. Most companies seem to keep the salaries from inflating by getting seniors from consulting agencies or freelancing consultants; which comfortably segments the high earners from the internals.
That's what I'm getting at. The BLS has told you that lots of people make $90k programming computers. Whereas Facebook has shown that they are willing to pay some people four times that much to do the same thing.

From your perspective, they only ever need to do that _once_. To you.

The takeaway is "Facebook will pay me $400k if I work on convincing them to do so." That's a much better thought to have in your head than "maybe somebody will pay me the median developer salary."

Of course, you're welcome to approach life however you choose. Personally, I chose that higher number for myself (for the handful of years it took to retire). And I'd recommend anybody reading this do the same.

Edit: I see this same argument coming up every time salary is discussed here. Somebody will say "look how much you can make", and somebody else will pop up saying "sure, but look how _little_ you can make!".

It's as though they're trying to justify not having to ask for more money by convincing themselves it's impossible. But it's not impossible, and all you can accomplish by thinking negatively is to make less money.
> I couldn't care less for that chair or desk that the company offers. Work environment isn't about where I put my butt and my computer.

Lucky you :) Seems you didn't work on uncomfortable chair or on the kitchen table with kids running and screaming around.
For me such basic stuff is very high on the list of priorities regarding work environment.
In my experience(again, I'm sure it doesn't apply everywhere) - a lot of people think they want to do games, but actually leave and do something else after a year or two - not enough to get to senior level, so not at the level when they can actually start seeing decent salaries and have that leverage I mentioned. So they are easily poached by software development/consultancy firms with better money. Then people who do stick around and advance to senior actually show very high level of loyalty, I work surrounded by people with 15-20 years of experience at the same company, they aren't interested in going anywhere, mostly because they still enjoy what they do and after that much time the money is usually more than decent so....why would you leave. But obviously people still do, and again, I see people leaving after 20 years making games to "try something else" and they actually leave the games industry entirely when that happens.

What I also see is people leaving due to crunch and burnout - companies which are famous for it seem to lose a large number of employees every time they finish a project, I see that in applications. They aren't being fired, they are just burnt out and they look for a place with better work life balance. We have a bit of a reputation for being really good about it so we see those people apply to us.

And then finally, the "I really wanted to work on X all my life" still applies regardless of seniority and if the opportunities appear people take them no matter the compensation.
If there’s a way to filter out the analytics traffic and connections routed through the Echo after the router but before the connection to the modem/ont, this would be a good opportunity to build a simple device which blackholes this traffic. I’m thinking of a device that you simply connect between your home router and the connection to the isp. We all here can probably figure out a technical solution that works for us, but is not easy for the average person. I’m imagining a turn key device for the average person who is concerned with their privacy and doesn’t want the whole world using their internet connection.
Besides the 500MB per month data cap it is also limited to 80kbs.
I generally agree, but on the other hand, from a consumer perspective IoT devices have and continue to be particularly inconvenient. After 15 or so years of IoT devices, what do we have that resembles interoperability or open protocols? Maybe Zigbee? Instead, it seems that each IoT device is a one-off effort by a very small team, and that networking is the part where you cross your fingers, close your eyes, and hold your nose throughout the processes of connecting and diagnosing connectivity issues.
That reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogical_logic

also made known as "game semantics" by Hintikka, where the two players are "me" and "the Nature", and the two players read alternatively the elements of a quantified mathematical proposition.

Each time the Nature finds a counterexample, she wins, and if "me" is able to select the correct OR branches or to find the existing elements of \exists symbols, "me" wins.
Holy shit, I must be grandfathered in, I’m still paying US$150 per year for the all products pack.

Just paid three days ago too.
True, but you do want to test the emergent control system.
Right but this suggests those things might be for your benefit when it looks to me like they're for team cohesion ie for the employers benefit. There's nothing wrong with that unless they're trying to portray those things as being for your benefit!
It would have been kinda neat to learn assembly programming with the concepts from the article. When I was in school it was a required part of the curriculum and seemed like a gate that weeded out students since people complained it was so hard. Context of what assembly was used for and could be used on might have helped students understand better. I found it easy, almost free-ing, since there were so few instructions to use.

There are some really innovative ways things were accomplished back then as pointed out in the article.
> basic dev earns

Not true, basic junior devs in Poland start even from $15K per year(invoice equivalent without VAT).

Good devs in Ukraine get $50K/year+ but AFAIK they have 5% taxes only. Good = hireable by S&P500 companies for example.
Anyway most of them prefer to move to Poland for example due to better government/QoL.
Honestly this is the point the article makes in all but 2 or 3 paragraphs.
I hoped to find, but did not see, a nonsense-word-to-word-pair function. Like, if it could turn “Frumious” back into “fuming” and “furious”.
I have a feeling that they are, in fact, solicited. There’ll be fine print and a checkbox somewhere
I love this!

Even tho I am not a engineer as such, when I develop or wonder something I have to use Numi, and visualisations are always DIY. Really excited about the Atlas block exchange part, I want a library of common math/physics functions & values so I dont have to google.
Are you saying, currently, Apple is better for people concerned with privacy compared to the other big companies?
Thanks for the tip, just purchased one of the eBay refurbs - always happy to buy manufacturer refurbished items.
Isn't the fact that darkness effectively disables one of your most important senses, so that you can't tell what's going on, enough of an explanation?

Aren't you (as I know I am) afraid of writing code that you can't test, for example, despite our hominid ancestors' lack of computers?
...and practical Nuclear Fusion is only 10 years away! /s
“Smart devices” have been trying to phone home for awhile now. I don’t have any stats or research to cite, but my own evidence from reverse-engineering TVs and other IOT devices.

I suspect the business motivation by Amazon is to become the “middleman” between these devices and the manufacture.
On the bright side, traditional banking will be a thing of the past soon enough. Already looking forward to tell my grandchildren how we once had to walk into large shiny buildings and queue up to create "bank accounts" (why those were ever needed is going to be a tough one to explain).
If that were true, he should just shut up and wait for the NTSB results to speak for itself