skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Reuters article made a mistake:

> The cable, called Firmina, will be the longest cable in the world, Google said in a blog post, adding that it will run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional landings in Praia Grande, Brazil, and Punta del Este, Uruguay.

This is a misquote from the original https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announ... :

> Firmina will be the longest cable in the world capable of running entirely from a single power source at one end of the cable if its other power source(s) become temporarily unavailable—a resilience boost at a time when reliable connectivity is more important than ever.

As you would expect, TRANSPAC is much longer:

> 1995 No.5 Trans-Pacific Cable Network(TPC-5) (Laid cable length: approx.2,958 km)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpac_(cable_system)
GitHub is a huge pile of toxic waste (unethical developers keep reporting my accounts and taking them down), and Netlify suspends my account with absolutely no details beyond "you’ve violated our terms of service". Now where do I go next?
This is more like the opposite of regulatory capture. Patients are free to use the drug or not.
Structural-demographic forecast for 2010–2020 decade: A retrospective
It doesn't per se. The Insider Trading rules at my company speak about anyone living in your household as well as any close family members. Guess that's because there is reasonable assumption you'd be able to tell those people about internal knowledge.
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Al Jazeera Subjected to Cyber-Attacks Attempting to Disrupt Its Platforms
What Happened to the Lifeboat Foundation’s Bitcoin Endowment Fund?
Peering won't get non-Google traffic on a Google cable. But as a sibling points out, Google moving traffic to its own cable may free up room on existing cables.

Most of these cables are built in partnership with other companies, often including major transit providers.
Personally I don't think the remote part matters, it's the paying SF money regardless of location that is the draw. I've also had a few FAANG companies ghost me when I said I was not interested in moving to the bay in the last month. 2 from Google, one from FB.
That's excellent advice, thank you!
Simple Definition of Insurance – What Is, Meaning and Concept
You’re Drinking the Wrong Kind of Milk (2014)
C++ Static Analysis Fixes, Improvements, and Updates in Visual Studio 2019 16.10
This came up 2 years ago on Hacker News[1] and I wrote the following:

/QUOTE

I think the author's page (Alex Spartalis) deserves to be mentioned:

https://www.alexspartalis.com/cheat-sheet.html

He has the same version (v2.10) there and mentions that, "The Web version does not include the distribution functions due to file size restrictions. Email me if you would like a copy of these." That explains why pages 213-330 are missing. Someone should offer to upload the full copy to keybase.pub (or someplace) since his personal site can't handle the load.

People sometimes do tremendous work creating a program/book/artwork, and want the world to see it, but don't get around to really share it or promote it.

ENDQUOTE/

However, now it appears that Alex's site no longer exists and nobody (including me) ever did upload the full copy to keybase.pub.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20048205
Vaccines are not magic. Every treatment has potential downsides. That's why they need approval to weight the potential benefit/harm trade-off.
You’re right as far as I can tell. I understood it to be released but it’s only in trial form.
Kim Kardashian talks about her true relationship with Travis Barker
Besides for the extreme ease of documentation (which is getting a little harder now that there's so many different services), Stripe gained a lot of traction at the start.

Stripe was one of the first credit card acceptance companies with $0 monthly fees. I was paying a merchant account monthly, then authorize.net gateway fee, then an extra $20 to authorize.net to store tokens. Then the per-card fees were somewhat opaque with every card (qualified vs non-qualified) having different pricing.

With stripe, it became much lower risk: pay a set fee for each transaction. No monthly minimums.

Many of the credit card companies have moved to this model, but it was rather cutting edge and seemed much more "fair" for a commoditized gateway.
Anecdote, I am using Safari for speed, except for Google Meet (since Safari seems to have never-ending issues with that, for some reason).
Preferences > Advanced > Check "Smart Search Field: Show full website address"

The behavior to center the URL in the location field when not in focus, but to reformat to the left when focused, is somewhat silly, though. (In someone's eyes, it's apparently a form sufficiently importantly impressive to go over function.)

Edit: That you can't grab and drag the icon associated to the URL (but rather the URL itself) is also inconsistent with the general UI. (In other words, Safari's location field is not a Mac UI element.)
Yes, also similarly is "neurons that fire together wire together".
HN has ads, but don't I have to go searching for them to find them? I think it's Stack Overflow's ad model too. We'll curate a group of readers that are appealing to people seeking jobs, put up a "jobs" tab, and charge companies to list openings.
I work there and wouldn’t call this a “reversal”, but rather a clarification on details. They’ve been taking about when they expect people to come back but haven’t said anything about work from home options. Sounds like they’ve settled on a guideline.
This felt like phase two of putting everything under the AMP umbrella, and I would not be shocked if Google shut this down out of fear of regulatory scrutiny.

Google really wants to kill the URL. If you have to navigate through Chrome and their search engine to get to things, they'll have sunk their claws deep enough that the web doesn't even matter anymore.

They want to serve and proxy all the content so they can inject more ads and tracking.

The EU and US DOJ should really be asking themselves whether or not the world's biggest search engine and advertising company should be allowed to develop the world's most popular browser. Maybe Google should be told to stop development of Chrome.
Copying from my comment above, here are some examples of things I've bought. I like trying out new things because I can afford it, but I don't always have time to go out and look for them.

So examples of things that I've bought from Instagram ads:

The comma2 (autopilot for my Honda van). I knew OpenPilot existed, but until I saw that ad, I didn't know there was a product I could buy with it already installed. I liked the idea but didn't have time to get it all set up on my own. The existence of a commercial product vastly improved my life. I've already used it for over 1000 miles of self driving in just a couple weeks. It's a night and day difference when driving. I suppose I would have eventually heard about the product, but I'm glad I heard about it when I did.

The most recent Pride lego set. I would have never known it existed, but I'm glad I know now, because I want to give my kids something fun to build that sparks a conversation about Pride and what it means and why it's important.
There are laws against corporate espionage. In terms of legal intelligence gathering, hedge funds already do that: https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/how-hedge-funds-use-satel...
At least those atrocities are out in the open.
Same, except now it's taking photos of the things kids want, instead of writing it down.

(If it's customers, I just write it down)
$2k a month in India is not just Good life, its way more. Not sure why India is not mentioned.
The title makes it sound as if they were going to expand flexible working and are now not: the article says the opposite, that remote working is being embraced.
My solution has been to take nearly every meeting possible outside while on walks. It helps me focus where I would otherwise not be able to focus, and acts as a good way to get some additional exercise throughout the day.
I see what you did there. It hurts because it’s true.
If she wants to learn math in the classical fundamental way, Spivak's calculus is actually a fantastic resource. It begins with nearly no pre-requisite number theory and has a very axiomatic approach, which while pedantic makes things much more accessible to someone without any prior training.
7-year olds seams a bit young but Jason Roberts from Techzing through Math Academy has lead a program that got 10-year olds to get through calculus.

https://mag.uchicago.edu/education-social-service/can-fifth-...

https://outlooknewspapers.com/math-academy-multiplies-succes...

He told through the years his progress in his podcast (among other interesting things, like being one of the first developers at Uber and other fascinating stuff)
https://techzinglive.com/
Oh thank God, this was so irritating. At least it didn't last long.
> For one the fact that it’s preserved likely means it’s one of the finest homes of the era.

Well put.
I think a comma is needed in the submitted title. The article title is better

"Amazon reverses course, joins other Seattle tech companies in expanding work-from-home options"
I know many people using Android devices, with no problem "getting tricked into" breaking things. And yet, on mine, I can easily enable side-loading, or even unlock the bootloader.

ChromeOS is a similar story - even more so, actually, given that it can run a full fledged Linux distro within the system.
It looks like this may be a list of FBI ALE ("Automatic Link Establishment") radio stations. See page 17 of https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Monitoring-TImes/2000s... and https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Automatic_Link_Establishment_...

From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_link_establishment):

"[ALE is] the worldwide de facto standard for digitally initiating and sustaining HF radio communications.[1] ALE is a feature in an HF communications radio transceiver system that enables the radio station to make contact, or initiate a circuit, between itself and another HF radio station or network of stations. The purpose is to provide a reliable rapid method of calling and connecting during constantly changing HF ionospheric propagation, reception interference, and shared spectrum use of busy or congested HF channels."
All true and we can now play a game of quoting American vs European/American history (plenty of genocides in either). But that doesn't make the present-day crimes of the CCP any less heinous or horrible.
I know we don't know what's happened yet, but this is why the DOJ should force Apple and Google to enable web downloads and installs of apps.

The world should not rely on these two companies for distribution, given that they've captured the entire mobile computing industry and all of the commerce that happens there.

Ford doesn't get to control where you go, and they don't tax the restaurants you visit. (They're also not a duopoly, but that's another issue.)
I'm assuming the original title didn't fit:

> Amazon reverses course, joins other Seattle tech companies in expanding work-from-home options

A better contracted title than the current one ("Amazon reverses course in expanding...") would be:

> Amazon joins other Seattle tech companies in expanding work-from-home options

or if that doesn't work,

> Amazon reverses course, expanding work-from-home options

@dang
The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Going to Bed Early
And young adults are among the least affected. There are no justifications for this kind of medical surveillance.
The purpose of removing the path and subdomains is that some people think it will help stop phishing. Does anyone think removing the domain name will help stop phishing?
You sure?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandcamp.a...
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I generally abhor accusations of shilling and conspiracy and find them irritating, but when they're associated with specific citations of circumstantial evidence, in my opinion they're worthy of being posted publicly.

A thorough reading of that poster's post history at the least suggests a very strong bias that should be taken into account by readers whenever they make a post about this topic. (And they don't seem to post about any other topics.) A valid ad hominem, in my opinion.

I'd say the same if the bias was towards the US government or any other entity. It doesn't have to be shilling; it's about credibility and motivated reasoning.
Well, yes, there's people who actually enforce those laws, and there are people who write them. I was specifically referring to the latter. But both are a part of government as a system, and so ultimately the system as a whole carries the blame.
The verbiage of this article: "Google’s experiment ... has failed" - seems to be written by someone who doesn't know what an experiment is for. It did exactly what it was meant to - provide the data needed to make the right decision. Kudos to those involved for following the data.

The experiment didn't fail, it concluded.
> and causes blood clots as are widely reported

How did I manage to miss these "widely reported" clotting issues with the mRNA vaccines? Are you thinking of the extremely low-incidence clotting issues reported with the AZ and JJ vaccines, neither of which is an mRNA vaccine?

It may be worth mentioning that the CDC has specifically stated that TTS (the specific clotting disorder seen with the other vaccines) has not been seen with the mRNA vaccines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/jj...

So where's this wide reporting of blood clots resulting from mRNA vaccines? Or, if that was not your intended meaning, could you clarify?
Why not install an ad blocker and have no ads then?
A lot of Mac users are using safari for other reason. If there will be a true exodus, it will be because of the horrendous “tab” redesign in macOS 12
The sad part is the stark difference in comments here and on that article [1]. People were skeptical that politicians could commit insider trading, but this couple of course deserves to be jailed…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27406243
It seems like making an ethernet bridge shouldn't be hard; off the top of my head, if we wanted to bridge eth1 to wlan1 it would be something like:

brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth1
brctl addif br0 wlan1
ip link set br0 up

or the equivalent with ovs-vsctl

I frequently use RPi as a programmable soft switch, plugging in four USB-ethernet dongles. On my Pi it splits the USB bandwidth, but it's still very useful.
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If FLoC ends up working — right now it seems to have several deficiencies — that kind of personalized tracking would presumably stop. If your individual purchases can't be linked to your cohort group, you'd only get the interest-based cohort ads, not the follow-you-around-forever-with-your-existing-purchases ads.

I agree with the OP that I like Instagram's personalized ads and have bought many things through them. (FWIW I used to work at IG — on messaging, not on ads — but I felt this way even before I worked there, and I continue to feel this way after leaving.) Everyone else seems to suck at it though and just do the "show me what I bought yesterday" type of advertising, which is far more annoying than just picking a product to advertise at random.

Maybe a working FLoC would be better than the cookie-based ultra "personalized" ads that most companies use? If it stops the annoying persistent yesterday's-shopping-cart around the internet, at least, it would be an improvement.
Open or not, a crime is a crime. Being open doesn't make the crime less of a crime.
I just imagined how a neuron star would look like. Creepy.
I'm one of those mythical 10x developers, too.

Last year, I had a company beg me to start working with them, and I talked them up from $120,000 ($60/hour) of my current gig with a huge corp to $150,000 ($75/hour). I just never gave my notice at corp 1. I did so well at both, and both of my team leads and bosses said I was doing great.

So at the beginning of the year, I added another company, this time, another publicly traded corp @ a 52w high, but they didn't have anyone who had my skills so I was a Team of 1 and I would tell them something would take a month but it'd take 1-3 days. I'd spend about an hour on that job, a week, and everyone was happy. I'd just steadily drip drip drip commits I worked on, on say Monday, through the week and update the issue tracker. Maybe 20 minutes a day.

I was still playing 4-5 hours of video games, a day, and still finishing all of my work by noon, so I took a 4th job, and it pays the least and requires the most work, so I'm going to quit it in about 2 more sprints or so.

That took me down to ~2-3 hours of slacking off a day, but my meetings started seriously overlapping in the mornings, but I've got that figured out.

So today was weird. I did first interview at another company (#5) and the CEO came on the call and said I was hired immediately. Team of 1. No oversight. ($65/hour)

Early this morning, I got a call saying "The client wants to interview and hire you TODAY, if possible". So I interview with them. Huge corporation, corp-2-corp, $80/hour 1099. They interviewed me on the spot and rushed me an offer, gave me a $2000 hiring bonus if i could only give 1 week notice. Team of 1, no oversight. The stuff is easily automated.

Oh, I fully automated Job #2 and do in ~30 minutes what would have taken me about 3-4 hours by hand. That took me about 3 months to automate.

So just when i thought it was already nuts, a recruiter I had completely forgotten about called me up and said the client from 3 weeks ago had extended an offer for $80/hour, so that's job #7.

I added it up... That's $225/hour in just job offers I received and accepted today. That's $450,000/year if I can sustain it (highly doubtful!) and by July 15, if I can manage, that's $485/hour or roughly $970,000/year....

So take $970,000 / 52 = That's $18,654 per week... $37,307 per paycheck or $80,833 per month....

That's big boy money.

So far, all the corporations use sprints. In all but one (the cheapest paid) i'm more than fulfilling my work. I'm currently working about 6 hours a day but when I'm in startup mode, I consistently coded for 15+ hours/day, 6 days a week.

I've been making $255/hour for several months now... That's like $27,000/month after tax. I am saving entire paychecks from corps just to pay the IRS every quarter. I realized if I opened up an S-Corp and did corp to corp and paid myself a reasonable salary of $120,000/year, i'd save many tens of thousands, so now every new gig is nothing but corp-2-corp.

Funny thing? I'm working less intensely than when I was investing my heart and soul into a single project for way less than $150,000/year.
Really? Even as a rank and file pleb I wasn’t allowed to trade except for about 2-3 weeks after earnings calls. I assumed that was the norm everywhere.
That app is for artists and record labels, it allows them to manage their accounts. The Bandcamp app that most people use to purchase those artists music is not there.
The fundamental problem in my opinion is that people should not be paid for their time, they should be paid for their actual work output, that’s the secret of productivity —- if you simply pay someone on the clock, whether by the hour or by a salary, you’re inviting them to waste time.
Well I mean the whole story is that google's own evidence was that the experiment didn't bear any fruit.

The web is made of URLs and hiding them would be like taking the express train back to the AOL days. This "feature" would have brought negligible (if any) security, but would have made the web many times more difficult to use for both inexperienced and power users alike.
And your company will carefully tell you when the safe times to do so (usually a month or so after a quarterly result or some such announcement)
Bioinformaticists have been able to do that with traditional algorithms for years (dynamic programming gets you a long way to compute an edit distance for example).

It is probably the first thing that was done once the COVID-19 genome was made public. A quick googling gave me that summary of the results: https://www.news-medical.net/health/How-Does-the-SARS-Virus-...
that link points to 'Bandcamp for Artists and Labels' (com.bandcamp.artistapp) which is different than 'Bandcamp' (com.bandcamp.android) [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201015192746/https://play.goog...
I use safari exclusively at work and at home. It’s just a better browser; simpler, faster and behaves like a Mac app should. The only things I miss about chrome are the plugin ecosystem and the (better) address bar suggestions.
The IP68 rating applies to the entire device, it doesn't exclude the charging port.

These connectors are well-protected against complete shorts (e.g. people sticking a piece of metal into the port). Both Lightning and USB-C have protocol negotiation at low-voltage/low-current before any meaningful current will be delivered by either side.
I'd guess the same thing that stops Senators from trading on inside knowledge of global issues.. nothing
Web downloads work fine on Android
I have worked at a small company where they would have candidates interview with almost everybody in the firm. I think that worked very well overall.

As a dev, I met with the dev team first, then with the business team, then with the operations team, then with the senior execs. Because I wasn’t in the same city, they had me interview remote first, and then on-site. Overall I think I met with 18 people.

Having that many people involved means that you will most certainly find out if the person is culturally suited to work in your startup. This is what matters for a small company. You really want to avoid the guys with bad attitude or culture mismatch.
Along a lot of other good things, achieving the appropriate level of nuance is well covered in Adam Grant’s recent book Think Again. Highly recommended, and the author-narrated audiobook is excellent.
Hard to believe when I see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_t...
There’s a wide range though. I know a six year old who can do things like prove the law of cosines or the chain rule. He’s not just regurgitating this stuff he actually understands it. Blows my mind.
It's surpring that Go 1.17 discountined support for MacOS 10.12 (or older), which released only 4 years ago.

Along with deprecating Intel support, it seems like Apple, their users and the ecosystem is totally fine not giving a shit about supporting aging software. It doesn't seem like anyone cares that much either.

Even more impressive that on average, Macbooks have a much longer lifespan than other laptops, while the software they run is intolerant of old versions.
Does anyone want to team up and build the "dumb" electric car company?
> the reality of working from home is that 20-30 hour work weeks need to be acceptable and we should use the rest of our time on non-working things

Privately this is what I end up doing anyway, and it works out pretty well
I think this might be good for very small "prototype and forget" kind of jobs which are mostly filled by consultants anyway. But for everything else that requires expertise and skills which are not shared equally given the vastness of the tech world this is just not a good approach IMO.
Also a mobile OS don't forget. So in the less monied parts of the world, (the majority), Google supplies the dominant mobile OS, mobile browser and search engine. As well as email, voice and location services.
If you don't come in to the office, your job can be outsourced to India.
I read the article and was surprised to find no mention of inflation. If the house is the same, all things being equal, then the desirability of the school district and other community improvements may account for some rise in value, and after that, inflation, or relative devaluation of the dollar, accounts for the rest of the delta.