skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that as far as I can recall there weren't people trying to pass off open source as someone else's proprietary software. You didn't think you were buying a copy of Oracle's DB or Microsoft Office and actually get a wrapper around MySQL or a restyled Open Office.

You choose whether your wanted the propriety program or the open source program, fully aware that they were different programs with different abilities, features, limitations, and bugs. You could compare them and decide which suits your needs better and then reliably obtain that one.

With hardware the fakes are being sold as the genuine part. You really don't know what you are getting and really don't know if it follows the spec. You might for example think you are buying a 3.3 V microcontroller that has 5 V tolerant input pins (meaning you can hook it straight up to a 5 V sensor you are using), but the fake is not 5 V tolerant and won't work for you unless you add a level shifter to your design.

There was an article submitted to HN nearly a year ago [1] about fake/counterfeit DS18B20 temperature sensors. That article gives a good look at all the different kind of chips you might end up with when you think you are buying a DS18B20, with lots of details on how they differ from the real ones.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23815839
Nope, I don't think that? But I do?...
Not just a stir, he pissed on a working, useful, helpful thing and destroyed it. It's shameful.
Shouldn't this be scaled to the drastic difference in proportion? I'm willing to accept the hypothesis that turbines are no more dangerous (or even less dangerous) than windows, but with raw numbers it feels like we're comparing apples and oranges. I don't have accurate counts for the number of windows globally, but I'm fairly confident it's much higher than the number of wind turbines.
On my Mac, Chrome says NO, while Safari says YES. Which seems odd, given the complaints about Safari's implementation of tables on the linked page.
They also destroy your clothes faster even if they are meant to be put in the dryer. All the stuff that's in the filter? Yeah, that's not actually useless lint, that was part of the fabric of your clothes. Clothes line is much better, also it doesn't cost you much, it rarely breaks, uses no energy. To me it's not inferior at all.
So you are paying lump-sum taxes on X amount to store it in a Roth IRA for 5 years so that you get five years of tax-free growth in the Roth.
It's likely the latter (that it couldn't work when overclocked with all cores). The market for those is to allow overclocking, so if it can't do any overclocking with all cores AMD likely wouldn't want to sell it as a 4-core Black Edition, since it'd probably just get returned.
There have been times that I’ve had to close my eyes and completely rely on muscle memory to enter a long password. Last time it happened was after a 2 week vacation.

That kind of timeframe isn’t abnormal for the speed of law.
Oh man, really excited about this. I'm curious how far Stripe wants to go down the path of KYC-related products... it feels like a huge market with a lot of pain points where having Stripe-quality APIs would be amazing.
> Expressing intent to resign, and actually resigning are completely different things.

You have to ask yourself, why this is the case. And the simple answer is status quo bias. Many dream of a different life, but few will actually pull the trigger on a major change.

However if a company suddenly changes an established working relationship, then all bets are off the table. If people have gotten used to WFH, and now you make them come into the office, then you’re invalidating the status quo bias. Switching jobs is probably less disruptive to their status quo then going back to the office.

Corporate managers are forgetting a very maxim. Never piss off your employees by taking away something they feel entitled to. It’s the same reason that it’s virtually unheard of to cut salary, even when revenue is collapsing in a deflationary recession.
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Novavax vaccine trial shows 90% efficacy in combating Covid-19
This is amazing. Did you build all of the scanning logic yourselves?

We’re exploring different options for scanning IDs like Anyline and BlinkID right now, but this looks incredibly well suited for what we’re building and would save us a tremendous amount of time if it works.
It's because he's hyperbolizing.
> Being a "good boss" includes being able to draw a line in the sand somewhere. A "bad boss" is one who thinks "the company" can pay for everything "just because" is doing the themselves, their employees and their company a disservice.

I have never met an employee who would characterize a “good boss” this way. At the very least I would not expect these qualities to win you any favours with prospective employees.

No one looks at “free work lunches” as some negative reflection of their boss’ financial acumen. The closest complaint I could think of is that the employee would rather that money go directly into their pocket. Maybe there is a middle ground here where you could allocate $50/year for these sort of expenditures in order to prevent them from getting out of hand?

I’m not sure, but I would consider reflecting on what really makes a “good boss” and whether or not your employees would agree with you on it. To me the distinction between a good boss and a bad one is always decided by the employees, never the boss.
Low probably means higher quality engagement to be honest. Not that I use it but the trend I see is smaller things like this have higher quality conversation and interaction with some direct access to people you wouldn’t normally be able to talk to otherwise. Seems like a feature to me if you do it right and aren’t chasing the VC fly wheel.
Coal plants use steam turbines too, and the cost of the steam turbine is the main reason why coal plants are no longer economically viable.
I reserved Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" from Helsinki city library. Thanks for the heads-up!

(EDIT: Wasn't going to get it as a gift anyway, my kids don't read AT. And Father's day is months away here. :-)
https://whats.new/shortcuts/

A bunch of other sites have also 'claimed' some .new domains, like vue.new goes to codesandbox.io and api.new to RunKit.
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Here in Brazil minimum wage is currently in USD a bit less than $200/month. In my city, which is one of the biggest, you can live confortably with $400/month in my lifestyle, which admitedly is quite frugal. $2k month is quite high-class imo.
i mean nhmfl isn't a degree granting institution so i think you mean you got your phd at fsu
How do you deal with scheduling issues and working across time lines?
I'm looking for something asynchronous
In my experience it really depends on the company.

In one company for which I've worked, the HR department had a surprising amount of power regarding software developers' salaries and (for hiring) qualifications. It was almost impossible for hiring managers to override those policies.

Perhaps HR was merely implementing the policies chosen by executive leadership; i.e. perhaps they were just the messenger. But either way, HR was an additional level of bureaucracy that collectively hamstrung the company's ability to hire and retain top talent. IIUC this is really coming back to hurt them now.
Same! TIL Fire & Gooey is a power move.
A vast amount of my colleagues left in spring last year, well before any redundancies were even on the table. All in their 30s, most 35+.
That's why people are looking for a new job that will specifically let them work remote. Like anything else, it's easier to get the change you want from a new company than your current one, and you work that out as part of the interview and offer. With the jobs in such demand, companies that wouldn't normally hire remote people will.
Well, optimistically, there’s about 250,000 tons of high level nuclear waste worldwide, which represents about 13,000 cubic meters of waste. Auditoriums tend to max out at 5000 cubic meters, so, it’s fair to say it would take a few auditoriums. Best way to put it that can be understood visually is that it’s about 5-6 olympic sized swimming pools worth of waste. And generally the high level stuff is mixed in with other waste people don’t bother to separate, so could be considered a few times more than that.
Any specific sources of up-to-date information you recommend?
Get organizations to delete your account
This almost proves that webapps are a competitive substitute to AppStores - making the consumer detriment very hard to prove in the current anti-trust framework.
Weechat, takes a bit to set it up properly but it is extremely flexible. It can also act as a relay for another weechat client or weechat-remote.
Electron is basically a framework for native apps, they're only "web" apps in architecture and language choice. They have all of the same permissions as native apps and basically zero sandboxing. They're frequently extended using low-level code. They can call out to system libraries.

For the scope of the current conversation, Electron apps can already be file handlers on every single desktop platform, so we're pretty clearly not talking about Electron when we critique these new web standards. Electron doesn't care about your opinion of web standards or what is or isn't getting fast-tracked in Chrome, Electron can already do whatever it wants.

That's not to say that Electron's lack of sandboxing isn't a problem, it absolutely is. But it's just not really relevant to what we're talking about right now, and it's a problem that almost every native app platform shares with Electron.

One of the goals with introducing newer "riskier" standards on the web is to get an application platform that does have sandboxing -- it's to be able to use Electron and other unsandboxed apps for fewer things. Whether that's a good goal I'm not going to comment on; different people have different opinions on the direction of the web as an app platform and whether it's smart for Google to be breaking all these holes in an otherwise decent sandbox. But regardless, Electron is not the web.
No. A two week stay at a private hospital in SE Asia could set you back more than the deductible and co-insurance in the US.

And trust me, you want a private hospital in some of those countries. Even the locals wouldn’t go to a public hospital if they had a choice.
That makes sense, thanks. I wonder if it would be possible to de-bin one of the lower end ones, assuming it is a binned version of a fully functional higher tier chip. Or perhaps they completely destroy the offlined cores/features.
You had me at pathlib! I wish people used it more...
Games are just bounded microcosms of reality, so it would make sense that learning a strategy game would teach you about areas where strategy applies in reality.
It's both.

Sensory exploration & new neural connections are both well documented.
Yes, I honestly think you are screwed.
But that 5g requires years of storage in a reasonably large body of water to cool it down, and then several tons of steel and concrete to store it safely.

https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/faqs.html
This by far is by biggest pet peeve of reading online: an article can't even be shown in full. It has to be broken up into disembodied sections, with ads, newsletter signups, or a block of links appearing every few paragraphs.

Fortunately, the NYT appears to have scaled back on this. I'm finding that I can do "Print to PDF" on the majority of articles (excl. interactive stories) and the layout is very clean with no interruptions.

If that changes, I still have the option of going to FF's "reading view" and Print to PDF from there.
Unless it's given massive subsidies like Hinkley point C.
The only places I have known who would care much about 'CV gaps' have been toxic workplaces who also discriminated against other groups for spurious reasons unrelated to their competence or likelihood of succeeding in the job.

Your attitude reinforces the corresponding attitude by many employers. If 50% of us signed a pledge not to have children, never to take any health risks, never to join a union, not sue our employers, etc, many employers would be delighted and would hire them preferentially, making things harder for the other 50%.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-cant-nuclear-w...
Totally agreed... if only I could get management to listen too. If were it up to me as a dev, there would NEVER be popups/overlays. We spend forever optimizing UX before and during site design, only to have some middle manager come in at the last minute and say "We need a newsletter modal signup to drive conversions." They end up chasing signup numbers instead of overall user satisfaction.
Cross posting this from Twitter but please consider marketing to states. They are using a company called IDMe to verify eligibility for benefits in the US and a family member (and thousands of others) have wasted days on the phone with them trying to get them to do verifications because their automatic verification tech does not work. (There are class actions against this co they are so bad)
Wikipedia probably covers a lot of this ground now, though it's a reference and of varying quality and approach.
TBH I am over political news and over biased sites on both spectrums. Too much information and too much making hay. Soo much of it isn't news - and it hamstrings any politicians able to talk to the other side when they report on the minutiae.
> the reason for their existence is likely just building Internet persona or something.

Another appeal of newsletters I think is distrust (rightly in my opinion) in corporate algorithms powering people's feeds. I'd love to see more widespread adoption of RSS again, rather than a push to get everyone signed up to a bunch of different email newsletters. Perhaps once people feel overwhelmed with their inbox getting filled with email newsletters, RSS will make a resurgence.

I wrote the piece linked here, and it wasn't intended to be an anti-newsletter post. Just against newsletters being pushed on readers in the middle of the article they've started reading, as opposed to a sidebar or at the end of the article. We have web apps that produce stripped-down articles to be read on e-readers or printed out. These newsletter signup requests often blend into the content as just another paragraph of text, which can be a little jarring when you're engrossed in reading.

Quite a few of the writers I like are on Substack, and earn money through it. Substack also offers full-text RSS feeds (for publicly-accessible content, not sure what level of RSS support there is for paid content - perhaps that's still email-only). And their Reader has RSS support too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25444507 - I hope that's a sign that they'll be doing more with RSS in the future.
This is a refreshingly affordable and beneficial offering.

I did a deep-dive on KYC providers last year. The more well-known folks commanded 5 figure setup fees, wanted 1 to 2 year commitments, and sought to have you pre-pay for verifications. It reminded me of internet credit card processing pre-Stripe.
Obviously "the West" is a big place and there are lots of cultures and in-groups within it.

I can tell you as a non-elite, middle-class American that I've almost never heard of someone taking a gap year after beginning professional work. The one case that comes to mind was an ex's father who was burnt out on his accountant career. He took a year to follow his dreams on music-related stuff, which didn't pan out in terms of turning a passion into a career, and he went back to being an accountant (also, after causing his wife and kids some stress related to running low on money).

I did however take a 6 week gap between jobs a few years back. I think things like that are common enough. I flew to Costa Rica, intending to spend a month backpacking around the country ... and honestly I got kind of bored after 2 weeks so I flew home early. Then I hopped in the car and drove cross-country at my own pace, seeing sights that I wanted to see, etc. Absolutely one of my favorite memories and I'd love to do something similar again.

The important thing to remember is that this is for your growth, happiness, and well-being. You set the rules for your time off. If you travel the whole time or stay at home, or a mix, that's your call. If you do something to try to set yourself up for your next opportunity professionally or you completely stay away anything related to your profession, that's up to you. Don't follow a path just because you think it'll look good on Instagram or because you think it'll sound cool when you talk about it at parties in the future. (Or do, if those are high enough priorities for you). Good luck!
Curious, what city?
I'll take the easy way out and guess, Austin.
Yep, Stripe would be the data controller in this situation (and we comply with GDPR). https://support.stripe.com/questions/managing-your-id-verifi...
> In my circles, everyone from 25-35 is simultaneously preparing to FIRE

It's still shocking to me how "chill" this is. "Oh yeah, I'm about to FIRE, no big problem".

Achieving FIRE is such a mind blowing concept to me, Let alone at 25-35!!! Where I live we don't have fat six figure salaries flying around allowing us to accumulate a chunky ETF portfolio to live off of.

Be grateful for what you have achieved!

> Suddenly, having good health insurance, WFH 'flexibility' and a stable jobs are now being viewed as things to be grateful about rather than the norm for well educated and employable adults.

Do you realise how the bottom ~50% of the US workforce lives [1]?! Getting paid six figures or more easily puts you in the top 10% of income earners in the US. Why are you talking as if these should be the norm? They clearly aren't by all metrics. You have such incredible benefits for the work you do, why do you believe you shouldn't feel any privilege or gratitude?

[1] https://www.legalreader.com/low-wage-jobs-are-the-new-americ...
To be clear, I'm merely saying "the complexities of the American healthcare system might be why Europeans are more inclined to take gap years". That said, I didn't know that European public health insurance was commonly contingent on employment. I would be curious to know more about this.
Ohh...are they finally getting around to prosecuting James? BitConnect was the Madoff of crypto, stole from the rich and the poor.

Wow - has it been 3 years already ??

https://coingeek.com/sec-charges-btctre-trevon-james-and-oth...
>The amount of birds killed by wind turbines is non-zero but negligible (Negative per W/Hr if we count oil spills)

It can be further decreased by painting one of the blades in black (https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/May...) and in any case they are way less lethal than domestic / feral cats.

> Solar fields do disrupt habitats, but less so then other commercial uses of the same land.

We could use the south facing windows of sky scrapers, the roofs of parking or other already industrialised locales.

If planting in the countryside, it can be used for growing stuff in the shade depending on the installation height, or feeding sheep.
The Bookshelf Limbo gamifies the decision paralysis of gift-giving (2020)
> That feeling is no more.

Yep, and I'm building something to sit on top of google Drive, to manage files, and make it easier to collaborate as a team. That's not something new, similar, to what Confluence, Notion are offering, ...

The reality is that google sucks at B2B, everything they do don't work. There are a few exception like google Workspace because Gmail was number 1 in B2C and they were the first to get Words and Excel in the browser and Google Analytics.

The reality is that, innovation for a big company is hard, Microsoft was able to build Teams from scratch to compete with Slack and managed to it, and that's an amazing achievement, not something that we are used to seeing.
This sounds hopeless naive. Do companies even bother carrying insurance for data breaches?
I find in hard to know where things begin and where I am executing in a JS codebase/library.

This may have more to do with the async nature thereof than the syntax specifics.
I just got off 2 months of it between jobs, was around $1,100 for me as well. Certainly not cheap without the subsidization but also probably not a real concern if you're looking at taking a year off work anyways.
Low-cost-of-living (that is: undesirable) US state here.

~$1800/m for bad family (married couple + kids) health insurance on the HCA Marketplace. There are no providers beyond the two on there still selling individual insurance to anyone in this state. Other providers are only interested in selling group insurance. Check with insurance providers directly, check with insurance brokers, that's what you hear. No, no-one sells individual insurance in this state except those two providers you've never heard of. Other providers will only deal with businesses or other organizations.

How is the insurance bad? Well, for one thing, it still leaves you with ~$25,000 of risk exposure per year. That is, if things go very poorly (two family members get very sick, basically—nb, because US healthcare is actually, no-joke, insane, "gets very sick" includes "gets pregnant"), you could potentially have to pay $25,000, total, in a given year, on top of the monthly premiums. For another, US insurance plans have a concept of a "network", that is, particular places (hospitals, clinics, testing centers) where the insurance applies. For most insurance, you'll pay most or all costs if you go "out of network". These two providers each have very different networks, such that, for our location, one must choose between having the only children's hospital in the area "in network" (and of course said hospital is itself a "network" of locations and they've bought up everydamnthing related to children's healthcare in our city, because healthcare in the US is batshit insane) or having either of the two nearest normal hospitals to us be in-network.

Oh, and get this: US healthcare plans like to restrict coverage geographically. I think they all have to cover emergency room visits anywhere, but I wouldn't want to see what happens if you get in a bad car wreck, or have a heart attack, or whatever, in another state and can't be moved and are transferred out of the ER to any other part of the hospital. My guess is you get hit with five to six figures of bills that insurance won't touch. That's right: it's probably advisable to get travel healthcare insurance to travel in your own goddamn country. Further, lots of people live within tens of miles of a state border and might routinely travel—even just to commute to work—outside the area their insurance covers. Hope they never need anything but ER care while doing that!

US healthcare: fucked top-to-bottom, and we pay a huge premium for the "privilege" of "enjoying" it, because freedom or something.
I identify pretty closely with one side. But certainly there are Outrage Machines on both sides, a network of media and personalities hyping up the latest calumny that the other side committed, for views and clicks. These machines can't slow down -- even if the other side has been quiet lately, all those people need something to do and talk about. They'll find something.
That's not the reason, if it were, then within the EU, southern members would use more energy. It's a lot more nuanced, with bigger houses in the USA, a lot cheaper construction, higher industrial output than poorer European countries and so on: https://www.statista.com/statistics/332520/primary-energy-co...
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Still working on some bugs, but it's easy to use already.
I wonder...
It can pull up a user's drivers license - so what about their covid vaccination record (maybe in the future).
At the very least I recommend fixing the headline to avoid confusion:

Introducing Alternative, the community-powered search engine for software
Spain and Greece are cool climate, huh?