skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well - you can argue about the opposite as well!

But I would claim that this is an existence proof - if the management will and focus is there for an API enabled business (it was) this case study proves that is not sufficient to create the kind of company that Amazon became. An API program isn't a magic bullet (as everyone knows by now I guess!)
And as we can see, humor died on the internet with the 90s
When I was a child, I had a reverent wonder for technology and all it might do in the future. Realisations like this replaced that with a dry cynicism. My inner child is disappointed.
> The employees value the money more than they value well-being

yeah, if it's that then Amazon is not to blame.
If coercing people into getting unnecessary medical procedures isn’t evil, I don’t know how to explain it to you.
I don't know if my (electric) stove is unusual in some way, but it goes to crazy high heat immediately. As in hotter than any gas stove I've used, to the point that a minute or two on the max setting will burn all the seasoning off my cast iron pan and fill the house with smoke. Whenever I see a recipe or advice for things like searing steaks, I mentally replace "high heat" with 5, "medium heat" with 3, and "low heat" with 1.
Yes, I wanted to avoid being cynical, but I did have that thought. Although, the US does do a decent job of making all this information available via the internet.
Hi. I'm one of the professionals you'd be shocked by. One of my problems is that I don't know who to trust. It seems like most of the people who would explain any of it also have something to sell.

Of the concepts you listed, I think I understand compounding, at least the one pertaining to interest rates. The others are a mystery to me. I'm in a stable 6-figure career and in my 40s.
I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson's book "The Diamond Age", where one of the plotlines is about undermining the centralized (molecular) 3D-printing industry to a decentralized seed-based 3D printing technology.

When you think about it, seeds are fascinating in their ability to bootstrap an organism.
As far as teaching about taxes goes, I think the best thing to do would be to broadly cover what the taxation process is. Explain what the income tax is, why FICA is split between you and your employer, what capital gains taxes are, etc. I know the specifics of the tax code are fickle but the core principles of credits, deductions, withholding, refunds, etc. have been there for decades and are likely to remain stable. But to your point, we don't need to test students on their ability to fill out a 1040 correctly, just what it's used for.
A lot of stuff those guys made is still floating around in serviceable condition, even many decades after being manufactured.
Everything has become ubiquitous enough over the many years to be completely trustworthy for most Windows sysadmins. Additionally, I agree with OP that it's one of the best pieces of software ever.
> Something that's dawned on me for the last few years is that Microsoft basically settled on the idea that the idea of the modern operating system is effectively done, which I suppose is true, but then they stopped creating technologies to build on top of Windows all together.

What happened was open source software, linux dominating the server side, and android dominating mobile (iOS as well, to a lesser extent).

> Except everyone publishing software today that isn't a game developer is targeting the web.

Except for nearly all backend development... which mostly targets linux first.

> OK, but Microsoft is in the best position to create great, integrated, first-class technologies that build on how great Windows is. But they don't. I have mixed feelings about this, because when Apple does it, they basically put people out of business.

For example? Apple software is average, and Microsoft has a long history of 'putting people out of business' (not in a good way).

> But here's the thing, in 10 years time, you're going to have Windows, which is still just, and will continue to be, Windows. And macOS, and iOS, and tvOS, and every other Apple OS, is going to be so much more. And they already are so much more.

You forgot... android and linux. How does apple 'already have so much more'?

> For those who haven't experienced it yet, or can't afford Apple products, they're missing something that just hasn't happened in computing in any other period of time I can immediately think of.

That just sounds like an opinion of the average non-tech user who lives inside an apple bubble and likes icon shapes and default keybindings. You're not saying anything specific, just poetry about apple being 'first-class' and 'something that just hasn't happened in computing in any other period of time' (???)
> A reminder that it's OK to not take sides and just support your friends.

It is probably more complicated than that.

Like if you know for sure that a friend of yours did something completely incompatible with your norms (for me that would be for example stealing money from poor old people), perhaps you don't want to have them as your friend anymore.

But if there's doubt and uncertainty and pressure from the community, it's better to support your friends.
You could build a test lab for examining the attack surface exposed by cell phones to their mobile carriers.

In a Faraday cage, of course.
The amount of times that my manjaro installation broke itself after a "full" system upgrade lacked appropriate gpu driver updates... From an OS that supposedly uses upstream Arch repos as a sort of guinea pig and waits until the dust settles upstream to roll out the updates. After a while it gets old to have to press shift and advanced-boot-options my way into the older kernel.

Both Windows and Linux are not perfect. With windows it feels like you have to fight to keep control over your computer. With linux it feels like you have to fight virtual poltergeists.
One idea I've been playing with in my head for a bit is a blockchain/smart contract based approach to digital gaming/gambling.

I've devised a protocol for a blockchain-based RNG that can be used to tick the game state along, and a smart contract would transfer the pot to the winner. It would be quite liberating to play strategic games with random elements online without any trust in the platform required, even more so if you can get paid to do it!

Placing any significant amount of real money into a system when the platform can fudge the numbers around to make sure the house always wins is a non-starter IMO.
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If you look around you will see more and more far kids these days. It might not kill you to be a fat twelve year old but it can hardly be considered of no real impact.
I wonder if people who are hired are being told about that before signing their contract.
Show HN: Blotato – Declarative Architecture Diagrams
the paint realism is amazingly realistic and fantastic...it really blends together with texture, love this, favorite of all time for browser.
I don't think any judge is going to care much if you say you didn't read their patent before infringing on their patent.
I have printed out a foreword of an old calculus book, and taped to my wardrobe door. It's a long-ish rant, but it ends with this:

What a fool can do, another can.
Ask HN: Who is paying the most for EVM smart contract development?
I want a job doing smart contract development. I can be Staff/Lead Engineer but I would be willing to consider entry level.

Its annoying that its mostly underfunded and European startups doing this, which caps pay between $100k - $150k. I would prefer $250k mostly cash compensation like I would get in software engineering trades, stateside. I wish FAANG valued this skillset, but instead they indoctrinate everyone to be dismayed that mindshare is even being used on blockchain state machines and finance (while they work on ad retargeting systems lol). So, they have superior risk-free compensation but do not value this skillset. Square/Jack Dorsey has the unnecessarily exclusive Square Crypto team, which I would love to work for, but they are not doing work on EVMs. A bunch of Square shares somewhat makes up for that, but I really want to do work on EVMs and not Bitcoin/UTXO state machines as it will be a several years before the constitutional amendments pass on those networks for it to be more useful for arbitrary execution.

I personally find smart contract development to be the most lucrative, directly monetizable form of software engineering, and I personally find it extremely interesting. It is just so hard to focus as the space moves so fast. I would prefer the structure of a team and someone else's vision, as opposed to doing consulting contract work or figuring out everything about monetization myself.

Salary + Equity + Benefits + Tokens, ideally remote but let me know! vmception00 [at] gmail [dot] com
> "What you lose in apples you gain in oranges"

I didn't know different units could be compared as if they had an equivalence ratio...
Newspapers have, to the best of my knowledge, always billed in week increments. I agree it's a bit strange, but I believe it's driven by a need to sell ads by the week and esp. on Sunday.
This gives new meaning to the phrases "I have a gut feeling" and "Trust your gut."
Windy is a perfectly valid descriptive word for a twisting road.
Swift and SwiftUI. No doubts. This years wwdc had a few Mac specific sessions to get you started.
I don't think Google should unresign her. I think it should admit it fired her (technically speaking), and pay her a bunch of money (to make up for the bad handling of the firing).

I agree, she should have been fired earlier. However, she was just promoted, which meant she must have had several quarters of excellent perf.

I think one thing that would be truly excellent, but won't happen, would be to have Megan Kacholia defend herself by explaining her actions to the wider Google community. In particular:

Why was Megan, a person with effectively no research experience, a VP in Google Research and making decisions about research papers being withdrawn? Her lack of experience in the area seems to have led to an exacerbation of tensions.

Why did Megan convert an offer to have a discussion about a resignation into an interpretation that Timnit resigned voluntarily, coupled with an accelerated departure (immediate, with termination of all Google services)?

Why was Megan pushing so hard to have the paper withdrawn, given that the paper wouldn't be that impactful on Google's reputation, made some useful (if obvious and a bit overstated) points, and wasn't being published in a prominent venue?

To Jeff and Megan: to what extent did Jeff support Megan's decision to fire Timnit over a refusal to withdraw a paper, or did his support come after learning Megan had fired Timnit? To what extent did Timnit's previous tweets calling out her employees and mentioning confidential Google Research activities play a role in her firing? Was her discouraging email really a reasonable justification for accelerating her termination?

My guess about all of this is that Megan and Jeff decided to fire timnit when timnit posted several negative tweets attacking Jeff and google Research, and used the paper and the email (and vague offer to resign) to justify the firing and they didn't think through the implications of firing a twitterati like Timnit in a roughshod manner. This seems most consistent with all the evidence I've seen.
Apache is popular because writing a fully spec compliant HTTP server is actually quite difficult. We use it, I don't like it, but I have enough experience with HTTP to know to not write my own implementation, especially in C/C++.
Why don't piracy sites share more BLM content, BIPOC, and promote causes such as universal basic income? Seems like it would be something the users would really want.
While I agree everyone should know those things, everyone also went to math, history, English, and biology yet nobody remembers anything from them either.

None of this content will help if people don't simply learn to appreciate knowledge, and when they do none of the content will matter.
I never asked "why", so you must be confusing me with someone else from this thread. That said, "why" is an interesting question that can be explored, but "why" is not the same as "everyone would do this".

> The history of armies and wars are people exactly like that. There were multiple genocides in history and it involves killing children each time. ISIS included. Rape included.

In recent history very little resembles WWII in scale, savagery and murder. Things in Africa in more recent history, I guess, and the Armenian genocide that even Hitler paid attention to. But WWII's scale of bloodshed and ethnic cleansing is unmatched, as is the systematic, planned nature of said cleansing.

> There were multiple genocides in history and it involves killing children each time.

I'm not even sure what you're arguing here. Maybe that because killing of children happened before and after, that the Trawniki weren't monsters to be singled out and repudiate every time they are mentioned? I disagree. They were monsters, the worst of the worst. Notice I didn't claim the Trawniki invented ethnic cleansing or rape though. If you mention some other army that killed children, maybe hacked them to pieces using machetes during one of Africa's stomach churning conflicts, I'm ready to call them monsters too. Are you?
Except it won't go on a coffee run.
> Why aren't they?

Do you have evidence they aren’t? I was under the impression Amazon warehouse logistics employees had extremely high turnover (averaging less than 1 year).

I suspect I agree with you that logistics workers realize they are on a lower rung of the ladder and are willing to work for less compensation. I suspect much of janitorial and security staff in Amazon HQ probably have no access to stock options either.
> No, that is a poor conclusion. Athletes are not distributed in the nature you are suggesting. There are profitable players who exist on unprofitable teams and there are profitable teams that exist in unprofitable athletic departments. The reverse is also true.

Fair, but a few schools would be disproportionately affected by paid athletes. Ohio State and Alabama would probably pony up a lot, just as they spend tons on their athletic departments right now. Northwestern probably wouldn't, except maybe in rare cases.

> That is one of the reasons why I think allowing players to profit of their name, image and likeness (NIL) rights seems like the first step.

Agree this sounds like a good first step. It's utterly ridiculous that they can't.

> That allows the free market to better assess their value and reward them for it.

Why is this better than schools bidding on player contracts? Would you argue that when Patrick Mahomes got a $150 million contract, that wasn't the free market making an assessment of his value?
eBay Stats on GPU Sales Show Tens of Thousands Sold, Prices Starting to Dip
> Those who can't stand stack ranking

Do you imply that standing stack ranking is a quality needed to work at big tech ?
Teslas have no resistor banks?

A great omission.
Not spoken about here is the fact that Lazarus __did__ make off with well over a billion dollars in funds by hacking numerous cryptocurrency exchanges around Asia and got away with it, too.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/09/north...

Oh, and this is just KuCoin they're talking about here. They stole well over $3 billion more from several other exchanges in 2017-2018. All the exchange hacks back then on the various Asian exchanges are attributed to them. Really likely they made off with upward of $5 billion in today's terms of all sorts of altcoins.

https://www.coindesk.com/north-korean-hacking-group-lazarus-...
150MB word document works fine on Office 2010 but it hangs Office365 desktop word. What the hell Microsoft? I had to use LibreOffice to edit a word document created in your Word!
This is the big lie of opponents to the UBI. Nobody is doing much of anything so somebody can have a toaster. It's made in an automated factory from automated delivery of automatedly accumulated raw materials.

Yes, yes, of course some engineers and truck driver and so on were involved. But one person for every 10,000 toasters, because automation.

The lie comes in when the equivalency is made between somebody getting a 'free' anything, and somebody had to sacrifice for that, or work for that. This is no longer the case, and hasn't been for decades.

Automation has made it possible to provide for almost everybody, with a tiny fraction of the inputs it used to take 50 years ago. But folks who's impression of what a factory is, or what work means was made in the 1950's keep exclaiming incredulously "Who will make things, if everybody has a UBI?!"

At root I blame the Protestant Work Ethic. Well-meaning folks want to keep believing that hard work results in a commensurate benefit. This has been a diminishing force in America at least, for decades. In our lifetimes it will disappear.
I'd argue FAANG offers are like college admissions, probably a good 40% of the applicant pool likely qualifies for the role and can succeed in it, but only 3-4% of the pool gets the offer
Knowing the law would help clarify to you what justifies using it and when it does not for self defense. You don't go looking for situations that call for self defense, that is the opposite of self defense, usually.
Absolutely do not take any of this advice of the parent. I am an IP litigator. I kill patents as my day job.

The parent’s advice assumes the players are reasonable people acting in good faith. In the case of patent trolls, they are often not acting in good faith. Most of the allegations are not good faith interpretations of the patent. There is no “perception of infringement” to begin with. They just want a quick payout and found a cost-efficient way to state a claim against a widely used technology so that they can threaten and file lawsuits in volume. Instead, find a good patent lawyer or a pro bono resource (like EFF or a colleague with experience) that can give you resources or advice to quickly dispose of it cheaply (or even for free), if you cannot afford fight it. Sometimes, it can even be cheaper to hire an excellent patent lawyer that can win the case early than it would be to pay off the patent troll. I have written many a response to a patent licensing demand letter, knowing exactly what to say for much less than settling, where they disappear and never sue. And if they have sued, sometimes they disappear as soon as lawyers they do not want to be up against show up in the case.

In the instance of a good faith claim by a patent owner (even if wrong), there will be enough money at stake that it would be worth the cost to consult a good patent lawyer before doing a single thing.
> Otherwise it will be a kludgy distracting nightmare of failed meta-everything - like the most annoying and useless intern anyone has ever had, only everywhere.

Clippy?
New Variant of Buer Loader Written in Rust
This rewards people who had the money to pay rent during the pandemic but chose not to, knowing there was an eviction moratorium. Many government policies are rewarding people for doing the wrong thing.
This is likely to be an unpopular opinion, but perhaps people who feel that way about their kids shouldn't have them in the first place.
> California has $5.2 billion to pay off people’s rent, money from multiple aid packages approved by Congress. That appears to be more than enough to cover all of the unpaid rent in the state, according to Jason Elliott, senior counselor to Newsom on housing and homelessness.

If my math works out, that's only $130 per person in the state.

Assuming $1,000/month for 12 months, that's $12,000 for a year of back rent. If every renter had the same debt, that would total 430,000 households.

The article doesn't mention how landlords will demonstrate eligibility to receive the money.
There is no place like home: Why I love to blog
I don't remember that from any of my microeconomic courses. I mean, maybe you mean society wide (aka macro), but that's only as average worker productivity rises, and has nothing to do with particularly efficient single firms.
Texans regret opting into power plan that remotely raises thermostat temps
Thank you. But CVE seems to disagree with the headline?

> The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity, confidentiality and system availability.

Or is this more of a "read/modify /etc/shadow or /sbin/su" kind of thing?
hunk?
> This activism was supposed to culminate with “Cover the Night,” an event where people across the world would plaster “every city, every block” with Kony 2012 stickers and posters. But the campaign was a flop, and it shows how meme activism is often too ephemeral to make a lasting change or, more cynically, is just a way for activists to demonstrate virtuousness.

A good example of meme activism, however, I disagree with it being a flop because of the ephemeral nature of the campaign. Shortly after Kony 2012 became a huge story, the guy behind it started acting erratically [1]. I remember high profile news reports of him being on crystal meth and running around naked. This took a huge amount of steam out of the campaign. Had that not happened, I'm not sure it would have flopped in the same way it did.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-guy-behind-the-kony-2012...
stop page loading in the right moment
Pretty sure that's Calculus Made Easy, a book which I, as a fool, certainly ought to recognize, and yeah, that's the gist of my approach to "scary" topics. "Have lots and lots of people done it? Then I'll likely be fine, because some of those people were assuredly at least as dumb as I am."
Hi there - I built Blotato to simplify creating and maintaining complex architecture diagrams, by combining declarative diagrams and automatic layout algorithms. I've spent hundreds of hours creating and painfully updating diagrams in LucidCharts and other tools. And I always found it painful (1) there's no other option besides drag-and-drop (2) which makes updating them tedious, re-arranging lots of boxes and arrows. This is a rough initial version and I appreciate any feedback!
There are compact cameras on the market which are able to connect to a smartphone (via Bluetooth) and take the GPS coordinates form there, apart from other functions (like uploading the photos).
There is definitely some fat to trim. For example, I remember spending almost an entire marking period studying the poems from Edgar Allan Poe. Nothing personal against the guy, but it's largely useless knowledge for the majority of people.
> its literally a money printing monopoly with search. And that will never end.

Until it does. Go back 20 years and you could've written the same thing about Microsoft and end-user computing.

Google under Pichai looks increasingly like Microsoft under Balmer. Executing to stellar headline numbers, but increasingly paralyzed in anything other than their one or two anchor products.

It took a change at the top to turn Microsoft around. I expect Pichai to go the same way as Balmer.
Band of vigilantes is hitting internet pirates with malware attacks
Some of this stuff is cool, and I can see how it might fit together (although I doubt half of it will pan out). But some of it just seems like nothing.

The Shazam stuff seems very limited in use case, and I'm annoyed at "AppClips" because they should just be websites.

Notes+Spotlight+Shared with you all seem like they're inventing new paradigms to avoid ever adding a user file system on iOS, since Apple is opposed to that. It's possible that those new paradigms will be great, but I think they'd be better if Apple gave up a little control.
This is going to vary widely from company to company. Some companies will allow, some won't.
So nothing, got it.
Kombu is a sea vegetable which contains the enzyme alpha-galactosidase. This enzyme breaks down the oligosaccharides in beans.

https://truefoodconcepts.com/cook-dried-beans/

A quick google of "kombu beans gas" turns up plenty of results.