skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My small-ish SaaS company in the US gave us all a European Christmas, Dec 24-Jan 2 totally off last year, short of on-call for P0 events. It Really made a difference. It was sub 100 headcount, but the SaaS supported a few major chains.

The upside is hard to measure which might be a blocker for larger, metrics-driven HR teams. However I feel like we all, as humans, know that policies like that make a difference.
So HN's system is unique since only you can see your "score", and a post maxes out at -4. I think it works well since you can derive some info about how useful a post is, and downvotes are rare. It can still lead to people trying to maximize score instead of content.

With a system like reddit which is mostly visible, brigading and using downvotes as a weapon is much much more prevalent and probably could do with either tweaking or removal.

There is some feedback you want from votes, which is something like the upvote to downvote ratio as a measure of controversy for a given post.
You thought that we'd still be working with command line terminals? Or is there something more to it?
$39.99 is way too small for their target audience. It looks like a crowd who are more in love with the idea of exercising rather than exercise itself. Charge those vain addicted people to death, more like $399/mo for starters , the basic package
I hope this one will get some activity, it seems everytime a HN clone spring up, it's a ghost town after a couple of weeks.
Your argument is on point but it lacks the two that will drive the century to come:

- clothes are cheap because they are mined/manufactured/transported mostly with energy coming from fossil sources, and the IAE itself says that Oil has reached its peak. If energy goes down, production can only go down (yes, processes have been more efficient, but the efficiency has only transformed into even more stuff produced. That's the Jevons effect)

- clothes are cheap because their pollution, chief among them CO2 emission, is "free". But it's the kind of cost we'd rather not be paying
I never found vacations to be useful for burnout.

What does work for me is having a 40 hour work week. If I'm doing the same job for 50+ hrs/week, I start to dread the work.

That said, this is drastic, seems like something other than burnout is going on.
"How do bubbles burst?"
Real estate prices are sky high, but what can bring them down?

The taxes on corporations and the rich is sufficiently low that they can't spend all their money, and what is most safe for pension funds to invest in? What don't we make more of (with rare and expensive exceptions) ?

Land!
Study shows how immunity from Covid-19 vaccines differs from natural infection
Real estate might be the best play for the average joe. Where else can you borrow a ton of money at low interest rates for 30 years with a real asset (the house) as collateral? It is like a free call option, with government policies. If you overpay you can always turn in the key or get the bank to write down your loan to fair value for the home. You make money on the debt, paying back in dollars with lower purchasing power, you do not need the home price to go up.
and both are terrible when used to stop and restrict people and descriminate.....both which are done blatantly and in the open yet no one cares.....I call you a mean word and I am bad guy....people are regarded..
Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses
How does this compare to security baselines with say inspec?
SaaS – Software as a Service
SpaceX's crewed capsule is 5-10 years newer than the A350.

I imagine SpaceX has a different set of certification requirements (ie Airbus has stronger financial incentives to use existing, approved designs for components).
"Genetic treatment"? Please.
From the article:

* Costs for electricity from utility-scale solar photovoltaics (PV) fell 85% between 2010 and 2020.

* In 2020, the global weighted-average levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) from new capacity additions of onshore wind declined by 13%, compared to 2019.

* Over the same period, the LCOE of offshore wind fell by 9% and that of utility-scale solar photovoltaics (PV) by 7%.

* 800 GW of existing coal-fired capacity has operating costs higher than new utility-scale solar PV and onshore wind, including USD 0.005/kWh for integration costs. Replacing these coal-fired plants would cut annual system costs by USD 32 billion per year and reduce annual CO2 emissions by around 3 Gigatonnes of CO2.
Moving to Berkeley last year the most amazing thing was those little soup-delivery robots with the cute anime faces.
That is exactly what I personally believe.
>I really believed computers would make people smarter, better informed, able to make more rational decisions. They'd understand and trust science more, make better political decisions.

As a 90's kid who grew up online, this was my thought at the time as well. Turns out computers were more like an op-amp for the existing inadequacies of human nature, rather than a bicycle for the mind.
Amazon destroying millions of unsold items and returns
Alpha-gal is a sugar, so this wouldn’t work directly. Also, the syndrome seems to be IgE-mediated, and the mRNA vaccines are intended to induce IgG and perhaps IgA production. So this might not work.
It's an unnecessary and superficial conditioning that we need to evolve beyond. Do we want to be cavemen or cybernetic organisms?
I’m almost certain it’s the APU. Notice how the sound and volume hardly change when he opens the door from the server room into the cargo area. 60m away isn’t all that far for a big turbine engine. Those things are deafening at idle speed.
I own some (paper) gold because I think it's been neglected. The market and real estate have produced outsized returns for 20 years (even factoring in the 2008-9 recession), and investors haven't really gotten spooked. Popular stocks are still trading at 100+ (or even 1000+) P/E ratios, and everybody's kid sister is now a stock wiz.

I don't know what it's going to take to scare retail investors out of stocks, but when it happens, metals will benefit.
There are some bars in Sacramento, CA that not only scan your ID, but scan your face, and use facial recognition to match you with previous scans, ostensibly to make sure you aren’t sharing an ID with someone underage.

It is extremely creepy.
Manufacturing doesn’t require exploitation. Generally there is a tradeoff with automation where the amount of labor required to make something is quite flexible. However, the more you automate the more important the remaining workers become. Which generally means the less automation the more exploitation you end up with.
Not surprised at all, but... I can sell year-old accounts with just 150 karma for 275 bucks? Not so bad where I live, and considering that I post useless comments for free anyway, and don't particularly care what happens to them...

Though prices on this site look rather high, I doubt it than I can steadily find buyers for the same figures.
I hate it when people demand that every decision needs to come with some metric. For one, they fall victim to Goodhart’s Law:

> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Metrics should drive intuition, not the other way around. We don’t use the scientific method here.
I'd rank Uber, Snapchat, Microsoft, etc. at least on par with Amazon in terms of resume brand name recognition/prestige. They're also probably at least as difficult to get into.

But "random startups" that no one knows about? Probably preferable to have Amazon.
Concur with someone else on the thread*. Bumble’s security team is largely overseas (UK). For a US based, culture-forward company, to me this probably implies a lot of offshoring of eng talent at some point, in order to grow. Which in turn probably means growing pains moving from contract devs to a real, in-house product<>eng program.
> I generally do not understand the thought process of buying a tablet glued to a treadmill for three thousand dollars. That's like what, a decade of gym membership

Do you not understand why they would rather buy a treadmill than train at the gym, or why they don't buy a cheaper treadmill?
It's because we let them say opinions were more important than freedoms....that's that. once people drank the coolaid....Jonestown was on....we are watching the suicide of our society in the name of progress......because to not progress is (enter fad strawman of the day - .... right now ultra right wing conspiracy....)
That's an important distinction between Apple and Microsoft that goes way back to their founding: Microsoft was always a developer-focused company (remember Steve Ballmer's infamous "Developers! Developers! Developers!") whereas Apple has always been focused on the end user ("the computer for the rest of us"). In the early days when developers and technical people comprised the majority of the personal computing market Microsoft dominated. Nowadays we live in a world where there are several million developers and technical people and several billion non-technical people. Since Apple has always catered to that market it should be no surprise they're now dominating. In that vein it's important to understand that Apple is not a technology innovations company, they're a technology solutions company. Their raison d'être is to put sophisticated technological solutions into the hands of non-technical people and make them successful using it. The walled garden which developers frequently complain about is what allows me to hand an iPad to an 8-year-old and not worry too much about what they're going to put on it or how they might compromise the device.
It does contain a bit more information than required, such as the specifics of the vaccine. But I think the personal information such as name is required. The code needs to be tied to some form of ID otherwise a single code could be copied and used by everyone. So the name and date of birth are likely used so that it can be compared to your drivers license or passport to ensure that the QR code actually belongs to you.
If the OP meant "multiple layers of unnecessary abstraction" I would agree with them.

However "clean code" connotes to me the techniques advocated in "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin, which amongst other things, advocates small descriptive functions.
This includes more information than necessary to verify whether a person has been vaccinated.
The funny thing is bleach is what you need to stop noro and rota viruses, and those are actually very transmissible via surfaces, yet the protocol at my kids’ daycare (national chain) does not involve bleaching door knobs on the regular.

The same daycare that 2 weeks ago had an outbreak of noro or rotavirus which caused entire classes of toddlers to be infected and go home and vomit for a day and was spread to siblings and parents at home.

But they are still sanitizing pens. People’s risk profiles are crazy, and there is an insane amount of cover your ass for PR purposes.
'Best performing assets against inflation'

...here's a list of things that don't work.
Dollars to donuts, those aren't "employees", they're contracted folks in a battery cage in Bangalore.
At least then the paranoia about taking the vaccine would be legitimate.
Strictly speaking, GPU's have thousands of ALU's/execution units, spread over a few dozen full cores at most. And reaching full utilization of that amount of compute is not always easy either, many problems just don't parallelize that widely.
I completely agree. With a different degree, one can still do programming. I worked with several good programmers who had no CS degree. Some had no degree at all.

For me, CS was largely a waste. Most of the real, required-for-job programming skills I learned were self-taught anyway. I just used CS as an on-ramp to industry. Maybe nowadays CS is required for "signalling" but it definitely wasn't in the 90s.

Wish I had done physics or hell even math. Now I'm middle-aged and the only things I "know" relate to this stupid pile of silicon on my desk.
> Just because you don't use the app and have no interest in the app or company does not mean you need to have a reductionist outlook on other people's work.

Please don’t assume this. Parent comment’s question seems genuine.
What is the state of the art in term of cracking btc address. There is no heuristics that in some circumstances, would ease the workload ?
And in addition to that, what is the company culture/attitude around using time off. Unlimited time off is great, in theory, unless you're made to feel like a monster for using any.
It sounds like CUE - https://cuelang.org/docs/about/ may be useful to you.
I'm not a chip designer or anything like that, but I think it isn't the difficulty of creating processors with so many cores (or arrays of processors equivalent) that has stopped us, but the cost benefit of increasing cores to the expense. I use an HPC cluster at work, but for what I'm doing it makes sense to use the hundreds of cores available. Indeed, most of it is embarrassingly parallel.
Dream Big. Go Small
I realized I move very little data from install to install -- most of my data is in various web services.

I relatively painlessly can work both from Windows and Linux - most of what I need is in web browsers and remote systems..

certainly a success of "thin clients" - especially the browser.
Practically all committers are German... How surprising ;)
Linux marketplaces vulnerable to RCE and supply chain attacks
Graduated with a BS in Mechanical Eng in '96.

Like a number of other commenters mentioned, folks like me who were in STEM majors all had to learn how to code in some form or another, though I don't think I ever took any classes as such.
A popular joke then:
"what do mechanical engineers do when they graduate?"
"they learn to code and become programmers"

In my case, I had a part-time job in a lab writing programs in C++ to get various lab instruments to be remote controllable from a terminal and had to learn on the job how to do it. One of the professors in the lab gave me a copy of "Numerical Recipes in C" to help me with the C++ code I was writing. It didn't help at all!

I was also part of the generation that learned basic programming on a TRS-80 (aka "trash-80") in BASIC, then in HS some Pascal and FORTRAN in an informal computer club. My family never owned a home computer, but the school had a bunch of windowsOS machines curious students could play with.

Looking back now, it seems like I was really primed to be part of one of the first waves of professional programmers, and indeed a number of my friends did go that route. But by the time I graduated from university, I kind of hated coding! Recall that in the 90s there was no stack overflow, no google, no way to see how others might have solved the problem. If you couldn't figure out how to get something to work, you had to just grind away at it no matter how long it took.

At the time, I honestly thought whatever future there might be for professional programming I sure didn't want to be a part of it. And I also didn't think it would take over the world like it did. I left uni and I spent a number of years traveling abroad and teaching ESL before dusting off my coding skills and getting a series of coding jobs in various industries.

I am extraordinarily grateful that I learned "the hard way" how to code, but more than once I wish I had gotten my degree in CS instead of ME.
Tbh I don't think the goal is risk prevention, if you take that into consideration the app works perfectly.
That would mean some centralized data store. I'd be against such a measure. Current approach is device only, with very limited risk of data breach.
Maybe it’s time we re-think docs
> There's speculation. I don't think there's any real consumption yet.

Blockchain tech in a nutshell.
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate, in this order.

And the map isn't even part of the primary navigation method, plus with multi pilot crew usually you can offload slower, less time critical tasks to copilot.
Perl is the biggest unexpected casualty I guess. It was so cool and had so much energy. Tons of web applications were being written in it, and mod_perl seemed to be the future.

Then the momentum shriveled up with Perl 6 and it has just become completely irrelevant. Pretty insane trajectory. It's almost as bad as like ColdFusion lol
Yes! The inability to properly quantify risk has literally killed thousands of Americans and Canadians this past year.
Is it "Manna"? https://marshallbrain.com/manna There was a huge[1] discussion about it in HN a long time ago, but I can't find it https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[1] Back in my days, huge meant like 20 points and 5 comments :)
If this is actually true the problem is on your end. I'm still using the first retina MBP from 2012. I keep all of my software up-to-date and it has no performance issues. I do keep it back a few MacOS versions because I see no need to update past the one that's on it.
ES2021 Has Been Approved
Perl can escape the Lisp Curse
Sounds like https://dhall-lang.org/
I've heard stories from people working in retail/restaurants where the owners would watch the cameras from home and call in on the landline to bitch out employees when they do something wrong. Their churn rate was abysmal.
This seems like a "pout" move... get blasted with a class-action, so blast everyone in the face with this 'safety and goodness' fee.

No other solution to keeping toddlers off of a treadmill with a giant touch screen?

Maybe a simple math question or 'confirm your birthday'?

No no... gotta cash-grab to pay for the lawsuit.

Classy.
My current company allows us to pick Linux or Windows. So for me, it did happen. Linux on the laptop at home and at work :)

Work laptop is a Dell, works fine.
> subscription. It would be silly to buy a premium device who's point is to use the subscription based features and specifically intend to use it without the subscription.

What if they go out of business?
Yep... young people gave up a year of their lives to "save grandmas", and now that grandmas are vaccinated, are still not allowed to go on a vacation or party, even though there's a higher chance of dying in the car driving to/from the party (for healthy individuals from those age groups).
I don't understand why they wouldn't buy a different expensive treadmill if they don't want the classes
There's a door from the cargo area into the server/electronics area. Not sure if there's a handle on the cargo-side, but the pilot uses the door in the video (opened it from electronics side). It appeared this cargo area is pressurized (door into electronics area didn't appear pressurized, nor did the hatch into the cockpit).
>refusing vaccination for mostly irrational reasons

Depending on age and condition the risk to an individual can vary from one in ten million to under one in a hundred. In your mind, what is the risk that an individual must face from covid to make it rational to take a novel treatment with no long-term safety data that hasn't passed the standard FDA approval process? In any other context, would people here be so confident that there's a less than one in ten million risk from a novel MRNA treatment?
I don’t expect that trend to reverse itself given it benefits the people who have the most say in our politics.

I’m just waiting for them to go ahead and implement a privatized social credit score too at this point.
This article has a number of fundamental errors, and this leads to inaccurate, or ineffective conclusions. Just a few;

>> The current state of software is such that everything depends on everything else.

This is not true. There is a hierarchy of dependencies, yes. But the use of "everything" here is not helpful. There are clearly projects that are used a lot (OpenSSL) and there are plenty of projects that are used by nothing. And everything in between.

>> since the software is free, you can not sell or license it to make money.

again, very not true. RedHat being a prime example, but there are any number of companies selling and licensing open source software. That is explicitly allowed under the various licenses. Mixing the concept of "freedom" and "cannot be sold" is a common FOSS myth.

>> So why do people abandon their widely-used FOSS projects?

For exactly the same reasons they abandon commercial projects. The vast majority of all projects are abandoned, regardless of license. Because _most_ projects are rubbish. If we narrow the set of programs to "widely used", again there is no difference between FOSS and commercial - DOS was commercial, widely used, and abandoned. (For some definition of "abandoned".)

As long as the list posted in the article, there are also many other reasons. Developers lost interest / die / get reassigned / get married / have kids / learn to play golf.

My point - talking about FOSS as a single category is meaningless because it spans too large a ground. It's not like there's a single common cause to project failure, or indeed a single common reason they succeed. Do we even want projects to succeed forever?

>> Therefore, by donating money to developers, you prevent the project from being abandoned.

eh, maybe. For some small number of projects. For a while. Until one of the other items on the list raises it's head. But money is the easiest problem to solve, and in many ways the least consequential.
The title is poorly worded. But intentionally bricking customers' devices post-purchase to require a subscription is an absolutely insane decision, especially given that the reasoning they give for it is a reminder that they just killed a child.
That's something only you (or your team) can answer. Does one of them help you solve a problem better than the other?

If you can't articulate an answer to that, then I would suggest using whichever your team is most productive in.
And those odds for being hit by lightning are over a lifetime.
Might be that you can't lift that hatch as the server room probably isn't pressurised.
Margaret Mead Crater on Venus
But Chinese companies do have to comply with these rules. China cares about total surveillance more than they care about blocking foreign competitors.
Real estate might be the best play for the average joe.

I agree with your general analysis, but I'm also seeing that it's becoming harder and harder for the average joe to get into the real estate market. Unless you can make a hefty down-payment banks just won't talk to you. The big driver of inequality going forwards is going to be between those who managed to get on the property ladder and those who didn't.
Like Twitter but video! Nice!
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document//E-8-2018-0006...
Ed Smith – From Brooklyn to MP1000 and Imagination Station
I always kick myself that I didn't really appreciate the trends of increasing processing power, reduced size and so on, and what that would mean (smartphones, cloud computers, etc.) While at the same time, also not having much idea about the future now. Visualising the future seems hard.
How is that less broken?

Did you read the article that says the wealthiest 0.01% pay interest on loans instead of taxes on gains?

Interest takes zero effort to collect. Taxes take huge expensive bureaucracies and constant harassment of citizens.

Taxes do not control money supply any more than high interest rates. It’s just a question of where the newly-created money ends up.
> Compare this to pre covid travel

No, don't. What we are talking here about is a Covid pass / QR code thing, not the pre-pandemic past.

> Since pretty much all the countries have very low covid numbers, any such limitations are stupid.

In just the Europe, Russia and UK have horrible numbers right now, Portugal joining them. So no, you are wrong, I am sorry but the testing/vaccine/quarantine rules make sense and will make sense in the foreseeable future.
That's a very good point with rebasing. Thanks for explaining.
Do we believe in UFOs? that's the wrong question