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> Is hanging out with highschool buddies forever because in remote world you never leave your hometown supposed to be the replacement for second/third gen remote workers?

That would be an example of not being surrounded by strangers. Mind you a good chunk of tech is made of immigrants from countries where a neighborhood wouldn’t be reduced to high school buddies; would include (extended) family, neighborhood with its other constituents. The default choice of not leaving the locale one is raised up in, especially if one could make the same salary remotely, wouldn’t be a stretch.

> I don't care what corporations' intentions are, I think the reality is that this is America's last community that remote work will destroy and the tech industry is struggling against it.

I do because it is an ersatz community born out of luck constrained by its makers. It is almost an in-flesh version of all-you-can-watch crap, in the sense of giving false satisfaction to real needs.

> Most of everyone I meet won't be such close friends.

It would be absurd if you did. You’d only need a few, but unlikely to make any in a city of strangers.

> If the worst indictment of workplace friends is that most of them won't lend me $20k, well, I'll just have to live with that.

Worst indictment is to make you think the sense of social interaction with those people can make up for a complete absence of real friends, an absence brought upon by the necessity of being near that workplace.

> I'll have to remove our social interactions from the record because they don't meet the required level of friendship

Again this is an absurd strawman. No one is telling you to only interact with friends. I am merely saying if you think your workplace acquaintances make real friends, you’re more likely to be deceiving yourself than not.
In principle I agree. On the other hand, are people agreeing to be tracked really aware of what they agree to and what the value of the resulting information is? Would they still agree if they knew? And this of course also requires that my choice is actually honored and I currently have very little trust in this respect, after all we already had Do Not Track and nobody cared.
I get the occasional email from users about how much they love Monodraw which makes me so happy.

I've been told it was used for wire-framing and mind-mapping which I never envisioned!
It was certainly more remarkable than the authors'.
To understand it just look at the complaints of tech workers. The majority of them consider internal actions as grossly more important than any outside effects. Thus, if the hiring policy is progressive and if they have good HR, and a happy working life and if the managers don't trip up with certain internal political issues this far outstrips any negative actual real world effects. Walk outs of employees happen due to internal drama, not any external actions. Twitter therefore is a great, comfortable, safe and inclusive place to work even if history might prove it to be more damaging to mental health and physical security of the world than Google.

Now, the new tech unions that are occurring in a few companies give some hope against this hypocrisy as they all seem to have a line or two in their mission statements which speak up about shaping the direction and action of their employers. I hope they live up to their promise.
Hi everyone, cofounder of Nordigen here. We made a tutorial to showcase how Siri can be connected to a bank account to check your account balance. To make this happen we used iOS Shortcuts app + our open banking API.

Would love to hear your feedback.
Retina displays don't matter because the majority of your users don't have them. Problem solved :)
As a classic MacOS developer back in the day, "publish and subscribe" doesn't mean what you probably think it does. It isn't like "publish and subscribe" in Javascript or similar.

In classic MacOs "publish and subscribe" was a kind of real-time clipboard which allowed you to paste contents from one application in to another and have it updated in real-time if you edited the source file. The idea was interesting, but it created odd interactions and corner cases that weren't nice. It was also very slow and buggy in practice. Not many applications supported it, and those that did didn't support it well in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_and_Subscribe_(Mac_OS)
This is an example of the crypto advocate style of attempted nitpicking that isn't actually of substance and makes no difference to the point.

You don't get to claim PoS is happening until it happens, given Ethereum's consistent track record of failure to make any such thing happen.

If the ETH token readily tradeable for money on crypto exchanges is not at all based on PoW before the last quarter of 2022, I for one will be tremendously surprised.
So what is about Oracle's shareholders that make it, or any company, more or less ethical, or in Oracle's case, litigious?
Live in a jurisdiction (California) in which you don’t have to worry about this nonsense because employers are not allowed to do that.
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@ragnot, @Khaine, @typon et al: Thank you for the very kind words about Monodraw - it made my day!
> In predictive analytics and machine learning, concept drift means that the statistical properties of the target variable, which the model is trying to predict, change over time in unforeseen ways. This causes problems because the predictions become less accurate as time passes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_drift
This is fine, and I know some people who are aware and are happy with the ads they recieve.

I do personaly have a problem with not being given the choice, also it should be an opt-in option. Privacy shouldn't be compromised and then restored after the data is already gone.
There is also an IARC process that grants you the copyright if you get approval.

https://opensource.google/docs/iarc/
Yeah, I suppose you could associate the tech with the libertarian/anarchist crowd (which are nonetheless a minority in that space nowadays, compared to those simply interested in making money), but right-wing? If he was truly willing to engage in the discussion, you’d at least expect him to look up some definitions.
Yes. Find the papers in the field then contact the department and ask to speak to the duty mathematician who deals with outsiders with a theory to test.

If you learn the notation of the field do a proof in some flavour of latex, or even in a proof system.
The one or two times I tried one of those machines, the claw literally just re-opened on the way up no matter what I did. I pretty quickly figured they were rigged to only 'pay out' a certain percentage of plays in order to guarantee they stayed profitable.
Hahaha, hardly. GDPR is good, but it doesn't stop the "privacy is dead" problem.
Nice, how are the haystacks going ? :-D
I’d assume so. Back in primary school I got a friend who was pretty much perfect at claw machines (and at Tekken). Later I’ve noticed they made it more difficult (shorter timelimit, limited number of moves, etc.), but never expected they would turn this into a vulgar scam.
I assume you don't mean empathy for its author. Can you quote the sexist part? Please be specific.

Here is the original memo for your convenience: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
I'd have thought it would be harder and more expensive to find an unused 10 year old iPad now than to just buy a new low-end one. Give it a few more years and that one in the machine will be a collector's item!
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If advertisers put in the effort and allowed for an opt-in only option.

They would realise that the quality of their audience is far more interested in the advertisments being shown than those that are thrown into peoples faces, tailored or not.

If I want to see ads, and I select "tailored ads on" my value as an audience should be far higher.
> Sometimes part of your work is not all unicorns, pink and friendly, having the honesty to deal with it and not being hypocrite about it is really important.

Which is something sorely missing from the current discourse and media, no one is saint. But I guess the media or most public don't care,

"The public aren't interested in affairs. All they want to know is who are the goodies and who are the baddies."

- Sir Humphrey Appleby

>"The mismatch between what they say and what they really do is growing," Cornet said. "The thicker the gap is, the easier it is to point out that hypocrisy."

I mean it has been there since Day one. The first time I read about "Do No Evil" in the early 2000s was when my hypocrisy radar on red alert. And the insane amount of PR shit / submarine articles [1] that came in the next few years before they IPO. They were so righteous to the point everything that was in their way was evil. Indeed, Most evil are created by those who think themselves as so righteous. They stopped talking about it from early 2010s and stopped using the tagline in 2015.

But the "Do No Evil" disease or ideology still managed to spread across Silicon Valley and Tech Industry. These PR shit managed to dialled to a whole new level, Uber, Snapchat and even Apple once Steve Jobs' RDF was no longer there to shield them. ( And became more apparent once Katie Cotton retired ) I sometimes wonder if those PR people managed to jump from one company to another.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Bubble is pretty good at it. You can't migrate authenticated users from it because of how password hashing works, but other data is fine.
Even with all the tracking, the generated ads still suck, showing things already purchased.
This reminds me of the overhyped lead generation tools out there, they do not work as expected.
Someone's financial interest is the root cause here, someone is making good money with ads.
The ones who sell ads? For sure.
The ones who buy adds? Not many success stories out there.
* Consumers eating JBS beef and consumers buying exotic wood and consumers buying gold from illegal mining have flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source.

This collective blamming becomes tiring when the actions are self-contained in a small group of people.
Surprised they didn't fire him.
I had a recruiter who did this once. He got me 30% over market rate by telling the company I was a senior engineer whom he had known for years.

As someone who had graduated from uni about a year earlier, I had a very bewildering year at the company.
Ok, how do you suggest we achieve this? It's been over two decades now and the US govt hasn't done much.
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There's an innovation day every 2 weeks where you work on your own projects within the company.

If it's good or a considerable effort to implement, it can become a work item after approval.

We also have tech talks to share knowledge about what you want/experienced and even industry speakers. After tech talks, a small group of interested people can form in a dedicated channel.
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Certainly, but the effectiveness is data dependent. It would work well for example if the two ranges have little overlap.
[edit - the link below now loads, very cool to see all the companies involved, especially given Pharo crops up here every few months]

I'd be curious about who, if anyone, funds Pharo development - especially if there are any medium-large companies backing it's development.

I found this link to the Pharo "consortium" but it's not loading for me https://consortium.pharo.org/
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> History is repeating. Instead of investing into hard work and portability with programmers, the management decides to take the short part which looks cheap.

I agree with this point of view for bigger companies that do chat and music streaming apps. Nonetheless if you're a __much__ smaller company who needs to do cross-compat. applications and has problems hiring personnel (either due to lack of, or too expensive) technologies like Electron saves them a lot of trouble, money and time...
> these reasons may have been clearly explained

they were not. the "zinger" was a quote from the article
Chances are HN did it. It also capitalizes titles by default (each word) which also annoys me.
> Reflexer is collateralized by ETH which is traded 65% of the time against USDT which is backed by chewing gum and hope. This USDT trading determines the price.

What kind of logical fallacy are you trying to make here? If someone sets up an exchange for bananas/pokemon cards and it ends up grossing a majority of the global banana trading volume, that doesn't mean the price of bananas is suddenly backed by pokemon cards.

Furthermore, the mechanism through which Reflexer maintains the stablecoin's price is independent from the collateral asset. It works just as well whether the collateral asset is traded against USDT or fiat.
I hate when people laugh at good questions. It really fucking annoys me.
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I can't fathom how you get to 7TB of photos without being a photographer, or recording video all the time. Granted I haven't been too prolific in the last few years, but my entire collection from 3 DSLRs + iPhones going back to ~2005 totals 300GB. All backed up in B2 + google cloud.
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> I've been thinking about that recently, and was wondering if not accepting a job in """bad""" industries (bad is a gross oversimplification here covering things like oil, gas, tobacco, weapons, these kind of things) is in fact running away from your duty. If you don't take a job in these industries, other people will, and these people may be worse than you

One employee can not have even the slightest influence over the world's largest tech firm, even ignoring that it's publicly traded thus institutional investors are the only people steering the ship. Or ignoring that Brin and Page's research was heavily funded by the CIA and NSA as part of a program specifically designed to encourage silicon valley to develop technology and services to make it easier for them to track social connections between people.

This is a bit like going to work at an oil refinery because you think it'll help climate change. Or working for Marlboro's marketing department thinking you'll help them stop marketing to children.

Even top corporate leadership doesn't really get to steer the ship. It's investors - in publicly traded companies, typically institutional investors, mostly funds. Any sort of corporate "listen to the employees" initiatives are just window dressing; a tap at the bottom of the tank of "employee rabble-rousing."

Just to finish driving home how little impact any worker could have on companies of this size: do you know how Walmart reacts to a store that looks like it's about to successfully unionize despite their union-busting efforts? They turn off the lights and leave.

Now consider that Walmart's goal is to undercut all the small businesses in a community, driving them into the ground. Shutting down an established store leaves a huge vacuum. Walmart is capable of destroying communities at the multi-county level and they do not care.
Even with a parent, the draw is just too attractive for kids. I tried desperately to explain to my kid that these games were rigged against him. He didn't believe me, didn't care, told me all his friends said they won, got angry at me for trying to take away his fun... He gets it now at 15, but at 6 there was no convincing him.

At least the carnival midway games these days have mostly switched from rigged against the kids to everybody wins a crappy prize. But these arcade game types are straight up gambling for children.
Console games were so polluted with arcade bullshit design (see: Battletoads) that Super Mario World was instantly notable for being designed to be fair.
> That's how banks used to operate actually.

I assume this is not easily generalized but I'm curious to know more about this, what the context is, what the historical turning points are.
> Once women reach the age of 50, about the age of natural menopause, their risk for heart disease increases dramatically.

Wouldn't the hormonal changes associated with menopause be a more likely explanation for the increase in heart disease risk than the fact they are no longer losing blood periodically?
You can put fiet money ($€£) in a western bank and earn a fixed interest and be sure you can get it out when you want, if you forget your account number or password you’ll be ok and if the bank goes bust, you’ll get (upto ~$250K in US and similar around the world). You can spend those dollars instantly anywhere around the world - as cash or online.

Buy Bitcoin purchasing items is a pain, the value may be higher or lower than last week or yesterday, seemingly manipulated by unknown whales totally legally. If the money is in an unregulated exchange it can be lost with little recompense. Buy one of the more exotic coins you may make a fortune or loose everything overnight because of a coding error or just because.
> All people want from Electron is a GUI system that works on all platforms

No. What those people want is web tech as a GUI library. That's two very different things.

A cross-platform GUI library with good customization and theming options and support for custom controls that isn't reliant on the (Google) Web Specs (w3c) is what's really missing from the ecosystem.
Completely understandable. Best of luck!
I am pretty aware that my viewpoints get shrouded and can benefit from a change of perspective. So yes, I admit that I am narrow-minded.

It's why I like posts like this and loved National Geographic growing up; the feeling of realizing how narrow-minded and judgemental I can be getting dissolved by fascinating exposes and beautiful art and photography.
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It's one of the most confusing things I've ever seen in a Google product.

At some point I accepted a clickthrough and Hangouts disappeared from my Gmail. I've been using it for years to stay in touch with my parents, now they still see Hangouts and can call me on it, but I have no way to initiate a call with them except by sending them a text chat with a link to a meet?! That's useless, it doesn't make a ringing sound on their end. Personal video calls are not corporate meetings!

I sort of defaulted to using Hangouts for a long time because I used to work on Gmail. The current state of things is embarrassing for Google - I have literally no idea how to do video calls with my parents using Google products now (as they can last longer than an hour and we don't set a fixed time for them, just a date). There's this thing called Duo but it's mobile only, or at least tied to mobiles, but my parents use their computer to do video calls so I don't know what to tell them to do.

I'll probably just look for some alternative. Maybe Skype still exists and works well? Does anyone have any recommendations?
>It's like going into a store and telling the clerk "please don't look at me, and when I leave please forget I ever came here".

I feel these cute analogies make the mistake of equating a human seeing and remembering you (maybe even writing your name down in a notebook) with a machine doing the same thing.

There's significant qualitative differences, mainly that the machine has perfect memory and can effortlessly share and collect your information with other machines.
I wonder how many more weeks in a row this will be posted.
Who wouldn’t want a sweet Koi?
"Falsehoods programmers believe about headlines"

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
Launch HN: Lili (Not YC S21) – Health Assistant for Your Apple Watch
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You can use any Typescript project in plain Javascript, it all compiles down to and runs as Javascript in the end. You obviously don't get the guarantees of static typing but you should be able to use React FluentUI in plain JS. FluentUI also seem to offer a web components distribution which you could probably use handily in Vue if you were so inclined.
>In my mind there was weird post Soviet innocence in the 90s where the West felt invincible and many believe Western style democracy would take over the world within decades.

This viewpoint was well described (and I think influenced) by Fukuyama's book "The End of History and the Last Man"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
> CVE-2021-22555: Turning \x00\x00 into 10000$

https://www.baidu.com
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"Not all men"
Surely, the actions of a "small group" of people won't affect the global climate. Let's be realistic here.
Also, feel free to downvote if you feel personally attacked.
How does this work for contributions to FOSS? What happens if $MEGACORP decides that any off-work contributions to FOSS software are rightfully theirs?
> It's why the first amendment exists.

A. Let's not mince words, it hasn't done the US any favours.

B. The world is bigger than just the US, so I would say that while you may think it's not uncharted it is definitely not solved (and can therefore be called uncharted enough).
The base meaning of stablecoin is simply a coin which has a stable value.

The mechanism through which that stability is achieved is often 1:1 redeemability for another stable asset through a central portal, but that's orthogonal to the concept of a stablecoin itself.

I didn't feel the need to expound on this as I specified "algorithmic stablecoin" in my comment and provided a link to the project's homepage which features a short FAQ entry answering that very question:

> RAI is actually one of the first stablecoins. What most people call "stablecoins" are actually pegged coins. Pegged coins are oscillating around a specific value (usually pegged to fiat coins such as USD, EUR etc). RAI, on the other hand, is not pegged to anything. The system behind RAI only cares about the market price getting as close as possible to the redemption price.
No, but if you had a banana farm you would be very very wary of pokemon cards turning out to be a ponzi. Bananas are nice and would be worth something regardless, but would they be worth quite as much if people weren't fraudulently printing pokemon cards to buy bananas? How much of the perceived value of bananas is a mirage caused by fradulent pokemon cards? We may never know before the house of pokemon cards collapse and the rubble clears.
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weird, it loads correctly for me.
Yes, a bunch of companies (some of them very important in their fields) are backing Pharo... but Pharo is a community effort, made by hundreds of people.
I don't think there's a powerful cartel controlling the industry. If you'd imagine that, they would be controlling the market, not the industry per se, it's production..

Anyhow, most industries are controlled by few players outside of crypto. Perhaps the right question would be if the existence of crypto as a new component of the system can somehow decrease injustice in the system as a whole. I don't know the answer, but I would gamble it's No - for now. The way I see it in the near future (maximum 10y) we'll get obvious reasons to answer Yes, though.
That small group of people are responding to demand aren't they?
Hi HN!

After months of quiet work, we are releasing today our first version of Quickwit.

We wrote a blog post about how we improve cost efficiency of traditional search engines: https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-first-release
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