skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not knocking working from home but -

1) Will employees demanding work from home / Utah etc be willing to accept Utah pay rates? You could probably just negotiate some deal, 50% of pay and full time work from home.

2) Were people hired based on an expectation of 5 days in office or work from home?

3) A fair bit of buzzword bingo - ADA claims, claims around diversity and inclusion. Are these things Apple is prioritizing or is to going to be what they consider useful for product and business execution?

4) The higher performing employees I know don't tend to go on strike, demand X, etc. They just find another job.

5) When someone says Apple Employees with no qualification - is that all employees - if so you'd think this would be bigger news.

Apple is likely at 100K+ employees. Even just a basic 10% attrition rate (avg is 17%) would be 10K+ employees per year. My guess is their turnover rate is lower (maybe 5%?) normally.

Our own offices went to high wall cubicles to reduce spread of germs, reduce audio distractions for zoom calls etc - I actually like it a lot. High noise absorbing walls (6') does wonders to overall sound in a space if everyone has them. Even have wrap around on desk edge so it's 3.5 sides.
You can also insert JSON directly into PostgreSQL.
> If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction (i.e "free"), it seems we must give something that the product providers can turn into monetary value indirectly somehow.

Do we want them to though? What would a web without free look like?
Give me the web from 1997, but just with a little more. Mostly ad-free, text, tables, webpages measured in kilobytes. It was self-supporting and didn't require megabit connections. It had chatrooms and forums and craptons of technical documentation. It was a maker's place, a hobbyist place, and a place where Mom&Pop shops could have national or global reach. There were oodles of online stores. It was considered rude to track visitors, and cookies weren't even a thing. Amazon and eBay were already a thing.

The small additions I might enjoy might be some flash games, Wikipedia, and blogs; these were early 2000s IIRC. I would actually draw the line at Youtube. It's great and all, but it could as well not be the web, but a dedicated native app for all I care, but give me the old YouTube at its very first breakeven point[1].

We pretend like the current multi-hundred billion dollar Crapshow Creeper Web full of carnival barkers hounding you every second is absolutely necessary, and it's not. What fucked up the Web was money--way too much of it. We're in a denial phase with the Web bubble desperately pumped up with steroids to support multiple 800 pound gorilla/leeches that provide little value other than "scale" (or some shit).

[1] (and Google will never publicly say when that was, but definitely before 2010--it's just that the stupid growthism mindset required absurd revenue growth to keep up with stockholder and executive greed).
How do you recognize if there is a human name in a sentence or not?
> Why is any company having more USB-2 slots than USB-3 these days?

Most of the prospective users don't need more USB-3 ports than they have.
If you list two things, it’s not a monopoly.
I wouldn't say relational databases are poorly designed, any more than saying a hammer is poorly designed because it makes for a bad screwdriver. A hammer is still excellent at working with nails, it's hard to find a better tool to work with that. This is just about using the right tool for the job.

Back when data was simpler and not as big, relational databases were perfect, and there have been years of engineering and bug fixes that have gone into them. They are excellent at what they do, and they continue to improve.

But as technology has improved, as our disks and memory have gotten bigger, as the data we collect and want to query over has gotten bigger, and as our queries have gotten more complex, we've been running against the limitations of log(n) joins and relational database technology for some use cases. Now, not every problem is a nail. Some are screws. Some are more exotic.

That's been the reason for nosql databases in the first place, to try to address the shortcomings that arise as data gets bigger, more complex, and as queries and operations become more complex over large data.

log(n) joins are fine...until data explodes, and you're no longer doing just a handful of joins per query, but a very large number of them, maybe even unbounded, and maybe the rules for what data to traverse has soft or even no restrictions. When your data is graphy, when the questions you want to answer require traversals of this scale and nature, and when you want to make sure your traversal costs are proportional only to the graph you want to traverse (and not proportional to the total data in the database), then graph databases provide a very good tool for modeling and efficiently querying over that data.

Graph databases are relatively young, compared to relational databases. Yet their usage has been proven, especially as more graphy problems and data have grown more common.

Relational databases are still useful, and still improving, and graph databases will also continue to grow and improve side by side with them.

We even have a GQL initiative, on the language side, aimed at becoming an ISO standard that will hold an equivalent position as SQL, but for graph querying. That should speak to the value and importance of the paradigm.
Sure, perhaps the uploader could be sued, but this is irrelevant to the question whether Github ends up with valid rights. (the answer is no)
Well, no this is incorrect.

Watts are joules / second, so watt * hours cancels time on both sides, it's just energy. Watt-hours are more convenient than "raw" joules only because we tend to be more interested in how many hours a battery will last at a given wattage, not how many seconds it will last.

So energy capacity is correct, it's the amount of energy (not power) one can store in the battery.

Edit: I read this as though you were replying to me, not the comment I was replying to. Swimming upstream, I see that, yes, "energy storage capacity" isn't in watts, but rather watt * hours, but I agree with @renewiltord that it's easy to understand once you factor in that journalists, for the most part, never took physics.

The numbers have the units next to them, after all.
The fact that the author was able to find success with Zig so quickly speaks not only to the author's abilities but to the simplicity of Zig. Learning enough C++ or Rust to be productive in the same amount of time would be a much greater challenge.
To be more precise Apple Sued Microsoft into the deal. Microsoft paid third party to steal Quicktime code written by said third party contractor for Apple.

https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_...
If a known vuln is a stable version is exploited in the wild and left alone, why is that considered good?
bring back lans

You know, the Steam Deck might be good for that.
Make it work, then make it good.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what works for me. I don't get bogged down in arcane sideshows until much later, when it's an unimportant use of time. In the meantime, the software is working well and people can use it.

AFTERTHOUGHT: I've always denigrated Microsoft for doing exactly that: "Microsoft doesn't get it right till Version 3".

Seems I'm in 'good' company. <grin>
> There is no justification for this, it's just politicking and managers wanting to feel power.

They must want to make the investment in that massive office feel worth it? Like that "we built a new office that emphasizes our company's values" garbage works great on management. I wonder how much is wanting to watch over the employees, and how much is wanting to make good on your fancy new toy. I find it very difficult to justify requiring Apple employees in the office.

I obviously don't think highly of Apples' creative and engineering talent... do they still have weight to pull at the company? It seems like a management farm to me now. I hope that doesn't seem harsh.
The cost will vary widely. SF currently spends $60K per tent in their encampment program...expand that to house 5K people and you run into problems.

Portland spent $58M on a jail built in the 90s that never opened and was then sold a few years back for just a few million (maybe 5 or 6 years ago). The owner said they would donate the site as a homeless shelter if the city ran it since they had a ballooning homeless problem (over 4K as of last count). City leaders felt that because it was formerly a jail and not near services that it would be inhumane to house homeless there. So instead they continue to sleep on the streets, get hit crossing the freeway and shitting on the sidewalks. It finally opened just before winter last year, but mostly because of NGO helping to get it running...the government is completely useless here. Total people currently off the street is only 45 since it still needs a lot of work.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/06/09/a-homeless-shelter-in-...
That's making a rather broad claim from a rather specific one, even if the adherents have a lot of ideological overlap.

Peak Oil was predicting a very real phenomenon, but it hasn't happened yet (oil, being finite, will have this happen eventually).
I'm very eager to see how it does emulation, especially newer systems like Wii, Switch, and PS2/3.
You've misunderstood. The thing that's being tested is not make_*, it's do_something_with()
Similar: I have a Hades Canyon GH Nuc because I want a very low profile rig that can run older games on high and new games on low and throw it in a bag w/ power adapter & go. Not only does this accomplish the same thing, it runs Linux and means that if I'm just bringing something along for gaming it's completely self contained.
> But I think it’s a mistake to get too into the idea that civilization is fragile.

Take the US, for instance. The constitution has been in force since 1789. That's 222 years. You don't get to 222 years by not being stable. If the Civil War and the 1960s didn't destroy the US, it's pretty stable.

And yet... we have historical examples of civilizations collapsing. When it happens, it often happens fast (or at least slowly, and then fast). It seems unwise to say that it can't happen to us.

And, sure, social norms can be flexible. Not all problems can be fixed by changing social norms, though. Like, say, drought causing food shortages. Flexible social norms aren't going to solve that; they're just going to lead to looting becoming acceptable.
You're saying that people have predicted the collapse of societies many, many times? Which ones?
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Your employer should not be the arbiter of your health, your doctor should. Your doctor should be able to determine what you are and are not capable of doing and communicate that to your employer who should take that as proof.

This whole "let's see your medical history" approach is a very slippery slope and one I hope we don't fall down.

Edit: For more context, your doctor could determine in one visit that you have a newly arisen chronic ailment that's debilitating but your employer may set a threshold of a certain # of visits over a period of time in order to qualify for that chronic ailment...
> live only 1.6m above the high water mark/strand line of the sea.

Wow. I put myself in your shoes for a second and felt fear. Otherwise your life sounds pretty desirable. I always wanted to do the same (be self-sufficient in such ways). I probably will never be living like that (unless homelessness count, bleh), but good for you, I envy you. :)
> releasing medical records

Is not the same as providing a reasonable degree of proof, you employee (in general) should not need to know what exactly your medical conditions are in
full details. Knowing that you have conditions, at most with some rough direction should be enough.
I understand it that way as well. Unfortunately if everyone isn't sufficiently disciplined on a team, what happens is that code that takes weeks to develop sits on their machine for weeks. Which is like a feature branch that nobody can see.
Guy posts relevant information related to OP. Gets downvoted into oblivion. True HN style.
Please see the third example I gave, which talks about the set of mocks not being the same for every test.
We have some cumulative metrics on the How It Works page (https://www.zidisha.org/how-it-works):

Projects Funded: 274,507
Amount Lent: $18,723,792
Total Members: 411,728

The loans outstanding are about $1 million, and delinquency rate ranges between 15 and 25% depending on the cohort measured.

Lenders are about half in the US, 40% in Europe, and the rest elsewhere.

Are people really paying it forward? Early data suggest that repayment rates are higher than for loans, and this is expected given that borrowers are more directly involved in the allocation of repaid funds. For loans ended thus far the average optional extra amount paid has been around 20%, enough to offset expected defaults. We won't have statistically robust data on this for several months, as the larger loans take longer to repay.
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Firefox has an official way to disable that. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-di...

All Pi-hole instances use it by default. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v4.4
You are lucky you started with the one blade, it is much better than every other electric razor which has been on the market forever.
With information injected into a system, you can do more with less materially. This is a known fact and the internet is a huge injection of information into the world that is accessible to most people to some degree, making knowledge no longer a privilege of the elites.

It is game changing and provides hope for better answers than historical models suggest. Though we do need to work on keeping the quality of info high and on keeping information free as much as possible and that's a constant ongoing battle.
There's WD Blue and WD Black NVMe products for less/more performance. Perhaps it's like that?
> It’s the same thing humans have done for a hundred thousand years: sit around a campfire telling ghost stories.

The same thing, but now with 7 billion+ people. It's a lot of deforestation just to feed all these campfires.
In the usual sense. I don’t see a problem. Just because you don’t have a perfect knowledge of something, it doesn’t mean that the thing isn’t real.

I am not sure where this idea even comes from? To be honest, this sounds completely ridiculous.
Even a sin(x) function can be approximated as a line for small values of x. Potentially the predictions will start to diverge as feedback loops come into effect?
My team makes several commits locally, then rebases, squashes, and pushes the squashed commit to the trunk which has CI. This maintains a local, regular backup of your code and collects features into single commits for the trunk which are easily revertable if found to be problematic. This flow will not work for everyone, but it works very well for us (a team of 8 at a FAANG company).

Edit: Rereading your comment, I suspect you mean non-local backups. Our organization has a special remote only visible to you and those you allow for pushing code you'd like to backup off of your box.
Age verification won't kill searches because, doh, sites will make an exception for spiders. And of course, they will make an exception for big name spiders like Google, for instance by originating domain. Age verification will potentially create raise the entry barrier against competing with big search engines.
Success of Iceland’s 'four-day week' trial greatly overstated
It rhymes with “ram tongue”
Strong immigrant engineers that came in the 1990s now have adult children that in the workforce. A personal anecdote, it was indeed a bit surprising to hear my coworker at a startup mention that his mother joined a startup.
I'm not confused at all. You're constructing a very unusual meaning of "reason" in your first reply in order to...?

I was editing while you replied, I had not read your reply when I hit submit.
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The primes are quite dense. There are roughly n/log(n) primes below n. Meaning 1 in 256 numbers with 256 bits are prime. That's 2^(248) primes.

For RSA one typically use 2048 or 4096 bit primes.
RAM and CPU usage is not an opinion.
Rome didn't collapse overnight, it took literally hundreds of years. It was a "collapse" in the sense that the standard of living and technology fell from the previous peak in some regions, but even then, not much of one because Constantinople endured and other empires were untouched (e.g. China).

The only sudden collapse that's possible is the result of a full-scale nuclear exchange that kills most of the major cities on Earth - but the risk of that has steadily decreased sine it's peak around the 60s-70s.

A long, slow multi-generational decline however is quite possible for a place like the US though: the US has an ideological bent that allows it to decide to sacrifice it's own citizens, and that's been growing stronger. Increasing rates of crises due to climate change could definitely lead to some new generational poverty, but that's the point: that's a "collapse" in the true Roman sense, and definitely not in the "I'm going to survive it in my fortified bunker" sense. It's more Americans losing their houses and discovering what it's like to be poor when the bailout money is "efficiently" managed.
Tax cattle owe their lives to provide free crack for inner city child molesters and roads. - Communists
That only happens in old Stable, the previous version of Stable, or machines without internet, or machines which don't receive manual maintenance (otherwise you'd need apt install unattended-upgrades).

In Stable (what you call Stagnant) vulns get backported. Only the code fixing the vulnerability gets updated, the rest is left untouched. Its how Apple deals with older iOS versions, and it keeps their happy users of older devices happy.

If I run some old piece of hardware/software, there are a few things I want: I want it to keep functioning the way I bought it, and I want it to remain secure and reliable. So what I want is security and reliability fixes ie. what Debian Stable (and e.g. Ubuntu LTS) receives.
Their form factor places literally no role in their compatibility.

If with a Feather/Wing combo you don't need to worry about 5v/3v, if there wasn't an enforced shape that would not change in the slightest.

> All Feathers and Featherwings use 3.3V logic - so do not make anything that requires 5.0V logic. You must accept and emit 3.3V logic on any Feather/Wing (except for Analog inputs)

Like, the literal shape of the PCB has nothing to do with their compatibility, rules like do.

Same with SPI pins, RX/TX, etc:

> Bus Pins

> To make it easy to create add-ons, we have fixed inter-chip bus pins:

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The main change vs female headers is now you're forcing beginners to choose something that locks up their hardware.

This isn't a new thing, beginners since Arduino days have been overwhelmed by how shields take over all their pins and often run into clashes.

It's less of a burden if anything to have proper connectors or simply well marked female headers, which newbies can then easily follow between boards.

I mean if even if you're experienced with electronics just try following which pins a board is actually using. You'll need to look up a PCB schematic.

That's infinitely less beginner friendly than simple color coding and fixed connectors.
> If a series of changes have to be together to not break, I put them all in one commit.

I'm sorry but it hurts just to read this. Just No.
> It's depressing that the smartest minds in our world seem to have an existential dependency on the above.

Not only dependent. Don't forget how many psychology PhDs get jobs at Facebook and Google instead of "helping people". Why would you work with a bunch of depressed drug addicts and wife-beaters? Why not get a joint degree in PhD and Marketing? https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/joint-doctoral-degree-in... You'll make 10x as much.

> For consumer researchers, psychology is one of the foundational disciplines that comprise the field of marketing. For psychologists, the marketplace is filled with questions and insights about human cognition and behavior.

It's so on the nose it's painful - I truly think limiting the amount a business spends on advertising would have a net good for society.
So two things spring to mind with this and any doom scenario or predictions:

1. People tend to exaggerate such doom. The reasons for this vary. A lot of the time it's unknowing. It could be as simple as assuming a constant function will remain constant beyond normal boundaries. Or that a dynamic function will continue forever. Or it's sometimes disingenuous (eg to promote a particular agenda or simply to gain more attention through alarmism). Whatever the case, I've found it to be a good policy to ignore doom scenarios; and

2. There's a concept I like that I've heard described as "betting with the Mayans". The Mayan calendar "predicted" the end of the world in 2012. There are two approaches you can take with this: you can bet they're right or bet they're wrong. But simple game theory tells you that you should bet that they're wrong. Why? Because if they're right. It doesn't matter. The only thing you "win" is a brief sense of smug superiority as you suffer the same fate as everyone else. So why bother betting on that outcome?

So let's take this lens to a polarizing issue like climate change. I personally hold all of the following to be true:

1. Man has clearly had an impact on climate, as in a relatively rapid rise in global temperatures, due to CO2 emissions;

2. It's not clear to me that this is entirely man-made (eg higher Solar output). Of course, this may not even matter one way or the other as we still have to deal with the results;

3. Abrupt climate change isn't as rare as people make out. It's happened a ton of times in the last 100,000 years. They're called Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles [1]. This isn't some crackpot fringe publication. This is Nature.

4. At different points in the Earth's history it has been both substantially hotter and colder than it is now;

5. It's likely that climate change is a major contributing factor to what is essentially a mass extinction event that we're undergoing now (most of the rest being human activity and ecosystem destruction).

6. Altruism won't solve carbon emissions. Economics will. Humans are unwilling and incapable of making long term sacrifices for the planet that inconveniences them in any way.

7. I know some reading the above will have an immediate reaction to label me a "denier". That attitude really has no place in scientific discourse.

So I just don't believe we'll have runaway heating as some argue. Why? Because the Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years and despite higher temperatures that hasn't happened. I don't think we can definitively describe all the self-correcting processes that have kept Earth within a habitable band for literally billions of years.

But even if I'm wrong, we're screwed anyway because global population won't change and deviate from the current course.

So yeah, worrying about a global collapse in 20 years? That's a hard pass.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-cli...
Why am I not surprised it's the UK...

If only Orwell were alive today, I wonder what he'd think.
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