skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who owns an iPad, airpods, and a MBP (just to state some non-apple-hater credentials) I was just commenting yesterday to someone that despite owning all 3 of these products I have no way to plug in either of the first two into the third one. I have zero cords that connect them because of decisions that have been made about them. And despite them being on the same "ecosystem" I have never needed any kind of syncing or wireless connection between my iPad and my MBP. I wish Apple would focus more on strengthening the quality of their PRODUCTS rather than their "ecosystem".
This story is about Square, not Stripe.
Because the concept of antifragile is nonsense. People don’t get stronger by lifting kettle bells, they get stronger from the rest and nutrition they take after lifting kettle bells. If you put the human body under constant stress, it just breaks down—like anything else under constant stress.

Apple showed excellent robustness under the stress from the impact of COVID. It did so via strong capital reserves and diverse lines of business. Which is great, but it’s bog-standard corporate strategy. Very hard to execute well, though.
I think the iPhone upgrade program is pretty compelling. For a lot of folks that means you can get a new iPhone every year for ~$50/mo, which is pretty manageable for most people. Having the new iPhone every year is fun and conveys a certain status. I’m not sure there’s any Android phone that conveys status. So, that’s probably got a lot to do with it.
Agile was invented to try to get contracts (both faster, so as small lead time as possible, which is important for smaller companies, plus smaller upfront price tag, which is again very important for smaller dev shops in order to make deals). Less time spent on specifying the what. Just pay us in time & materials, and we'll figure out, plus the requirements are constantly changing anyway. Hence Agile was seen as a big win-win-win.

And I've seen it done well.
I love Gitlab but they pay like shit
I think 4chan managed to distance themselves quite a bit from the worst of it - that went to 8chan, Gab, etc.
My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit
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The problem is their target market is people who don't have (or can't get) a credit card.

If you already have a credit card, whats the point of Afterpay?
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to help hundreds of thousands of refugees in a small way through my day job. It's probably my greatest contribution to the world to make these peoples lives marginally better after everything they went through.

They'll never know who I am but I am so proud to have improved their lives even a little.
Like the payment networks, payment gateways will soon be dominated by a few big players: Stripe, Square

I really wish digital currency (ETH, BTC) would take off in the main stream world. The amount of silent middlemen involved in paying a merchant with a credit/debit card is nauseating to say the least.
This is such a weird cynical take on fashion I don't even know where to begin...
I get "checking your browser" screen from cloudlare for a few seconds every time I go to gitlab ppag, and some other sites.
Hiring is the topic where people are most eager to assert what's important or useless, normal or weird.

And they contradict each other, constantly. This is what the difference in culture between companies is.

We can't even globally define what a resume/CV is.
I haven't use an apple product since 2015/2016. I switched to android (some junky Chinese phone) because of price, was a downgrade. Now I recently updated to a newer and nicer android device and the whole experience is much nicer than my old Apple product was. What has changed to make there be "no comparison" in your mind? I'm interested.
If my understanding is correct, Cloudflare first released Browser Isolation 4 months ago.
If my experience in the industry is relevant, they just barely released an MVP to get ‘something out the door’.
I don’t know where accessibility is on their feature backlog (for all I know, maybe it isn’t) and I understand your point but I don’t think that 4 months is a long time for these things.
I’m actually building a website where you can navigate/explore my local national forest with the camps and trailheads are organized like rooms in a MUD.

I have it set up so you can navigate and traverse it using the numpad keys for the directions of a compass.
That's hard to believe from my personal experience. Every, and I mean every, Apple product I have ever owned has had major issues, including basically becoming bricks, all on their own. If I include my family's failures, it gets worse. It's enough that it is giving me pause on potentially buying a new iPad. Why do I need a new iPad? Failures are why. The large iPad Pro has begun to bend, a common issue with them (not due to a drop, I can see a stress point in the aluminum chassis since it's poorly designed with holes in the thin chassis right in the middle on all sides). My iPad Air I paid Apple to "repair" (i.e., replace) after it suddenly bricked itself by not being able to charge. It was replaced with a new iPad Air with literally the exact same issue out of the box and was then replaced again by Apple. Now, just a few months later, the touchscreen seems to be failing and is becoming errant and unusable at times.

Out of all my Microsoft Surface computers and Android phones, only one phone ever had a major issue, but it was replaced under LG's two year warranty.
Other than mortgage (and HECS) nobody I know uses debt - Australians love second hand cars
Who's to say it isn't a possible honeypot?

Best security results in his situation might be to
* keep head down
* move out of country
* trust no one
I feel obligated to remark that “Hack ‘Em All” could be as much a Metallica reference as Pokémon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_%27Em_All
I've found that the understood meaning of .NET has changed from when the term was first defined by Microsoft. Originally it meant the C# language and the multi-language library that it employed. Now it means specifically the parts of that library that are used for server applications.
> The organic variety of internet destinations of those days in particular

Ironically, this is what a lot of people criticised Google Reader for: "it's killing variety in the space, empowering Google to control the RSS ecosystem as a whole". Which it did - the death of Reader was the death of that ecosystem.
> The idea that the vaccine prevents hospitalizations is in fact directly contradictory to the GGPs central argument, which was "that a drop in [COVID] death rates following vaccine rollout proves their efficacy/safety is like saying that a week of heavy rains after doing a rain dance proves the rain dance did it."

That doesn't follow. My point was simply that making an association does not prove causation. Which is true. Observing that giving someone a vaccine reduces their hospitalization is a separate matter, and one I literally stated in my comment (that they reduce COVID hosps by 80-90%)

> And the MRNA vaccines don't have stroke or guillain-barre as side effects. That only applies to the J&J (Janssen) vaccine.

You're wrong about the guillain-barre. Unfortunately I can't find the study I'm looking for. There is a paper that looked at the rates of Guillain Barre in the mRNA vaccines and found them 4-5x higher than normal ("normal" is a low base rate obviously), and specifically criticized the misleading math/wording coming from Pfizer and the like where they falsely claimed that the Guillain-Barre was not more common.

> Against the version of the virus that the vaccines were developed against, it had a far higher rate of infection reduction, which is why people are (reasonably) somewhat concerned about delta, and why vaccination is even more important: because herd immunity is now even harder to achieve.

This is why getting naturally infected is so important! You get near 100% infection reduction for a couple years and then immunological memory for the rest of your life. You can't beat those numbers with the vaccines, not even close.

BTW:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...

If you look at the 6 month Pfizer trial, the vaccines made no difference in all-cause mortality. In fact there was one more death in the vaccine group. (My interpretation is that the vaccines spared some COVID deaths - a small but real amount - but caused more deaths from the side effects of being injected with a massive bolus of spike protein mRNA (acute clotting disorders, stroke, myocarditis, that kind of stuff))
Ironically, Klarna, a Swedish-founded company, is pretty big in the BNPL market

according to https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-buy-now-pay-later-wave...

"In Sweden, home to BNPL provider Klarna, installments accounted for 23% of e-commerce transactions last year."
It makes me wonder if official writs of marque will make a comeback in the future cyberpunk dystopia we all are building?
You've mentioned this several times on this page, but this is still incorrect.

The C standard references "struct or union" all over the place because the two are so similar. The distinction is of course made clear in multiple places, but one that seems relevant here is:

> As discussed in 6.2.5, a structure is a type consisting of a sequence of members, whose storage is allocated in an ordered sequence, and a union is a type consisting of a sequence of members whose storage overlap. (ISO/IEC 9899:201x, §6.7.2.1, #6)

That's it. There's nothing about undefined behavior if you access one member and then another later. In fact there's even a paragraph which mentions doing just that:

> The size of a union is sufficient to contain the largest of its members. The value of at most one of the members can be stored in a union object at any time. A pointer to a union object, suitably converted, points to each of its members (or if a member is a bitfield, then to the unit in which it resides), and vice versa. (ISO/IEC 9899:201x, §6.7.2.1, #16)

A pointer to the union points to each of its members, and can be dereferenced to access it.

std::variant is not used in C; C and C++ are two different languages.
I’m not a person who is gentle with their tech - it’s a tool, not a fetish - and in 14 years of owning an iPhone,
I have only broken the glass once. This is tough stuff - it’s not like it’s the single pane my dad installed in the garage door that I promptly broke by looking sideways at it.

Yes, it could be sturdier. But that would require other trade offs. Just because you don’t value those decisions doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong. It just means your values were not the primary use case. Diversity is good because people value different sets of trade offs!
> Do not want to be harsh but I assume you didn't actually look into the Brave's source code.

This is a weird assumption to make on HN. I have. I also didn’t say that viewing source code is the only part of understanding a browser’s security. It’s a useful portion. Network monitors are also good.

I’m not talking about startup telemetry, I mean browsing history and activity. Chrome reports this, Brave doesn’t.

I don’t think Brave is perfect, I just think it’s better than Chrome and Firefox.
The product manual for NSO's Pegasus spyware [pdf]
Since you replied as such, I’ll just add: I’ve found that being a parent has made me much better at time management, and as a result my productivity today is higher than it was in my 20s, even though I have less free time. I’ve heard this same experience from many other parents. I’m sure it’s not universal, but if you’re so motivated there’s a good chance you can have a vibrant career and also a great family life with kids.

Cheers and good luck when the time comes :)
California 1935, Wilshire Blvd in color [60fps, Remastered] with added sound
Oh bugger off!
Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers (2008) [pdf]
I'd say this is a throwback to the 90s when cybercrime was more about satisfying personal curiosities and convictions (however misguided they might have been) rather than demanding ransom from hospitals and school districts.
I have been doing software development for over 15 years, and I thought that I could apply some of my skills in another dev domain for fun. This time I wanted to try something different, and I started working on a tiny 1-bit retro game. I heard many horror stories that gamedev is hard, and I wanted to get the heartfelt first-hand experience. While it is certainly true that prior experience helps, but gamedev requires a multidisciplinary approach. One has to compose music, create sound effects, draw tiles and sprites, think carefully about game mechanics and many many other things.

On top of that, I am a solo-developer, and I have to prioritize ruthlessly, i.e. whether a new idea adds something meaningful to a game, or it is nice to have but will drain my energy, and I will abandon a game quickly. I am lucky to meet great people in gamedev groups. Also, I find gamedev community very friendly and supportive. I am still miles away from the first playable build, but it is a rewarding experience. If anyone is curious, here is what it looks like: https://twitter.com/oneearedrabbit/status/142057536513165312...
I’m at unity, you can look me up, senior software eng.

Original grant wasn’t meant to be that much but stock ipo’d well
Even a super well funded startup isn’t going to pay you half of what you’re making at a FAANG if you’re at that level, even for a VP job. The best a startup will be able to do is mid 200s, maybe 300. Why not just stay at a FAANG if you’re already there and coasting? I couldn’t mentally handle working for a FAANG but if you’ve done it long enough and well enough to get to $600k per year you might at well just stick it out until you’re 40 and then retire.
Cameras get better with each phone iteration. So there's that.

Several years ago I would have had no idea that I would be able to hand-hold a 2-second low light shot with my iPhone camera.

What next?
Thank you for your response, on the weekend no less. However:

> if we would just hire him this could be fixed in a few months

That's not quite what I said. Here's what I actually wrote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029459

> For the specific project of making this remote browser accessible, my wild guess is that if Cloudflare were to hire me to work on the project (no, not available at the moment), it could easily take a few months, but probably not more than a year. They could probably cut down that time if they hired away someone from the Chrome or Edge team who's actually an expert on Chromium accessibility specifically; I admit my main expertise is in Windows accessibility.

And of course it's possible that even what I wrote there is too optimistic.

I'm sorry I was unclear. What I meant was that I could see the project easily taking at least a few months, and maybe up to a year, but likely not more than a year.

Also, the intent of that comment was to give my answer to a question about how big a project this would be, not to suggest that Cloudflare should "just" hire me. I even suggested that I wouldn't necessarily be the best person for the job.
My dad had 120 acre farmland in middle of Lake Michigan (Beaver Island).

Did a few years of chain cutting young tree and juniper saplings down and let it be grazed by neighborhood livestock.

Then we stopped clearing the saplings.

Fifty years later, it’s all been heavily reforested, many with huge 40-45yo maple, birch, and douglas fir.

Still have the old light aircraft photo of entire land. Looks nothing like Google Earth now.

But it is a great hunting and forage (mushroom) land now.
Hey if things ran efficiently and unecessary complexity was taboo then software developers, who manufacture a good that does not physically wear out with time, would be earning a lot less money. But as things are today you got to pay a web developer say $100k a year to implement the latest kalefedhipster.js framework that doesn't actually provide significant additional functionality beyond what we had in 2015 if not 2005.

I firmly believe that overgrown complexity is going to be one of the things that brings down the tech sphere if not civilization as a whole.

It seems things are breaking far more frequently already.

Even things like retail transactions are falling appart. Whereas 10-15 years ago you could go into walmart and grab something check out within 5 minutes. Now you can't. Of the twenty lanes only 4-5 are open at anytime. If you buy a refillable phone card the cashier does not know how to recharge it.

If you try self checkout all 10 systems are rebooting after an upgrade.

You insert your poorly engineered sim inspired "chip card." It fails three times, every time then you swipe. Meanwhile if you go on vacation 150 miles away and use your card, you card automatically locks because of a "suspcious transaction." Since it is Sunday your bank is not open but you can call tech support in India who after having you wait on hold for an hour transfers you to a different agent who you have to repeat the whole story to.

Etc, etc, etc. It seems like simple things are getting more complicated every year, because new is good or new is safer or new is easier to track
you with.
I agree about Facebook engineers especially - the website is just broken. Where is all that talent going, Horizon?
Oh Mozilla.. how much work on Rust could have been sponsored with the salary of the PM who approved this?
Is that comparable though? Seems like you're comparing the 2021 Android "experience" to the 2016 Apple "experience."
https://www.pymnts.com/news/faster-payments/2021/five-banks-...

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...
Every time I read comments like this, I look around me at the plethora of Apple products that are 4, 5, 6 (mostly) trouble-free years old, mostly still receiving software updates to this day, and I think to myself: this comment does not at all accord with my lived experience.
Similar. I mostly got tired of switching back and forth.
A new iPhone SE is $250 from Boost Mobile right now. The last time I owned a budget Android phone the MISC folder filled up with garbage that I couldn't delete until the phone was unusable. My iPhone SE will probably end up lasting something like five years. I think the iPhone SE is the best choice if you're on tight budget because its OS is better and the phone will last longer for that reason alone.
It was remarkable how quickly U.S. media accepted the "it wasn't terrorism" line after years of going on about how the Russians are the most comically evil superterrorist masterminds who are destroying the fabric of blah blah.
AR glasses to beam what used to be on your iPhone straight into your eyeballs at all times, is what Apple thinks, according to rumours.
A lot of people have more money now than before the pandemic started. If you were not among the ones who lost your job, then your income remained the same but you were spending less money going out and spending.
This conversation is not about remote work but wage reduction.

Before the pandemic, companies had employed remote workers and paid them based on business value, but now they want to pay us based on the location we live.

They are creating a narrative that they pay us based on the cost of living, but it's just an excuse to reduce our salary.

They are forcing us to go back to offices because corporate executives are elitists control freaks that think remote work is a privilege workers should not have.

They are putting pressure on this question because they know the majority of developers would prefer to stay remote and they will put pressure on us until we accept the wage reduction.

But I tell you we should not accept this. The media always says there is a shortage of qualified workers in the tech industry so we, as employees in the tech industry, are qualified workers and since there is a shortage of us, we have the power to impose our conditions.

I want remote work with full salary and I think you too.

What do corporations fear? Unions.

They fear unions so badly that they are willing to pay lots of money to union bursting firms.

So I say you we should unionize, we should combine our power to fight this devilish attempt to reduce our salaries.
The anti-vaccine con job is becoming untenable
Think tanks don't lobby at all. What they do is design favorable conclusions for their backers, and the studies and press releases to dishonestly back those conclusions up and to generate pithy quotes. The politicians that are then lobbied by those backers now have something to say when interviewed about their political activities in favor of who is being lobbied for.

Politicians need a media strategy in order to do the things that they're paid to do by private interests, and think tanks provide that strategy.
I've documented my approach which is to not use an app at all, but instead a single text file that becomes a list of things done by the end of the day: https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/

The notes you take during the day, and past lists are all easily searchable in a text file.
There are multiple in the city AFAIK. I cycle past one on the way to work...
It will depend on if the farmland still has viable soil and water. If the topsoil has blown away or if it is now desert relying on irrigation, it is going to take longer to regenerate. You also end up with things like salt, where water mismanagement has caused a high level of soil salinity and you are going to need specialist plants to regenerate.
I recently had a job for exactly a week before the company decided I wasn't working out. One of the things they had me doing was logging in to Azure and trying to debug something - even though Azure never came up during the interview process, only AWS. It seems they didn't recognize there was any difference between them.
Eh, I hear people talk about .NET desktop apps all the time and they are understood quite well. .NET (and, frankly, everything that isn't HTML/CSS/JS) may be less used outside of backend use than was once the case, but I don't think .NET is conventionally understood to be backend-specific in any general sense.
I had trouble getting past:
"Imagine a heavy, cast-iron kettlebell. If you put it on top of a paper cup, it crushes the cup. Put it on top of a concrete block and the concrete block supports it just fine. But if you lift that kettlebell repeatedly (with good form), you will get stronger. The paper cup is fragile, the concrete block is robust, and your body is antifragile (even if it doesn’t always feel that way)."

If you put (for some value of "put" - i.e. drop from 6 inches) a kettlebell on the human head, you will discover that the human body isn't all that antifragile.

Honestly the word I think the author is looking for is "diversified."
Holy shit, I'm in NYC and $175k is pretty good for a financial, for Florida it looks amazing.
Android has find my phone as well.
Damn the formatting/design of your site is fantastic.
I think you're underestimating the power and lobby of the disability association in America. There's a reason ADA exists in the first place.

If it's a clear cut case of discrimination, their association would help out. And the bad PR alone would not be worth to the company.
For the sake of argument, let's just say that tomorrow Taiwan is suddenly taken over by another country and TSMC is no longer an option. Everything flowing from Taiwan just stops, despite agreements or money spent. That becomes null and void. I'm not sure what good cash on hand will do them within x years of that event happening, should it. It seems Apple is putting more and more of their eggs in TSMC's basket and it seems TSMC is the only company who can get Apple where it wants/needs to be. At least currently. From what I can tell Apple is totally coupled and reliant on TSMC at this point. Only a few of the upper end product lines are still using Intel processors and you know they'll soon be gone, but they are a very small part of Apples total market share by revenue at this point anyway.
I love that this is so light and that the tires are low friction. Would result in a big reduction in non-emission based particulate matter.