skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your anti-trust point and I agree to some extent.

But this is not something you can blame on Apple. You need to go to your politicians. You can't expect a company to self-regulate its dominance position.

In general I believe a much better way of dealing with this form of dominance is taxing the dominant companies agressively and use that money to fund open source competition.
I value my time and attention. For example, right now I can work on a project that would impress my managers. Or I can work on what I think is the pressing, fundamental problem. Both are trade offs but I feel weird when I have to be blind to my own interests. What am I doing with all that money?
Yes, and I think the parent was pointing out that denormalization is often a premature optimization that makes the data schema an unreadable/unmaintainable mess to save a few CPU instructions. The normalized schema is answering the question of "how to organize your data". Denormalizing that schema is an attempt at optimization.
I've been into the restricted areas of an airport - there's actually less security than for a normal passenger going to a gate.
It's a lesser problem, but there are also less opportunities to accumulate wealth rapidly.

Lots of folks I know get FatFIRE (>=$5MM assets, $200k/year in income at 4% SWR) in the US and then retire to Portugal [1] (which has universal healthcare, and gets you access to the EU).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_Golden_Visa
With the current options for health insurance plans, this depends largely on your other expenses.

To explain, your "income" in early retirement is a combination of money you're converting from an IRA to a Roth IRA, capital gains (as you sell investments to cover expenses) and dividends on your taxable brokerage account. If your expenses are in the $40-50k range annually, you might only be paying on conversion income, and relatively low taxes on long-term capital gains. Overall, you can qualify for health insurance subsidies at this level of taxation, and get a pretty good plan without a lot of out of pocket expenses.

Here's one example of an article going into the details:

https://rpgplanner.com/aca-tax-credits/
The Limitations of Automation
My first paid developer job was writing backend code for what I would later learn was the Canadian mafia. I was doing some backend and embedded work to build super shitty gambling kiosks for them. They already had some person "managing" project and the Indian contract house that was building flash games for the kiosk. He was useless, so I was stuck figuring everything out. Including getting things running on a then obsolete HP Itanium Integrity server with an old insecure version of Fedora on it. Plus figuring out how this was all going to work in the Dominican Republic where power was not a given at any particular time nor was connectivity. These kiosks would be scattered across 10's of casinos down there.

Eventually things got weird, and I figured out that it was probably a form of scam against their investors. Since they wanted things very insecure and unlogged. Then they wanted me to come down to the DR and help with setup there. I bounced at that point, I was unwilling to give them that sort of power over me. They were in with the former president down there and I would have been at their mercy.

10 ish years later I would hear from the "manager" again. He wanted me to help with an automated locker system. I helped a bit but once he begged me to go to an ATT store and recharge his prepaid phone I was done with him. (I did recharge his phone because I am a sucker for a sob story)

If someone seems scummy, DO NOT work for them. Your gut is probably telling you something.

That said, a good work ethic and a baptism by fire where you have to do everything can be an effective way to get your start.
Sure but who decides...
I doubt many people here know the leaders of the CCP, the president of former president of America, or many other people but go on making judgements about them all through this site. So it’s only when someone disagrees with your opinion you want to police their opinion?
Ask HN: Instructions to Update to Sam 1.25?
Where I work has received a message from AWS support: "Update all existing SAM CLI installations to version 1.25 or later", searching for this gives one-or-two hits, which makes me suspicious. Anyone else had the same? Any idea what the actual issue is?

I half-suspect a phishing attack on a recently discovered vulnerability in 1.25, please tell me that's just paranoia ...
One good step would be to stop romanticizing everything it touches as being glamorous.
From what I have calculated, the savings from universal care vs insurance are negated by higher taxes
I agree.

But a material chunk of the $14M belongs to the government (not available for the individual to spend).

If someone takes out a $2M loan at the age of 58, and retires at 59 (before any of it is paid back), do you think that should be money considered in a retirement calculation?
> So, where is the software engineer Barbie?

Barbie tend to be on the social conservative side.
What are the biggest design traps that Access fell into? If someone were rebuilding spreadsheets with more structured design like Access, what should they avoid?
I can't believe this is controversial. Go to any airport. You'll see dozens of people eating sandwiches from Ziplock bags. Do they look like they're from Wolfgang Puck?
While from a technology point of view this is very interesting, I would really prefer an option to pay a reasonable subscription fee to have adverts turned off for me.

Before Facebook bought WhatsApp it actually used to require a small annual fee, but it was removed.

Alas, I fear that as tends be the case with advertising companies, they know that the willing to pay users are the most valuable advert audience, so are unlikely to give anyone an option to opt out.

On an unrelated note, I wish that YouTube offered a "no adverts" subscription option, I don't want to have to pay the full price for their premium package when I watch very little YouTube and the only thing I want from it is the lack of adverts.
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Oh yeah. One situation we will avoid - deorbiting other peoples things without their permission. Its international waters out there and if you attempt to dock for example with a Russian rocket upper stage, (as a US company) that would be an act of war. No bueno. Lots of regulatory innovation needs to (and we think will) occur over the next 5-10 years to ensure a sustainable space environment!
> These resulting computations are left in an encrypted form

As opposed to "read information from encrypted sets of data"
Half of Americans won't get vaccinated. 2/3 or more aren't listening to the muddled, mealy-mouth messages that change every other day. Some people are still wearing masks where it doesn't matter (outside) and others refuse. It's a public health disaster created by bad leadership.
Depends on what is covered under universal health care.

In Canada, doctors and hospitals are covered. But if you need a lot of drugs, you might need to keep working. You also need to budget for dental and vision, as those are also tied to employment agreements.
As long as it's not clearly hateful, universities typically allow greater freedom of expression than you normally get in a commercial organization, because the ability to criticize the zeitgeist and common sense belief is critical to the development of the arts & sciences.

Of course, there is typically a tension between allowing academic freedom and pleasing whoever holds the purse strings. University administrations often have to very carefully balance between upsetting their income sources and devolving into a propaganda machine.
The HTTP client itself is trustworthy to the extent that static code can be. The data it acquires through requests is not.

Same with user input code. You can trust your implementation to the extent of static type checking and analysis. You can't trust anything a user entered into your system. Those are examples of the externals that I stated you can't trust.
Python No-SQL API
That's not true, I care about them at a personal level. I would probably have heated discussions about the benevolence of Apple with (some) of them, but it would be in a similar spirit to that of a discussion about football

I keep regular correspondence with many of my iOS users and I consider them to be my friends. They've helped me shape Groups' current form in many ways. I am thankful
There are literally millions of Twitter accounts posting puerile sinophobic memes/spam on Twitter on a daily basis. It's a billion-dollar industry; the USG just earmarked $1.5B specifically for anti-China propaganda [1]. Not that Gerber was getting paid for it--he's a small fish.

[1] - https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7937...
You can usually buy them on planes too, for like $5. They are truly truly horrible, but cheap.
NumPy views: saving memory, leaking memory, and subtle bugs
They both rely on the same mechanism though, just different impact and intent.
So saying positive things about a good product makes him a shill? That’s a pretty low bar you set. Does this apply to all things in your life?
> why it's important to showcase diverse careers and individuals

You see people of all genders of every profession on TV and everywhere else already, a few dolls parading aside won't make much impact.
This doesn’t help those dependent on illicit substances, which tend to become a necessary coping mechanism once financial disenfranchisement becomes constant survival stress and days sort of start blurring together because of the PTSD symptoms.

Have you ever HAD to survive on that kind of diet?
To avoid repeating myself, I'll link a reply to a sibling comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28062162

The gist is that lowering your other expenses and qualifying for ACA could dramatically lower your health insurance expenses as well.
> What's going on with this entire awful thread? A bunch of Apple fanboys crucifying the developer for refusing to play by Apple's rules?

I mean they are playing by Apple's rules (they support Apple ID on iOS), all they are "refusing" is refusing to allow users to login to their Groups account using Apple ID on a different platform that supports it. That's their prerogative but they aren't sticking to Apple, they are sticking it to their users all while pretending they are standing up to "the man".

> The developer has every right to do what they did, they don't own you or Apple a thing.

This is true, that doesn't mean they are immune from criticism from their decision, especially a decision they took the time to blog about and post to HN.

> Stop acting so entitled and just fuck off.

There is nothing entitled in the comment you are responding to, just facts about what they are doing to their own users.
For Azure Sphere OS’s user-land components we opted to use EASTL b/c of its small footprint. I don’t recall any major issues arising in the two years I worked there.
I have read about a dozen and a half articles about capex vs. opex, and it still makes absolutely no sense to me why companies prefer paying over double for opex what they'd pay for equivalent capex over the same lifecycle.

Either corporate accounting is some mystical art that makes money appear where there isn't if certain practices are followed, or there's some collective mass delusion that opex is just better? I don't know, it's a concept that truly baffles me.
ACA plans in my state expose you to over $20,000 in annual risk, for a family plan. That's assuming you don't end up with a huge "out of network" bill by accident (and their networks are terrible, so that's very possible). I think the "gold" plan is a little better (though a much worse deal if you're having to pay the full premium, overall) but I'm not sure how much income-based help you get for the top-tier (and still quite bad, compared to group plans at employers around here) plan.
They have more of an opportunity to prevent carjackings than the drivers do. For example, they could require enough information to create an account that if you stole a car using your account you'd be immediately identified and reported to the police by name.

The downside of this is that it decreases Uber's revenue. If Uber realizes the benefits of low security in their app, but not the costs, they have to incentive to take these or any other precautions. Making Uber responsible for the negative externalities of its service means that they have to take them into account when determining how to maximize profit.
Why they can't just use ads without the targeting...
> because the apparent simplicity is built using highly complex systems.

More complex than humans, with wives, kids, need for downtime, hazard pay, insurance requirements, mental and physical limitations, and so on? A lot of the complexity of humans is invisible to us because we're just used to it.
That was it, thank you.
I would assume it was a reply to a popular comment, and it being a cartoon increases visibility for people clicking through.

Also not impossible that some paid or highly motivated people would reverse image search the picture in question and try to make problems for the people posting it.

I do also think that posting a racist cartoon is grounds for a professor to cut their ties to a PhD student. A PhD student isn't worth that much, and standing by them through accusations of racism is probably not worth the risk.
You're more likely to have to deal with weather in the short term, as others have said, get to know your neighbors. Perhaps join or start a community network. (Network of people, not computers)
Why is this on Github if I still need an API and cannot run it locally since the actual code is not public?

Or is this some sort of „source available“ content marketing nonsense?
Incredible that something has trivial as "a doctor doll" is seen here as controversial or propaganda.

Makes me wonder what propaganda is going on in the comments.
Research is done by researchers, and they hardly carry a phonendoscope.

For the record:

Duties of a doctor

Monitoring and caring for patients in hospitals and clinics
Investigating, diagnosing and treating the health conditions of patients
Prescribing and reviewing patients’ medication
Taking accurate notes, as a legal record and for other healthcare professionals to use
Working with other doctors, healthcare professionals and management staff
Educating people about their health
Teaching and supervising trainee doctors.

More senior doctors may also:

Manage a team or department and organise workloads
Research and review processes.

source: https://www.bellerbys.com/guides/careers/hospital-doctor
YouTube seem to be testing it in Europe.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22605455/youtube-premium-l...
You'd be surprised to learn that the 1st Amendment is the strongest it has ever been: I'd recommend reading Anthony Lewis's "Freedom for the Thought That We Hate." It covers how people were imprisoned for criticizing the government from as late as the early 1800s to the early 20th century in the United States. The power of the 1st Amendment is a new concept.
My plan is:

- Move to America, become rich

- Move back to Canada, retire

- Win

:P
Of course, if you bothered to read the posted article, the author takes the "decline of Rome" perspective and rejects medievalists' "change and continuity" perspective.
I would nominate the National Park Service as a potential candidate for a federal agency with both public awareness and bipartisan approval.
Unless you go to great efforts to shelter, the couple of million in assets will provide an income that exceeds anything considered "not much income". His stated desire to spend the income is going to greatly complicate sheltering efforts.
Is it wrong for Mattel to do this? Wouldn’t most companies do a press push when they release a new product? I don’t see how this is any different than an article about the latest Apple product.
Governments and corporations that have access to private and/or protected information have dealt with this problem for decades. I would be surprised had Google not years ago established policies to deal with misuse or improper/illegal access to information.

Information systems are very open to snooping by programmers and tech staff, however. Ultimately some (usually small) group of employees must be trusted more (but never completely) b/c they have access to the network, programming or databases. Audit trails, logs, encryption and yes, "internal affairs departments" all play a role in maintaining a secure system so that even the god-like programmers must be careful not to overreach.

I've never heard of a reference to "Google IAD" but I certainly hope one exists.
> 100k is literally double the average salary for the US, and 3 times the median wage.

I'm not sure what source you're using, but no, it isn't even double the median US salary ($56k): https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

It's good money, don't get me wrong, but it's not immediately worth it if you spend $200k paying for law school.

Edit: I misread the data above, but I'm finding similar numbers from other sources, so I guess it depends on where you look. Regardless, you're correct in your overall point, I just wanted to point out that a $100k salary does not necessarily make it worth going to law school.

With that said, you're right: if your goal is to go into law to make money, it shouldn't be very difficult earn well into the six figures a few years in. I imagine most competent lawyers earning less than that are working in public defense or a similarly underpaid aspect of law, knowing the tradeoff. For reference, the median salary for software engineers is only $110k, but that is clearly on the low end of what a competent engineer can make after even just 5 years in the industry.
Worked for one of these that moved to Australia from the UK!
This is not a problem any more - with the ACA, you can get excellent health insurance plans nowadays.
The article is primary about two Australian women who served as models for those toys.
I find a lot of people create micro-services when a simple library would suffice. An "authentication" micro-service might make sense in some contexts, but in almost every real-world situation I've been in, this would be better as a library.
I understand your point. I'd expect the old version to have been reviewed when it was introduced into the system just as the new version should be. Of course, that doesn't guarantee something won't slip in.

Running private package infrastructure with audited dependencies isn't a panacea to stopping supply chain attacks. I do believe it's an effective defense-in-depth tactic for the reasons others have discussed.

An additional supporting tactic that should be done is to tightly control egress traffic. Like ingress traffic, all egress traffic should be denied by default. From there, traffic should be whitelisted. That makes it more difficult to exfiltrate data or communicate with command and control infrastructure. Tight control on egress traffic also makes it easier to alert on unexpected connection attempts. That all said, locking down egress traffic can be a pain. It also isn't a panacea. Where there’s a will there’s a way.
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Hearing a lot about monolith vs. microservices, can someone shed some light how "pluggable/plug-in driven monoliths" fit in? To Quote Martin Fowler on monoliths:

> Change cycles are tied together - a change made to a small part of the application, requires the entire monolith to be rebuilt and deployed.

But this is not true. I worked at some C# "monolith" ~2010ish, and we used MEF framework to build pluggable .dll files that you could just "drop" into the deployment folder. As long as you stuck to the same interfaces (through a shared interfaces project) you could build and ship individual parts of the application in separate teams. Even exceptions could not harm the full system (when they were properly caught in the host) - and segfaults shouldn't happen in a managed system (but yes, they did, mostly through P/Invokes).

I always liked the good old "Winamp model" where you would just drop some dlls and got new visualization plugins enabled - each more different than the other.
> So, where is the software engineer Barbie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Engineer_Barbie

> Computer Engineer Barbie is the 126th career version of Mattel's Barbie doll. In response to poll results indicating strong support for computer engineers, the doll set was created and introduced in 2010.
True, but if you read Brian's book, he provides more details and color: nroff was the first real Unix application, and the first PDP-11 was purchased by the patent dept on the understanding that the Unix group would develop nroff. roff pre-dates Unix and didn't have the capabilities required by the patent group (automatically add line numbers to printed documents).
Unfortunately this will probably run afoul of Git's trademark:

"In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service without Conservancy's written permission. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision applies even to third-party marks that use the Marks as a syllable or as part of a portmanteau to refer to a product or service's use of Git code."

How enforceable that is... I'm not a lawyer.

https://git-scm.com/about/trademark (section 2.3)
awareness but not relevance. This is similar to the CDC pre-pandemic: oh yeah they're out there stopping ebola or something.
Will $80k a year be enough for any lifestyle? That's the question I struggle with. It's more than enough in today's dollars. But I have no idea what will happen with inflation and costs between now and retirement day. Maybe by the time I retire, $80k/yr will be poverty level. Maybe health insurance premiums alone will cost $80k/yr. Who knows! What will the value of the dollar be and to what extent will healthcare costs have grown? It makes it impossible to set a target. All those "save for retirement" online tools start with that nonsensical question: "How much income will you need in retirement?" How the F should I know? I can't predict the future.

EDIT: Yes, SOME tools will account for inflation by asking you what you think inflation might be between now and retirement day. (Who knows?) Most don't account for costs that will rise much faster than inflation, like housing and health care.
Yep that's what I meant.
Isn't there client side code in every Whatsapp client that analyzes your messages and sends data to FB for ad targeting?

I know for a fact they can block certain message content from being sent. So at least a hash of every message is sent to FB. This isn't very far from it.
Isn't victim culture (somewhat legitimately) a core part of the modern Chinese national spirit?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
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