skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, this is why I think specialization is a bad idea. It means that minor refactors can have very strange impacts on performance, and that every API now has an (often undocumented) set of types for which it is unexpectedly much more performant.
Gasp, are you saying anyone worried about getting caught simply could encrypt their photos first and this system won’t work? So an extra step for the bad guy, a system that is invasive for all users, and a system that is easily avoided by the bad guy. What are you doing Apple, this feels like a cheating partner here.
You can buy a home for 7 figures cheaper if you leave silicon valley. Why are you worried about a water bill/
There needs to be some thought into how it works with Enums too. Rust currently has no built in standard for enum defaults (you have to implement default yourself). It would be nice to somehow mark one of the variants to be represented with the 0 discriminant (Like how Option::None is implemented)
A Survey of Mathy Jobs
Or it could be that technology companies will start to use the investment banking model. Where the only way to tell if someone will make a good investment banker is to see if they can spend 100 hours a week in the office doing the most mundane work for a couple of years.
> Therefore your math doesn't add up. 2hr commute against 8 hours of work is not a 25% increase.

What? Going from 8 to 10 hours is absolutely a 25% increase. 10 is 125% of 8
I've worked from home for almost 12 years now, and I have always thought about the reverse. How much of an increase in pay would it take for me to go back into the office? Probably about 20% at least. If I were working in an office with a 2 hour commute I'd definitely take that 10% paycut to live a much better life.
I mean, if they were paying him 10% more based on home location and commuting then there is a somewhat reasonable argument to be made.

But of course, almost none of these companies are actually paying the people who live further away more, it's just management trying to enforce their will over the "peons".

Our company is trying to force everyone back into the office 5 days a week. Their arguments for doing so were "projects have been late" and pointed at projects that were delayed due to unrelated external supplier reasons as justification.

They claim the benefit of people paying less to heat their houses, as though people don't have pets/family.

My working theory is that the upper management's jobs are more boring, and harder to coast on, when they can't "count heads" and have the illusion of progress. It's really exposed good and bad managers this past 1.5 years.

In theory, this is exactly what unions are supposed to be for, I guess we'll see from this if the ones that are there, are worth anything.
Given what we know about longer hours and productivity, plus Google’s low retention figures, I’m going to go with the latter.
maybe it's OK in the short term - they can keep the lights on keep current initiatives going - but it might have an impact on the process for developing new strategic initiatives. people can be 'productive' in one sense, but it might still be in the interest of the company to have some class of workers 'on site' vs WFH as a default.

I'm not saying this is definitely the case in google's situation, just... "effect on productivity" is hard to measure, and may have more than one measurement.
Ah. "Employment Contracts" are not really a thing in most of the US, at least not like they are in Europe.

Yes, employers will have you sign an official looking employment agreement, which basically serves as documentation that they're currently compensating you at X rate, and that you agree to be bound by specific employer rules (like employee handbooks / policies / etc).

Those are not legally binding contracts. At-will workers can leave at any time and can be fired at any time for any reason or no reason, aside from for specific things protected by law (like organizing a union drive, or reporting sexual harassment)
He Got Canceled for Words, Not Homicide, Robbery, and Assault
I'm not sure myself, I just know they push Graphene pretty heavily on the No Agenda show.
I think people overestimate the short term impact of C-levels in these giant organizations. Google isn't run like a startup anymore. There is an existing compensation structure at place that pays employees differently based on the location they are working in. The HR and legal department has probably a pretty firm stance on assuring these structures are applied fairly and unequivocally. And if the C-suit is presented the options of cutting pay of some or raising pay of many others, we all know what a business would go for.
S8E18 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (granted, a left leaning show) had a rather interesting section into Housing discrimination ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_discrimination_in_th... )

I think most people, right or left leaning, could agree to recognize that as systemic racism?
This might be a good heuristic if we were talking about a factory job, but this is a job at a tech company. Competition for talent is pretty fierce, a good enough reason not to cut someone's salary is that it's likely they can go elsewhere and make what they're making now, plus a signing bonus.
Good! The technology to pull co2 from the air already exists and the cost is not a whole lot higher than the current wholesale price from capturing it from ethanol refineries. It won’t take much in the way of increases before people start sucking it out of the air.
Fair enough, but that basically means no more employees in the US
> One of my real pet hates is software developers who assume everyone's running their software on an excellent internet connection.

That could be said for a lot of assumptions developers make. Everyone has 32GB of ram, everyone has an SSD, everyone has an i7...

It is an old problem, but like almost everything else in computing for some reason it seems to have become much worse since about 2010.
> Is a life of mindless clicking ever going to be as good as a real one, spent in the company of real people who aren’t endlessly distracted?

Maybe not but is that really the alternative? If we're allowed to use intuition then my intuition is that people haven't replaced this wholesome cliche of friendship with mindless clicking; they have replaced mindless TV with mindless clicking.
Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs
I have noticed, more and more, energy concerns (like NS Energy seems to be) attempting to discredit environmental groups with this exact accusation:

"We, the energy industry, came up with a Green Solution but environmental groups stopped it for reasons x, y, z"

Where x, y, z is some plausible, fungible combination of "they care more about the spotted owl/some other endangered species" and "they care more about punishing us than being solution-focused" and "it's more of a modern-day religion" -- whatever the reader needs to be willing to accept the energy industry's story about how they're trying to do better but it's the environmental groups' fault.

What's interesting about this to me is, where seeing the propaganda round the Iraq War was obvious and obviously crafted, this is much sneakier.

But I think you'll see this more and more -- the energy industry is trying to solve our environmental problems, they say, and would be able to lead us to a greener world if not for those irrational, quasi-religious, badly-prioritizing environmental groups.
I'm very lucky to be able to work from home in my current contract, and it'll probably continue to be like this for another year if I manage to renew it. However I'm not kidding myself, I know as soon as I land a new contract I'll most likely be required to commute. A lot of people I know are already being required to go to the office some days a week, or will be required to do so from September.

The past year has been one of the most productive times of my life, both at work and outside of work, but I reckon productivity is only one of many variables that most employers take into consideration, and perhaps not the most important. I guess they don't even measure productivity by how much you do, but by how much you cost?
Calculators in calculus probably aren't a problem.

But in the US, calculators are used at almost all grade levels. My son's school allowed them while he was in elementary school, while still learning basic algebra.

As for math education in general (in the US), it's pretty terrible. The lack of practical applications of "advanced" maths is a big problem. Basic calculus didn't "click" for me until I started taking economics courses in college.
One difference being that vue templates appear to be hard to make type-safe i.e. hard to benefit from type-checking, whereas jsx is syntactic sugar for JS, and supported by typescript.

I'd rather have jsx, all else being equal.
A home that has AC running half of the day will use a lot less energy in total than one running all day long. There are substantial efficiency losses from heat leaking in, which will be exacerbated by trying to maintain a larger temperature delta 24 hours of each day. A house is not a perfect temperature battery on the scale of hours, far from it.
They improve at knowing mathematics, not raw pattern recognition ability.
Directly: executives higher up. And at the highest level, the shareholders. The last is a bit tenuous because shareholder capitalism is more of an aspiration than reality.

But that line of argument could only argue for extravagant CEO pay, not high pay for executive in general. (Especially since CEOs get a lot of their pay in shares, so are incentived to get the shareholders more money; eg by driving lower ranking executives' pay down.)

Indirectly: competition between companies and workers (including executives) determines pay.
A Practical Guide to Growing Your Open Source Project: Part 2 – Community
Solution: Don't buy Apple.
Oh it’s definitely a sellers market. Ask anyone who runs draft systems or a brewery, prices have already increased quite a bit.
Farmland in the US has been going away for years, and getting turned into developments and urban sprawl.
My favorite example is compound interest. Imagine having to solve a compound interest test to get a credit card. It seems like a basic precaution to me (like a driving license), but yet I’m not convinced all in the US can do it.
I'm interested and excited...... For the train crash. Love Mike's energy, but think he got sucked into being told what he wanted to be told by some people, and this ends poorly.

I would be interested in a HN take on his "evidence" when it comes out today
I have come to call:

[A] a = A
[A] b = [[A]]
[A] [B] c = [A B]
[A] d = [A] [A]
[A] e =
[A] [B] f = [B] [A]

This the minimal Joy.

[[db]fbcabc[da]cfc]da

This program is one I most like.

Vg vf gur cnenqbkvpny pbzovangbe.
Google owns the buildings.. they bought them outright.
Yeah, it would be a total no-brainer. Especially given that we're likely talking about a six-figure salary in the first place…
Is there a public data set of these salary bands?
Combining that with housing data would allow one to optimize the salary-to-expense ratio. I think that’d be a valuable service.
OH! That's of course right.

I wasn't precise enough. The Wikipedia page talks actually about "positive" integers, and I transformed this in my head to what should be written there.

Original quote:

> !x enumerate the positive integers less than x.
Because if you live in a richer part (=higher costs), you'll lose a job, lose your house and end up on the street, because you'll be replaced by someone from middleofnowhere.
New battery chemistry tweak could double EV range
I am big Cormac McCarthy fan.

Blood Meridian is a tale about the impact of a crate of new technology.
I hate hate hate iTunes. My biggest gripe with iPhone has always been that I don't have direct access to my OS files. I have to spend an inordinate amount of time 'syncing' my device instead of just copying a few tracks to it.
>Industry produces 30GT of carbon dioxide per year and we’re supposed to believe that the market for CO2 is a “sellers market”

Maybe because the typical CO2 buyer wants concentrated CO2 and not the shit that comes out of a smokestack?
If employers have the right to make arbitrary compensation changes for future work, they they should lose any rights to enforce non-competition clauses in employee agreements. Non-competition introduces asymmetric decision-making since the employee cannot arbitrarily decide to leave for a matter as straightforward as a compensation change because they will no longer be able to work in their desired industry or market or job role.
'Back in the day' this was done by using a serial cable attached to a Nokia 3810 or similar handset and speaking AT commands.

Gnokii was the tool...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnokii

It was great for out-of-band network monitoring.
A false positive will not have any effect. The threshold system they have means that they won’t be able to decrypt the results unless there are many separate matches.
Comic Book Writers and Artists Follow Other Creators to Substack
One Rogue User Took Down Our API
People collectively don't seem to know how to value their labor. If anything, they should argue for a pay increase to offset the costs Google is externalizing in utilities, on-site benefits, need for security, food, space, etc.

If Google is progressive, they should buck the trend and do something like build sound-proof office-apartments that employees can hotel in for a few days at a time, and allow children. That would be worth a 10% "pay cut" to at least some of the people they want to remain on site.

We're in a new world. There's no reason to make employees suffer because someone did things a certain way a generation or two ago.
Q1) Is apple responding to government lawmakers:

EARN IT seeks to deal with the scourge of online child exploitation by coercing service providers to more aggressively police such content on their platforms. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/339...
Similar laws in UK and others.

Maybe this will short circuit the need for a government backdoor to snoop in icloud photos?

Q2) Didn't people agree to no illegal KP with the icloud TOS? Doesn't all this do is move the scanning from apple's servers to the distributed ARM processors?

Q3) Is that more environmentally friendly or less? I am sure it is cheaper for apple to have the iphone scan than add additional servers, cooling, space, etc.

If one doesn't use icloud photos this does not affect them, for now.
Me too.

A; maybe, I'm not sure what extra that does above LTE.

B; I guess you could get a different phone that doesn't have it, for a little while longer.
> China is incredibly strong

yeah, as Ming,Urss,Plc were strong. Lets wait the post covid era and the burst of real estate bubble
Practically every ~10yo or newer sedan, wagon and "wagon pretending to be a crossover" you see is going to get nearly 30mpg (or more).

You need a heck of a lot of 10-15mpg vehicles to drag the fleet average down to 22. Most white collar employees who own trucks aren't commuting in them and even then there's more people commuting in 40+mpg subcompacts and hybrids so it should more than balance out.

Look at a high class parking garage, 22mpg just doesn't pencil out. 28-30mpg sounds believable.
Yeah, I couldn't even get through Autumn Twilight, the lack of nuance and the straight up good vs evil schtick really annoyed me. I guess Steven Erikson has spoiled me ;)
That sounds like a pretty minor gripe and really more of a matter of taste. I believe I read the creator of Svelte say he prefers it this way because it makes creating Web Components out of a svelte component more straight forward.
If I installed a really bright light source on two opposite ends of the observable universe and timed everything correctly, I could make it seems like the point traveled across the universe in a fraction of a second. Same idea, same flawed logic. Nothing actually moved.
> And now that the ESP wakes up everyday, it could also look for public Wifis and send and receive emails. From the Wifi-providers name you can get a rough idea of the location.

Even better, use the Google Maps GeoLocaion API. You can send a list of nearby WiFi APs, with MAC addresses, signal strengths, and channels, and the API will return lat/long.
MapReduce is a useful tool in some contexts, but the the hype surrounding it always felt like people patting themselves on the back for re-inventing relational algebra.
Current management practices are very inefficient. When not actively engaging with subordinates, most of the rest of their time is finger fiddling (meetings and what-not with other managers and such take up the remainder of their time, but those meetings themselves are usually not as productive as they would let on). They need subs in seats or they'll have to admit how inefficient their job is.
Pissing off your employees and finding excuses to cut salary is what a "sane" company does? Sounds short sighted at best.
But when you accelerate even more, it will be C++.
LaunchDarkly raises $200M Series D at $3B Valuation
-Apple "lagged behind" because it built private and secure services it could not monitor by design. This is a feature, not a bug.

-Facebook's reporting overwhelmingly flags burner accounts signed up via tor etc, only absolute idiots would post actual CP on their real name account on facebook.

-Apples solution is highly invasive and dangerous, and your statement about "only running with iCloud upload" is false. It took less than a week for Apple to announce that they will open these APIs to 3rd party apps.
Letting people in less fortunate countries work for foreign multinationals would give them more alternatives.

Compare also https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/
There's something fishy:
1) at the download apk page it does talk about GPS tracking...
2) the apk in the file name has "noAnalytics" but when fired up there were found references to analytics and Google connections
A smartphone is not a requirement for life.
I think mental arithmetic is one of those things that simply requires vast amounts of practise. I’m quite slow at it, but when I’m forced to do a lot of it, say for keeping score. I quickly get faster.

I too was much better at applied maths and stats. It was fairly easy for me. But my brain just shuts down doing pure math.
Thank you. I guess I was lucky my dad is a MIPT alumnus.
> Is a life of mindless clicking ever going to be as good as a real one, spent in the company of real people who aren’t endlessly distracted?

Is a life engaging with rich virtual worlds ever going to be good as a real one, spent in the company of bitter old farts who just want to complain about things?

> Is a sunset through a lens ever as satisfying or heart wrenching as a real one?

Is a beautiful artist driven sunset scene more satisfying than your cloudy real life nothing over a boring looking town?

It's all relative. There are definitely cases where a technological interaction is better than a natural one.
It's not only slower to read but requires much more context to understand. Take a look at the Rosetta code page for Fibonacci [1]. For most languages you'll be able to mostly identify what each part is doing. They rely on concepts that most programmers consider intuitive. K relies on a completely different set of knowledge that you need to have to even start to grasp what the code is doing.

1: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence
OpenTracker is absolutely great and under one of the best licenses -> Beerware

https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
You already get this with optimizing compilers. They do not guarantee to optimize all equivalent patterns equally.
Yes, perhaps. So a carbon tax is still a good idea. (And so is removing things like minimum parking requirements.)
I live in NYC and don't own a car. All my errands are done on foot and by bike, and I'm using relatively little power because I live in a big apartment building.

If I lived in the suburbs and had to use a car for most trips, then my carbon footprint would be substantially higher, even without having to commute. This map gets to the heart of the issue: https://twitter.com/TheJakeSchmidt/status/142478272240963174...
Google and YouTube roll out new protections for teens
As a counterexample, my company pays us 3€ per day that we WFH in order to compensate for using personal resources. They are also paying for necessary equipment such as office chair, monitor, etc.

Than again I presume almost everyone in this thread is speaking about American companies, not that it doesn't happen elsewhere, but generally these (as you put it, "sane") company stories tend to be in the US.
Yeah it does look, walk and quack a bit like propaganda. If CO2 demand were high enough we wouldn’t be in this mess, because there would have been an incentive to sequester it in the first place.

It’s possible some co2 users are affected by badly thought out policies but they will also be affected by a parallel increase in supply as less of the co2 production is released into the air and incentives to do something with it are added so any such situation is very temporary.
> I am not expert but I read that there were Ughyur uprisings.

They must have said that pork is haram!
>that has not been verified nor ever reported on by a news publication)

How could it be? The list is literally property of the secret police, you can't know what's on it. No one can audit it except the police themselves.
templates are still stringly-typed, aren't they?

And that whole extra language just for templates is annoying, and unnecessary. I don't want a v-else-if="level ==== 6", because I'm going to make typos, and I want the ability to refactor code in the future without painstakingly reviewing every string in the codebase.

How good is the jsx integration in practice? It's there, but the vue docs recommend against it, without going into details of the motivation.
Interesting but how is this as an alternative to Apache Flink's stream processing model?
Nhost – open-source Firebase alternative with GraphQL
> Google was previously known in the wider world for imposing longer than average work days under the guise of "you love it here at the office we have pingpong and rock climbing".

Honesty, in my experience this impression is just desperate cope from people with worse work environments. My time at Google was the easiest/most relaxing of my career by far. Hell, that's why I left.

But whenever people would ask me about all the flashy perks and I'd confirm we had them, 100% of the time they'd follow up by _telling_ me (not asking): "they work you like a dog though". It was an early and dramatic lesson in how powerfully people are chained to the just-world fallacy: their emotional incontinence was severe enough that it literally prevented them from conceiving of a work environment that was simply more pleasant than theirs.

Google's perk-filled environment doesn't need to be explained by anything but golden handcuffs + productivity boosts from having recreation/convenience onsite.
As non-legally binding contracts, can employers force employees to sign them? If they can, then would they have force of law? If not, then how can employers enforce non-competition, non-solicitation, non-disparagement, and non-disclosure clauses?
"shifting of images"

So much truth, not once I was trying to click on some image that had link underneath, and it suddenly moved to some other place and I ended clicking something different.
Some states, like California, do place stricter limits or outright on non-competes, and it's gaining steam in other places.

Worker's rights in the US are generally terrible so it's a giant patchwork of varying quality.
Once they know you are ready to settle for 10% less. The next step is to go after the next 10%.

The only reason why are they are not going for a straight 40% cut is because they want to phase it out over time. Else lots of people would leave and they'd have to find their replacement.
Do you have numbers on how much of an issues that is?
One solution is don't use Apple products?
I think most players would disagree