skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why _should_ an engineer working from Seattle, where rent is ~2k for a 1bd, not get paid more than the engineer working from Bentonville,

Why _should_ they do get payed more.

If home office is a standard it's their decision to live in a expensive area.

People are payed for the work they do, not because they live in a privileged area. You could go as far as say it's a form of discrimination to pay people depending on where they live.

I mean are you next reducing payments for people transmuting a lot because they live in a cheaper area.

And then shouldn't you also pay less to people owning property because they have long term less living cost?

The actual problem is Silicon Valley and similar places being completely out of balance.
I specifically refer to these two events:

Post 2010:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_global_surveill...

Which culminated in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...

Post 2021:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM

At least in Sweden, there is ongoing discussion to legislate Police mass surveillance capability at the expense of individual freedom.
Why do you think that? In fact i do exactly that for my company since beginning of the year and the code looks and runs better than everything we had before.
> Silicon Valley was a place of innovation

ftfy.

In general I agree with your sentiment but it's not the "innovation" that people are trying to copy. It's the loose regulatory environment and easy access to willing financiers that allow experimentation. Not many other cities have been able to cultivate an enivronment of billion-dollar bets on things.
Yeah, if it's not a power line then something else will start the fires. The problem isn't the initial spark, it's the hundreds of square miles of tinder-dry wildland. Not sure it's a perverse incentive, but it's probably not a productive use of money.

But it's human nature to look for the problems that we are capable of solving, and we know how to bury powerlines. We don't know how to reverse the effects of climate change.
I know they know, i wonder if maybe it was worthy of being mentioned here too
Canada's got the worst internet ideas
Yea, it made HIPAA compliance easy.
On Storage Engines
Are you suggesting CoL has nothing to do with political policy?

People might not want to admit to themselves that they want to be republicans, but they sure want to live wherever republican policy dominates.
>This is the kind of shit I knew was going to happen when they raised money and entered the VC rat race years ago. Things we original users loved, like great apps, would be less of a priority.

At least they weren't "joining" Google or Microsoft.
Remember that time when Facebook fooled the media to repackage their content as short-form video?
Why would you think it should take a few years? The FDIC is deposit insurance that all of the banks pay into, should a single bank go under there’s always plenty of funds available.
Creative usage of shell scripting!
They're planning to bury 10k miles of electric lines, at a price tag of $15-$30B (they have 5.5m customer accounts).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/22/pge-power-l...
Ask HN: Share your favorite links/bookmarks?
That clip isn't the smoking gun you think it is. He doesn't claim that is Hunter's laptop; when asked if he's seen the pictures, he says "this is the hard drive they're on". It could simply be the laptop his copy of the pictures are on.

He probably employed a forensic technician to investigate the laptop, and said technician sent him a copy of the pictures.
That's a nice thing to build, but is having such an accurate clock source at home actually useful for anything?
Haven't you just agreed with me?

The debate is whether they help by 0.001%, 99% or some number inbetween.

And until there's strong evidence then we're back to the precautionary principle (or as I like to put it "just shut-up and where your damn mask")
Unpopular opinion with a lot of my peers, but "fragile local dev environment" is usually a sign of an unwieldy, tightly coupled codebase with a lot of parts, scripts, etc. Trying to hide that complexity with docker or codespaces, etc is just a bandaid in many cases vs dealing with the root issues.
Facebook announces privacy-enhancing technologies
I would quit so fast if my company forced me to use a web IDE.
>nobody seriously uses wet bulb thermometers outside of school experiments because they are such a PITA. It is easier to just measure dry bulb temperature and humidity

How is humidity typically measured? I was under the assumption a hygrometer uses both dry and wet bulb measurements.
That's precisely what we are trying to do. The simple idea of leaving our couches to go and discover the world around us is a plus. Instead of a social netowork, we prefer to think LifeBits is an app to discover the world and it has a social aspect to it so you can benefit from the knowledge of others while at a given place.

Thanks for your perspective and comment.
locked-in to visual studio code? no thanks
It seems Facebook is doing what Amazon does with its workers: Prevent the people from talking to each other, to get a real idea of what the platform is doing to them.

This tool the researchers developed was an opt-in program for people to submit to the researchers what they were served by Facebook. Facebook doesn't want the people, the government, or its competitors realizing the ways in which they serve content to people, or how tolerant they are of lies and hate on their platform if it makes them money.
You literally made a list of all things wrong with NATO... and gave single war mongering point of propaganda view of Western mainstream media during 90'. Honestly I do not know how is this different than what Putin's media does in Russia or Lukashenko's media in Belorussia, so following the same thread of thought I can conclude you are the bot as well - just from the other side.
You have the correct end result, but seemily misunderstand why wages are they way they are.

Google does not pay someone in Seattle more than AR simply because the rent is higher. The reason wages are higher is a result of people in Seattle demanding more money because their costs are higher, and if Google wants to attract talent there they have to offer a wage people will accept, that wage happens to be lower in Bentonville than Seattle

WFH changes the dynamic in that Google can now recruit from anywhere in the US, thus the competition for a given job is higher so in normal times that will mean a lower wage over all

There are many people that would not work for Google in the past in part because they could not or were unwilling to relocate to a city with a Google office, WFH eliminates this need thus more people will be willing to work for Google.
AI21 Studio and Jurassic-1 Language Models
One Week with GitHub Copilot
> but we're missing a crucial number

Exactly. We're lacking a crucial number. So wear a mask.
It's like talking to an estate agent (realtor in the US).
The debt ceiling for Tether is currently set to 0 [0] for dai. And USDC + other stablecoins do partially back it [1].

[0] https://daistats.com/#/collateral

[1] https://dune.xyz/SebVentures/maker---accounting_1
Maintaining faith in the banking sector is of paramount importance to the US, and yes, $250K is the letter but (a) people with more than $250K in a checking account know this and are suitably invested and (b) in the case of WaMu itself, it was simply sold to JPMorgan by the FDIC. They did not even have to draw on the insurance fund.
Unfortunately i don't know plotly and have no experience with dart programming.
Don't be silenced while you still have the freedom in this forum. Even if tar and feathers come out and 70% of HN'ers hate on you, doesn't mean you're not being heard by some.
Executing javascript and being to render a HTML page are completely different things. To render an HTML page you need a way to create a DOM, donwload all ressources, ... An Node gives you no advantage, as you have to use another lib for that
I understand the point you're making, but I'd like to add that even if you accept that potentially stablecoins might avoid some problems a (politically tainted) central bank has, the issue isn't merely one of accepting that possibility, it's also one of lack of evidence and novelty.

Having a bunch of private actors potentially run a huge experiment in which the economic fallout will not be born by them if it goes sideways is entirely unreasonable. I mean, that's kind of the whole problem with banks and their dodgy behavior, and this is no better; if anything it's even more risky since it's even less well understood and there's even less oversight, and fewer ways even a democratically elected government could intervene should the need and popular mandate arise.

I'm all for running that experiment, but then with proper oversight, accountability, transparency, disaster planning, etc - and as much as possible without the conflict of interest caused by having those running the system own large stakes of it too; that's just asking for shady business.
The see an example button on the home page just refreshes the page on both Firefox and Chrome for me on Linux
Why is your experience so different to mine?
This is something I find a lot of web scraping tools miss. Are there any you'd recommend that specifically deal with things like async JavaScript content loading, or loading content based on what you click on a page (e.g., in Single Page Apps)?
Objectively speaking, Facebook has done both great things (e.g. from an engineering/tech perspective) and evil things (we all know). It's good that we honor the good too when we are flaming them for the bad.
You will be violating tax laws by not stating the real location of where you are working.
> Not really if the hardware costs $5 and the software $1000, wouldn't you agree? Also, the same hardware-design can be used for different software products.

I don't really agree. Like in my example of the iLok. The iLok was usually free with any compatible plugin purchase and was certainly cheap to produce. Customers still viewed it as a hardware product. Working at a different studio that day and you forgot your iLok? Tell your customer you can't work with them until you drive back home. Lost your iLok somewhere? You can't work until they next-day ship you a new key. It is not a software product.

> Well, you could tamper-proof it.

I'd say tamper-resistant, you can never really make it tamper-proof. Some youtubers will really surprise you with what they can break into. It also raises production costs more, as you're not buying an off-the-shelf device, and creates more potential customer issues. Is there any chance that if I drop the device, it triggers your tamper-resistant scheme? Etc etc.

It's always a game of cat and mouse with these things. The only way to make something completely un-copyable is to never release it. (even server-only applications can get bootlegged with enough dedication. Look at private MMO servers). Otherwise you're just making it more difficult to do, and have to decide if the tradeoff of deterring piracy is worth the additional costs to research/develop/produce and the potential anger it can cause actual paying customers. Every industry probably has it's own sweet-spot, I don't think it's something that has a one-size-fits-all answer. As much as I would love to say just abandon DRM/copy-protection altogether, there are probably situations where it is a net-positive for the producer.

Just a funny anecdote, but my main project is a SaaS application. We were in a meeting with one company who was demoing something for us, and we caught that they were using my app as one of their dependencies! One of our customers was reselling it to them, through a proxy, obviously against contract. Our company was still really small at the time, it got brought up with the CEO. He decided to just let it slide and to add something to the API response saying that the API was ours and what our website was.
Due to local geography trapping wildfire smoke, last week SLC, UT, USA hit over 200 and even walking to the mailbox without a mask on was uncomfortable. My friends were wearing N95s and respirators when walking to their cars and using the recirculation setting. My HVAC filter was dark with smoke particles.
You are correct. Last time I checked, more than 50% backed by USDC. Makes no sense as the whole point of censorship resistance is defeated.
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A person I do some work for has some of these SGI Indy workstations and monitors sitting in storage somewhere. Pretty sure he would let them go if someone paid shipping cost (would not have hard drives but those are easy to get). If interested reply back or email me (note the email hack)
I'm curious to see if they have finally killed off standalone.

I've been a 1Password user for years but have staunchly resisted going to their subscription model because I want my data local. It's infuriating that 1Password has steadily downplayed standalone versions to the point where it's almost impossible to find.
You can use "kill the newsletter"[0] for this.

[0] https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
I think you'll be very hard pressed to use a tiny device without a mouse or keyboard effectively in Windows. Even Windows 11 contains numerous small and overlapping dialogs with all kinds of UI affordances. None of this is setup for touch. Yes, theoretically, you could get it to work, but it won't be fun. The pop-up keyboard, for example, will likely cover a big part of whatever dialog box you're typing into. Moving and managing windows with touch is also not fun at all.

Not coincidentally, this is the same reason that MacOS doesn't have touchscreens. Everything about that OS also requires a mouse (or touchpad) and a keyboard. Just adding a touchscreen to a Mac won't do it.
Orbital Index, Issue #129
It'll probably be a bit awkward to use for anything other than gaming, maybe if anyone really wants media playback they can just duct tape Kodi to it, which you can do if you add it to Steam as an external app and have it appear in your list of software .

It seems to me that if anyone really wants to do power user stuff on it, they'll dock it and use a keyboard and a mouse anyway on a far larger screen.
It would be better if Australia wasn't on the same track as the United States.
In part yes, along with many other assets. They've stated they'd like to lesson the use of stables as collateral and are still brainstorming solutions. The ability to add real estate as collateral should be interesting.
I think if VR / metaverse etc ever had a moment to boom it was the pandemic. People forced to sit around at home and unable to physically socialize. That was the moment for a meta-interaction system to take root -- there was, for one brief moment, literally no competition from real social interaction. If it couldn't beat Zoom and FaceTime in that environment I doubt it ever will.
Facebook isn't a good fit for me, but their work on open hardware for data centers has occasionally looked appealing.

I figure units doing open hardware could be like when the old SNL sketch about AT&T -- having the slogan "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." -- was of the same company that hosted Bell Labs.
iirc, there's a certain query that's similar to this one which you could type into Google and control various security cameras around the world which are all on the WAN. Not only can you view the picture being recorded by the cameras, but you could rotate the cameras right from the web interface too.

I (un)fortunately can't remember the certain query needed, but it's not too hard to find it — I'm sure it's been mentioned on various news articles or YouTube videos. If I remember, it relied on the cameras all sharing the same filename for the PHP page to access the interface.
Sometimes ya just do what ya’ve gotta do. :)

At the time, I was so heads-down with the day to day challenges that I didn’t really think about it. It wasn’t until later that the enormity of it really sunk in.
I think the real situation is that every time the system changes, something will try to 'game' it via another strategy.

The morality depends on where/who you were when the system/rules changed.
I think I captured most of that in my use of the word "usually".
The article mentions supporting vim and emac, which probably means any editor can be supported.

Visual Studio Code is great. It’s the primary tool GitHub.com engineers use to interface with codespaces. But asking our Vim and Emacs users to commit to a graphical editor is less great. If Codespaces was our future, we had to bring everyone along.

Happily, we could support our shell-based colleagues through a simple update to our prebuilt image which initializes sshd with our GitHub public keys, opens port 22, and forwards the port out of the codespace.
I am willing to bet, knowing personally many people in Arkansas, that most of them have no desire to live in Seattle, and would not view it as "enjoyable" if they had to move their.

Similar to me, living in the MidWest, there is no amount of money in the world that force me to move to Silicon Valley, the West Coast, or New England Area... None.... I would rather live in a box under a bridge.
For that to happen they'd have to be the owners of the Copyright, they're not exactly patent trolls who can use the law creatively.

The Newspapers are largely regional (and mostly defunct) papers. Who at the Derby Evening Telegraph is going to waste lawyers fees getting a Library to remove 100year old content?
I agree with you in that I believe they work and, as a matter of personal choice, I followed the precautionary principle and wore a mask until I was vaccinated.

But I don't agree that "the precautionary principle" is sufficient justification for a government mandate. Clear evidence should be required to impose the mandate.

And my previous post was not agreeing with you; it implied that masks may work or may make things worse by trapping more virus particles inside the mask.

Another post here linked to a study that showed that certain kinds of masks can sometimes be worse than no mask, even ignoring the "trapping" factor, by actually increasing the droplet count in the air.
Indeed, I was talking about deplatforming because that's what the comment I responded to brought up.

Privacy-wise... OK, I'm an ex-FAANG, and that ship has sailed long ago. My cynical view is that TikTok is far down the line of entities that collect all the same data.

As for the car analogy, yes, this was exactly what I was trying to say; apologies for lack of clarity.

I was arguing with others who were saying "TikTok is juts as bad as all the others, and if it's not, it will be", which is an empty statement.

I'd switch to a privacy-conscious alternative in a heartbeat, and my point is that there is none, by a long shot.

And that's the thing. If you care about the downsides of TikTok, you better understand why the users go there instead of other platforms that are ostensibly "just the same".

Facebook didn't grow because it was "same" as MySpace; and everyone missing the difference is why Facebook is the giant it is today.

I'm trying to explain the value users derive from TikTok that other platforms don't provide.

Specifically as a member of the "vulnerable" groups on TikTok. I am bringing here a perspective that the person speaking on my behalf clearly doesn't have, being neither a TikTok user, nor, it seems, a member of any of these groups.

The discourse here reached a point of gaslighting where people are convincing me that I'm being "exploited" when I point out that out.
Is there a more advanced version of “normalization of deviance” that is specific to normalizing signing off paperwork without doing the tasks?
> You say they are different, but you don’t say why.

Sorry, didn't occur to me to note the differences. The incentives, motivations, goals, costs, and resources for a foreign government fighting on your soil are all very from your own government fighting a civil war or dealing with a domestic, guerrilla resistance, are the main things.

I remain unconvinced that private arms are likely to be any kind of useful factor in resisting tyranny in a developed country, and also unconvinced that they're more likely to be used to that end than in service of the precisely the opposite purpose, even if they were useful for tyranny-resistance to begin with.
Has Mark Zuckerberg predicted or created a major product since Facebook?

Everything else that's popular and made by Facebook has been an acquisition (e.g. Instagram) or a clone of someone else.
The bay area campuses are not in danger from the fires, except for smoke.

And there is otherwise not much money to be made in firefighting tech.

That's about it.
I found people in the US to be just as nitpicky about certain things.

Oh, you thought you could cross the road there, even though there are no cars around? You shouldn't do that. You should cross at the stop signs.

Oh, you thought you could just walk in the building, go up to the counter and order food? Sorry, you need to walk through the special door, which puts you in the special food-ordering queue. You'll have to leave the building and come back in through the special door.
Do an Energy Audit
Is this news? This is one of the functions of the sergeant-at-arms in legislative bodies, and it happens (as far as I can tell) at times in legislative bodies where one party has a majority, but not a quorum, by themselves. It's another one of those "Oh, those wacky legislators" stories that circulates on a regular basis. It turns out that when we put a bunch of legislators in a room, give them rules to follow, and reward them for advancing their political agenda, they'll manipulate the rules in order to advance their political agenda. Who knew?

Here is a story from Oregon in 2019, with some examples from earlier in history...

https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Oregon-Senate-officials-se...

> The tactic by the minority Republicans is rare in Oregon, but has been used throughout history, sometimes creating comical scenes. Abraham Lincoln once leapt out of a window in an attempt to deny a quorum when he was a lawmaker in Illinois. In Washington three decades ago, U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Oregon) was carried feet first into the Senate chamber after Democrats ordered the arrest of Republican senators who were denying a quorum.

"Arrest warrant" sounds extreme, but the arrest comes with no consequences other than the arrest itself, and is a public spectacle which both parties engage in. They willingly play both parts. It's not the absentee Democrats are going to be charged with a crime! They're just getting arrested to force them to come to the legislature. Both parties play this farce as the majority party, sending the sergeant-at-arms, and both parties play this farce as the minority party, hiding out at home or even other states to deny quorum to the majority party.

Missing from the article is any discussion over the reasons that Democrats are trying to stop progress in the Texas house. Usually, there is some issue... maybe it's the mask mandate ban in Texas, maybe it's something else.
Oh. It's worse than that. Copyright apparently extends back to the middle ages:

https://stiobhart.net/2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/
You are wrong.
I'm not saying everybody should automatically like what I say.
The issue here is that virtually nobody (here) cares about what you say as long as you can be "labeled", i.e., labeled as a Russian bot/troll account.
That's it.
A major cause of the problem is that we put out the fires in the first place. The forest is supposed to burn. Left to its own devices it will burn periodically in small low intensity fires. If we put those out, fuel will build up until you get the massive wildfires we have now.