skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desktop - Ubuntu 20.04. Everything works and my requirements are quite advanced - bunch of games on Steam, pro level audio production studio just to mention a few things.

Laptop - Dell Precision 7750, Xeon CPU, 64 GB RAM, bought with Ubuntu pre-installed. Beast of a laptop, superior thermals, wipes the floor with a mac.

Phone - Google Pixel. I consider that a lesser evil choice to Apple's walled garden. It's rooted, I don't see any ads, etc.

Tablet - Google Pixel Slate. High end tablet with 16 GB RAM running Chrome OS which supports native linux apps for a while now.

These were all more or less state of the art devices at the time of buying, I have absolutely no need whatsoever to to even think about Apple or Microsoft.
Exactly. They're not going do much of anything. It is what happens after the final step outlined that actually concerns people, and that is where the real problem lies. Apple is simply exposing the problem; or perhaps more accurately bringing the problem we all understand exists into the limelight. Had Apple not implemented this feature, or implemented it differently (scanning server-side, for example), the problem would still be there.
YouTube suppresses multi drugs treatments ?
Everyone knows in a perfectly efficient market profits naturally go to 0. Recently I worked out that platforms - for example iOS and Android apps - where developers and users form a two-way market where the network effect dominates, naturally causes for the few platform owners to form a cartel with no need to compete. New platform owners can't enter into the market as they need both developers and users to take a chance, so the duopoly is stable. So you can't get to a perfectly efficient market in such an environment.

I hadn't realized until this thread that this is actually everywhere. Our supply chains are nothing more than nested Matryoshka dolls of tightly bound interfaces. The cartel formed by these platforms are the most profitable way to be in business. Everyone is seeking to become a platform that others expend energy building on top of.

Now that these interfaces are tightly bound, Metcalfe's law and it's associated n^2 communication costs mean that one participant can't make a change unless someone down the line changes. And they can't change unless someone else changes. It's the exact same problem as refactoring a big ball of mud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy

This seems like one of those situations where we don't want to just assume that what we think the window can handle is the same as what it can actually handle.
Some people did.

But commas can be seen, edited, and typed with ease in any text editor.

As per comment above: your CEO, SWE, or secretary can all use or contribute to a csv file. And using an easily recognizable and typeable separator has proven to be worth the downsides.
It's really hard to compare both dev markets. In Europe, salaries varies a lot depending on the country.
There is Switzerland where average dev can earn up to 120k CHF (~ $130k) [1], and on the other hand we have Germany with average of 60k EUR (~ $70k) [2]. The UK is rather similar: 60k GBP (~ $82k) [3]. To have a perspective, we can also add Poland to the list: 240 000 PLN (~ $61k) [4].
As you can see, it's not that simple, especially when you take into consideration the tax rates and costs of living in each country.

Annotation:
Average gross annual salaries taken from the job boards that require salary brackets: [1] https://swissdevjobs.ch [2] https://germantechjobs.de/en [3] https://devitjobs.uk [4] https://nofluffjobs.com
one good thing about doing an "Ask HN" is that it can get so much attention that someone high up at google sees it and fixes it. I'm glad to hear that Google fixed it. Nevertheless, I still wish for legal action just to get a court precedent saying that these things aren't OK. I can dream, I guess.
Thanks for the shout-out Miles!

Yes, for folks who do not know, you can use Scylla, a NoSQL database that has a DynamoDB-compatible API, to deploy to other clouds (GCP) or even on-premises. It's been running in production for some years now. Here's the blog when we announced it, and there's more to be found on ScyllaDB.com — just search for "Alternator."

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/09/11/scylla-alternator-the-op...
T-Mobile Confirms Customer Social Security Numbers Were Hacked
The article did link to a fairly decent definition to be fair:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/what_is_ultra-processed_...

Edit: that BBC page in turn links to this, which again looks helpful and reasonably credible from a cursory inspection but I don't endorse it in any further manner:

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nova
> Either you can’t get any work done from the constant Slack pings, excessive emails and agenda-less Zoom meetings, or...

So the premise upon which your business is based is that many organizations have a bad remote work culture. To be fair, many (most) do. But I'm curious what you envision as more organizations learn how to properly work in a remote environment? Because this feels like it is adding meetings around my work, not even with my co-workers, and with a time limit on when I need to stop flow. It all feels quite odd to be honest.

But the problem you are trying to solve is real. It seems like it would be effective to push this more towards a coaching service for organizations struggling to define their remote culture vs. ongoing flow meetings.
Accessing resources requires a mature system of governance similar to Maslow's triangle. I don't think Afghanistan is at the step (yet) where it can import scientists, hire heavy duty machine operators, logistics, and labs to exploit that mineral wealth.

The Chinese, however, are ready to take on that challenge. They're in a different position. If the US decided to start mining in Afghanistan, it would only be seen as an exploiter (start a war, take from the people). The Chinese are viewed as a helper (help pick up from the ravages of war and build infrastructure). It's unfortunate but that's reality.
China will be happy to help.
> Linux on the desktop is a valid choice, but as I said above, don't tell me to switch to it, it's just not practical in my life.

For Desktop, if I have to choose between macOS CSAM spyware of paying users or the Linux ecosystem and its tiny userbase of unpaid users I would go for using and targeting the paid users since they are the ones paying the bills and thats where the money is.

For smartphone alternatives, the phones themselves are still immature as well as the Linux phone software ecosystem which is again still light years behind. If they can't even run the same Android apps on modern Android devices, then it is close to no chance.

If they don't hurry up, Google Fuchsia will steam-roll them silently.

> I've tried over a dozen distributions since 2011 and probably over fifty releases of them, and Linux isn't there.

Likewise, with the GUI software I'm writing, 'Defining Linux support' is something that is not worth doing given that there are tons of distros out there and by selecting one or two distro's there will always be an endless amount of people asking to support X distro or Y distro.
Car use (as measured by Vehicle Miles Traveled) is more elastic than you may think. There were pronounced dips during the oil price spikes of 1974, 1979, and 2008, showing that the price at the pump has a direct effect on how much people drive.[0] Last year we obviously saw an even more significant decline as many people stayed home during the pandemic.[1] There's also more positive, lasting ways of reducing VMT like improving alternatives, introducing congestion charges, or replacing gas taxes with cost per mile fees.[2]

[0]https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10315

[1]https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/us-driving-last-year-was-l...

[2]https://www.urbanismnext.org/what-to-do/congestion-vmt-reduc...
Ask HN: Could the Apple CSAM approach be used to supervise govts?
Any way citizens could use the same methodologies and monitor what their governments are doing in private?
I'm not in the US.

And even if it didn't hold in my country, it's still a tenet I think is fair.

So, I didn't intended invoke what's the legal requirements, but what should be the "right" thing (and what I think should also be legally mandated, even if it's not).
You mean like...?

let scanFile4CSAM: Bool

if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {

scanFile4CSAM = true

} else {

scanFile4CSAM = is_iCloudPhotosFile && Device.Settings.is_iCloudPhotosEnabled

}

Edit: "These efforts will evolve and expand over time."[1]

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Wouldn't it be difficult to find other developers that are experienced using Elm? I don't know much about it tbh.

Probably, one of my biggest career mistakes was opting for a little known PHP cms instead of WP as I thought it would be easier for the stakeholders to work with the limited options.

Since then, I've always avoided going away from the mainstream toolset.
So you're saying if it were coming from people throwing meds down the toilet, we should blame the drug makers? Is that what you're saying or am I misunderstanding?
The former, yes. The latter no: because Apple can send it on further beyond your ability to observe. :)
I've worked at these companies for several years, gotten promoted, shuffled around internally, etc...it can be frustrating and demoralizing for sure. But it can be rewarding too, and I saw plenty of people coast without stressing too much.

Here are my survival tips. Tl;Dr, calm down and try to be positive at work.

* Things are never as serious as they seem, and deadlines are rarely as solid as they seem. These companies have inertia and capital, and they understand that estimates are not promises.

* Check in with your teammates regularly, and avoid giant complicated code reviews. Be ready to change direction quickly, and don't worry too much about throwing away a few days of work if a better solution presents itself.

* Try to get a feel for how the in-house tools work. Even a basic understanding of how large companies handles things like deployments might be valuable in the future.

* Ignore the politics. Try to help your peers, and be nice to them even when they're annoying. They may or may not be "low-IQ", but as long as your teammates feel like you help them out, you should get good annual reviews without needing to work more than 40hrs/wk.

* If you want to transfer internally, be up-front about it with your manager. In-house transfer applications aren't always private.
Where "long" may be measured in anything from hours to months.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image (a follow-up to the original 1995 Deep Field image of an "empty" region of sky), has a total exposure time of just under 1 million seconds (11 days), with single channel exposures of a minimum of about 1.5 days.

This somewhat exceeds the duration and light-collecting capabilities of a human observer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field

Though granted, such prolonged exposures aren't necessary for the nearer observations (many within the solar system) included in the article here.
I haven't seen a single person concerned about Apple scanning photos in iCloud. The problem is entirely that the scan is happening on your personal phone with apparently some janky implementation that in one week has already shown to have serious flaws.
This is great news. The only chance Afghanistan has to actually become a stable democracy is to have a functioning economy with a better option than opium.

Of course, this is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Hopefully they are able to capture the value of these resources instead of seeing that value exported to a more developed country. I fear that with the present level of corruption, it’s more likely that some officials will get rich, and most of this value will be taken by someone else.
Telco employee here... Colleague swapping a card touched 48V - knocked out for a little while, came back and was taken to the hospital for check-up and recovery. 48V at typical rack amperages is no joke.
If you are expecting to get the same total comp as you currently do with with RSUs then your only option in London is fintech or a hft/quant firm. I have received offers from companies in the city that net out to £350k+ as well as a small equity upside, but even at a FAANG your best bet for good comp was to join them in the US and then get transferred to the UK office. It is also worth noting that while the price trajectory for most of these RSU shares has been sharply up in the past decade it can easily plateau or even trend down.

If you really are interested in planning your post-FAANG path with an eye towards the total comp I would suggest networking into fintechs. The better dev jobs are not always advertised, so who you know can help get you in the door before the job is ever posted.
A bigger question in my mind is whether this is a real problem, or ever could be with higher concentrations likely to occur in this way. Certainly not having medications in the tap water seems safer than having any, but what amount of what specific chemicals is likely to have a downstream effect? This poses a much broader question about low dosage toxicity for any number of chemicals in fresh water, ranging from agricultural run-off to industrial waste and spillage. Hard to study.
How does this actually help society? After this announcement child abusers won't user their iPhone for this stuff (can't believe they did in the first place).
"I'm not sure what the answer is."
The answer is there needs to be some sort of accountability required, where you can reach a human person who can resolve your issue. Under penalty of significant fines.
Show HN: chremote.py - change HTTPS to SSH remote URLs for repos in a directory
Dark kitchens are not inherently evil. They can do good as well as evil. They sprang from covid when restaurant take outs were overwhelmed with demand = specialty take out only - often with zero street presence. AKA Dark Kitchens.
The bad is dark copy kitchens that copy a menu and grab orders, diverted via Yelp etc, cook and deliver. As long they do good work they fly under the radar. I have read of a few of these. Customer has no idea and as long as they are happy they will carry on. Occasionally genuine restaurants find that yelp or ?? have hijacked part of their business. I have read of a few of these and the lawsuits they generate.
Does apple even encrypt the actual image data on device? Their system document says "payload = visual derivative + neural hash" and only that is encrypted with a secondary level encryption. And they didn't go through with e2ee for icloud last I heard. This elaborate system makes no sense if they very well could have done it in cloud.

It feels like elaborate privacy theatre trojan horse to introduce in device surveillance.
He is right. US has complete power over people on their soil and basically in Europe and Asia as well. They do a LOT of extraditions of other countries citizens when they go traveling or to business trips from their citizenship countries.

China, on the other hand, does not seem to give a single f* about foreigners, only about their own citizens. Most people are not so are not really endangered even if chinese spyers do know what they handle on their phones. So in battle between US spyers/China spyers I'd better give my data to Chinese, if I don't have a choice not to share my data at all.

China, as well, don't try to make extraterritorial laws (like financial regulations), so it's harder to even be targeted by CCP if your are a foreigner.
I'm waiting for Macbook 16" announce and then I'll decide whether to move to Apple ecosystem or to stay at PC and migrate to android.

My PC future plans would be:

Smartphone: Google Pixel, optionally with AOSP, but I'm not sure.

Laptop: most powerful Dell Precision with Fedora Linux. It should have Nvidia GPU. I'll install Windows in KVM and with GPU passthrough I'll be able to play some games.
If the goal was to make iCloud e2e, why not release both features at the same time so people can see that they're codependent (in Apple's eyes)? Without any kind of announcment or promise of e2e iCloud, we're just speculating for possible reasons why this might be OK. Might as well guess that this is going to allow Apple to give us free iCloud storage, too, while we're coming up with wishlist features.
I just got 4 offers from 3 FAANG companies, and I agree completely.

None of the interviews had any filter for finishing tasks on time, writing good tests, improving team cohesion, or any of the many important characteristics of a great software developer.

But, gosh, I can definitely explain how Aho-Corasick works.
What helps me is the price. 8€ for 500ml Häagen-Dazs is too much.
Yeah I can't decide on this one. Part of me thinks this can't be happening, and that someone would have realised. But there's been a couple of occasions that go beyond the "creepy coincidence" ads to something that I was speaking with my wife about that day and neither of us had put into the internet, suddenly we get ads for it.
Are you referring to the voice assistant telemetry? That's not passively recorded according to Google, but if you have evidence to the contrary I can think of a number of news outlets (and prosecutors in 2 party consent states) that would love to have it.
I'd like to recommend Elm at work but I can't because it's still below a major version of 1, which implies there may be a good deal of rework in the short term.

I did get an Elm app upgraded from 0.18 to 0.19 without too much extra work, but I'm concerned a major version release may bring much more changes.
> I am hoping that things just work after I install Linux on it

Apparently Linux runs everything out of the box except the fingerprint reader. It's still unknown whether there'll be an official fix and when.
U.S. senators urge FTC to probe Tesla over self-driving claims
So we should all pee in bottles and ship them to waste water plant.

Perhaps we could build some sort of hyper loop to send them in bulk to speed up the process.

Diagram of the idea, reversed
https://xkcd.com/1599/
Yes, an issue for MacOS

"These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey."

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
How do these plans work when you lose your ability to work, like in an accident or longer sickness? Do companies keep you employed? Do you still get to keep the health insurance for a time after this?
The FAA can impose huge fines and a lifetime flying ban on unruly passengers.

Airlines can ban passengers on their own, here's a recent famous case where a state legislator got banned:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/26/politics/alaska-airlines-susp...
why should it be the design criteria? if people cannot behave, in a safety critical environment - those people shouldn't be allowed in that environment in future. no! the wing design won't change because a 200 lb man wants to jump on it on a whim. that is not its intended function and such failure modes should not be part of this conversation.
'hey lets make entire cockpit out of heavy steel, since we never know some pilot could lose his cool and break some buttons'
> If that is what is supposed to happen, then it makes no sense for any new code to run on the device!

The new code calculates the hash as part of the upload process. The comparison of the hash against known CP hashes happen on the server.

> Well, it is not crazy to get worked up over Apple saying they will check uploads to iCloud by checking what's on your phone - instead of simply adding code to iCloud.

They're still doing the checks in iCloud, but the hash is being computed on the client.
It’s the same reason radiology technicians leave the room before imaging a patient. You want to reduce exposure to unnecessary radiation.
Possibly I’m cynical but I imagine duct tape leaves a mess all over the seat. Please, restrain people in a way that doesn’t cost us anything!
I built it, believing it was going to be useful. In the end, it was not. There's no point in keeping unused features around, since the system is just for ourselves.

Since then, we've built a markup language for interface design (GML) which has made GUI development significantly easier, so that's what we're focusing on instead. If someone wants to build a visual design tool on top of GML, they are obviously free to do so, but as with everything else in SerenityOS, people work on what they themselves are interested in. :)
Yeah, the difference is that your average corporation is sitting on a 10% net margin and tech product companies are sitting on a 35% net margin. Product companies are bidding for the best talent among eachother. Corporate IT simply cannot afford to compete with them on salary because their margins don’t support it.

I think we’re going to see a real bifurcation of the economy along these margin lines, where the “haves” and “have nots” are determined by the industry and company you work in.
Here's a link - https://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/sugar-in-potato-chips.ph...
If law enforcement can force software companies to adapt their software to serve law enforcement purposes, why aren’t Ubuntu or ClamAV doing so already? What makes them better at resisting requests from law enforcement than Apple?
That may not be an exhaustive list.
I don't think they will. They already scan it all in the cloud, and the benefit of doing it on device is for user privacy, that's not something google gives a shit about.
> I would have tried to learn more about the team in interviews if possible or is that just not a thing with FAANG interviews ?

Depends on the FAANG, but a lot of them do pooled interviews and assign a team later. Some do a weeks long orientation/training and you have some ability to more or less interview for final placement, and there's some other styles as well. For important teams that have trouble hiring, probably some people get selected into it without a lot of choice.

Either way, in a pooled hiring environment, you're probably not meeting with people on the team you'll work for before you join, although maybe you'd get to talk to a hiring manager after an offer; maybe.
Yes, we are one warrant away from just sending all data to the FBI using this system.
This is the actual story.

The US has been de facto doing business with anyone, especially the Taliban, to get raw resources (in very dangerous and environmentally damaging ways) for use in some markets for many years.

I'm curious what happened to those arrangements and facilities. I think most of the people profiled in the OCCRP are stateside now (Emily Scott King is in beautiful Miami).
More realistically, your co-worker googled it on their phone. They also email/chat/sms/call you once in a while, so they know you're connected.

Now, it's only logical that you may share certain interests, so why not show ads for things they bought/googled for to their contacts?
Yes, they have. Consider being more careful with your tone in talking to strangers online, you come across as arrogant.
I just tried this yesterday and I was very impressed! I didn’t expect it, but there was something magical about setting goals for the hour, seeing the faces of six strangers on mute, and a timer ticking down. It drove focus and accountability.

Great job, Ricky, David, and Minjeong!
Taxes are a bit complicated in Switzerland. While they are nominally low, you pay separately for things that are covered by taxes in most other countries. One example would be health insurance.

So while you'll definitely be paying less if you don't have dependents, if you have kids and are earning "normal" money (e.g. 50-100k CHF gross/year), your total tax-like expenses would be similar to most of the Western world.

But marginal taxes *are* way lower than most other countries. E.g. if you're earning 200k CHF gross/year, your marginal tax rate (in Zurich) would be something like 23%.
It greatly increases the collision space if you only have to get near a bad number.