skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

By all means raise these concerns and suggest improvements, but ultimately if a FAANG wants to waste its money and be stupid, let them be and enjoy part of that money. In a small startup where you have significant financial upside in it succeeding my advice would be different, but here just lay back and enjoy the paychecks.

Given your description of the team it seems like you should be able to outperform them without any trouble.
“ I’m not going to advocate for any one successor file format here, but there are certainly a lot of contenders. The big data ecosystem gave us formats like Avro, Parquet, and Arrow that are widely used as an intermediate representation when transferring data between systems. HDF51 is widely used in the scientific computing community.”

Xkcd:
https://m.xkcd.com/927/
That post is a joke, right?
"In favour of what?", that is the matter.

CSV is a format more for humans and less for machines, but that is the use case: a format that is good enough to be compiled by humans and read by machines. At the moment there aren't many alternatives.
microG is still sending information to Google in order for apps and services to work. It does NOT free you from Google.
Oh yes, I'm sure the FBI will be satisfied with using the backdoor to only find CSAM, they definitely will not use the access for 'anti-terrorism' and drug enforcement. That sounds just like the FBI.

What good is E2E encryption when they can scan your client with a backdoor? All Apple is doing with this hashing is giving themselves plausible deniability when this access gets abused down the road. "Oh we didn't know they would use those hashes to arrest those protesters, we couldn't have foreseen this"
I could see that being more effective or less, but either way I don't think it's totally pointless.
There's a reason why that's 98%+ of the market. There is a dichotomy between the two camps in the smartphone market, everyone else is fringe. On the fringe, good luck using banking apps, transit apps, vehicle rental apps, or other apps increasingly necessary and useful.

I don't think you know what you are talking about when you mentioned Xiaomi as an option. That would be among the dumbest options you could possibly choose.

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. I've tried over a dozen distributions since 2011 and probably over fifty releases of them, and Linux isn't there.
Vanishing Point: How the Light Grid Defined 1980s Futurism (2017)
>If society deems minimum wage too low, government is the one responsible for regulating it to reflect those morals.

The minimum wage is pushed up by large corporations to squeeze out small corporations.

If "society" deems minimum wage too low, they stop accepting jobs at that wage. That's what's happening right now in my area. There are no employers offering the legal minimum wage and even fast food places are offering hiring bonuses. The law is largely irrelevant and only affects a very narrow window of workers/jobs at the edge.
Visionrare is one of the coolest usecases I have seen come out of NFTs recently - props to the creators! The FOMO got to me and I bought two n1 pieces of virtual equity in startups I like.
XZ1 Compact with microG.
I still have an iPad, though I see myself in the future upgrading to a the equivalents of the iPhone 12 mini and a Samsung Tab S7. (I prefer small phones, and there's no Android ones now)

Don't put your data in places where you can't export data (Apple Notes for instance), or ideally places that aren't cross-platform.

This allows me the freedom to move between OSes, and most importantly, have more choice in my products. Getting stuck in an ecosystem is exactly what Apple and Samsung want, and it's very anti-consumer in the end.
There are generally two methods of restraining a biting person as far as I know. One is to muzzle/duct tape/etc. The other is to bounce their head off the concrete until they stop trying to bite you.

While we could assign airline attendants a concrete block as part of their kit, concrete blocks weigh quite a bit and are not FAA approved.

I therefore recommend we go the duct tape route.
Surprised to see Xiaomi on your existence list of maturity.
While that's true (and on the other side, the analysis also doesn't consider tax rates), I think those are fairly minor compared to the effect of equity on compensation. Looking at Dropbox as an example of a U.S. tech company that I picked at random-ish, I see compensation range from 40-165% higher than salary, which means a huge difference.

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Dropbox/salaries/Software-Eng...
Every AV (antivirus) software system scans customer-owned files on customer-owned devices. So the question is the same: if it’s easy for law enforcement to deputize such a system, where is the flood of cases built off of evidence gathered this way?
>you can't wash with cold water because soap doesn't activate with cold water

That may be true for most laundry detergents, which have to pull grime out of fabrics, but not simple dish soap. Just look at how well Dawn works to take oil off concrete, for example. Nobody's heating that up.
That could be a 'translation' issue. In some companies 'staff engineer' is top elite. Where as in other companies it is entry level. Could be something similar?
It's probably not news to anyone who works with data that CSVs are inferior to other file formats like parquet.

I think the valuable insight here is that there needs to be a meme / movement that CSV is bad or deprecated. That's what's actually going to put the nails in its coffin, not private griping from developers when they get CSVs.

I'm all for it. Down with CSV :)
From the article:

"Unruly flyers aboard United Airlines may be detained by seat belts and plastic hand cuffs"
I think sugar demonization is gonna be yet another fail by nutritionists. In 10 years time they will say, oh actually it turns out that sugar in moderation stimulates the brain directly and increases focus. Its especially useful to animals that rely on cognitive function, like humans.

It will be one of those facts we will all immediately recognise as obvious in hindsight and wonder why we went along with the fad of cutting out sugar, which had a detrimental effect on our ability to think.

Meanwhile, nutritionists will have moved on to saying calcium isotopes are shortening our lifespan.
Cool, thanks for sharing. It's nice to hear salaries like that are not limited to SV.
I agree with many of the problems - but luckily many providers (of data) use the first lines to provide a header of metadata.
It's immensely disappointing. It's understandable that platform owners would want to control their platforms content, but deliberately depriving users of alternatives, and refusing to acknowledge the existence of smaller firms, is simply a repeat of past failures of the web and startup cultures. I am not dismissing business requirements or viability. Rather, disappointed that we are seeing so many lines in the sand, so early, rather than bridges and breadcrumbs for others to join. "My way or the highway," is a very old school way of running business, and it will not last. The open metaverse is coming regardless. You'll be able to freely flow around the free and open metaverse, and arrive at the Pearly gates of big-business walled-gardens, and you'll have to login to enter. I don't think many people will mind, but either way, the open and collaborative metaverse is the only true metaverse. Without it, you're building a Video Game, not "a metaverse."
> You need to spend your time doing something.

Exactly. It might be hard to find peace and a sense of meaning in life without having some sort of responsibility, even if one thinks ultimate freedom is the lack of responsibility.

In some ways, I imagine being rich (without that being the almost coincidental side effect of a strong passion) and especially winning the lottery is for many going to be like throwing money into a bottomless pit.

Though that doesn't necessarily mean I would mind giving it a try...
It is so insane to me how people keep putting the burden of understanding the capabilities and limits of a computer and engineering system on consumers, who aren’t engineering or computer experts, and not putting the burden on the company full of engineers and computer experts to properly and adequately inform the consumer. Or the burden of consumers, that are not legally trained in any way, of having a full understanding the implications of legal matters, and not the company with a staff of lawyers, in properly and adequately explaining it.
Apple hashes all of your photos offline and then pinky promises to only check the hashes against the official on phone database when the user initiated an upload. The problem isn’t about wackos it’s about governments forcing Apple to do things with this new weapon
"A+ players solving hard problems"

Is this really what people think when joining a large company such as FAANG ? I mean not everyone can be an A player in a company with 1000s of employees, correct ? Also not every team is going to be solving hard problems. Someone has to do the dirty things. Isn't that understood ?

Not trying to shit on you OP but I would have tried to learn more about the team in interviews if possible or is that just not a thing with FAANG interviews ?
I don’t know man. I feel like I’ve been spoiled by apple ecosystem by having watch, airpods, mac, and iphone.

Thinking about moving everything seems to be so much work on top of my daily job and side projects.

Unhappy with apple’s decision, but also feel like I’m stuck atm
> "... the idea of re-writing everything from scratch would seem to doom this project to obscurity. No?"

I'm sure the same was said of Linux 0.01 in the '90s, which was also the golden age of proprietary UNIXes. "From small beginnings come great things", as they say.
Your occhams razor is that a large number of people are collectively faking symptoms to get a few years out on pension? IS this satire?
If you think summer is uncomfortable now give it time.
Dear lord when I read that headline I thought for a second apple was working on a brain implant. Coffee time.
GitHub repository found here https://github.com/PiMaker/rvc

Why?

Because.

Best reason ever.
Original: https://theconversation.com/sugar-heres-why-some-people-expe...
I can understand your point about marginal inconvenience having a marginal benefit, but I think that car use may be so inflexible (I know that I literally need my car and would be willing to put up with any conceivable inconvenience law because I have to) that inconvenience laws, especially ones with direct gas-burning effects on anyone who keeps their car, can easily be net negative even for small increases in fuel consumption.
Deep dive: how Shapez.io went from web game to $1M Steam hit
Then that's certainly some progress!
Interesting breakdown of some pros and cons of using Elm in production. However, it appears the JavaScript codebase they used for comparison was quite bad and maybe not representative of a good or even typical JavaScript app:

> Our JavaScript application had global variables everywhere, and debugging was a nightmare

Point #3 in their list of cons is especially important for anyone considering Elm:

> Because Elm is not a mainstream language, it is sometimes necessary to reinvent something that could otherwise have been acquired by adopting a different technology.

This is the biggest downfall of Elm projects that I’ve seen in the real world. Teams end up spending half of their time or more solving problems that could have been accomplished quickly with some off the shelf React libraries with numerous tutorials online.

This attracts a lot of developers who enjoy working on libraries and tooling, but it’s not ideal if you’re trying to run a lean team that ships products quickly.

Elm is fun, but I wouldn’t use it unless I could afford to hire a relatively huge team to absorb all of the additional complexity and detours that go into building an Elm app. There’s a constant promise of Elm being faster and easier to write for various reasons, but in practice it always seems to get bogged down in endless gotchas and framework shortcomings that need to be addressed before we can get down to getting real work done.
It's a bit confusing; 2 paragraphs above that line:

"Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing for user privacy."

That implies macOS isn't getting the CSAM scanning stuff (yet?).
I'm trying to imagine the life of a student whose thesis advisor is a guy that makes Youtube videos titled "The Ethics of Shoplifting feat. Xenogothic".
It doesn’t seem like he was a “double agent” at all. That would imply some two-way cooperation with Apple.

The whole article is about how he volunteered info to Apple, and they didn’t give him anything. So volunteered more, and they were just as quiet.

> Please feel encouraged to keep sharing what you have

Is not the response of an “employer”. It’s the response of someone in a completely one-sided relationship.

Now he is selling the info he has because he needs the money.

This is guy is white-knight gone sour when the girl still refuses to date him after “all he has done for her”.

Lesson is easy, do you want money from a company get something in writing before giving them anything.
Does /e/ foundation ship stuff to US yet? Last time I checked they didn't. I see this now:

https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-teracube-2e/

Anyone used this thing?
USB-C (alt text)
You are of course correct. I was distinguishing it from all the other trips one might take other than the daily trip to work.
Can you link the interview please?
Dataframe SQL: Python or SQL? Why Not Both?
If fluvoxamine is used for COVID-19 treatment it will probably only be administered for a couple weeks so withdrawal symptoms should be minimal.
I'm really disgusted by how some ignorant folks are so quick to gaslight chronically ill people.

Russian agents have allegedly been using directed energy microwave weapons for years. That's a known fact.
oh course, if you're giving a system a break from overuse (which is the general rule with modern diets), it will work better!
I still love sugary treats (and carby food like bread and pasta) but I eat less because when I consume a lot, I experience something almost like a hangover the next day. That started happening around age 40 (I'm 51 now). You might be younger than me, but I'm wondering if other people my age experience the same thing?
The mostly likely explanation now is mass psychogenic illness. The Russians have clearly obtained the technology from ravelry.com.
> The distinction there is that it's the server doing the matching and reporting, not the client. People expect remote servers to be accessible to government searches, but not their own personal devices.

Speaking solely for myself, I don't see a meaningful difference between these cases. They're both "content you upload to a server is scanned", with the only difference being that the scan happens immediately before upload rather than sometime after upload.

My opinion would be notably changed if Apple was scanning content you're not uploading, but the current system doesn't seem to allow for that.
Objectively, CSV is terrible for humans despite being a plaintext format. No one reads CSVs: they're incomprehensible since the columns are not aligned with the headings. (You might be drawing an analogy with JSON, which is often human readable because it puts the keys right there next to the values).

The best that can be said for its simplicity is that it's easy to write code that can dump data out in CSV format (and to a lesser extent, it's easy to parse it, though watch out for those variants). This is not a really strong argument, most everyone is going to use a library for serialization, there's no reason to write your own unless it's for learning.
I think this issue can be bypassed if a better format such as Arrow or Parquet can be used in Excel.
Most companies don't hire international remote workers directly because of the costs associated with international tax reporting. If a worker is in another country, that means tax withholding / reporting in multiple places. So it's usually done as contract work through an international recruitment firm which handles all the payroll / tax stuff, or not at all. In any case, even if an American employer hired an American on contract, the full brunt of payroll tax would be on the contractor. Companies only pay half the payroll tax for employees classified by W-2s.
As long as it's replacement opens in Numbers and Excel.
Surely the successor should be SQLite. Tabular data like CSV, easy to view on different mediums, free and open source, single file databases. It has to be this, right?
Probably blankets embedded with a conductive metal mesh in a pattern designed to block microwaves could be issued to all US personnel in foreign countries.
Not entirely true, many embassies and facilities hire local nationals to work and operate within the grounds.
IIRC Glade was just a standalone UI designer (not an IDE), wasn't it? I actually tried QtDesigner + PyCharm and liked both but lack of the integration feels itchy. Very usable but not nearly as pleasant as VisualStudio with WinForms.
I feel sorry for anyone who was riding apple stock for their retirement.
I don’t care anymore. Actually I do, but I’m exhausted.

However if I buy a new laptop, with or without CSAM, it won’t be a Mac. I would wish for a Framework kinda thing here (with local service), but since that’s not gonna happen - ASUS it would be most probably, with ElementaryOS on it (or some distro like that - non ugly and kinda simple looking).

It feels like WhatsApp —> Signal brouhaha all over again. After trying to get my contacts on Signal for 7-8 months and having deleted WhatsApp I’m back to it after my own struggles with Signal.

So no, not again. My next phone (if my iPhone 7 dies on me) will be an iPhone 12 Mini (or a 13 variant that’s around same size and cost) probably. Because that’s the only new phone that still bloody fits in my palm. After that? I’ll see.
A child whose mother asked for help because the kid was fighting her and totally out of control.

I don’t think you can reasonably expect people to sit there and do nothing in a situation where a 13 year old boy is overpowering his mother and kicking airplane windows.
Also Americans don’t realize the scale of transformation that is going on in places like India and China. As far as making consumer web apps goes India is increasingly the place where unicorns emerge every week and some companies operate at very large scales.
Thanks to the internet knowledge is spreading quickly and remote work is a booster.

The gap in terms of knowledge and networks is closing with places abroad.
If these riches are accessible, why haven't the US helped the national government exploit it during the last 20 years of occupation, or themselves? Seems like a bit of a sensationalized headline.
E2E with some scanning at the onramp is still much better than no E2E. If iCloud was compromised, your data is still safe, among many other reasons. If the US Military physically raided the data center and carted out all the hard drives, my data would still be secure. It's still a better alternative. It's not perfect by any stretch, but it's better than what we have now.

Also you are aware Google Photos, Facebook, etc. do scanning anyway and have for almost a decade?
Would it be better if Taliban would convert to a similar to petrocracy state?
More correctly titled, "I Don't Like CSV".
I'm with you! But what does a hot new startup do when a rich old legacy corp sends them a data dump that isn't a custom sqlite database? Slowly but surely, the startup begrudgingly uses csv "just this once" until they grow into the legacy corp that sends out files in csv because "we've done it this way forever."

And the cycle continues.
> Which Apple have stated that they won't do

For your random off-of-the-mill dictatorship, yes.

For the US? EU? China? India? No way they can refuse such a request from these markets. And if they could and get away with it, it would be a very worrying situation in itself regarding (democratic) control of government over global mega corporations.
Patrick Collison, one of the funders of this research via the Fast Grants program (https://fastgrants.org/), tweeted an excellent summary the results a few days ago:

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1427367934880469010

n=1,472 patients;
~1/3 reduction in hospitalization;
now pursuing a larger scale trial to replicate the results

The actual research results are here:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.6526...

From the paper, dosage in the trial was:

"
Participants received 50 mg FLV QD on day 1, then for 2 days 100 mg FLV BID, and then 100 mg FLV TID as tolerated through day 15 and then stopped.
"

Fluvoxamine has been long off patent. Based on my slap-dash googling of online pharmacies, this treatment would cost under US$10 total.

The hypothesized mechanisms of action are the anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet, and potentially antiviral activities which are side effects of Fluvoxamine's psychoactive properties. These mechanisms would counter some of the more serious body responses to the more severe cases of covid.
I think a large part of his has been people misattributing their real illness to a harmless sound which was actually there, however. Which has made the whole thing a big mess with confusion around "sonic" weaponry.
Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator
Then a given society has not progressed to a point where a new economic paradigm is ready to replace mixed market economies. Even Karl Marx believed capitalism would remain dominant until automation had removed unskilled labor from the equation.
Is this scaling trend expected to continue? If so how long?
So in your mind, because so far we've seen no evidence that this has been abused, it's nothing to worry about going forward? And that making an existing situation even more widespread is also completely OK?
This will probally be my next laptop.

I like the retro look. I had a Panasonic years ago and adored it. It was huge, but did everything, even had a tv tuner. And it was easy to work on. Used it 10 plus years.
The number of American citizens experiencing symptoms was 26 as of June 2018.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-usa-diplomats/us-say...

so uh, yeah, im guessing there are a few dozen people who might want out.
I think distantly like employees confronting a robber ... it's hard to define good rules to tell an employee when to do that / you're worried about their judgment.

So you just say "hey don't do that".
Is it just me or The site can’t be accessed from phone?
That would be fine if that was the initial offer. But it wasn't. It was a bait and switch. It wasn't until she was trapped that they pulled her pay.

That's criminal, and it's worrying you're justifying it under an account named "Workaccount2"
CSV is bad - but convenience is hard to beat. It's the same thing with excel. People abuse it, but you just can't beat the fact that your programmer, CEO, analyst, and secretary can all contribute to the same file.
I don't understand why this comment is downvoted, this is far more believable than a magic space ray that... makes people a little nauseous?
The pilots union isn't going to go for this. Remember the pilot is god once the plane is in the air. And if he says tape him to the chair, he's getting taped. They are not going to risk zip ties or seat belts if someone is trying to fight staff and other passengers. And if he's spitting and biting? He's getting tape over his mouth too.
> anyone who says “I’m concerned about privacy, so I’m going to switch to using Google products!” is not a serious person

Amen to that !

To modestly paraphrase an old saying....

With Apple, you buy the product.
With Google, you are the product.