skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the local political class and elites should take responsibility and act so that people stop expatriating, if that’s really what they want. What the article suggests is that we blame the foreigner, ie the German and the Briton, because they allow educated Poles and Italians to earn a decent salary.

Besides, in Poland we are starting to see a reversal, as the country keeps growing and becoming richer, net migration has become positive. So one may argue that Western Europe, while benefiting from the Polish workforce it imported, also acted as a relief valve for Polish unemployment, while the country was catching up with the west.
If you only know about one type of electric motor, then yes a lot of motors are different than the one you learned about in school. Induction machines, synchronous machines, steppers ,bldc machines, small universal machines etc... There is a world of different motor windings and rotor configurations out there for all kinds of different purposes.
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that a $50 smartphone introduced in 2021 is in no way anything special or novel. Cheaper usable smartphones have been around for years. The billions are not getting anything they haven't had for years.

This is classic PR, inventing a fake reason why a profitmaking move is somehow altruistic.

It works on many such as you because many such as you are steeped in the middle class world of $300 flagship phones every couple years and were unaware that decent sub $50 phones have been around for years.

Even a pretty nice phone like a Google pixel or Google pixel 2 can be had for about $100 used. They work great still and only have issues because of intentional choices by Google to prevent security updates. It's only a policy thing, no technical cause -- custom ROMs allow latest Android to be used just fine.

I can't express my contempt for big companies creating an artificial problem, then trying to get credit for partially fixing it.

PS: I relied on the $40 moto G for a few years without issues except "kind of slow". I upgraded to a used Google pixel off eBay for $100 a few years ago. I'm a software engineer and use plenty of popular apps. The forced upgrade treadmill is totally artificial. Just look at the specs on the Google pixel 2 vs pixel 5 sometime. No practical difference, just a bunch of marginal gimmicky stuff like 4 cameras, fingerprint readers that are on the screen instead of the back, etc.
Kind of like how Dropbox is sort of trivial, but they largely won by being really easy and really good/reliable. Or even Zoom; everybody can do video chat, but Zoom killed it in terms of UX (...at the cost of security, but even so they did win at UX).
I wonder if they do all of the same complaining on threads discussing Apple's and Samsung's new flagship phones at 10-40x price point...
Oh noes! Better to stay without connection then.
I worked incident response for one of these publishers. The grind was constant and unending and they very rarely made decisions to improve the security of the documentation, meaning we were constantly on high alert to respond…usually on holiday weekends…like Labor Day.

I’m torn, because I see both sides of it…moreso now that I’m not receiving a paycheck to keep it safe.
Someone who wants to demolish it and turn it into an apartment building! That’s literally the point of LVT: incentivizing increasingly efficient usage of land in high-value areas.
There have also been strong reactions against ROGD within the scientific community [1]. Like much science, the study has its own share of methodological flaws and biases that should make anyone sensible person the results of the study with skepticism

[1] https://www.gdaworkinggroup.com/blog/2018/12/5/psychology-to...
The system makes some sense because your fiat isn't completely worthless paper as many people think but there is something missing. It's that promises inherently have a tendency to lapse so we artificially introduce inflation. Well, the problem with inflation is that it requires you to borrow more money so you replace the lapsed promise with an empty promise that is bound to lapse as well. If we were truly serious about letting promises lapse then we would consider having negative interest rates rather than inflation.

Rather than have 0% interest and 2% inflation there would be -2% interest and 0% inflation. Less need for endless debt growth and government stimulus.
Poor people don’t deserve to have their rights stripped just for being poor. Yes, this will help them, but it’s also important to be transparent about the motivations of Google; they’re not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, at all.
I have serious doubts that this is going to be remotely as performant as any major CDN.
A Person is working only 50% in That Project/Area due other responsibilities (project management, partial time, shared time with another team or whatever)
Why do we have “boilerplate code”? Where does the name come from?
Would not trust.
Capitalism is anti-science and anti-progress. People are evolving around it.
that's also true.
It was, especially getting rid of the kind of immigration that turned blue-collar working-class jobs into something that no-one local could possibly live on. Perhaps more importantly, all the educated influential opponents of Brexit insisted that this wasn't happening, that the idea EU immigration was driving down wages was a cynical lie. I'm pretty sure that it is not lost on most of the supporters of Brexit that the media is trying to spin the fact companies are having to put up wages now we've left as further proof Brexit was based on lies.
A reason for telecom Monopoly not mentioned in the article is the overuse of cloud infrastructure to achieve "service locked-in" and "user commodity" business models. I think the HN community would do well to think more about whether their tech needs to feed this beast.

For example: I would love a digital assistant that lived in my home network, not on Google servers, and it's technologically quite feasible. I can even run GPT-J in my home lab and it's much better than Google assistant , but I can't buy that as a product. Google/openAI would rather I depend on communication with their servers.

We are moving towards a future where most things scarcely turn on without checking certs with a full internet, and thats not an ideal tech stack, imo.
aren t there other android phones for $50 or less?
Frostbite Disastrous for BioWare and EA That Mass Effect 5 May Use UE5 [video]
Out of curiosity, why does it matter what language it is written in?
I think it depends on the observable effect of the upgrade to a consumer of your component.

Did the dependency upgrade just improve performance? fix a bug? Add a new capability? Remove a backward compatible feature?

Certainly doesn’t automatically follow that if a dependency upgrade adds a feature, that that is a feature addition in your code, because you haven’t changed your code to use the new feature. But it could be - if you upgraded a parser library so it now supports strings longer than 4K, maybe your component now supports strings longer than 4K too and that merits a minor version bump.

It can be a pretty subtle judgement - especially with potentially deep dependency trees like are common in node.

If you’re bumping a dependency because the dependency has bumped one of its dependencies… can be tricky to figure out if there’s actually a noticeable effect.
> Trust me, you should be thankful for them.

Yes, I actually don't mind the pre-interview. It is a sensible thing to do for a variety of reasons. The thing that makes me cringe is more the late night talk shows (not all of them mind you) where the guest provides the questions to the host because they (or their PR people) have written some anecdotes for those questions/topics.
I think there is another explanation being overlooked… exercise is often social in nature - basketball games, yoga classes, lifting with a buddy, etc. It seems only natural this would extend to going out for food and drinks afterwards. Anecdotal, but this was definitely the case when I was regularly going to the gym.
As a relatively anti-social person, at least when it comes to strangers, one of the main reasons that I prefer Uber to Lyft is purely down to the fact that I've personally experienced Uber drivers to more frequently behave as if they ARE part of the app. I ALSO behave as if I'm part of the app. Please just consider me a parcel that you're picking up and dropping off. I'm not dehumanizing the driver, I just prefer the process to be dehumanized altogether.
Yes but doesn't work that way, with context switching cost and all of the rest people who are 50% in one projects are not really that effective.

If anything, shows that they were not that committed to even put a resource dedicated to that project
> So patents do seem to provide a way for inventors to protect a revenue stream.

Not necessarly:

1. The vast majority of patents are owned by large companies, not the individual inventors.

2. Patents are very often used purely as "spoilers", i.e. preventing other companies, and even more so individuals, from working in a close enough field to the holding company's, so as not to risk patent litigation.
I remember reading that.

I lived in downtown Baltimore, in a row house.

I had roaches. Not the big, giant, kind, they get in the tropics. These were smallish, basic, tough-as-nails-will-still-be-around-after-the-apocalypse roaches.

When I put out borax, they immediately took out little straws, and started snorting it.
Bilions of people already have access to much cheaper phones. Google just wants their data.
> My simple rule ... it never hurts you to help another human. Sometimes it also benefits you but at a minimum your reputation in your sphere of influence is positive

I love my life by this and it has already paid off with dividends.

The crabs in a bucket formula points out an important fallacy. Even incredibly generous help in every send line a zero sum hand can end up being bringing huge ventures to both parties.

It's one of the main lessons that people from high scarcity societies need to internalize when moving to a post scarcity society.
I had high expectations for that movie but it didn't turn out as good as I expected.
anyone got an invite code? looks interesting
From mediocre student to Nobel Prize winner
YouTube grew explosively between the time of these messages (Nov 2005) and their Nov 2006 acquisition.

I made my Reddit account in Nov 2005, and remember for the first half of that period, YT was just one of several competing video sites, particularly in the shadow of one called throwawayyourtv.com (see https://www.reddit.com/domain/throwawayyourtv.com/ )

Then suddenly by the end of the summer, YT was pulling away from the pack, seemingly unstoppable.
Good old days of development.
Google Video was decent. But it lacked the social element.
Actually in most cases doing the non-profitable thing is literally illegal for executives. At least in the US, CEOs often have a fiduciary obligation to the shareholders baked into their contracts. Granted they can always frame something as a loss leader or public outreach that will indirectly lead to long term profitability for the company, but they can never do charity for charity's sake.
Full time equivalent most probably.
Research results and publications ultimately funded by tax-payers should absolutely be freely and openly accessible.
Moby maintainer here.
Have you experienced this?
The six problems aviation must fix to hit net zero
Theres no right™ thing. There are things you like and you don't like.
Mars Ingenuity helicopter flew low for its 13th flight
I can understand designing those data safety features, but if you are marketing security they should be optional.
That's a rather extreme response. I don't know what the markets are like in the Netherlands, but I can't imagine the dynamics are much different from other regions where this sort of issue exists. That is, it's a combination of NIMBYism or other supply restricting phenomena and a surplus of investors from outside these communities with the means to take advantage.

In my area on the Peninsula in the bay area, many years easily 25% of the available real estate stock is purchased by foreign investors. Forbidding all investors (local or foreign) from buying real estate to lease isn't going to solve the bigger problem: a lack of supply. It may help lower home prices into a range of affordability for locals (investors and primary residence seekers) substantially--which could be a good thing.
Many "news" page are just cut&pasting content. Many times from the PR department of an university and other times from a business. My guess is that the guy want to sell jackets and this is just an ad disguised as a new.

There is a more detailed explanation in a clasic article by pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Role reversal indeed. Somehow he likes telling made up stories, probably took it from me when he was younger - I didn’t know any fairytales, so had to improvise them every night, eventually settling on a series about ‘Jeffrey the genius goat’, it was kinda funny, we both enjoyed it.
Really? Linux kernel uses extensive OOP/C.
Why don't you use rechargeable batteries? I stopped using them in the 90s but switched back a few years ago. More convenient and less wasteful than single use batteries, higher capacity and longer device life than built in batteries.
The worst thanksgiving menu ever. I can’t find the menu itself (basically

Borax
Soup
Borax
Salad
Borax
Turkey
Desserts
Borax)

But it is referenced here

https://www.wpr.org/borax-dinner-party-kickstarted-fda

I will go look over metafilter archives, since I imagine that’s where I read this originally.
See also the original WorkBoy: https://www.inputmag.com/gaming/meet-the-workboy-nintendos-l...
In a bit of foreshadowing we saw Chekhov's Gun on the Mantel was missing.

We did a hard target search, finding a neologism, but nothing else.

It eventually turned out the MacGuffin was just a Red Herring, and the whole thing was a Shaggy Dog Story.
I was disappointed the Wikipedia article didn't have any counter views or criticism. Article on concepts typically do.
For me, it seemed like a lot of people I knew got injured on rollerblades vs biking or running. Never gave it much thought but is it inherently more dangerous?
I vouched for your comment because you have a very valid point, but you could be more polite in making it. Welcome to HN.
The best OOP with C comes from a book called "Extreme C", if you're interested, check it out.
Exactly now, if you were to offer your personal services with personal branding where you being the driver and engaging with the customer was part of it, I might see difference. But with taxi apps driver just fills the role of service worker.

I could kinda see point if we had actual ride-sharing, but Uber and Lyft are just renamed taxis.
When you say "it is the norm in the industry" do you mean that accountants are moving away from debits and credits, or is it just that accounting software translates to signed numbers when dealing with non-accounting software such as databases and spreadsheets?
I requested a published paper in statistics from my local public library, and they sent it to me the next business day, I think from the University of Massachusetts library system. So going through a public library may be an alternative to downloading an illicit copy.
But would keeping your shoes fungus free keep your toenails fungus free?
Access to pics, movies, propaganda and distraction.

Have you recently seen cities in "third world" countries like Uganda or Kenya? They look pretty modern. I don't buy that access to information relies on a cheap spying and data collecting device there.
I can sort of understand why Aaronson would do that, any time you mention a pronoun, a moment later the entire discussion is dominated by nothing but pronoun stuff. It is literally happening right now in this comment thread that I am participating it. :-)

(Original article for reference) https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3880
The key thing here is that it's Reliance Jio rolling this out. Jio is India's largest mobile operator, and in fact the world's biggest operator outside China, with 4x more subscribers than (say) Verizon.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
"Early Forms of Liability," Lecture I from The Common Law. (1909).

Oliver Wendell Holmes
9/11 Triggered a Homeland-Security Industrial Complex That Endures
Reading GDPR's definition of personal data I think he is safe
Can we agree that MSGOOGLEAPPLE are defacto arms of governments? If the USGOV wasn't getting what they want from them, they would have been broken up a long time ago (antitrust). China would kick manufacturing out.
You don't have to buy it, you know.
Cement Bulker
Inglorious Basterds does this very well, its opening scene is very close to what you describe, as well as a number of other scenes in the film.
Things you should know about cement bulker.
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PostgreSQL 14 is currently in beta and adds JSON subscripting: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-json.html#JSONB-...
I'd be curious to see how this breaks down by job or financial position as well. (I think) that exercise in adults generally correlates with wealth. To some extent I think that drinking does too, because of social situations, work stress, and work travel.

If not wealth specifically, then definitely with traditional "type A" jobs
I wasn't and am not going to complain about "Boo, Google bad, ads bad", but I wonder if the promise of all the world's information in your hands have helped. Nowadays it seems misniformation has also been helped by the connected world, e.g. with Facebook groups basically helping^Wfacilitating the prosecution of Rohingya, not to mention the spread of Covid misinformation...

Well to actually talk about Google and ads, amazing how bored kids in Eastern Europe made fake news websites to earn Google ads revenue, not caring how it affects the people and the world.
The MacGuffin isn’t just there to elicit a response though… it’s a primary motivator for the characters. It’s usually (but not always) a physical object, but that matters less than the fact that the characters are trying to obtain it (usually unsuccessfully). It’s also rarely explained — it is an object that simply exists.

Hitchcock loved the MacGuffin, but Psycho isn’t the example I’d use. The money in Psycho is a useful plot device, but is not a MacGuffin. Money is too common ofna motivation. The briefcase in Pulp Fiction (which is of unexplained importance, but clearly something they want to obtain) is a classic example of a MacGuffin.
Who’s getting tossed out of homes? If they own any part of it, they can sell their land at its new higher value and pocket their share of the gains. Then the can either move into a nearby newly redeveloped multi-unit building (increased efficiency as incentivized by LVT) or they can move further out to land with the same low value on which they used to live in a detached home.

This same type of thinking drives me crazy in CA where Prop 13 exists because someone might have to move because they’ve made a million dollars in house value (simply by existing) that they might have to realize.
I was explaining the views presented, not expressing my views on them, so you're directing your questions at the wrong person.
I do see your point, but many of these people don't really have money to spend, hence the $50 smartphone.
Progress has been faster under capitalism than feudalism, socialism, or communism.
Cloud Consulting: AWS, GCP or Azure
I've been in IT for close to a decade now and I'm trying to make a move into full time Cloud Consulting - I've done this sort of thing on and off over the years and have a fair amount of experience with all the big 3 cloud vendors.

Ever since the pandemic started my work had mostly devolved into endless meetings, general planning and very little coding. I've no idea what is happening with AWS/Azure/GCP these days and I wanted opinions on a few things

1. I don't want a list of pros and cons but if you had to pick a vendor today, which one would you go with and why?

2. Everytime I'd worked with Azure (from ~2016 to ~2019) there was always some PITA or the other and it was annoying. Is it still that way?

3. Folks who do consulting, Do you pick a solid vendor and then go with it or pick something that is full of weird gotchas and troubles and demand a higher price for that very reason?

4. People who've had first hand experience with GCP, Is it still "that" 3rd option or is it a solid contender against AWS and Azure?

5.I mostly work with small companies(5 to 50 employees) and some of them are lift and shift and some of them are optimising existing infra, and I was hoping if there were any suggestions on things I should think of when it comes to the Cloud keeping the company size in mind

On phone so apologies for the formatting but I'm curious on what y'all have to say.

Thanks and have a nice day / night :)
With that you can not identify any individual. You can try to prove that some device was at that location at the time.
I guess another scenario could be if you need to import massive amount of schemaless data, like csv imports, then types can be a problem if the sender does not have clear definition of what type the data has, common problem when dealing with non-engineers that hands you something from excel.

Thus too much of strict types can be a problem, if I compare PHP to Java, Java has a tendency to become type bureaucracy, where I find PHP to be a sane middle ground where you specify types on your functions , i.e. your api, but not within.

But writing data is not equivalent of passing data around in your application, as soon you have stored something it is hard to go back and change it because you have usually lost all context from when you wrote it, where as changing type in program code can almost always be done.

As a frequent user of sqlite I'm looking forward to try out STRICT tables, it will be interesting if that actually improves anything from an application perspective or if it becomes more cumbersome.
Universal basic income isn’t the only solution
Different business models have different capitalization requirements; some (e.g. a grocery store chain) are nearly impossible to rapidly scale without massive outside investment.

If a business model has (a) a high enough gross margin, and (b) good-enough intrinsic economies of scale, then by the time it reaches several $100k in revenue, there is a good chance it will be crystal clear how to scale up 7 and then 8 figures. And you will be sitting on a big enough pile of cash that there is no need to take outside funding to implement that. Many B2B SaaS business models in particular can find themselves in this excellent situation.

You can still take outside funding; after all, a growing business at that point is attractive to outside investors. But then it becomes a choice about growth rate in exchange for keeping equity and strategic control. I decided in my case it was completely unnecessary, so I am not doing it.
The $50 phone is being brought into India by Reliance Jio. This company abused the law and its political connections to get into a monopoly position. Jio is not known to be a ethical company.
Aaronson is probably better than average at assigning problems, and of course he'd be assigning them to young people. Simultaneously, there are several intelligence tests for which performance peaks in many people before 20 [0]. Someone who is experienced and knows what to do combined with a very sharp young person at the peak of their raw ability may be the ideal academic team.

[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/when-do...