skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can already hear people sarcastically saying, "tax dollars at work."

What's the solution, though? Obviously part of this is staggering corruption, but I wouldn't be surprised if a large part of the problem here is also just fundamental incompetence on the part of these middle-managers. This is exactly what I would expect to come out of the worst design-by-committee no-initiative meetings. Spiraling costs, no understanding or acceptance of tradeoffs, and zero shame about the failures of the process. This has incompetent management written all over it, but no one will be held accountable for these failures. How can that change? Should we keep a public record of the projects that city councillors are involved in/advocate for?

Or does it really need to change? It's kind of an issue of dueling narratives. There are some public projects that are massive, embarassing failures, and some that go ahead on time, under budget, and quietly. We only really hear about the first, and there does seem to be a group that benefits from pushing the idea that large government projects always and inevitably fail. I don't know how common it really is, and it's hard to trust any source as definitive on the matter anymore given the incentives involved. Although from what I understand, Cost Disease is a thing - the prices of public infrastructure has gone up an order of magnitude over the last few decades.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that there's a large amount of waste in government spending - I've worked for large companies in the past, and it's not a stretch to imagine government as just a larger, even less tightly fiscally managed enterprise - but I don't think "smaller government" is the panacea that some propose. Especially because I don't believe anyone ever actually tries to shrink the government; a solution that no one would actually implement is not a good solution. Are there any practical proposals to increase accountability and effectiveness of government entities?
Has anyone noticed that Apple tracks your app installs and use that data to show app Ads to you?

While Apple doesn't allow others to track users across apps, they themselves can do it because they have a monopoly on app store so it doesn't count as third party data.
I would feel even better if there was a Shutdown-Everything at $20 threshold.
Your cynical take would make sense if you think Apple would somehow get that 30% if Facebook were allowed to collect this data. Apple gets nothing either way.

Apple isn't holding Facebook hostage, it's simply allow FB users to relinquish giving Facebook their usage patterns for free.
I would say that a lot of this is about domination of the chat space. FB has the most used messenger app, and iMessage is a predominant feature of Apple.

FB is also an easy target at the moment, so Apple can use them to sell the "privacy" of their product.

That and I think Tim Apple has a bone or two to pick with Zucks.
How come this is so fast? I feel like the processing faster than I would get on an native compiled and run program. Are there any benchmarks?
Tell that to all the judges and law professors who have studied Constitutional law for decades and who have concluded otherwise.

I’ll get the popcorn.
Plot twist: dirt
I really appreciate this story, but I'm not sure I agree with seeing this tragically.

A working relationship is just something different. There is still emotion, because we're human. But more than anything, there's mutual trust and respect.

I have very deep and emotional connections with my family and with my friends, who I trust deeply and call on (and am called upon by) daily. But I wouldn't necessarily trust them with a technical project or start a small business with them or something in that realm.

Meanwhile the small startup I work with just released an app yesterday, one with lots of difficult problems that we worked through together to resolve over the past two years. I have such a thorough trust and respect for every member of that team - technical and not. I wouldn't call any of them for a personal issue.

I have friends who fall into both categories, but they are few and far between.

There's nothing wrong with these relationships, and there's nothing more or less valuable to them. They just work differently and for different reasons. I don't need to be my colleague's best person at their wedding or pall bearer at their sibling's funeral for us to have a long and solid relationship building amazing things. I don't need to start a business with my wife or teach my kid how to program for us to have full lives together.

It's not all competition and ruthlessness.
I guess this is the reason Apple restricts apps from executing downloaded code.
Yup. Bardo isn't just about the afterlife. See e.g. https://www.lionsroar.com/four-points-for-letting-go-bardo/
Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More
At Caltech, the theory was that freshmen needed to be watered for them to grow. So they'd get stuffed in the shower often :-)
vantage looks like a cost analyzer. vantage free tier will help you find non-free tier issues on AWS, if i understand the GP's point.
Another interesting thing to study would be how fast programmers manage to trade constant factors for development speed (and other things) to keep perceived performance roughly constant (or even deteriorating) despite algorithmic and hardware improvements.
Sue Apple and lose another 100k.
At a previous company I used slack and really liked it. At this new company I joined recently they use Teams and it felt like a ghost town. Nobody online and nobody communicating in public.

The reason is that it’s impossible with the desktop app to browse channels that you’re not a member of, whereas on mobile you can! When I mentioned it to my colleagues they were shocked. This whole time they could have been communicating in other channels and they had no idea they existed. I have no idea if this is a bug, or some kind of admin setting.

There are plenty of other issues with DevOps too. You have to buy in to the whole Microsoft package apparently, and none of the parts are best in class.
They likely won’t take any of their acquisitions down with them. They’ve been pretty good about keeping them mostly separate. They’ll be spun off in any eventual liquidation.

Unless you think they are being mismanaged or mismarketed now?
HIBA: Host Identity Based Authorization
Mistel is a Taiwanese company and their keyboards (at least the ones I've seen and bought) are made in Taiwan.
Why does then Apple have a Ad service?. Should they not be tracking nothing?
I've read many accounts of first time in combat. The usual experience is "my brain froze, but my training kicked in and saved my life".
US bubble.
But they certainly will more than they would to a completely new language…
The 'only real difference' is a pretty big difference - the iOS developer is much more strongly identified. It's also not the only difference - what you can do with the access is different and what you end up doing with the access is different. But in both cases, there are strong disincentives not to do very overtly malicious shit - few extension takeovers go around stealing your online banking password, even though they could.

A drive-by exploit has a lot fewer of these constraints.
it has to chain back to reality eventually though.

the courts have had to rule over whether action figures are toys or dolls, because those had different tariffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States

you can make an incredibly verbose smart contract but lawyers will weasel about the inputs like this.
I’ve used Haskell and Preact before. I love Haskell. I’ve arrived at this stack after a decade of developing webapps. The foundation to my approach is simplicity. I don’t have a JS build step at all (no npm, no transpiling, no bundling, etc.), and avoid frameworks and libraries if possible. I don’t use a traditional component approach with Preact, but a purely functional approach (like Elm). I would prefer to use a purely functional type-safe language on the front end, but the friction with browser APIs and build pipelines is not worth it.
Thats the sort of thing that will climax when video ads pause while you're not actively looking at them.
This is a great observation. Our two party politics absolutely and intentionally generate binary thinking. Definitely harms the discourse because the party politicians feel like they have to embrace the extremes to create that black and white choice for the voters.
Judging from the stories posted here, can you even imagine what the stories from the poor souls working on this would be like, if only they could tell us without violating an NDA? Must be the stuff of nightmares.
As long as the internet is global, but laws governing it are made locally, will not this and similar issues get increasingly messy until we are left with a effed if you do effed if you don't?

Could these laws that are increasingly unfriendly to the cooperation that the internet enables slow down innovation and make it too risky to invest in many kind of online services?

Is it realistic to think that one day in the near future we will get some kind of global law governing these things, and if not what other options are there to resolve these issues?
Go generics have a new “type sets” way of doing type constraints
lobste.rs, freepo.st

On the other hand, why does this question is asked so often? I see it once a month, probably.
As someone that actively works in the security industry and has spent quite a bit of time tracking this... Yes, there is a massive disconnect in pricing for private acquisitions of vulnerabilities in commonly used software.

Almost always it's between a 2-5 magnitude order of difference in price between a bug bounty and what a company like Zerodium pays. When they have a valuable enough customer asking for something specific they'll even give bonus rates between 2x-10x above their normal rates.

Here have a tweet where Zerodium is doing exactly that: https://twitter.com/Zerodium/status/1437884808257024008
Yeah. But HN audience are people with good disposable income. So its say for them to say pay for it.
Thanks for the feedback, I hope to add better preview with fake data in the future.
All the hard working security researchers are this much appreciated by the rotten Apple.
I've taken plenty of these opportunities. I describe one in detail in the post. The majority of the teams I've been on were structured well enough for easy wins to be taken and good solutions to be built.

The issues come when the red tape is so absurdly placed that obvious wins are being missed. I'm not leaving due to my inability to communicate what is right, I'm leaving _in spite of_ my communication and leadership being effective.

Always happy to be challenged and find compromise, but this post isn't about that. It's about drawing the line.

I hope you have your line drawn somewhere reasonable too. "CTO" or not, I promise it will make you much happier :)
The term "Googler" I find a bit cringey. You can just call yourself a Google employee.
> Ancient human footprints preserved in the ground across the White Sands National Park in New Mexico are astonishingly old, scientists reported on Thursday, dating back about 23,000 years to the Ice Age.

Previously, a consensus was that humans arrived ~13,000 year ago, at the end of the last ice age
We need to actively and consciously include naunce in the warnings about the threat COVID poses in stories like this.

There is a vast gulf between how the public perceives the threat of COVID, and the reality of that threat.

As per Bill Maher, registered Democrats in particular vastly over-estimate the risk it poses:

https://twitter.com/reneeonline/status/1439369640937930752?s...

The reality is that the risk is largely dependent on a few risk factors: age, obesity and vaccination status.

For children, the risk is close to zero (as per the CDC, the IFR is 0.002%, or on par with that posed by a bee sting). For the elderly, that is 70 plus, the IFR goes up to 5%, and it is higher still for subset of the elderly who are institutionalized.

The vaccinated also face a vastly lower risk from the virus.

Why this matters is that an over-estimation of the risk for low-risk demographics has led to behavioral patterns that are net harmful. For example, the climate of fear around COVID has maybe reduced the very minute risk the virus poses to children, at the cost of an unprecedented rise in childhood obesity:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...

"Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2–19, rate of body mass index increase approximately doubled during pandemic compared to prepandemic period. Persons w/ prepandemic overweight or obesity & younger school-aged children experienced largest increases."

The response to COVID, with respect to children, is going to cause far more deaths in the long run than it mitigates.
"Stop writing your grant applications everyone! We've got a whale!!"
I went kayaking with my mother down a still river that was only 3 feet deep and ran into this cute little whirlpool that sucked us right in and tipped our kayak. It looked harmless but once it's black hole like gravitational pull got us I couldn't fight it, even with all my might. Water is scary. Here's a crab getting wrecked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nce9QNK7ITY
Tesla Model S locks up in the middle of a highway
Twitter has announced support for lightning. Why would anyone use eth when streamable money in isolated payment channels on top of the most secure monetary network in the world exists, is beyond me.
It's just as likely that nobody was bidding for his target demographic, so the bottom feeding dating sites that take the cheapest of the cheap ad slots bought the top 20% of his screen for millipenny CPCs.
That's exactly my fear with these types of regulations. They severely limit innovation. I'd much prefer the manufacturers themselves to decide on the standard, force them to if you have to (likewise banning non compliant devices), otherwise you get something like what happened in Korea in the early 00s, when they regulated active x for online payments. That didn't age well and took a long time to change.
I think the first question you should be asking yourself is what are the incentives in play here?

Corruption is one, but are there actually incentives to run lean for a govt government here, or do they act like money is free.
Idk I find myself scrolling on Instagram and being more interested in the ads they show then some of the content I see. People want to see ads for cool things, there’s a reason places like Pinterest are big.
In some Northern states , Cow is urine & dung are holy .. people suspected of holding cow meat/eating cow meat are murdered.
I really liked the response Tim Cook gave when Zuckerberg was in trouble regarding Cambridge Analytica [1]

When asked what he would do if he were currently faced with the problems confronting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Cook said: “I wouldn’t be in this situation.”

...

Cook said that Apple has never believed that detailed online profiles of people should exist. “We can make a ton of money if customers were our product. We have elected not to do that,” Cook said.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/28/tim-cook-on-facebooks-scanda...
Oh, and https://www.eclipse.org/elk, the Eclipse Layout Kernel
You can, but do you really need to?
Until they are wrong…as is often the case.
Does this rise to the level of a class action lawsuit? Especially if I theoretically started receiving spam texts with more personal info (my name, contacts’ names) in them starting about seven hours ago?

I haven’t, I’m just curious.
Seattle has SF beat. They bought 5 port-a-potty equivalents for a quarter million dollars each.
No plans to open source it. If you want to make a PDF in the browser, look at using html2canvas to generate canvas from html, and passing that canvas to jspdf to make a PDF. I generate the canvas manually because html2canvas has some issues, but for most uses it works well.
I can guarantee you they have been working on this for some time now.
You know, I'm seeing a lot of "why JS and not X" in threads like this. and as much as I'm anti-js, there is a simple answer that's not all that technical: It's what the author likes and wanted, so they built it.

At the end of the day, that's all that matters for it to become reality. if you want something like this but X language, I'm sure there are similar projects, or you can build one yourself.

I have no use for this and don't like JS, but I appreciate and respect the efforts put into this project, especially with the clean implementation.
Here's the link to the actual cost for viewing my billing data.
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-big...

We really should revolt against this. I should be able to have a view of all of my billing without having to pay extra. It also shouldn't be hidden behind a bigquery export, it should be easy view what is being spent and what is causing it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive...
Regardless of my own thoughts on a wealth tax I don't think these arguments hold a lot of water (they're all first order effects, but I digress). A bigger argument against it is the actual mechanics, but I'll get to that.

The biggest thing about a wealth tax is that it's like the estate tax. The goal is to prevent the accumulation of most of the wealth in the economy by a small number of people, and it can be thresholded to target them. A 50k nest egg would be well below it, the numbers I think are "fair" are closer to $10 million than $50,000.

As for the mechanics of paying the tax, your first and second problem have the same solution. When you buy a house for example your property taxes are due every six months, so to avoid the hazard of not having the cash when they're due you pay into an escrow account every month (there are more details like covering the unpaid tax when transferring ownership, but whatever). One could require brokerages to provide this service, but I don't think anyone with $10 million in liquid assets is unable to come up with the cash.

A second problem is what kinds of assets can incur the tax, for example a startup might have $100 million in valuation with two founders in control of 50% of the company and they obviously don't have the ability to liquidate the business for 5% of their $25 million in wealth. I can think of a couple of ways to solve this, one being a tax deference, or graduated tax based on age of the asset (in this case shares in a recently founded company), a tax asses on the asset itself much like a home. This could create loopholes for holding companies but I'm sure someone can find a way around it.

Personally, I find the strongest argument your third. The wealthy will find a way around it. I think we can be smarter about how we assess taxes to ultimately achieve the same goal. For example, hedge funds (which only the uber wealthy can buy into) can be taxed directly and the second order effects of that tax will be quite similar to a wealth tax, without all the mechanical problems. A federal property tax might be a solution.

I don't have all the answers, all I know is that I pay what I think is a fair amount of tax on my income and assets and think it's absurd that we have an tax system that in its current form will beget a new aristocracy.
The Astronomical Promises of the Fisher Space Pen
There’s a nice bug with azure functions where it reports the environment it’s running in as “development” when it should be “production”, which means the app uses the wrong settings.

Nothing in the documentation to mention this, you just need to deploy and learn from your mistakes!
Corollary: don't hire a contracting company that primarily does government contracts. They'll be experts at billing you while failing to make progress. I know this from personal experience.
Class B shareholders can do anything they want that hurts class A shareholders, so long as class A shareholders can't successfully sue. 67.8% of Fortune 500 companies incorporate in the state of Delaware[1], largely because Delaware has a Court of Chancery that handles corporate cases and is renowned for making shareholder lawsuits unsuccessful.

[1] https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/incorporating-in-delaware...
Do you mean that the license does not permit third parties to distribute compiled binaries, but only modified source code? Such a license does not meet the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition . If you just mean that you (the original developer) want to give away the source but charge money for a compiled, installable version, you can already do that.
I wish they showed the hammerhead in the video!
Yes I get at least one of those every day!
If the company describes itself as "cool" because they have pool tables, that's a great thing. It's signal that thats what "cool" is to them. Sounds like a job description that talked about not working in a cubicle hellhole would resonate with you more.
Ask HN: Am I the Only One?
I am feeling more and more frustrated with the way things are done these days. I find project management done using JIRA to be a complete drag on productivity, creativity and quality. The entire way of working seems like an assembly line and the daily answer to "are we there yet?" is highly counter productive.
Same thing happened here — for $23 instead of .23¢.

What a dysfunctional service.
But it won't be gone. Greyhounds will continue to exist because people like them merely as companion animals and not for their racing or hunting skills.
Modi in US: The China Factor in India's Quad Strategy
If it got taxed in these ways, wouldn't it make the number in the headline higher? Even if held until end of life there are enough billionaires dying per year that it would even out.
It is good that the author is in a good space. I quit my dream job last October due to failing mental health arising from being forced to work inside a SCIF for a year.

It was the most exciting job I have ever had. I did work with real world impacts. People literally lived and died based on the things we accomplished in there.

Returning to the 'real world' outside of that realm, and I have never been as excited about work as I was then. Sure, I have gotten help and my mental state isnt in crisis anymore. But its not quite the same being on the 'outside' as it is when youre in the middle of above top secret projects that stretch every part of your capabilities.

It is through the help I received I know I can never return to that world; it was what literally caused the issues I was having. I do regret quitting my dream job quite a lot.
Fort Detrick lab shut down after failed inspection, all research halted (2019)
I have known highly educated idiots and poorly educated geniuses.

I’d rather be around the poorly educated genius and sneer at the highly educated idiot because the poorly educated genius tends to be a hell of a lot more interesting to me.
>Frankly, hidden externalities should be illegal.

I'd love to see how the lawyers would phrase that one.
What advantage would their performance have, if they have no outlet for the performance? And you can still have your bitches and studs run a 200m race and breed the fastest ones, just not in the context of that's-their-whole-life...
How about if I give you a direct solution to your problem? How about if I open source something and you want a feature adding? All sorts of uses. I still won't use it.
Deep article.
A often forgotten group are indigenous Austronesian Taiwanese people who were continuously displaced since the Qing dynasty but were subject to major cleanse and upheaval during the KMT retreat to Taiwan, leaving them to ~3% of the Taiwanese population.
Prompting and honoring the user's choice of whether to be tracked across organizational boundaries are part of the App Store guidelines.

Facebook would lose their ability to publish a native app for iPhone.
Apple and Facebook both provides means for other apps to monetize. Facebook provides it's ads SDK and Apple provides in-app purchases/subscriptions.

While these may seem like totally different markets, Apple and Facebook are directly competing for the same dollars here.