skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s how they’ve beaten the music player industry, the phone industry and the tablet industry. And built huge ecosystems around these devices.

To be clear, 'beating' industries in modern capitalism means that you've fully monopolized them without arousing the suspicion of the public. So that much I will concede to you. However, the rest of this genuinely reads like a handful of strawmen. Apple's vertical integration is what they're selling, and people are (rightfully) calling them out for charging so much for what is obviously a zero-margin utility. On top of that, they are already the largest, most powerful private corporate in modern history, by a country mile. What good does society stand to gain by giving away our 30% to a company that has it all?

Apple has an internal problem, a cultural one that started when Woz was shunned. Wozniak was everything great about Apple, he showed that they could deliver both a premium product and every hacker's dream in the same product. He did this before the iPod took off and started printing money, so there's no excuse for MacOS to have outdated coreutils today. That disparity between old Apple's meticulous care and new Apple's complete disregard for anything but profit and customer retention is what brought them into this mess, and it's what's going to kill them in the end.
This seems like exactly the sort of thing that would make a great study.
Companies like Google hold a lot of power over their users.

It's all-or-nothing, and not being part of the Google ecosystem is extremely inconvenient as more and more services depend on it.

Only legislation can give power back to the users. It shouldn't be necessary to put up with this level of surveillance by big corps in order to function in society.
Ask HN: Recuiters on LinkedIn
Does anyone know if there is a setting to only be contacted by in-house recruiters that than 3rd parties?

My experience from a hiring side is that 3rd party recruiters are not actually looking for someone who is a good fit, but just trying to get anyone into the position. I don't trust the recruiters on LinkedIn since they seem like 3rd parties. I would put a lot more stock in a recruiter reaching out from the actual company.
My grandma's in Tasmania. Hasn't needed to wear a mask the entire time. My uncle has worn a mask for a couple of days total.

My American-born kids are going to school in KN95 masks and spent most of last year doing temperature checks and health screenings.

One of these looks like "a work of mid 20th century dystopian fiction", certainly.
As Principal, yes. As an SDE 3? Maybe at the 99.999999 percentile if you got super lucky with stock vests given recent stock appreciation. But otherwise, no. That’s not SDE 3 comp.
Cries of "Tyranny!" and "Give me liberty or give me death" are imported concepts that don't resonate quite as well here in Australia. The pearl clutching "Save Australia" protests were good for a chuckle[1], but are also accompanied by people advocating we rise up and murder our police[2]? When Florida has 50x the per capita death rate than that of Australia, it's pretty clear that the US chose liberty AND death[3].

Lockdown is hard, police have overstepped here and there -- but my family is safe and healthy, and my parents are alive.

[1] https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/australians...
[2] https://youtu.be/FUKqliBYIvM
[3] https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-s-per-capita-covi...
GPS has a type of frequency hopping. Rather than jumping around from frequency to frequency, it slides up and down the spectrum like if you were turning an analog knob. The movements are determined by a pseudo random number generator unique to each satellite. Civilian GPS receivers have these PRNG keys so they can follow the movements up and down and stay locked on to the carrier while filtering any potential interference or jamming.

For military use they have a second PRNG that lines up with the civilian PRNG once every 10 cycles. So between every ping your phone or car GPS gets, there are 9 more military only ones that move around the spectrum randomly and have some other security features.

To jam GPS you either need the PRNG keys to know when to move your jamming, or just blanket the entire spectrum with random noise. If you take the blanket everything approach receivers may still be able to pick out the carrier (because it is moving and a detectable change).

(This isn't actually how it works, but is a simplified example of the concept. GPS is an amazing protocol that I don't even understand most of. There is some really cool stuff like using two different frequencies to measure the delay introduced by the ionosphere. The Coast Guard manages a lot of the civilian side of things and has plenty of rabbit holes you can go down: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=GPSmain)
Does Instagram Harm Girls? No One Knows
Ask HN: How has an ASD diagnosis affected your work?
I'm wondering what people's experiences are related to work and having an ASD diagnosis. Are there any changes/allowances regarding policy or practice that have been beneficial for you?
If you were already at a job and recieved a diagnosis during that time, did anything change?
Agree with everything but the last sentence. Not sure how that could be the case-- if your actual costs are the same as your revenue your taxable income is zero but your cash flow would also be zero.
There is something about Microsoft specifically where they are just willing to leave absolutely broken systems in production and just refuse to acknowledge it or care in the slightest.

Each of the FAANG members seems to have their own signature failure mode and this is theirs, whereas it seems like apple google are more likely to make working software and then just block you out of it because they don't care. While I don't find Microsoft to be the most unlikable they do seem to be by a long margin the least competent.
And you've highlighted why we need limits on why the lowest common denominator shouldn't be able to impose their fear on others. Whether you agree with the order or not (I'm not sure I do, even if I like the outcome, I think it should be the choice of individual businesses) making policy decisions as non sequiturs to assertions like the above comment is just reactionary nonsense.
I'm Chinese so I have seen both sides of opinions. Here are some alternative perspectives.

Your comment seems to be saying: because the fighting stopped for so long and because the Taiwan side largely wishes to separate, they have a moral right to do so. This fits with the western self-determination principle.

Yet this idea can create absolutely perverse incentives. The Chinese side could interpret this as: cease-fire is bad. In other words: China should never have stopped fighting, so that westerners cannot claim that Taiwan is a "peaceful neighbor".

You see this sort of perverse incentive in the legal world. Disney cracks down on grandma who made a Micky Mouse shirt for her grandson because if Disney doesn't enforce their intellectual property rights then they will lose it.

Another issue is that military activity on Taiwan from China is nearly always related to moves by forces that try to upend the status quo, e.g. US military activity or Taiwanese activists that push harder for official independence. For the example the latest fighter jet sorties are instigated by US warships nearby. Yet this relationship is nearly never reported by western MSM: they universally paint China's actions as unilateral aggression with no trigger.

I'm all for peace. I also think that the status quo is the best way to achieve that. Unfortunately it seems westerners don't understand that China also prefers status quo. In thinking that China prefers military takeover, western countries create a situation (by sending warships to "defend" Taiwan) in which they encourage China to actually militarily take over. Insane.

What's more, this tendency by the west to create self-fulfilling prophesies is not limited to the Taiwan issue, but also to many other Chinese issues. All because of the west's own biases and refusal to see China for what it is instead of what they think it is.
I've tried both anysoftkeyboard and openboard, and liked openboard layout better but wanted swiftkey like support from anysoftkeyboard. Looking at reddit fossdroid I discovered the one fitted me better as a closer to openboard with swiftkey support : FlorisBoard
Juan Browne, a commercial pilot and prolific YouTuber, says there is understaffing all through the organization: https://youtu.be/kO39nIcuPhQ

He says even low wage workers are in short supply and are working lots of overtime. He also says previously laid off pilots are backlogged in training to bring them back into working.

He also says the vaccine mandate is a problem. Browne is fully vaccinated and has no objections. He thinks no rational pilot will give up their salary over this. But, his analysis is that the vaccine mandate is an extra irritant in a fragile situation.

This is a nuanced and detailed analysis, but I'm not sure that is a entirely correct. Other airlines with similar pilot issues are not failing this way. Why just Southwest?
Yes GNSS jamming and spoofing can interfere with road navigation. Due to signal propagation limits imposed by the ground and other obstacles the effective range will typically be shorter than with aircraft.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/02/technology/kremlin-gps-sign...
I think the problem with this argument is that wages have risen yet labor participation has fallen. I put some of the blame on increased barriers to work: screening, tests, background checks, automated resume filtering, long and difficult interviews, mandatory credentials for jobs that don't need them. It's cheaper for companies to aggressively filter and have permanently unfilled spots, than train or take risks with sub-optimal hires.
Can’t find the source, but the long of it is that the value of commercial property is a function of the rent that you can get.

If you are ‘looking’ for a renter at a given rate, then the value isn’t reassessed.

If you lower your rate and rent it at a reduced rate, then the value gets reassessed. If it gets reassessed too low, now your loan gets margin called and you need to pay cash to keep your loan to value within a set range. If you don’t have that money, then it’s in your interest to keep looking at unrealistic rents.

There is also commonly a provision to tack missed payments on to the end of the loan + interest so the financiers aren’t that quick to foreclose. Finally, any changes to the agreement require a % of financiers to agree which gets difficult when the financiers get more numerous.
That was my reaction!!!

They're attempting to equate anybody who leaves their home with being a rioter who attacked police.
The labor force participation rate looks absolutely terrible. You see the huge immediate drop when Covid hit, then a nearly-as-immediate bounce back recovering half the loss. But since August 2020 it's been flatlined. Are those people ever going to re-enter the workforce? Our recent history suggests maybe mostly not.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
I mean... I'm American, and I don't think they're selling us short.

>Whole Beyond Meat thing seems to be some weird stop-gap - filling a cheap-meat hole. "Just Stop Eating Cheap Meat"

For a variety of reasons (if nothing else, even just economics wise) this is unlikely to ever happen in America.

At the very least, we lose nothing by trying to solve the problem both ways - substitutes for the low end of eating to move people who wouldn't otherwise move, and better education/skills/etc for the general range of the population where it's lacking.
>>> You're inevitably forcing your colleagues into your own way of working to some extent.

This was already the case even for 100% on-site. It was just woven into the culture, so it didn't seem anomalous.

Before the pandemic, people still had to accommodate people with different working habits. This is where we got ideas such as hierarchies and "silos." There were unwritten rules about who was more important than who, whether they could have an office with a door, who could be interrupted and who couldn't. There were multiple channels of information that were not accessible to all.

I noticed that during the pandemic, there was as much or more communication among the rank and file, because it was easier to get lost without staying in touch. I had to be more careful about getting good information before proceeding on faulty assumptions. My group also became more global.

Oddly enough I'm back in office now, but in an isolated lab where I'm alone 90% of the time. And my team's boss is in another state.
That's true, though I wonder how much of a contributor to overall aggregate demand the elderly are.
Anecdotal but I know 4 Boomers who retired during covid. I also know a lot of younger folks who opted in to the gig economy instead of working at a store/restaurant, including 3 of my nieces and a nephew.

DoorDash went from 850ish million to 2.6Billion dollars in 2020 with over a million dashers and they account for about 45% of food delivery in the US.
PSA: Dark Reader now supports iOS 15 and Hacker News looks amazing at night!
I find myself browsing at night all the time and even at the lowest brightness it hard on the eyes. I just came across the Dark Reader extension and to my surprise it now works on Safari in iOS 15.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/NlgK0RV.png
Laws are always used to prosecute criminals. The tricky thing is the definition of criminal can quickly be changed to include you.
There is something about Microsoft specifically where they are just willing to leave absolutely broken systems in production and just refuse to acknowledge it or care in the slightest.

Each of the FAANG members seems to have their own signature failure mode and while I don't find Microsoft to be the most unlikable they do seem to be by a wide margin the least competent.
Measles, Mumps, Diphtheria, Meningococcal Meningitis & Bordetella Pertussis are all having a party.

Dear Cali expats to Texas, is it worth it?
You could try claiming asylum in America. Here's the view from your front porch in America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LozQg0oX-Gw
> Most VORs are being phased out as well […]

"Most" VORs are not being phased out. The FAA is going from around 950 to about 590: about one-third are being retired.
Seems less heinous than spreading a dangerous virus and killing hundreds or thousands of citizens? We’ve seen other countries try that approach (e.g. here in the USA) and it clearly harms society and has led to massive suffering and loss of life.

Considering this is being trialed as an alternative to being locked under guard in a hotel or cabin for two weeks, it’s actually less invasive too…
Fast is unimportant -- latency and determinism are paramount. It's true that GC'ed languages have been used in realtime applications but it's always an uphill battle. There are also low-latency GCs that are being rolled out. I think there's patent issues there but whatever. Might as well just do resource management at compile time.
Who did? (If anyone)
This basically exists in many places in the form of the Homestead Exemption. It's not exactly the first property owned, but the property that the owner lives in.
The X-Men one is really cool, but I don’t get “The message is disguised via a secondary lettering set which shared the same white color as the main text.” The screenshots seem to show the opposite: identical lettering, different color.
Modern large scale farming is really not that much different from other industrial endeavors. Increasingly, small farms have to sell out to the industrial farms due to the economics.
Is it actual teammates the in-office crew wants, or do they just want to work around other people? In that case you aren't "inevitably forcing your colleagues into your own way of working" if you can find something that works for everyone, such as the in-office crew having a coworking site, or relocating that team to a common city if the team can accommodate it.

In fact, the refusal to acknowledge the truth that alternatives exist (albeit out of the box alternatives) strikes me as a common way for in-office advocates to shut down the WFH conversation.
There are several city parks outside of downtown overrun with homeless encampments. Many roadside parking strips and interstate greenspaces too. It's widespread.

The city is trying to move people into housing but there's a lot of mental health and addiction problems that make many people resist the outreach support.
Does Amazon actually pay $250k. I heard from someone who works there that the salary ceiling for all engineers is $150k and the rest is compensation. Is this true?
Australian soldiers committing war crimes in Afghanistan? Nobody bats an eyelid.

Can't go to Kmart because the government tries to fight the pandemic? Riots in the streets.

And you're surprised there's complacency to digital surveillance, when people are more outraged by slight personal discomfort than by murder. It's not even criticism, just an observation. People are very comfortable in their bubble and do not care about anything on the outside; you only get a reaction when the comfort bubble is disturbed.
I am curious about this. One company I know raised wages, but is being more picky as they think they should get more and are less willing to take risk.
I agree but then circumstances to defend against are pretty limited. Effectively a situation where a founder with control issues new shares at an arbitrarily low price to a new set of individuals. There has to be a more elegant tool to defend against that kind of event.
It's worse than that. It's a banker saying since he won't need health & safety regulations sitting at his desk the men working in coal and steel don't need any either. You do wonder if they say these things out of malice or confusion, but for practical purposes the distinction is immaterial.
I feel the need to point out that you are probably not concerned about your treatment now because you have no power and are of no consequence.

If you were a senior public servant and had uncovered some wrong doing in your, or any other department, you would care.

If you were a journalist and writing a story that could embarrass somebody with power, you would care.

If you were in the military and a witness war crimes, you would care.

Even if you were a lawyer working to represent somebody, anybody with any power, you would care.

People are being "disappeared" and legal proceedings conducted in secret. We found out about Witness K. What haven't we heard about?
A Babysitter and a Band-Aid Wrapper: Inside the Submarine Spy Case
Australia is a fake democracy so our citizens are powerless to do anything about it.
Our politicians are chosen by corrupt ethnic branch stackers. The globalists have succeeded in dividing and conquering Australia through the trojan horse of multiculturalism.
There must be a missing of zero, 20,500
I did a quick check, and it looks like rebar concrete has a lifespan of about 50 years, and I had to check the lifespan of post-tensioned concrete because I suspected it has a shorter lifespan. Most sources are saying 15-20 years for post-tensioned. Any structural engineers able to report in? If that is the case, it's a bit surprising, given how expensive buildings are, although technically I believe post-tensioning can be replaced, but I also imagine that replacement cost would also be high.

Edit: Thanks, civeng, this is a good warning to be aware of validation bias when googling. Here is a paper that cites comparisons of post-tensioned concrete bridges. From the paper:

"As an example, two optimal post-tensioned concrete box-girder road bridges located in an eastern coastal region of Spain were assessed... In addition, maintenance was optimized to ensure that the bridge complied with all the performance requirements during its life-span of 150 years."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320444421_Life-Cycl...
Australia has a traditionally high rate of vaccination.

The biggest problems are a huge focus on the risks of AstraZeneca, and the overall lack of availability of Vaccines.

The vaccine rollout is progressing well, despite the rocky start and general fuckups by the federal government.

We're on track for 70% double-dosed by 24th of October, and 80% by 7th of November[1].

Those are the two major figures for rolling-back restrictions that were put in place. Individual states are varying on their own internal restrictions.

So, you can see that coercion isn't required.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-inter...
And of the people who are working low wage jobs, Amazon hired 500,000 of them. Small restaurant operations are notorious for wage theft and poor working conditions. Amazon jobs can be a grind, but you do get paid.
What degree of coverage to synthetics have? Meaning, what percentage of RX could they replace/deprecate? Is there a public database that has the formulas, processing and measuring methods?

I learned how to make Clonidine, but it's super dangerous if the measurements are wrong. One mistake and the nervous system shuts down.
And neither of them ever needed a P-test to show it.
Yeah because it's one thing we all know is that power tripping police don't abuse their power and get off easy. They are all constitutional scholars that would never infringe on our rights and use force unjustifiably.

Nobody is entering my property without a warrant.
Real life dinosaurs. Listen to this with some good headphones if you don’t believe me: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iy-9Z2KrjsY
Since Covid, NYC daycares have uniformly updated their sick policy. Child has fever or one diarrhea, has to wait home 3 days before returning. E.g.: Daycare calls the parents to pick up a sick child on Tuesday midday, child can return next Monday at the earliest.

While it used to just barely make sense to send kids to daycare for parents with 2 kids with each parent earning $120,000, it is now simply impossible unless a parent stops working or both parents have extremely flexible jobs where they can put their professional duties on hold for half a week without notice.
The only reason I continue to run Windows as my desktop is for gaming, but it is reaching the point where I'm considering making Linux my primary and using a VM with GPU passthrough for any gaming I might want to do (and maybe passing through a hardware TPM as well - I understand Win11 doesn't require it for VMs, but to prevent anti-cheat from kicking in I'd want to impersonate real hardware as closely as possible).