skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The seemingly obvious middle ground is that there cannot be too much concentration of news station ownership.

Which used to be the rule, but the rules weren't quite bulletproof enough so now Sinclair and a handful of others own far more news outlets than they should by a better metric. I'm not saying there's anything illegal about it, but I think it should be fixed.

But I also think that if someone made their fortune in industry, they probably shouldn't own newspapers. It's so much conflict of interest... it seems like sometimes it can be okay, but only if there's a really well enforced legal firewall between the interests of the owner and the news reporting. That's hard to manage if the owner isn't disconnected from decisions about what to fund or whether to promote staff critical of them.

There could be a middle ground, but if we can't define what rules constitute a fair middle ground it seems to just get worked around until effectively a few private voices dictate an awful lot of the spin applied to stories.
this is the simplest gallery software I ever used

https://github.com/MattBlissett/Apache-Gallery

just drop it into apache. create a gallery virtualhost on your machine, use apahe's userdir to create a gallery userdir and then every user on your machine can just drop in pictures into ~/gallery/ and it just works (thumbnails, different sizes, htaccess for security).
"Unlimited" like cell phone plans. Use too much, and you'll be cut off. No, they won't tell you how much that is.
Hydrogen storage seem like a pretty mature field, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_tank

We have dealt with gasoline, which can leak and is just as dangerous, IMO just fine for decades - and gasoline vapor has a tendency to pool near the ground rather than float off and disperse high into the sky like hydrogen.

Franky, it seems just about every energy storage system has pretty frightening failure modes - I take it you have seen the video of a Tesla fiercely burning up in a carpark in China.
I’m a pediatrician. I studied electrical engineering and did software for about 6 years before the career change. I still enjoy programming. It’s a different experience that’s more focused on growing your trade inwardly, while my job now is interacting with people all day! There is so much low hanging fruit in medicine that technology can / should have already solved. I would love to see medicine delivered more efficiently and for doctors to have freedom to focus on patients and doing medicine, rather than wrestling with our digital tools.

I’ve mostly lurked on HN, but I know there are a number of others with the same passion here. I’d love to get to know you!
I'm glad my Model S does a better job!
No, even in the US West Coast, 1x is what's typical. Anything more is non-standard.

3x would mean something is wrong with the company.
I've read some of her writings about superfund sites, her battle with apple where she publicly shared every mildly problematic or offensive email / communication she'd ever received, etc.

I don't blame Apple at all for getting rid of her. She comes across (even while giving her side of the story) as unhinged and awful to work with. I have to wonder if maybe this is an ongoing mental health crisis or something.
I wish PBS was better funded and supported, maybe look to BBC as an example to emulate. Though BBC also has non-new programming (drag race!).

The problem is trusting government. I don't trust either parties here so I would lean toward a for-profit system with heavier regulation.

It looks like the Fairness Doctrine is no more? Anyone have better knowledge here than I do who can give some background?

From what I kind of know it used to require broadcasters to dedicate programming to actual factual news in order to use govt spectrum. Also dictated journalism ethics like letting subjects comment.

Also seems like this deregulation was the impetus for (what i consider dangerous and harmful) alt reality 'news' like the murdoch empire and Alex Jones characters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/everyth...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47669.html
Thanks - but this is mostly my point - though I don't agree with your conclusion.

People within a 'closed system' (i.e. China) are going to have a view of an internal issue that the government wants them to have.

"There's nothing big happening here, just 'ABC' because 'XYZ', the Westerners a bit upset about it but that's their colonialist view, they should mind their own business"

So they justify their actions, don't allow debate, suppress the language of rhetoric, distract and use the 'foreigner' straw man, and make petty villains out of anyone challenging the authority.

That 'people don't care' is the result of that control.

The same thing is true in Russia. Putin has journalist and political opponents killed, and he's totally corrupt. And yet, he has an 80% approval rating.

If you can control the press and the narrative, you can convince people that your actions 'were necessary for the promulgation of the state', the plebes won't be able to make an informed consensus as to any situation.

Likewise, Russians seem to have an indifference to a lot of state corruption.

So I don't agree that 'The West' is doing a 'big disservice' by talking about issues that the average Chinese doesn't care about, or by highlighting how corrupt and murderous Putin is.

The whole point of the exercise is to contemplate that 'rights' are a material part of the equation - and, ironically - probably going to make them much wealthier in the long run anyhow. Hong Kong and Taiwan are considerably more wealthy on a per-capita basis, at least largely because they don't live under the sane ultra authoritarian system.

The Tiananmen protests were a very powerful and visceral display of where the power really lies in China, and the true consequences of challenging that power. It's an important bit of history.

Finally, we're all victims of this to some extent, western press has a number of potent institutional biases, and now we have the problem of completely fabricated news, which is another thing altogether.
I did this last week, it was pretty easy to find in account settings. They allowed me to delete my whole account, and required an email confirmation. On the other hand, I hadn't used it for much, and I live in Canada, so I can't speak to what others will see.
I still remember playing some of those games on my phone with the Symbian OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

Honestly, it was nice while it lasted and it was interesting to see developers do a lot with so little screen real estate, memory and other hardware limitations, like an evolution of the consoles of the older days, before phones became essentially scaled down fully featured computers.

It is especially interesting because most modern JDK releases are known to be pretty memory hungry, in contrast to what the developers had to pull off back then. If Java had a stronger focus on embedded and low resource environments, who knows, maybe it'd be as usable as MicroPython nowadays.

It appears that there are actually a few apps available that can supposedly load these games, though i haven't personally checked them out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftwar...

That said, i do have fond memories of Doom RPG back in the day, as well as the likes of Galaxy on Fire, as well as the old classic Gravity Defied. What a nice decade that was!
Interesting. Is this true for all U.S. school districts? I am very surprised to learn that all kids are being I.Q. tested.
Some of it may be tax money, but some of it is donations made by individuals and organizations. The credits of PBS Newshour front-load the show with names of the contributors.
> how a self taught dev like myself could even get a shot at a junior role anymore.

Contribute meaningfully to open source. Many contributors to the D community have leveraged that into well paying jobs, without the usual academic credentials.
That Spleen font looks great: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
Yes. There is a lot of confidentiality built into some of the financing terms. Befriend the CFO. A good one will say “If sell for X, you will own Y% of the company, which will be worth Z to you” and they can give another few scenarios too. “We need to clear A in valuation for employees to get anything, and at Y you get a little”

Other rough heuristics:

- Down rounds tend to punish employee shares.

- Pivots that require large equity tend to be bad for employee shares.

- Large rounds relative to valuation ($700mm for a post money valuation of a billion) make a much higher future hurdle to clear - bad for employee shares.

- PE rounds tend to be worse than VCs. (VCs tend to worry more about upside, while PE firms push for downside protection)

All of these general rules have many exceptions.
Headline is misleading. It's "Failing to make a Self-Parking Car in 500 lines of code"
You are exactly the type of person who is pushing out the best kids into private school. Private schools in California are getting record numbers of enrollment after how horribly public schools handled the pandemic, and after how it wants to gut programs in the name of "equity". Your kind will reap what they sow, because it will create a 2 class system where anyone who can afford private school will go there, leaving essentially the economically most disadvantaged in public school. And along with the students, people will fight to cut money to public schools as well, since many will be paying for private schools.

Kids that are advanced need to be with other advanced kids. Not all kids are equal in ability. Using weasel words to push an agenda of "equity" that hurts the best and brightest is what will kill public education and push moderate Democrats such as myself to voting for Republicans who want vouchers to gut the public education system.
> There are, specially in the field of computing science, examples of exceptionally gifted and influential researchers without PhDs

If you know this, and know that people without one can still produce original research that expands the boundaries of knowledge (even giving your own examples) then why do you require one?
You are making unsubstantiated claims about the person. If the reasons apple used such ad disclosing confidential info is correct then at that should be easily provable. Have you seen any evidence of apple claiming the person is difficult to work with or are you attacking them based on instinct? This isn't exactly the first person who has made similar claims about working at apple [1] , I only hear similar stories about apple in the tech industry. The apartment breakin and other criminal techniques, I can assure you apple isn't the only one, this kind of a thing happens (i know first hand!).

Unfortunately, this person is better of finding a job elsewhere and trying to live their lives. Not a fight they can win.

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Apple-Toxic-Work-Environment-...
My experience is that, tech companies who start to succeed and scale end up starting 401(k)s that are competitive with the market along the way so, in the success case, you aren’t giving up 8 years of matching. (They more or less have to, or else they can’t compete for talent for whom they can no longer give meaningful upside via options.)
It's a little more complicated than this. Sometimes media (or games) are easier or a combination of easier & cheaper to pirate/workaround drm than obtain legally. E.g. Netflix notoriously has location restrictions on where their licensing applies, and people use vpns to work around these. They literally can't pay Netflix more money to e.g. watch the US catalog from Australia. Or see also how much game of thrones was pirated, especially before hbo had a standalone streaming service. For a while you could get it only as a cable add on, so some cord cutters turned to piracy.

When content is available easily and at a reasonable cost, it's often a better experience to buy than pirate. Sure, there are some people who will still pirate everything but there's a lot in the middle who are willing to pay something.
I doubt it's IQ tests specifically.
Incorrect, you must become a programmer (even if you are a CEO). The world is becoming more complex (multi dimensional) as well as more abstract (I.e. everything has an API), hence the only way to make decision in the future will be with data and with computational thinking.

The CEO image and salary will be long gone (see what happens to banks, insurance companies, car companies). The same thing will happen to all other service aspects (e.g. law, medicine). And programmers are the one that would cause it.
> In the real world 99% of parents don't have the time to teach their child anything beyond how to speak and walk and answer their questions.

Yeah, they’re too busy coaching their kids’ sports teams.
Go with MERV-17 - 20 to achieve HEPA-like filtration.
> Nothing beats manually copying hundreds of lines of b&w code from a book and missing some syntax and having no idea why.

That's why Neil J. Rubenking's and Jim Seymour's stuff in PC Magazine had checksums at the end of each line you typed in. Those were the days.
Minor nit: they've had to change the name to "vaultwarden".

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden#readme

> Note: This project was known as Bitwarden_RS and has been renamed to separate itself from the official Bitwarden server in the hopes of avoiding confusion and trademark/branding issues. Please see #1642 for more explanation.
Amazon prime you mean? Came her to complain about that. In the prime app, there is a button that disconnects your device from the account, but it just logs you out. You need to go to the website to manage your subscription, and after a few screens and then there is a button you need to keep pressed down for several seconds before it works. Keep reading the button labels because the default button will keep you subscribed. Whoever built/ordered that knew it was immoral.
Yes a bunch of people do unfortunately. Same with things like tucker carlson, alex jones, and a whole bunch of crazies creating an alternate reality that has lead to Trump, Jan 6 and more. There is some of this on the left but IMHO the 'reality' in that sphere is more having a worldview or political positions based mostly on facts.
Have this book on my shelf waiting to be read. It’s frequently mentioned.

The author also has a book about the hydrogen bomb too:

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Making-Hydrogen-Bomb/dp/0684...
DOE Sets 2025 Community Solar Target to Power 5M Homes
Or maybe apple is actually toxic? I don't hear googlers or Microsoft employees do this, but multiple people report toxicity at apple.
The plight of chimney sweeps in England two centuries ago led to some of the first occupational health laws in that country.

As mentioned in the article, small boys from poor families were “employed” (purchased) by sweeps, and forced to climb naked up flues with only a brush to scrape the soot off.

Obviously, when they grew too big to fit, they were made redundant.

The big problem was that this was unbelievably filthy work, and every day would end with the kids covered in a black veneer of sweat and filth, which would run down their skin and lodge in every crevice in their body…in a time when frequent bathing was an unaffordable luxury.

Creosote’s VOC components are highly carcinogenic, so that long-term skin contact inexorably led to cancers of the scrotum, genitalia and perianal area, usually right around puberty and progressing until the ex-sweep was sterile and then dead, often before the age of twenty-five.

It got so bad that doctors in regency England fought for and had passed a law regulating the age and conditions under which sweeps could work-impressive in a time when you were thought eccentric for complaining about raw sewage or hydrochloric acid being dumped into your drinking water.

Kinda lends a new perspective on the Dick van Dyke scenes in ‘Mary Poppins’, now doesn’t it?
I can’t speak for other apis but i’ve used Ktor and I thought it was good. JetBrains is invested in it, there are a lot of docs and even a compiler plugin / website to generate starter code.

Generally I recommend using Ktor if you’re familiar with Kotlin or want to use Kotlin for some reason. Elixir or Go might be easier for a beginner, but if you have to learn a new language / paradigm this difference cancels out.
Bloomberg links to General Market Access (MA) Negative List for all players (domestic + foreign) versus Foreign Investment (FI) access list for just foreigners. Though it was pretty much forgone PRC openning domestic service industries won't include media considering how hard NGOs were cracked down.

https://www.ndrc.gov.cn/yjzxDownload/sczrfmqd2021.pdf
The very first "scandal" she uncovered at Apple was her getting feedback on a presentation from another employee. She called it sexism and publicly shared private messages which basically proofed it was just that, professional feedback.

It looks a lot like this is a mental health issue rather than actual wrongdoings at Apple. What she is doing now might really harm her ability to ever get hired again by a company in SV.
Thats great! Do you find music and programming are complimentary pursuits? I listen to a lot of music when I code and I know others who do that too
> several large nations including China, Iran and the United States maintain it.

While reducing government violence is a valid goal in itself, I can't help thinking that Macron is at least partially motivated by the opportunity to draw a distinction between "civilised" nations (like his own) and "barbaric" ones, which he's insinuating includes the US.
> The people that pirate games are not the one that would have bought it day one

There is also a nonzero number of people who would buy a game if piracy was not an option, or if there was significant enough friction in pirating it.

Denuvo and other DRM of varying levels do work in their intended function, for some period of time. Sometimes it's cracked before release, and sometimes it takes a while, depending on interest in the game, the current status of cracking groups and all sorts of other things.

So the calculation is pretty simple: Will the sales gained from the few pirates who would buy if they can't pirate, be higher than the sales lost due to the impact of a bad DRM implementation and/or the "stink" of it?

Publishers think that's a gamble worth taking every time, because 1) they assume their devs will get the DRM implementation right, or right enough 2) gamers don't really vote with their wallets, and/or the ~15% performance loss of a bad DRM implementation doesn't really eschew or discourage the supermajority of buyers. The market simply doesn't care.

There's also the PR and sales bump from the later "Denuvo has been removed!" patch (and it gets the game back in the news, after all) but I'm going to assume that it's negligible for this discussion.
I'm student teaching in a third grade classroom, and I want to add a least a small counter:

We are required to have two HEPA filters always running in the classroom. They are loud. Combined with the fact that (1) children mumble, (2) the children have masks on, and (3) everyone is supposed to stay 3+ feet apart, it's quite hard to hear what a lot of kids are saying!

I don't know what the right answer is, but what we have now really sucks!
Of course they do. Do you think the Chinese government can't figure out what you access via a VPN?

I find it hard to be confident that the US Security Apparatus couldn't figure out what I access via VPN if they chose to.

I'm not sure whether the US or the CCP would be more able to block all VPNs, but I have the feeling the answer is the latter (for legal, rather than technical reasons).
> You can learn […] on your own from home

Sure, yes you can. Statistically speaking how many people actually do this for several years while being focused on other things? I know there are some, absolutely, but I’ve met lots of people with and without CS degrees. It’s pretty clear to me that on average, the ones with degrees are better prepared for programming jobs than the ones who dabbled. I would say it’s also clear that a small minority of self-taught people are even better prepared for jobs than the majority of degree holders. And the best programmers I’ve ever known do a metric ton of both academics and self-schooling, because they devour it in all possible ways.

> Any interview pipeline asking you dynamic programming problems has a broken process.

So the question is: what is the right process? Are you saying the interview should not ask any algorithm questions?
But as has been talked about, a lot of employees now want to work from home... meaning they don't have to hire just around SV, especially when those employees are also moving away from SV.

I mean, its not like they will just drop all their current engineers. That would not be smart or wise. So they will keep them, but slowly transition to remove or TX employees as either new positions are created or old people leave and new openings arise.
I would say that for me sleep is the number one most important thing; and it did take me a while to figure this out, but the difference is very noticeable relative to when I don't sleep as proper as I should.

Again, sleep is the NUMBER ONE most important thing, especially for an engineer.
He had secrets A0...An, and B0...Bn.

A0...An were for political candidate A.

B0...Bn were for opposing political candidate B.

Political candidate B in conjunction with an aligned foreign country paid him to publish only the material on A. Some elements of A were false and constructed by Candidate B to smear Candidate A.

He knew this.

He chose sides, while simultaneously claiming he is neutral.

I have not judged, I have only stated the facts.

EDIT: We also do not know how both sets of secrets were acquired. There are claims he was involved with the exfiltration, a statement that has not been proven or disproven yet since there has been no trial.

EDIT #2: He also has at least one motivation to help Candidate B as Candidate A has stated a desire to prosecute him heavily.
Both of these things can be true. Having followed this story for a while, I do agree with the parent comment's analysis.
An obvious bug would be fonts unsuitable fir visually impaired, low contrast, etc
You both make a fair point! :-) It hadn't crossed my mind that you still need a car-seat, even if you ride a taxi.
She's a sociopath.

Source: she thinks it's okay to take a creep-shot of a colleague's computer screen and post it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1426572384736202758

Ashley "caught" her officemate doing something naughty, y'all.

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In the OP thread she complains the Superfund site hasn't been tested for 6 years. What such sociopaths conveniently leave leave out is whether it's a legal requirement to test it within 6 years. It's not. Such tests cannot be conducted on the whim of an employee.
There's a huge unstated detail there: to access that non-unicorn capital you need to be recurring revenue SaaS. The older focus on unicorn outcomes allowed for more creative revenue models and higher risks. Companies that don't have revenue really figured out but have an ultra compelling product can get unicorn-targeted funding.

The VC interest in these smaller companies is predicated on the revenue and valuation multiple predictability that comes alongside recurring revenue SaaS. Much lower risk for an investor. The margin structure of these types of companies is a nice bonus. If you're a founder trying to get access to this reduced-target capital you need to have 10%+ monthly recurring revenue growth, gross margins above 70%, and ideally a clear acquirer.

Not affiliated with this group, but this article explains in more detail: https://leadedge.com/why-we-like-saas-businesses/