skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author apparently expect the Singularity to happen Real Soon Now. I guess our children will be living to 2500.

"To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well beyond the 2100 benchmark. Unless CO2 emissions drop significantly, global warming by 2500 will make the Amazon barren, the American Midwest tropical, and India too hot to live in, according to a team of international scientists.

'We need to envision the Earth our children and grandchildren may face, and what we can do now to make it just and liveable for them,' says Christopher Lyon, a Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision of Professor Elena Bennett at McGill University."
> Regular users don't actually know anything about the difference. They look at how many megapixels the camera has and the resolution of the screen and things like that, because they're numbers you can compare.

> Nobody actually buys the phone for the bloatware.

Often the bloatware is half of the silly stuff listed in the marketing specs on the box. The features might be junk, but they're bulletpoints in a list of features that people are looking at on the shelf. I see these kinds of "specs" listed all the time: digital zoom, "optimizers" of various sorts, social media "integrations", etc.
Two completely different concepts. You can vote at home at your leisure. You have to find a block of time and physically appear somewhere to vote in person. Voter ID laws are immaterial to that point.
The Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory [pdf]
Same page with less crap

https://archive.is/ddcvB
You can leave at will if you're not an Australian citizen or a permanent resident. If you are, then you currently need an exemption, e.g for work or business, or you're going to live in another country.
> Steve Jobs told employees a short story when they were promoted to vice president at Apple. Jobs would tell the VP that if the garbage in his office was not being emptied, Jobs would naturally demand an explanation from the janitor. "Well, the lock on the door was changed,' the janitor could reasonably respond. "And I couldn't get a key."

> The janitor's response is reasonable. It's an understandable excuse. The janitor can't do his job without a key. As a janitor, he's allowed to have excuses.

> "When you're the janitor, reasons matter," Jobs told his newly-minted VPs. "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering."

> "In other words," (Jobs continued,) "when the employee becomes a vice president, he or she must vacate all excuses for failure. A vice president is responsible for any mistakes that happen, and it doesn't matter what you say."
I would still buy a Windows phone, if it were available. :(
I wouldn't say it's cynical. At the end of the day companies don't live unless they can make money. So that, by necessity, is step 1.
American cars mostly run on gasoline from domestic and Canadian sources. Very little comes from Saudi Arabia.
Face mask is just a face mask. I don't know why American hates it so much.
Ladder: $100M Series D Funding And $900M Valuation
Your freedom stops when you decide not to make your own oculus and use the common market. Using that market you are governed by all kind of rules like safety around food, lemon laws around purchases, laws that protect against predatory practices like bait and switch.
Designing things around safety is something IKEA already has to do, and regulations about materials, heights of products, etc all play into that.

The IKEA bookshelf doesn't violate your privacy nor have an always on connection to a much more powerful entity always looking to make another buck.

The IKEA bookshelf isn't an avenue for your attention and your time - whereas things like gambling (considered addictive and regulated by almost everyone) are - and we regulate them heavily.

Why would Facebook with its billions be exempt from regulation? It's not something we "want" - its to make their product basically useful without the IKEA subscription service to make sure your shelf doesn't fall apart every month.
Ask HN: Outdoors career options for ex-engineers?
I've been a software engineer or tech entrepreneur for a decade and a half. My migraine problems have gotten to a point where I feel like I'm using too much medication for my own good. A lot of its causes seem almost unavoidable due to screen uses, for my job.

What are alternative career options for someone like me?

- almost no experience with anything outside of software engineering and a little bit of teaching

- physically quite weak (5'8", 120 lbs) and can't lift very much, also approaching 40 years old

- outdoors or at least anything that doesn't involve looking at a screen, even if indoors

- have a 3 year old at home so jobs that require traveling very much is not really an option

I know it's probably unrealistic to find an alternative job that pays nearly as much as a software dev, but what are any options at all?
I mostly just like to be able to comment as a nobody and not in any of my official capacities. I'm not a troll account, nothing in my comments here would hurt my career, so really... go ahead. Not sure why anyone would want to, though. shrug

With that said I am in those search results (I checked) :-P if anyone wants to go through 63,000 people, be my guest. Everyone needs a hobby :)
In that respect you are correct. I thought I had specified in the comment, but it appears I deleted it by mistake while editing. I was specifically talking about people who are not unwell in some way. I was replying to a comment specifically poking another to justify their lack of desire to try this "technology" out.

My point should be taken as "nobody needs to explain to you why they don't want to try your 'psychotechnology', you're not visibly an expert in this, nor is this author". This is more a case of someone on the street offering you a powered substance, as opposed to case, a pharmacist handing you tablets from Pfizer.
well some C-level staff eventually has to take some responsibility, can't keep passing the buck.
Perhaps this is a difference in incentives? Chrome was explicitly owned and developed by Google, a search engine. Google makes money when you search for things, rather than using the address bar, so they're incentivized to reward this behavior. (I've always suspected this is why Chrome's history search is 10 times worse than Firefox's, but that's another story).
Here are the HN threads from both crashes:

Oct 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324997

March 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19351835

May be interesting to read with the benefit of hindsight and everything we've learned about the process that lead to those crashes.
Go to any little league practice in MetroWest, look over at the dads. Not the guy in the fleece vest - he works for a consulting firm or something. The two guys next to him, though? Both of them are ex CTOs. Only one of them wrote two books though.
> That the Logos became incarnate does not imply anthropomorphism.

The belief that one's deity chose to assume the physical form of a man: isn't that about as anthropomorphic as you can get?
If you have a family that loves you, manageable stress levels and a purpose in life, I think you are doing a lot of things right. I am sure you are worth more! There are probably ways to increase your compensation and maintain your quality of life, but is it really worth it?
The other benefit is that almost all of the Rust ecosystem supports serde, often by way of a feature. So using serde can mean being able to embed a type from a crate in your serializable type or being able to pass your own types to crate functions/methods that serialize/deserialize. It all ends up being interoperable.
Ed Snowden might

https://mashable.com/article/wikileaks-snowden-interview
I guess him leaving explains why he's the only one to get the blame. Had he remained in the company, he could have blackmailed his way out, by threatening to bring down the whole club. By leaving, he painted a huge target on his back.
> Adjusting [$400-600K] to Chris’s current location (Bay Area: +42%; Akron: -11%), they might expect to make about half that ($200k-$300k) staying in Akron.

That’s not how the adjustments play out. Taking $400K in a 142% market is a $282K unadjusted figure, adjusted down 11% for Akron yields a $251K figure. So call the equivalent Akron range (if there is a such a thing) $250K-$375K which is 25% higher than TFA’s calculation.
LinkedIn shuts down it’s Chinese site
As others have said, Apple does this with only 13% share. The important point is Apple has to make money selling phones, that is their business model. Android's is making money in a number of other ways, mainly user's data.
> Your interaction with facebook is 100% voluntarily

It is not. They used their money and power to hire some of the brightest minds in VR to design hardware and to create exclusivity deals with some of the best developers. I either take facebook's offering or I don't have access to those things at all.

> With the government you have no room for flexibility.

You do. You can "say bye!" as you phrased it and move to another place with a another government. I've done it several times now.
Because they have thousands of applicants for every position and basically infinite amounts of money, so they hire only the best.
Make sure you die before old age so our kids don't have to work caring for old you
So not only do you have pressure to perform because you don't want to lose your job, you also have pressure to perform because you don't want friends/coworkers/etc to lose money.
But in this case, even though you were living abroad, you’re still a American citizen and required to pay taxes. It’s not America’s fault that you’re living abroad for a decade. Is your intention to stay there for life, and if so, just renounce your citizenship. If you’re not willing to contribute as a citizen, why remain a citizen?
I'm a Staff engineer are a small company with about 15 years of experience in Denver. As a full time employee I've never made over $160K base. As a contractor I've made over $250k (but with about $40k of that going to taxes and benefits virtually paid by an employer.)

I have a feeling I'm underpaid but I'm also very happy with where I work and the team I work with and I'm not currently willing to sacrifice that for a higher paying but probably much less enjoyable experience somewhere else. I also making about $30k more than I was when I started 3 years ago.

I have enough to pay my bills, raise a family, and still have some hobbies. Happiness should always be a factor when it comes to compensation.
We almost always deserialize to owned data, partly because our deserialization source is almost always compressed so the data has to be copied. There are a few cases where we want to serialize with a reference and deserialize to owned, but that's no big deal using custom "with" functions.

We have hit one serde footgun, which is that skip-serializing-if corrupts your data with formats like bincode :-(. https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/1732 really wish that could be fixed.
For those out of the loop, it shut down for now: https://www.protocol.com/site-allowing-you-to-skip-the-inter...

On that link there's a screenshot of the homepage for the service. It looks about as awful as you'd expect. How this even got past the elevator pitch is entirely perplexing.
It's for me to take this seriously when it starts with 'Yo.'
But Firefox was derived from mozilla, where the URL bar would search if what you entered wasn't a URL.
> but they don't realize how hard it is to build these systems correctly.

In this case, it sounds like the SSNs were included in their entirety in the HTML. My first response is that its a stupid and obvious mistake, but I think it might be too suspiciously easy to only blame the developers here.

I think we have a larger problem - which is that there's a hidden cost to adding extra layers of magic to software. And on the web, we seem to just not be able to help ourselves. The cost is that developers often skip actually understanding how the new layers work. And the abstractions are leaky with respect to performance and security, and sometimes functionality.

Its easy to imagine how this bug slipped through. They had a database query which fetched the data for rendering. Then they used some "magic" framework which does server side rendering & hydration. So the server sent the JSON it used to render to the client to dehydrate the page, and that JSON happened to include the raw database rows (with SSNs). The system is magic enough so you don't have to understand how that process works; but not magic enough to protect you from the consequences.

Junior devs use the magic anyway and get stuck, or make mistakes like this. Senior devs feel like we have to learn everything and get overwhelmed.

Other examples of this:

- Recently I wanted to use some rust code (compiled to wasm via wasm-pack) in a svelte project with snowpack or rollup. I know how to include wasm in a webpage, but the bundlers needed special plugins to handle this. And the plugins for wasm are halfbaked, poorly maintained and janky.

- I worked with a team a few years ago who was using some graphql wrapper around contentful. (Before contentful had an official graphql endpoint). The wrapper was very good, but we needed to run some queries that weren't supported by the wrapper. This was close to impossible. Nobody on the team was strong enough to read the graphql code to figure out how to solve our problem. I did it eventually - via some custom endpoints. But I shouldn't have. After I left the team had no idea how to maintain or modify the code I wrote, and they were entirely stuck.

- The "web obesity crisis" comes from projects pulling giant amounts of javascript into their webpages. Our tooling makes this easy (npm install) and safe (incompatible versions of the same package are included separately). So its easy to end up with libraries like web3, which include about a dozen different versions of bn.js resulting in 2.3mb of uncompressed JS which takes nearly a second to parse on a modern computer. - [1] https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178

I don't know what the answer here is, but I know when I was writing qbasic as a kid it wasn't like this. Maybe we need to stop going "up the stack", and instead go sideways - throwing things out as we add more. I worry this whole problem will get much worse before it gets any better.
+1 800 555-1234 and +1 900 555-1234 are also very different things, with one being toll-free and the other being pay-per-call, and people seem to be able to understand that
Yes?

They’re saying that if there aren’t significant consequences for the C suite in this case, they’ll pick cost over safety again in the future.
Sounds interesting... What's the typical amount of capital you'd need to get involved with a private equity fund?
Is there an equivalent jailbreak for the other Oculus devices? I have a CV1 I would love to rehabilitate.
I had this happen to me once when applying to a major defense contractor. The recruiters claimed that they were too busy to interview me and I'd have the job if I wanted it. It smelled too much like a scam and I was suspicious about this particular operation because these jobs were perpetually posted so I bailed on their game.
Theres a good book called “Selfish Reasons to have more kids.” It relies on happiness studies and “regrets” survivors to argue that childlessness/few children is irrational.

People are happier and more content when they have more children. And the numbers, in terms of reported and assessed contentment are massive.

A lot of the “is it rational to have more kids” thinking relies on narrow versions of happiness and self-interest, rather than the broader definitions of happiness which people actually experience.

Regarding the issue of “whether you can provide” … it’s common for people to come to America from foreign countries with very large families. And they provide for their kids.

And the kids often do quite well.
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I'm looking for work near Chicago area but I'm also open to remote work.
(I'm not in favor of this concept at all, but read on for a few thoughts)

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I can see one exceptionally limited use case for this:

Recruiting influencers into related (influence-y) roles.

Example: eSports player Taylor Jackson wants sponsorship with league Team Plasma. Team Plasma's application/recruiting process entails an invite-only process where players are contracted based on metrics derived from common streaming platforms like stream size, stream demographics, gameplay, an arbitrary "hype" measurement, etc., but Team Plasma decides to offer a secondary route for players capable of crowdfunding a certain total. Taylor fulfills the crowdfunding goal due to their reach on platforms not monitored by Team Plasma (e.g clubhouse for the sake of this contrived example).

Another example could include influencers for promotional gigs, like those gigs where someone tends to a paradise island for a year.

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I don't foresee this model scaling all that well without shoehorning it into places where it doesn't belong, and the communication of the model (and the model itself) very deservedly got incinerated.
What counts depends on the standard. State issued excludes private universities.

Form I-9 says school ID card with a photograph is a document that establishes identity.[1] It doesn't say it has to be state issued.

Form W-2 is a wage and tax statement from your employer. What identification is involved?

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-docume...
I Helped ‘Hack’ the 2016 Election via Information Warfare
All at a FAANG? What kind of interview process?
And how long until one of those vendor keys is compromised? Can't exactly revoke the signed key for everyone's hardware. All it takes is a single malicious actor or nasty breach at one of the issuing companies and it's all over.

It doesn't appear to have been a big target thus far, but if we get to the point where companies are perma-banning devices, It's not hard to imagine those becoming target #1 for various blackhat groups.
Not really, the Emperor sold PIA to Kape, but that's the only known association, and the association seemed to end there.
I think UK is the only one without an ID.
You have this backwards. Facebook wants to sell in the US market. There are rules to follow if facebook doesn't want to join this market they are free to choose not to.

Same as you are not forced to use facebook.
How does an idea like this get through YC? Do we know who greenlit it or what the basis on which they did so was?

Is this a symptom of YC having such large batches now?
I’ve been watching the associated YouTube channel for a while, not realizing there was a structured program behind it. It is a top notch set of video lectures. Very thorough.
Oswald did as his passport said, renounced his citizenship, but the embassy attache did nothing further with it.
Haskell is probably going to need to get some language features for extensible effects to have acceptable performance (e.g. the unmerged work on eff).
If I was looking to minimize cost per mile, I would get an Accord, not a Tesla.

Hondas and Toyotas are tried and true with a few decades of reputation built up. And routine maintenance on those does not cost much.
That idea is cute as a cloudon.
Those intelligent humans are the other players reporting the griefer. In the case of LoL this might even be done by enemy players as well in particularly annoying cases. When a player gets daily reports for half a week that means dozens of players looked at multiple games and decided something's wrong.

No need to have someone manually review games by default.
Exactly, all-cause mortality studies always seem so prone to confounding factors. The abstract of the linked paper doesn't mention if they tried to control for anything. Granted they do acknowledge this - "He cautioned that the biological connection between phthalates and early deaths has not been established, so the study does not prove phthalates were the direct cause of these early deaths."
Nearly all hand set manufactures outside if apple only make money on the device sale not on any app revenue.

Are the numbers here broken down by hardware vs software profits?

If not, it would seem obvious to me that Apple makes more because they can include all App Store profits after each device sale.
The GP comment says "After I shopped a few other companies to see how our plans compared". That sounds pretty "on purpose" to me.

What does "keep or memorize" have to do with anything? They intentionally abused a misconfiguration to view private information.

I think it's reasonable to disagree about the ethics of that, but I don't think it's really debatable that it was intentional.
To be fair, he said he'd do this during the election a couple weeks ago, and got reelected. Still a minority government, but honestly the same result as the last election.

Canadians are, for the most part, okay with these restrictions.
Stablecoins’ Primacy Drives Rules Campaign, Treasury’s Liang Says
The money is out there and $175K/yr is nowhere near the top of the market for your experience in the Boston area. That’s not to say you’re doing something wrong if you’re optimizing for the many things other than money that are worthwhile.
And how did that work out for Google?
Is there a name for this line of thought? I’ve run into it a few times and find it compelling.
Facebook is following the rules that exist. The discussion in this thread is whether or not it’s a good idea to add a rule that says whether a keyboard can require a cloud service. Now I think that keyboards that require cloud service are a stupid product, but if somebody wants to make one, I don’t think it’s the government’s job to ban them from making the attempt.
If you want a Lispier robot programming game, check out GNU Robots. You use the dialect of Scheme that most GNU tools are extensible with, so you'll get something out of it!

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/
Has anyone gotten rich from their salary alone? If your salary goes up, so does your spending/lifestyle?
We have also built a similar thing based on git-format-patch and the patch workflow: https://www.reviewpatch.org
I don't mean to indict any browser's UI paradigm.

My point was just that you shouldn't draw too many conclusions from user behaviour because user behaviour is often dumb and a poor signal of what users actually want.
Tech stocks have done really well the last 10 years and will probably continue to do so. People who joined Snapchat a few years ago made over a million a year thanks to the appreciation.
The US is going after aircraft employees and yet no one went to jail for the great financial meltdown/crisis in 2007/2008?
This is a great point and worth emphasizing.
I’m wondering if I’m just not worth as much money or if I’m not paid as much because I don’t work in California or both, lol. I work for an enormous company. I’ve got about 8 or so years experience. As of right now I’m a sr architect and I work on enterprise-level systems - either designing or enhancing existing processes and platforms. I don’t really code much these days, though I do write a lot of sql, build lots of diagrams, and build a lot of sample requests for various groups when they aren’t quite getting something from the docs. I make 180 TC and live in the north east though not NYC or Boston. That said, I also have a two floor plus fully finished basement home with three bedrooms, four bathrooms, a nice yard, garage, and a nice deck that I can work on when the weather is nice. So, I’m not complaining, I feel like I live comfortably. But man if I had an extra 200k to just throw into savings and investing? Whooo boy…
Unrelated: My company has an internal project named sharpy just like your nickname. It is a Python to C# source translator.