skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't follow, at all. You're measuring the 40% increase in profits relative to the amount of profits but the 1% increase in wages relative to the amount spent on wages, and those pots are generally very different in size - in fact, the smaller the amount of money that goes to profits compared to workers, the more biased against workers and towards profits measuring this way makes it look. Generally in retail, wages are one of the main costs and are a lot bigger than profit margin outside of small specialized companies.

Also, that article reads like propaganda. They carefully avoid quoting any figures that are meaningfully comparable. For example, the industry-wide figures they quote compare the average increase in profit for selected entire large companies for a year not to the increase in their annual staffing bill, but the increase in one hour's pay for one worker. The only comparison between total staffing bills and anything else is for one cherry-picked company that increased its pay to staff whilst making a loss on its US operations over the time period they're looking at and having a 68% drop in overall profits, if I'm reading the linked report correctly. But they carefully don't compare to that company's profits at all.
Tdlr; he was "too honest" because he literally told the buyer that there was a similar company with better engineers - essentially that there was another company which could do the same exact thing much better. So they bought the other company instead.

Were the engineers objectively "better" than yours, or was there still something your company offered that the other did not? If the other company was essentially better, than you're lucky Yahoo didn't realize and you got that deal in the first place.
Uh, there is a technical reason on demonstration as well. Don't try so hard to be that guy.

"Take authentic, accurate portraits with Real Tone.
Portraits on Pixel represent the nuances of different skin tones for all people beautifully and authentically."
AFAIK it’s not much different from e.g. Qt. As the protocol between compositor and app includes a full dpi value the toolkit can just render everything at a larger scale, with the same rounding pattern used to ensure everything still fits. Sure, some parts will be slightly offset, and any widget that first renders, requests the rendered data, and post-processes that will be slightly blurry, but it works fine.

The same can be done in any environment where the protocol between toolkit and compositor contains enough metadata and applications can tell the compositor that they’re rendering at native scale.

So, X11 works, Wayland won’t work until the protocol gets significantly changed.

I had a similar patch for my compositor, the protocol libs, and Qt where I just let windows specify that they’re rendering at native scale, and I let Qt handle the scale factor as if QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS had been set accordingly.
>"At essentially no cost to the country."

What about citizens who are otherwise passed up for a career? I've worked with plenty of H1B's and none particularly stood out as "top minds" that were uniquely capable of doing the office work. While I have no doubt that the US is able to poach some seriously intelligent folks, I have a deep cynicism that corporations use H1B's to hire cheaply and bypass the obligations that come with hiring a citizen.
Ah, thought you were referring to TFA, my error.
id3 is the standard for music metadata

https://id3.org/
It’s a fine price for the quality of machine. In my opinion, people simply haven’t reckoned with the fact that they only need an M1 Macbook Air, which is competitive with Windows machines above its price point.
> Still: they scan photos locally - those are not cloud photos, those are local photos.

They are cloud photos. I say that because:

1. The photos are in the process of being uploaded to the cloud when they are scanned

2. The result of the scan is attached to the photo only when it is uploaded to the cloud. If the photo is deleted from the cloud, or the upload is canceled, the scan result is discarded

Practically, the system works precisely the same whether or not the scanning happens on device before the image reaches the cloud, or on the server after the image reaches the cloud.

The only well-intentioned argument about why on-device vs. on-server scanning matters is that "slippery slope" argument, which presupposes that:

1. Apple putting this scanning code in iOS not only somehow makes it easier/more tempting to use it for non-CSAM, but all but guarantees it will be used for non-CSAM.

2. Apple does not already have the ability to run whatever code they want, on any of your devices, without you ever knowing

3. Apple folds very easily to government demands, especially when it comes to privacy, their core differentiator

I don't think any of these are true. You might think they are, but then I'm not sure what point there is in discussing any more.

> or if they are forced to.

I'm not sure what this implies. If someone forces you to upload a photo to the cloud, surely that will get scanned regardless of whether the scanning is performed on-device or on-server?
> modifying Qt and Gtk2 apps

You don't get to modify apps -- that's exactly part of the problem being solved; your solution has to work with whatever user throws at it; from Chrome to xeyes, sorry.

Oh, and with staged updates too -- it might take some 2 years to adopt your solution, if everyone cooperates (which is a big if); not all distros update at the same time and some do not bother updating for another cycle (see Ubuntu and Wayland).
Earlier discussion without the clickbaity title

> Bus lane camera mistakes woman's sweater for number plate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28915459
White people don’t count towards diversity. White people are the status quo. White people don’t need to be represented in every situation. White people are over represented in tech and seeing white people in the minority is refreshing. Would you have the same opinion if there were no people of color? Would you voice that concern?
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones, 2015-01-16 by qntm https://qntm.org/abolish
1800contacts definitely rejects unsigned prescriptions. You have to upload a scan and they have manual review.
I really hope Lithium recycling isn't like plastic recycling: sell it to China and then end up screwed when they stop buying it.

Plastic recycling has pretty much been a multi-decade lie. Let's not bone ourselves with Lithium.

Who am I kidding, humans are great at boning themselves.
Fines as a percentage of income do not solve the problem. If I'm a poor person living paycheck to paycheck with nothing left over for savings, a 5% fine would be devastating. If I'm a rich person living off of (debt secured by) my investments, a 5% fine, even if it's hundreds of thousands of dollars, is pocket change compared to my true income and wealth.

A fine is obviously not sufficient given how widespread this practice is. If the fine is double what you gained but you are less than 50% likely to get caught, logic dictates you should commit the crime. Again, prison is the only deterrent that works on the rich.
Maybe comparing the bill from a trucking company against the bill from the rail; How much does it cost to get that freight from the train station to my delivery location, though?
The classic reading: https://qntm.org/abolish

Not to mention that a lot of countries mandate that the civil time should follow the Sun.
The IBM PC that debuted with the 286 was the PC/AT ("Advanced Technology", hah) that is best known for introducing the AT bus later called the ISA bus that led to the proliferation of video cards, sound cards, and other expansion cards that made the PC what it is today.

I'm actually not sure there ever was a "true CPU computer age" where all processing was CPU-bound/CPU-based. Even the deservedly beloved MOS 6502 processor that powered everything for a hot decade or so was considered merely a "micro-controller" rather than a "micro-processor" and nearly every use of the MOS 6502 involved a lot of machine-specific video chips, memory management chips. The NES design lasted so long in part because toward then end cartridges would sometimes have entirely custom processing chips pulling work off the MOS 6502.

Even the mainframe era term itself "Central Processing Unit" has always sort of implied it always works in tandem with other "processing units", it's just the most central. (In some mainframe designs I think this was even quite literal in floorplan.) Of course too, when your CPU is a massive tower full of boards that make up individual operations and very the opposite of an Integrated Circuit, it's quite tough to call those a "general purpose CPU" as we imagine them today.
Afaik you need a valid prescription by law in the US. This might not be strictly enforced or verified by the retailers.
Let’s put tabs on the new names of the design:

> Evans Hankey, vice president of Industrial Design, and Alan Dye, vice president of Human Interface Design, will report to Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer

(From Apple’s website about Jony Ive).
Surely an alcove could be created such that the usb c connector creates a firm fit once the magnets latch on.

e.g. magnets pull retractable flaps open such that the magsafe USB-C can be retracted easily. When using regular USB-C the flaps are locked in place, so works in that case too.

I'm sure it's possible, but perhaps not worth the effort. Not one of humanity's most difficult problems.
Oh man, blackberry's where such perfect communication devices, fast writing no additional bs...i miss that time, it was the perfect mix of smart and dump phone...and nothing more was/is needed.
He did. They have vanished from distribution. I've seen some of them, and they just looked terrible from the primitive coloring technology they used at the time. Modern colorizations look far, far better, like "They Will Not Be Forgotten" where WW1 footage was colorized.

A lot of people cried "Abomination" when Turner did that, saying he was destroying the old films, but nothing of the sort happened. Just like someone photoshopping color onto an old Civil War picture (a popular thing to do) the originals are undamaged.

People do really great jobs colorizing old photos, it just brings them to life. I have several in my wallpaper folder.
An acknowledgment of what? Apple does not owe you anything. You chose to buy their products, with or without the need for dongles. They have allowed feedback and the market to correct this by offering revised products.
> These are the people for whom adjudicating upon such matters as France’s attempted move to the decimal system and the International Atomic Agency’s periodic decision to add nuclear seconds to the world time system are the bread and butter that they grapple with at work every day.

I believe the author is referring to leap seconds? International Atomic Agency is I think jumbling up the International Atomic Energy Agency and International Atomic Time. The agency responsible for leap seconds is the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS); the IAEA is not involved in timekeeping standards as far as I know.
I'm curious what sort of market research lead to this. If Mechanical engineers are truly the target audience, I would strongly suggest that you consult with one. We already have all these things, with more features, more integrations with other tools, and more flexibility.
You are comparing a portable device with a powered one. If you don't need portability/mobility of your device any manufacturer is going to be costlier for comparable performance even if they can reach that level.

Even with jump in M1 performance at lower power envelopes, top of the line deskop chips will easily beat it. Apple has only reduced the gap in the performance between high power draw and lower power draw machines, they have not surpassed it.
There's nothing "scientific" about choosing a note whose frequency is the average length of the day, divided by 24 by 60 by 60 by 256 by (fourth root of two, cubed). It's numerology.
Isn’t your custom framework exactly what I said? Use an existing one , or write one that only you (and your team) know.

Of course, the bigger your codebase and the more unique your needs, the more reasonable it becomes to create your own.
Are. Not were. The fact that we see this still being mentioned is a pretty good testimony to how utterly tone deaf Musk was when he did that.
If you have a working patch then I would suggest working with other developers to get a similar thing implemented elsewhere. Also I don't think this needs significant changes in the Wayland protocol at all so I'm really confused what you mean, it seems like all you need is one additional message to specify the DPI to the application. The hard part is getting this implemented everywhere.
Studies several decades ago indicated that daily low-dose aspirin (80mg or less per day I think) led to fewer heart attacks and strokes and this led to a lot of people taking a low-dose aspirin with their daily vitamins. When statins and other daily blood thinners started to be prescribed there was a group of people who learned that you should not mix aspirin and statins but in general the trend continued. Now it seems that the advice is that there are downsides in addition to the benefits and that they probably cancel out.

Me, I will continue to take my daily aspirin given a family history that indicates this might be wise.
As a more problem-specific solution, I'm an advocate for any team/company/etc. with employees in more than one timezone standardizing on UTC for everything. We do it with servers and it works pretty well.

It seems the status quo for remote companies is to standardize on whatever timezone the top-most boss is in. Doesn't seem optimal.
I have been in Incident Response, responding to people that were much more numberous than I, and tended to like to attack while I was asleep…because why not, it’s the middle of their day, and they can also hack the stupid Americans while they eat their Thanksgiving Turkey, Christmas Ham and Easter…Eggs.

It’s good to burn the candle at both ends and the middle once or twice, both to prove you can, and to determine why you shouldn’t longterm.

The money was good, I out earned my coworkers in Bonus compendation, but the color had literally drained out of my life. I had no hobbies, no plans, I just went to work, came home, and once or twice a month, lost a weekend to the latest DDOS.

ETA: DO NOT LOSE YOUR CHILDREN’S YOUTH to work. Just don’t.
A not un-funny observation. I used to suggest that after seeing what the equestrian world was like, that future archeologists would see how the wealthiest people of this era spent huge fortunes on temples and buildings for horses, when in fact they were just for horse shows - and this suggested that the ancient Egyptians probably didn't worship cats at all, but that cat shows were just a really big social thing back then. Someone from thousands of years in the future discovering the now ancient internet could interpret the same thing.
You are onto something here, I think. And it certainly does not help that driving was one of those few remaining jobs that did not require a lot of education. To me personally it seems like recipe for a disaster to basically prime a chunk of your population for an anger for being left behind by 'the rich', who set the system up to skim few more bucks from labor savings and "the poor", who are desperate enough to take their spots in those jobs.
Yeah, I think Jony Ive jumped the shark with the touchbar and eliminating ports. I dunno why they ditched MagSafe. The Worse parody of latter day Ive [1] was pretty spot on.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgBDdDdSqNE

I really like this MacBook Pro but at $2000 I may wait for the next Air. I really don't need the Pro features, HDMI, SD card, that many GPUs, ..., and my 2017 Air is just fine for now.
It would seem to me some laws of thermodynamics would prevent any such "infection"-style reaction, but I am not a physicist nor chemist.
Paul Eggert is demonstrably male. (EDIT: Also he didn't request any other pronoun so far.)
Thank you, I appreciate this. It drives me crazy when someone dismisses an analogy because some other attribute than what’s actually being compared doesn’t match. Yes, you’re right, they’re not the same! If what you compared were exactly the same in every way, they would be the same thing!

I think it’s part dishonesty, part emotional attachment to the things being compared (you should probably rarely bring Hitler into the mix, even if technically it works), and partly that some people just don’t understand analogies.
Yeah, I think this flew over everyone's heads. The date of the article is at the bottom.
Those pictures don't show up on my browser when I view the page. The only pictures that show up are a white woman, an Asian man, and then 11 African people. But to address your examples, wherever you found them: the first one is swarthy Middle Eastern-looking guy who is very far away, way up in a building, and then one other guy guy who whose face is covered by the arm of a black guy. And who knows where and how you even managed to find those pictures.

It would serve your (our (humanity's)) cause better to address the issue instead of lying and pretending it doesn't exist. You are just going to add fuel to the fire of reactionary populism which wastes more of humanity's time.
Just make it a required feature in Gtk4 and distros and apps will be forced to support it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28863376

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28875636
Unfortunately for you I live, work, and do tech hiring in Western Europe, so I'm just going to go straight ahead and call you out on your weird geo-superiority bs.

Western European grads are no better or worse than elsewhere. Tech jobs do pay disproportionately well (not as much as the US but still well), and I assure you other white-collar fields such as law, finance and medicine have plenty of ridiculous demands and barriers to entry - often much worse than the ones we see in tech.

Honestly if you are as good as you say you are you should be happy to just walk into any tech company you like, spend a couple hours showing off, and be set for life.
Article is from 2005. Java has lost mindshare since then.
Rambling and nearly unending
Well if the speaker is drunk, then its exactly excusable is it? Seems like I would rather take the parent comments point than wave it away as poor communication skills on the part of the listener, or intoxication of the speaker.
This is zero sum thinking, and it's been pretty thoroughly debunked.

We have more people in the US than in 1960, and far more programming jobs.
Einstein spent alot of time trying to modify his theory so that there would be a fixed sized universe. He really hated the idea of an expanding universe for some reason.
I'm not in the US; when I got my latest pair of glasses they just used a ruler. It works fine.

(Yes, I'm exactly one of those people sensitive to "minute variations".)
> Note that a large effort has been made to make specs more precise, to be easier to implement in an interoperable way

This is true for HTML5 which defined full browser behaviour, including things like improperly closed and improperly nested tags.

Many, many other specs? Not so much. Especially the crap that Chrome has been pumping out the past several years.
I'm scrupulous about extracting batteries from my electronics for proper disposal, personally... But realistically, without a cash incentive to get people to pull out the screwdriver, many folks won't do it and they'll end up in the garbage.

This needs to be a deposit-based program. E-recycle fee upfront at purchase, rebate at proper disposal.
Is it really that ridiculous to put minorities in the spotlight for a few years? Try watching a "popular" movie from the 70s, 80s, 90s, or early 00s (e.g. Star Wars or Lords of the Rings). It is very depressing how blatantly they are excluded.

Featuring minorities for a while isn't that big of a deal. It would be an incredible moral failing if we pretended racial representation is all fine now.
Is it really so different? Trains offload at depots; similarly trucks don't take every piece of cargo on board directly from A to B.
Ahh thanks, I hadn't thought about that.
I can't edit my post.

I was thinking about B2.
Having lived in Cambridge for a year, the shortest path is not always the most efficient path due to stoplights and traffic. It's a bit like UPS only making right turns.

Also, there are streets that you would totally avoid if you need to stop in and pick something up, or get coffee (not sure on the fidelity of their data). Or to avoid walking down a basically empty road with no exits (just lined by buildings) vs. walking down a more populated road with store fronts.

It's interesting, and humans are sub-optimal navigators on some dimensions, but not all of them.
Rabbit hole alert:

Ho, M. W. (2014). Large supramolecular water clusters caught on camera-A review. Water, 6, 1-12.

https://www.academia.edu/6280471/Large_supramolecular_water_...

This is around the very controversial question of whether amorphous water can have a structure. Controversy, because homeopathy. Pretty pictures, though!
Raising wages will make daycare a financially reasonable decision again.
I'd draw the line at having two-way relations instead of functions. But I don't think this is the way CUE went, which is troubling.
It is possible to predict the future state of a system in QM from the initial state. QM equations are parabolic/hyperbolic and so from a global initial state one can deduce both future and past. What one cannot do is to deduce the future or past of a local patch based on the state of that local patch at a particular moment in time. The QM state is global and there is no way to isolate the local patch from influence of arbitrary far away points.
>Does anybody use all of the new power of these incredible devices?

As someone with an years old iPhone 6, I haven't once said, I wish this phone was faster. Maybe a better camera would be nice, but that's about it.

Maybe with the ability to plug a phone into a screen and keyboard and use it as a computer (As is starting to happen) I'd want more power but right now I'm good as long as my battery is holding.

I just wish more of these phones still had headphone jacks...
> taking pictures with the rear camera.

I think taking better pictures in low light, etc. can be thought of being a "new phone feature" (for any phone).
VAIO is an outlier even among PCs. I think it's a great strategy for an underdog in a standardized modular market, but not for Apple.
Well, you gotta admit he does a lot of work. I'm too wiped after my 8-5 to even work on fun stuff, so I'm kinda impressed how people find the time to do all this.
There used to be one for the beagleboard, but it´s not available anymore...

https://makezine.com/2013/04/23/beaglebone-lego-motor-contro...
> no way to narrow it down to meaning the operator

My google insider tells me you can add the word "operator" to your query to do that. Or any other similar word like "keyword" that anyone else thought to call it on stack overflow.
Especially since lots of components are updated outside Android updates. The browser and many other things will keep on being updated independently.
Scale AI’s TransformX Fireside Chat with Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov
I needed my PD to get prescription lenses for my Oculus headset and it wasn't on my prescription.

On a whim I asked at a glasses store in the mall if they could measure mine. They happily did it for free. Your milage may vary on that of course, depending on the person you interact with.