skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I did when I took a couple years off. If you think of health insurance as disaster coverage, the "cheap" ACA coverage has a better worse case than the premo platinum offerings.

Under
https://www.coveredca.com/health/coverage-levels/bronze/hdhp...
coverage for an individual 40 year old making $150K/year will cost you $6k/year with an out-of-pocket max of $7K/year. Not great on either end. But, not disaster either.

But, if your income is $30K/year, the cost drops to $0.0 to $1200 per year.
Self promotion in general is fine on HN but I think it's pretty hard to objectively say anything you write yourself is well written!
it's essential for security

to the people who complain, we didn't hear you when the US kept (is still is) massively tracking you

and let's not talk about all free apps on your favorite smartphone, they track you to death

but who cares, nobody should track me for everyone safety! only for everyone's lack of privacy!
Literally has been used as a term of hyperbole since at least 1769. That one's hard for me to get too worked up about. :-)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
I bought one and returned it. It did what it said, it’s not a bad product. However after spending just shy of the cost of a new iPad I couldn’t justify not having just buying an iPad and having 100x the functionality.

The remarkable also has very mediocre note management software, on the device, online, and on the desktop.
Who cares if it’s every single time? It’s not exactly a feat of mental endurance to handle it.

I have a mental debate about animal-based testing/clothes/food on a regular basis, as I do about many choices I make that have a potential moral cost. I still often make those choices, and I don’t lose sleep over it. However, I believe regularly questioning one’s own viewpoints, habits and situation is a strength.

The assumption that it’s being done simply to draw attention is an unreasonable and condescending dismissal.
> Over 80% of data breaches are through static passwords.

Static passwords are bad, for sure. But do you have a source for this?
I think Rust is a great programming language, but to be honest all this drama discourages me from using it as much.

I worry about whether using the language will become a political statement. I worry whether people who can't get along are making the best decisions for the language. And I worry whether a total team meltdown will cause it to become defunct or forked at some point.
Here's the original paper on research gate. Free to download: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313360479_Software_...
> Rather than focusing on leveraging their greater manufacturing expertise in the fight for EV market share, they underestimated the challenge coming their way.

I think this phrasing paints people at these companies as being dumber or less perceptive than they are. People are simply acting in their own best interest rather than the company's. People absolutely downplay the EV threat beyond what they believe in order to further their own interests.

I would also say some of the foot dragging is just leadership not having limited capacity to think about different things. Leadership needs to keep an eye on all the existing supply chain and manufacturing stuff while also managing the EV side closely enough to be able to understand the benefits of different initiatives.
Mogul Feud: Musk vs. Dimon
Memory is the basis of any real knowledge. This we have known since for ever…

Intelligent people tend to think that you do not need to memorize because everything is out there at a button-press distance. But they do not realize that what makes the intelligent is that they can memorize lots of things without effort.
> we need to put a significant check in place against these "feelings committees." Their sensibilities are becoming ever more delicate.

I think this is the bigger problem.

There is a real danger of the line between "socially acceptable" and "strongly disagree" or "strongly dislike" being blurred by these groups... it needs to be ok to have people disagree with each other, or not like each other, or not like their opinion, or not like their personality in these open source projects without that leading to being ejected or punished for it.
Godaddy has some bad practices.

They used to randomly call us, and then ask US to verify our accounts, passcodes in order for them to tell us a domain was close to expiration.

Not an email. An unsolicited phone call where I have to validate my information.

I told them that was phishing 101 tactic and a bad practice to train users on. And if a call is standard, a user may reasonably assume an email may be too.

Ultimately they just removed my from their call list.

It was one of the most asinine things I’ve seen. It reminds me I need to move my companies domains to hover.
Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords
> There is this trope of the "genius asshole" who is too valuable to lose. I suspect that in a lot of cases these people are too valuable precisely because they drive away other contributors that would otherwise lead to a more healthy project.

I have seen this many a time.

It's quite hard to watch someone tear themselves apart, even if it is just the internet. The emotional burden of it gets a bit too much, and walking away seems like the best option.
I've always written out what specific issues I had that led me to resign. If you don't say anything, nothing changes. A resignation letter is a professional curtesy, the point is to provide useful, professional information. Of course in some instances there were personal factors that influenced my decision, and I didn't list those out in detail, but I let them know that those were issues on my end that the employer didn't need to address. There's no need to beat a dead horse and bring up every single grievance, and you can be diplomatic, but if an issue is bad enough to warrant resignation, it really should be mentioned in the resignation letter.

I'd certainly never insinuate that my employer had done something wrong but refuse to clarify.
> "One Powerful GPU?" Don't gaslight me - anyone who has played a game on a smartphone looks at that and goes oof.

It's the best mobile GPU working with fully free software. This is for the audience that cares about it.

> HTML5 apps because you don't have real apps?

But they do have real apps. Thousands of desktop Linux apps.

> Also, if you are really concerned about your privacy - you can't wait a year being no more private than before!

If you're in a hurry, consider this: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa.

Agree concerning the "competitive chart". Still it looks funny IMHO.
No, but when you resign you are no longer in a position to influence anything. Resignation is an act of last resort, you throw yourself on your sword in the hope that someone notices and that's that. You can do it exactly once.
no business wants to have to deal with 50 different laws in 50 states.

Amazon already does this in a thousand ways, from labor laws to labeling laws to paying thousands of different sales tax rates to thousands of different states, towns, and other municipalities.

If this was a startup, maybe you'd have a case. But it's a trillion-dollar company. Suck it up, buttercup.

Or just do the simple thing: Follow the most restrictive state laws. Somehow, following California emissions standards in the 1970's didn't bankrupt the auto industry. And following Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture standards didn't bankrupt the food industry in the early part of the last century.

Following the rules is a cost of doing business. If Amazon can't afford to follow the rules, then it should go out of business and let someone else innovate.
I've never seen it not work. It even works for embedded audio, like alert beeps. I'm sure YouTube had some way to stop you using it on ads, but I block those anyway.
Predicting the Effects of Holidays on Service
I don't understand how the same institutions can come out with something as good as the GDPR and as bad as this bullshit. It's very tiring to have to fight against these things all the time, and it feels like our concerns aren't being heard.
> if a person is generally toxic enough, they will be worked around

Yes, they will. For 25 or so years, the workaround has been others leaving and the project/site dies. There's nothing original about your argument, and it's been proven to be a destructive strategy. (Ironically, you are posting your comment on HN, which is heavily moderated.)
As a coder I don't think I can do anything without the internet. Even if one specific site (maybe there are two actually, SO and GH) were down, it would wreck my day and many of yours.

My style of coding is very intimately connected to having access to online resources. I regularly search for things like how to concatenate strings or the syntax of a for loop in some language. I also use the internet for higher level things like how memory management works on some system, or how something like an ECS architecture works. I also spend a lot of time looking for the right components to put into my own systems, so if GitHub were down it would bother me.

Basically I'd be useless without the internet. The coding tools themselves, all the examples of how to use them, and all the actual knowledge about how everything works is on there.

Perhaps the only thing that's actually my own input is the judgement about what things are important, which sources are reliable, and which people are authorities.
Figma. https://www.figma.com/resources/learn-design/

Seriously - its free, has the amazing mirror capability, the community is huge and all lessons are delivered as actual figma files.

Its a super impressive piece of software.

Tutorials are abundant... just yt figma tutorials - install it and start wireframing in no time.

And you can make interactions - showing what on-click, on-hover, etc is supposed to do...

And there are billions of plugins.
Dude just pirate it and then if you really want send a donation directly to the content creator so you're not sending part of the money to Disney/Comcast/etc lol
Thats cool! And exactly the direct we're going for, creating less friction and an overal better experience.
Given the context, I suspect the parent was referring to the overhead caused by managing incompetents. Given the choice between working with an asshat who knows what they're doing and a moron who doesn't understand the basics _and can't be taught_, which would you take?

I assume in the open source world the latter is easier to ignore, but in business it can take years to get rid of an incompetent, and the longer they're there, the greater the drag on the team and the harder it is to hang on to talented people. By contrast, letting a talented and productive asshat go is much easier; just introduce them to HR!
I agree. I think people have figured that it's easier to get your way if you portray the "other" side so far away that there is no way to even talk to them (other than yelling). Marking people as "socialist", "racist" or "transphobic" marks them as irredeemably bad
Pine64. :)
The Dawn of Consumer Crypto
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me like any time there's a controversy surrounding code of conducts (and just bad behavior in general) with open source projects, it's always on Github. Conversations on Gitlab by comparison always feel a lot more serious and professional.

That could just be due to numbers, since Github has way more people. The low barrier of entry to Github probably also contributes, since it attracts younger/less mature people. The social media features might also cause people to treat it like reddit or twitter, where being an asshole for no reason is normal behavior.
> My colleagues in the Bay Area all lived in SF, then quickly moved to the subrurbs when they got older. Sure, there is no pedestrian/biking utopia in the US, but there are places where you can pretty much get by without a car. And many people don't choose to live there.

Agree. I don't understand the claims in this discussion about kids not being able to get around in suburbs on their own. I lived part of my childhood in a dense metropolis and part in a suburb. I was able to get around the suburb just fine on my own on a bicycle. This was before bike lanes (which many suburbs now have), and I would just ride on the sidewalk - this is perfectly safe and legal.

> And when I talked to my colleagues you know what their desired was? Make enough money to buy a car and get the equivalent of a single family home.

This isn't surprising to me, particularly if people know what the two different lifestyles are like (with and without a car). I am more of an advocate for different cities to have different styles of living for different people. The big issue in discussions like this, is a belief that there must be only one way to do things, and it must be forced onto every town and city through aggressive activism, which people who are older or have children or other responsibilities just don't have time to combat. That's not just disruptive but also unethical, in my opinion.

This thread also has several people with a fetishistic obsession with life in the Netherlands. Granted - the Not Just Bikes channel that many have mentioned is run by someone who moved to NL - so the bias there is expected. But lots of people who fantasize about NL would not actually like living there. To be blunt about it, most of the Dutch cities are soulless and boring. At first the immediate walk-out-the-door access to local businesses/destinations was charming. But ultimately I felt that the anti-car lifestyle led to a cultural lack of spontaneity and people implicitly had committed to a limited life that is centered around just what is nearby. Ironically, unlike the GP, I felt those living in NL who reported high levels of happiness were the ones who didn't know there were other options.
Big difference between de jure and de facto. We already have de facto surveillance in the US and the 5 eyes jurisdictions. Some of the other EU countries are also in on it.

They just want to add a de jure veneer to it.

For de facto leadership follow the US example. For de jure leadership follow the Australian/Chinese model.
It isn't about the serving, it is about the ability to take images. Countries are really picky about such things but have trouble controlling in a lot of cases because they have no mechanism to stop it. Allowing RF in / out of there areas of control gives them that mechanism.
After owning and returning
v2 I agree. Version 5 at half the cost might be a compelling option.
> The core problems with biometrics are that:

… is that they're treated as passwords instead of usernames. The three problems you list all have the biometric=password assumption in them.

See also using the American SSN usage: it's treated like a (secret) token, and so when it leaks it can be used to access sensitive information. Using it as 'just' a username would probably reduce a lot of problems as well.
Drought in Madagascar
I have a nagging feeling the rules are different in fields like sales, trading, sports, or others where performance is more precisely quantified.

The reality, somewhat sad in my view, is that in most places, software shops, architecture firms, academia, pretty much anywhere where individual measurement isn't possible and most work is done in teams, most performance reviews are a thin veneer over a high school popularity contest. You get ahead by being liked, something that's at best loosely correlated to how much work you get done, or at what quality.

Of note, the best manager I worked for (in software) ran a great team by making work about the work, not being liked, or delivering great powerpoints, or other secondary things.
Remix Goes Open Source
You don't know what you talking about if you think the mod team is "petulant preteens" and not professionals who have moved the language forward in leaps and bounds.
Why not try postmarketos with the "PureOS" user interface, phosh?

pmbootstrap will allow you to generate an image for your phone, flash it, set up a cross-compile environment and a chroot with emulation trough qemu for local testing, it's quite easy to use.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Installation_guide
Like Covid-19, digital passports could be with us forever
I was assuming Brooklyn 99.
The classic "free market will decide if being an asshole is worth it to them". This notion is ironic seeing how an entire moderation team resigned. Sounds like they decided it wasn't worth it.

Outing toxic contributors so they don't actively corrupt and corrode the project is tantamount to the long-term success of a project. And you don't need to break the law to be deemed too negative to be necessary.

> Choose your tradeoff carefully.

What an unsettling comment.
Sounds like the core team wants to get shit done, and the kind of people in the Rust community who open bugs on the philosophers in the dining philosophers example not being gender- and ethnically diverse enough are assmad about it.
The original Reuters article[0] about Amazon's lobbying efforts addresses that point. It says:

> Amazon said it wants one national privacy law rather than a “patchwork” of state regulations. Asked for details of any federal privacy legislation it has supported, Amazon did not name a specific bill. The company did provide three examples of what it described as statements of public support by its executives for federal consumer-privacy legislation.

> In those cases, Reuters found, the executives were expressing either direct opposition to such a law, opposition to existing state privacy protections, or advocacy for industry-friendly measures opposed by consumer advocates. No major federal privacy legislation has passed Congress in years because members have been deadlocked on the issue.

The article goes into great detail about the efforts to stop state-level legislation. If Amazon truly wanted to see a federal-level law, then we should expect to see them putting a similar sort of effort (or, hell, any effort at all) at the federal level towards getting one written and passed. The simple fact is, we don't.

Until we see that effort from them, anyone using the excuse that, "State laws make this a difficult patchwork to navigate so we want a federal law," is just largely spouting bullshit.

Edit: This is compounded by the fact that, as another user pointed out, they already deal with patchworked state laws in many other areas of their business, but they don't go to these levels to stop that.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-p...
Pushing the Limits of Web Browsers (2012)
I often confused astrology/astronomy as a child... but not as an adult.

Maybe some things simply can't be solved without education & maturity?
Or more specifically, are there any towns out there that have gone all-in on this mindset?

For example, there's lot of housing developers out there that build "eco-villages" housing developments -- the houses have solar or are well-insulated or there's a community garden or something else cute like that.

But a real "eco village" isn't a housing development with a gate or two onto the local stroad, it's a walkable/bikable/mixed-development town where you don't need a car to go grab a cup of coffee. Outside of the old pre-car suburbs like Cambridge/Somerville, are there any towns that are actively all-in on these ideas?
It has a five-member "Directions Committee", vacancies filled by invitation. The group's minutes are not public, but they have no authority beyond their persuasiveness. The members are there because they were already respected.
Some of it is foisted on you whether you like it or not though. Like your across-the-street neighbor's Ring doorbell sharing HD footage of you, your house, etc, to law enforcement.
...ordinary medium-to-large caliber hunting rifles are unavailable to the general public?
If you’re reading or writing a file format, whether it’s text, floating point or some other encoding, you don’t have to store the data in memory the same way when you work with it.

…which frees you to write your data to disk however you want.

And given that freedom to choose any serialization format, you definitely should not manually be figuring out every byte you write — you probably write an abstraction, so wherever complexity there is should be completely transparent because you unit tested the hell out of your sterilization routines.

…which to me makes the whole complexity point moot, and which also makes the whole “text is better for memory minimization” argument also moot.

I do think text formats have a place — primarily readability and interoperability — but to choose it for purely reducing your file sizes sounds insane to me.
Like the bleeding of horseshoe crabs for LAL it's always reevaluated based on current technology.
that was 50 years ago, and it was largely a series of prestige missions. humans are the problem now, robots can do everything better
Me. What response were you expecting?
The vast majority of open source projects do not create their own open source license- most of them choose from a relatively small selection of widely used licenses (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.).

Why then do so many project choose to roll their own CoC? I'd expect that there would also be a relatively small handful of widely used CoCs to choose from, and a project could pick based on their projects' needs.
By the public nature of it, it's a bit of a persecution.
How about "The Land of Lisp"? [0]

It comes with a bonus music video! [1]

[0] http://landoflisp.com

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc
Adamite
> It's a desktop OS. If you connect an external monitor, you can use any desktop software, including GIMP. Works fine on my Pinephone with phosh.

How is that any different than literally any other distro you can boot on a handheld?

You're basically confirming my point; nothing especially "convergent" about pureos to see here, no?
This is nice, but can Google do a better job covering the basics? Their weather widget used to display air quality (AQI) a few years ago (2018), then it suddenly disappeared one day: https://9to5google.com/2018/11/11/google-weather-missing-air...

It seems they care enough about wildfire data to make this big update for Maps, but can't do something this basic? Their headquarters is in one of the most affected regions in Caifornia by wildfires (they had an orange sky last year), and no one at Google headquarters thought that maybe showing AQI in the weather widget should be restored? (it's not even a new feature, just bring back the old AQI panel). What's the problem here, too simple for someone's promo-packet?
Started remote a few months before the pandemic. Also started out my career in tech working remotely. In my current situation, I don't imagine ever returning and feel grateful for the opportunity to wrest back more control over my life and circumstances that would usually have been dictated to suit my employer. For me, remote work gives me _far_ more time, energy etc to invest in myself and family which is why I work in the first place. Not only that, but the chance to work for an employer in a remote capacity greatly diminishes the urge I have felt to go the consultancy route etc.

There are a lot of habits and work processes instilled in us from having to report to hq every day but for a lot of people we are already emerging on the other side of replacing those arcane processes with modern internet native approaches. This will force a lot of change on people in terms of how we socialize and it is a major change, with major upside imo.
Apple has a new wfh policy, the spaceship HQ in cupertino has been renamed "home". All employees are free to work from "home" anytime they want and as long as they want. /s
I've seen almost this exact study before somewhere. As a side note though, how do we pronounce that domain name?