skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
those who are unable to drive can perform another customer service role instead
I appear to have misread.
> now the area around it is falling apart

Lol. As a current Cupertino resident and non-Apple employee, this is the nicest place I’ve ever lived. Massive perfect roads, extremely low crime or homelessness, modern buildings, and easy access to freeways. It’s not at all like downtown SF
I worked in software & hardware engineering at Apple, we don't know one another, and nothing you cite as the common refrain was true anywhere around our world.
We were treated excellently, and I loved it. (Quit for a science job far away, total non sequitur, not because of Apple)
If you listen to USNews, Stanford is the top business school and tied with three others for top CS school.

Average base salary plus expected performance bonus and signing bonus for Stanford MBA's: $270,394. Base starting salary $159,544, signing bonus $32,551. (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/files-fpp/2...)

Average salary of a Stanford MS in CS: $153,400 (https://www.collegefactual.com/graduate-schools/stanford-uni...) Signing bonuses from 2016-2017 averaged $26,952. (https://wxkcg.com/content/234918) Plus stock.
I've been fully remote for 5 years. For me, life feels more like retirement now than it ever did in the office. Despite having full income.

I do various hobbies, take better care of my home, spend time with family and pets. Before the pandemic, I would go to events, happy hours, brunch, parks, etc all the time. Not to mention the extra time for side projects.

I'm loving the cushy life remote work has afforded me - things really change when you spend < 3 workdays a week intensely working. Your week becomes majority yours again.

So I guess my question is, why do you want your job to be such a big deal in your life?
I feel very difficult exams should be commonplace. Everyone should be held to very high standards. It's surprising how many professions don't do this. For example, I've been to several physical therapists who barely seemed to understand what was wrong with me even after several visits. Each gave me what seemed like the same standard routine that they give everyone with <insert pain type here> problem.
How is it not? How does anyone join a company and make any significant contributions in less than 2 years? How do you even become a leader within a company in less than two years? You just throw out all the relationships you have built every 2 years? It is a red flag.
I love it.

No one plays the game because it's fun now. But in the future, the game will be fun, and people will pay to play it.

Right now, it's just crypto where you can spend your time AND money to get a return instead of just your money.

Got it.
If the designers get all the glory… sign me up! Maybe I’m naive, but designing UI stuff is a lot less stressful than making things actually work.
Doesn’t this mean you have to trust whomever made the list? Let’s say I have a pretty large following (I don’t) and I created my own trust list after accusing the authors of the “trusted list” or social engineering a situation that causes people to lose trust. Then I could take over the network with my “trusted” list. I’m sure people would figure out what’s going on, but now I’ve destroyed all trust in a trusted list and destroyed the network.
Do you understand the difference between a novel virus and the flu?

> We have marvelous vaccines that knock Covid to the level of a cold or mild flu for most people in the “office worker” demographic.

And now we have omicron, which is still quite infectious in spite of the vaccines. Thankfully it seems less dangerous than delta. Who knows what the next variant will bring.

> Because part of saying “Covid isn’t going away ever” means “get on with your damn life”.

Part of “getting on with your damn life” includes accepting that there’s a new endemic virus that the population has no natural immunity to, and changing behavior appropriately.

Sorry, but time marches forward — 2019 is a thing of the past.
I see this "cell phones will use x-rays and gamma rays in the future" claim often enough that I wish an expert in the field would write an article on just how bad the effects would be.
I couldn't agree more. Not to bash on this project, what is the point here exactly? Godot has an excellent build system(scons), plugin system with scripts(GDScript) and even native plugins with C++. And a bunch of tools that are super useful for development. Like you said, "wrapping it" inside NodeJS is just asking for trouble and might be a maintenance nightmare.

For context: I have been playing with Godot custom C++ modules in the past year and I've had a blast. Such as a wonderful project.
Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea (2017)
If you read his book from cover to cover and found nothing that you would count even close to a bullshit job then alright I guess. You probably wouldn’t get hired to optimize resource usage and cut down redundancies in a private enterprise anytime soon.
You're simply wrong. You can certainly never work well outside the top 1%. Hell, you can live on social services while near the bottom if you really want. But I know many upper class people who don't work or barely work. It's not a fantasy, it's reality. It's not about keeping anyone down, that's a strawman and not even close to something I said. It's just the economic reality; when all you need to pay for are property taxes, utilities, and food, that's covered very easily by income earned from even modest amounts of wealth. This is a flaw in our economic system.

As for the other class of people, there simply aren't many avenues for those people. I've watched many 20 somethings and 30 somethings struggle. A small number become programmers, a small number become strippers, and the rest tend to work long hours for little pay even with great educations, let alone without those educations.
love this setup.

are you able to sync your keepass database to your windows machine? i need to add this one drawback for people to keep in mind. and also because it happened recently and made hn frontpage. apple can decide to suspend your account for one reason or another. it is very rare but can definitely happen.
When Flight Simulator came out, my first thought was to see what would happen when you crashed the airplane. People would actually get upset as I would try to crash it. These were adults! They'd get so into the game they were afraid of crashing the imaginary airplane.

(It was a bit disappointing, it would only freeze the screen and draw a crack across it!)
> Wow, how can this amount of files be justified?

File count is not a good metric of complexity nor is an indicator of the quality of an application. There is a good chance a lot of that are packages that have been packaged up into the extension. Lastpass itself is not a super trivial application, either.
I would say it is more of the legacy codes that Apple don't want to keep providing support for backward compatibility. And it uses up spaces in your drive if they need to keep 32-bit library in case for those app that are running in that level.

Microsoft want to do that but it will be a huge risk since it will alienate their enterprise consumers.
It seems weird to me to gauge someone’s understanding of “brand new” for cryptography software by measuring against primitives and constructions. To me at least, those are not the same thing. Even if a piece of software contains cryptography I will still also evaluate its age as a piece of software simply as a proxy for maturity and stability of the feature set.
They didn't, though? Look at the former members of the Soviet Bloc today. Higher infant mortality rates, lower education attainment, no industry of which to speak. Name one country doing better after an IMF loan!

I could talk about Argentina, Haiti, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador... all of which have not been saved by "the invisible hand of the free market"
From my point of view there is a hierarchy of swe’s at apple.
On the top are iOS devs - the one who are the closest to the users and execs. Next are macos, hardware, backend. After all of that you have IST eng (i hope that i remember the name of the org correctly) and not really people from Apple’s point of view: contractors.
the site is an advertising redirect and these same attackers (or at least users of the same IP ranges) use leaked credentials to login to Microsoft/Outlook accounts using SMTP
>Uber started this sh*t that people don't need to tip

disagree. I don't like tipping culture in general, so I welcome any effort to uproot it.
Environment Canada warns:

> Extremely cold windchill values between -40 and -50 continue today for most of Alberta.

It may be possible to dress for the weather, but 4–6 hours is a very long time to be outside at those temperatures. None of the snowsuits I have found on that site are rated for temperatures below -30°C, and none of the children's suits appear to go below -20°C (though perhaps I am looking in the wrong category).
The Bay Area is 6900 square miles of land and cost of living is as high as any other metro on average per square mile. London, Tokyo, New York and pretty much every other major metropolis has problems akin to the Bay Area but we never quite as frequently refer to London or Tokyo “falling apart” the way we like to attract all our collective attention to bash the Bay Area here.
They're using "Makes less than $1.90/day" as the definition of poverty and then comparing rates from 25 years ago and today without adjusting for inflation or cost of living in each area. Seems like their claims are really suspect.
Log4j 2.17.1 out now, fixes new remote code execution bug
I could have sworn that they'd figured out these were some kind of knitting template
Interesting, Apple pays $180k over 4 years to prevent good engineers from going to Meta.

Meanwhile, Meta gives >$1M in discretionary equity to top performers to prevent them from leaving. I don't think Apple picked a big enough number here.
Which compatriots?
Slightly confused about what you mean here. As I understand it, ray tracing is just one of a few different global illumination approaches. In my graphics course many years ago, we implemented radiosity, photon mapping and path tracing, and they were better for some kinds of scenes than straight forward ray tracing. Some of these approaches support soft shadows very naturally, but ray tracing is not one of them - good soft shadows with ray tracing still involves some hacks.
Will DoorDash be paying for the employees to rent a car to make deliveries? No way I’m risking my new car on delivering groceries. No way I’m paying for commercial auto insurance either (I suspect my normal policy won’t cover DoorDash or other gig activities).
Yeah, seems like there was some other bottleneck. Maybe changing the IPC method makes the small difference we are seeing, but we should be seeing orders of magnitude higher TPS prior to caring about the IPC method.
Nah, I think "liberal arts" fits the bill. Including natural sciences. In contrast to the professional colleges: Law/Business/Medicine/Engineering (which CS should be at-parity with).

Of course LACs don't have law schools or med schools or (usually) engineering colleges, so the difficulty of properly compensating CS is understandable with respect to those fields.

However, LACs do tend to have Finance/Accounting, and often pay folks in those departments better, but for whatever reason don't treat their CS faculty like their Finance faculty. My own pet theory for this market mismatch is that finance/business types tend to dominate those college's boards. LAC boards have a lot of older folks who still think of CS as code monkeying.
This article was flagged last time it was posted (by the same user)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29212414
Because each hardware key is unique, this is not a feature currently available nor likely to become available. Each token from the yubikey is not (readily) linkable to the key itself since the underlying secret is opaque and can't be exported, so tricks like Shamir's aren't readily possible.

Yubikeys do solve a lot of use cases very well but that is a downside to them. That is probably still a good tradeoff for most consumers.
there in fact exists a pass-like interface for age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage
And what does it mean exactly?
Like others have said, the fans of a 1U are going to be LOUD. Consider a 2U.

DDR3 and older DDR4 Xeons are cheap but power hungry and slow. Compare costs with a more modern system, like a decent Ryzen. Saving the money on the older system might not be worth it, when you take power and noise in to account.

I bought a Ryzen 2700X on sale a couple of years ago for large compile jobs. I chose an ASRock motherboard because most if not all support ECC, and I got some ECC memory. It has been absolutely wonderful to have a machine dedicated for CPU intensive tasks.
Photons may not interact with themselves much, but they interact with other materials in significant and useful ways, and there are plenty of materials that change their optical properties in response to an electric field (which can be either electronic or optical in origin, given that light, particularly coherent light can have fairly strong electric fields).

There are millions of things that an electronic digital computer can do that are unlikely to be replaced by photonics, but a hybrid approach may offer advantages in computing specific things. As we have slowed down getting perf/watt advantages from shrinking processes, more and more specialized hardware has been used for performing calculations. It's not that far-fetched to think that photonics might have a niche where it has performance advantages.
This implies you have access to undeniable truth, which is sort of rare. Statements about geometric shapes and numbers can be true by definition, but they are not statements about the entities in the world (numbers and shapes are from a separate ontological category than a telescope; you can't show me where the number 3 is for example -- it doesn't have a location, it isn't an object).

The Hubble telescope may be real. I have more reasons to think it exists than to think it doesn't exist, but I wouldn't call the reasons undeniable. I haven't even seen the thing, nor have I touched it. I've only heard people talk about it, seen text written about it, I haven't been to space, nor have I talked to anyone who was involved in building it. I've also heard people say the earth is flat, and seen that written in text too, so evidently, spoken and written accounts alone is not undeniable evidence.
Meta has a moral/ethical cost as well as a branding tax.
Is this animal poop or human specifically?
One of the interesting things about Graeber's typology is that it includes things that you wouldn't consider to be bullshit jobs. There's an entire category of his typology dedicated to jobs that destroy productive output; like if a business were to hire lawyers to sue the pants off of competing businesses. They get a competitive advantage by increasing everyone else's compliance and legal costs.

I believe this particular categorization could apply to game development in the context of NFT or microtransaction driven gameplay. The economies that these games provide are specifically engineered to increase user spend by targeting "whales". Someone being paid to play a game for someone else is providing a valuable service; but the game doesn't just exist naturally. It's designed. Building a game so that you need to pay to skip the grind is a bullshit job. And if that's a bullshit job, then the people selling their Axies and other game resources have transitively bullshit jobs, even if their own job is not inherently bullshit.
I don't doubt that, but being an anarchist doesn't mean you can't criticise authority from an objective position. If anything, critiquing authority and power might lead you to both write this book, and take an anarchist position.
I must admit I don't understand why it is "cashflow negative". I'm not invested in any crypto, but I have thought about it, and my casual thoughts have come to the opposite conclusion. The higher the price of a cryptocurrency, the greater the interest in mining and investing. It seems like a positive feedback loop to me. Why is it not?
As long as someone doesn't change their point, if someone wants to make their comment more clear by simplifying phrasing or adding more detail or examples, it's fine by me.

I'd rather a fleshed out idea than a off the cuff rough draft. That's actually one of the best parts of digital communication.
In my last year of high school in the 70s, the school acquired a Business Basic 4 computer to do some of the administration work. They also created a computer class for the students, where we punched out programs on punch cards, and the teacher would batch run them overnight.

The teacher did not allow any students near that computer, as he was sure we were going to hack it and wreck everything.

(Yes, hacking was a thing even in the 70s!)
But that is what I'm saying if your vectors are reduced to 8 bit scalar components you can represent a 256x256x256 worth of detail in the world (doesn't need to be linear but still really limited details) ?
This is definitely one of the bigger downsides of remote work, so I fully agree.
That’s kind of funny, because Microsoft do something similar with WinSxS. Only worse.

What they do is store packages in the winsxs folder. They then do an NTFS hard link to where the component is installed, usually system32.

If you ever used Vista and Windows 7 and started to run out of disk space over time, that’s because Microsoft never used to remove the old components after they were updated. In Windows 7, the initial plan after SP1 was to allow people to use a special switch on DISM.exe to remove old service pack files.

Microsoft removed the idea of service packs and instead did continuous patching with rollups. It seems to taken them quite some time before they twigged to the fact that the old updates were using up a lot of disk space, because a long time later (almost at the end of the Windows 7 lifecycle) they added a Windows update to the disk cleanup wizard. Even worse, it would only remove the components after you rebooted but before you could login to Windows. If you ran it, it could sometimes take literally hours to get the computer to finish removing files from the component store.
urban dictionary can warp your belief in humanity.
> I dunno how to put this but consider seeking therapy. 2 years of constant fear being cranked out by public health “experts” and the media have done a number on people

No, two years of half the population refusing to wear a fucking mask did a number on people. “Some crazy dystopian new normal” would actually be an improvement.
Don’t most job descriptions already include “and other duties as assigned”?
Murder of the Orient Express
France meets its peak electricity demands with fossil fuel generation, hydropower, and imports. It doesn't have enough nuclear capacity to service annual peak demands without fossil power because that would leave expensive reactors idle much of the year, as the grandparent post said. Throttling down nuclear is not technically difficult but the high cost would sink a commercial reactor that operates at only 50% of its technically achievable capacity factor.
I get your idea, but Spotify isn't exactly an innovative company either. They made a product that was successful and they simply maintain it while also exploring other revenue streams (podcasts, Car Thing).
They don't need to convince you that there's a chance for 4x growth, they need to convince those specific individuals that there's a chance. And those engineers are immersed in a culture that could affect their perception of Apple's potential.
Still, they will not rip you as much as Airalo.
GOP Senator to Introduce 'Comprehensive' Crypto Regs Bill
The official story from LastPass and the claims of the reporters are in direct conflict. Either the master passwords were reused and this is credential stuffing, or there is actually a LastPass breach affecting all users.

One [incident] reporter claims they changed their master password and had a breach attempt using the new password. If that is true that is extremely alarming.

There could be some malware targeting a LastPass extension or app cache somewhere, but that is groundless theory on my part.
I don't have an insider perspective on this, but from where I'm sitting, it sure looks like the giant bag of money is sufficient and Meta/Facebook hasn't had to worry about any of those things for a long time.
I think the utility of a real case-sensitive file system cannot be nullified with an "I need to press shift!" argument.

Apple's APFS will create the folder as "Programs" if you use "mkdir Programs", and will give you an error when you try to create "programs". You can navigate with any case combination, but it just plays along like the capitalization you entered is present. It feels like a hack tbh.

Another thing I noticed that I never notice that I'm pressing shift while capitalizing. It's not a deal-breaker issue for me (while this might sound like "it works for me", I'm sure that I'm not alone in that).

Case insensitive systems created a lot of problems down the road. Esp. due to popularity of Windows. Program porting is a pain, using macOS with real case-sensitive mode is again a pain for some scenarios. It also encourages sloppy programming practices and "I don't case as long as it works" ism.
Designers and PMs. Apple is being ran by designers and PMs. Which is not really a bad thing from users point of view.
Also - is this even new?

>50% of engineers at Google are L4+. For the last few years, at L4 you should have been getting annual ~$100k grants over 4 years if your work in The Bay.

My understanding is that FB paid even more, and that Amazon was maybe 20% behind at the same level.

It's not like pre-covid engineers got nothing and now you get a $120k Bonus suddenly.
"I wrote the above, but I think the problematic ones are the “text book MBAs” (I just coined that) who go to mediocre, money-grabbing programs and think they are good to go because they read text books and have the degree. There are too many of these in the marketplace."

This is essentially true for all college degrees at this point.
Oh! How could I forget! Legend! And they had to get NissanUSA.com
Sound effects communicate information while you can't look. Looking is the primary output of computers now, so we no longer need to hear that which we can't see; Because we see everything.

In art, audio creates mood. An operating system isn't a piece of art to marvel at, it's the blank canvas upon which apps and games are painted. Those make the richest sounds to date!
each transaction may have several entries, in order to gain more performance, it's better to include several entries per transaction. But all the entries in the same transaction are atomically stored.

submitting several transactions at the same time is also possible and convenient, processing is concurrently done until the last step which requires a strict serialization.

benchmarking is a huge topic and we'd love to have contributions on this. It may refer to using embedded immudb, as a stand-alone server, kv, sql, etc....
In 1979 an inflation-led recession rocked the US economy, abated for about 3 quarters, then returned for another 4 quarters starting in 1981. I expect the same to happen in the months ahead, and in that context Apple's offer is attractive. For anyone who hasn't lived through a deep recession, or an inflation-led recession (stagflation)... it really sucked.
Coming from Menlo Park even, Cupertino feels a bit too dull and suburban, but it is astonishingly well maintained in comparison to anywhere else in the bay area. No doubt that the city is doing a great job.
Funny, I bet there is a similar Chinese thread to this one where Chinese are moaning about not having access to eSIM devices.