skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems really well written. I’d add that stability in the work environment is something many (most?) people want. Experimental fighter pilots are a rare breed, after all.

I’m weighing this against my own career. I’ve worked with very short sighted business managers a lot (IT at a large casino). They absolutely don’t care about tech the way us techies do. They also don’t care about a technician or engineer enjoying their work past whether it means they can pay less or ship faster. They probably assume all techs/engineers are or should be equally skilled. Many might even take learning on the job as a sign that employee lied in their interview or something.

I’m definitely jaded against management. For them to “learn” from the current environment the current environment will need to hit their revenues directly for a quarter or two-as a guess.
My definition of "control the market" here is the plain meaning of the words: Apple does not control either the mobile OS market OR the mobile message market. In the former, they have a significant rival in Android, which really DOES have a serious majority of the handsets used worldwide. In the case of the latter, multiple other options exist for messaging on both iOS and Android, so whatever iMessage does is just a bit player. Most people here are just salty it works very well, and that they can't have it without buying an iPhone.

Congratulations. You have found, presumably by broad googling, a case that suggests a minority market player can still be found to be misbehaving. Of course, you provide absolutely ZERO context for the citation, which is honestly part for the course here. What was the behavior in question?

For this to be a convincing argument, you're going to have to explain what the judge FOUND in this case, and why that applies to Apple. Or is your point to just say "LOOK! Someone with less than 50% of a market can still engage in illegal restraint of trade!"? If so, sure, granted. But the larger point stands:

In this particular case, there is nothing to suggest that Apple is ANYWHERE NEAR a Sherman Act problem w/r/t iMessage, because:

- You don't have to use iMessage even if you use iOS, because there exist several other competing messaging tools; and
- You don't have to use iOS, because there is at least one very significant mobile OS player in the market

Wanting to use iMessage without using iOS is a common desire, but simply wanting a thing doesn't entitle you to it. Apple is not violating your rights by not giving you this.
Is this comment parody? I guess Poe’s Law applies, I’m genuinely mystified.
Packagers solve the caching issue. Despite their complexity and annoyances, it's hard to go back now.
No, since expected intraday gains are negative, this would be a losing strategy. Closing price seems to be lower than opening price on average.

The suggested explanation is: buy orders are placed before open, raising opening price. The gains on the holdings are then larger than the cost of buying in the opening, and selling during the day.
+1 re: “”What Apple has done is turn iOS into their own sovereign territory, written their own laws, and levied their own taxes.””: a few of my friends think I am off the rails on this one, but I think a plausible future is similar to the cyber punk world of William Gibson novels that describe a future maintained and ruled by corporate interests that provide corporate enclaves for people to work and live - sort of replacing countries.
Good question. I don't have a view. Though the boiling frog analogy is probably apt so there should be a threshold or some agreed metric of "competitiveness". One of the key aspects though is the disparity between US market share vs global market share. Given that globally, the remaining 85% of market share are virtually all Android, is penalising Apple increasing or reducing competitiveness? I don't know there's a clear or objectively fair answer.
I’ve gotten 7 recruitment emails since Sunday and none of them have come close to sufficiently explaining what the company or job is for me to even consider responding.

It’s bizarre how secretive they are. I imagine the recruiters are looking out for their own interests.

Recruiters are in the way.
It didn’t seem like disdain the way I read it. It was pretty respectful, slightly humorous.
Yeah, the deliverability aspect is deterring me from going self-hosting route. Wonder if split setup is possible - e-mail intake into self-hosted setup, deliver through someone like migadu or mailbox or tutanota.

I currently use migadu and it's almost perfect, except for the API access. I don't care about storing e-mails, just give me a programmatic way to create aliases. Wish they just had API access available as an addon. /rant
Correct, ages ago, I was testing a batch of them and came across several reversed charged ones. At first I thought I must have got my multimeter leads reversed but I found that was not the case.

For a long while I kept them to prove the point to anyone who thought I'd must have lost my ability to distinguish plus from minus.
That’s weird. I like money more than “work for cool stuff”. Cool stuff don’t pay bills.

Heh, maybe this is why I am an average engineer.
> My understanding was that the crime in those areas was so astronomically high that nothing even resembling IT infrastructure could exist, as it would immediately be confiscated by the cartels operating there.

Your understanding appears to be empirically wrong. The thing about poverty is that you learn to depend on those around you, and gang membership aligns by neighborhood or even specific blocks.

Outsiders may be fair game, but locals have built relationships within the community over years. The armed gang member may feel some loyalty to the organization that let him play games when he was 10, and he has a cousin/friend on the eSports team. There are very few secrets in such close-knit communities you cannot secretly steal and fence the equipment without someone knowing - outsiders can't either because there is always someone keeping vigilance (hence the guns).
The same company has actually done this[1] with the city of Toronto.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicQwXbNnv0
Which apes off Arma, which apes off of the idea of real places*
This is such a fun story, thanks for sharing!

I think with all the technological abundance we have now, we often forget the fun/creativity that limitations can impose on us.
My local library requires a card to use the computers, with the exception of the ones to search the database and one public machine.

That being said, the librarian's there are quite helpful to those who need assistance with anything like that - going ao far as to ait with people and help them navigate it.
Dealing with Financial Fraud by Denying It (2010)
And Hitler wore khakis. What's your point?
> ...and I imagine I'd be singing a slightly different song if I had kids,

Depending on the person, that may be a good motivator for them to not seek more money, but to seek more time instead. I'm certainly there. I've turned down more money when the position would mean that I was responsible for an awful lot more and it would take time away from my kids. When they're older and possibly out of the house, that may change, but for now? I'd rather have the time than the money because, like you, I have "enough." It's just not a limiting factor at this point in what I care to do, but time is.
People still think about naming their CSS classes? I thought we were all on Vue or Styled Components in React and tailwind?
I can also verify that replies work (using T-mobile).
> Recruiters are in the way.

So much this. I've had many conversations with interesting companies that have good pay and cool products, but recruiters/hr keep coming up with bullshit policies and processes that are just obnoxious and only serve to sort out the compliant from the competent.
Leaving aside the possibility that Apple have a good chance of overturning the anti-steering ruling, I'd like to ask you directly - what is stopping you as either a customer or a developer from buying an Android phone, or developing exclusively for the Android ecosystem? i.e. why can't you just vote with your feet?
Enjoyed it, I just jumped ship 6 months ago for basically all the reasons you specified.

Only thing I can add is that due to the difficulty hiring, you can attract mid-level talent with more money (they're more likely to be underpaid). I'm sure the efficacy of that approach is diminishing as steady-state is reached by people in that experience level.
This is right.

Everyone is a slave to their incentives. You have to weed through multiple narratives of different perspectives if you want a chance of piecing together "the truth", whatever that actually means.
We already know that the EcoHealth Alliance sought funding for DEFUSE, which involved making chimeras of "random isolates" (novel coronaviruses collected by the WIV from nature) and certain known backbones. They proposed to do that work in North Carolina, not Wuhan, and the proposal was rejected for safety concerns; but it gives general insight to the kind of work they wanted to do, and might have continued with other funders.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-prop...

So is it really that crazy to think they made a chimera of two "random isolates"? David Relman didn't think so:

> This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e., more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in a laboratory—for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site. It would have been a logical next step to wonder about the properties of a recombinant virus and then create it in the laboratory.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246

Of course the opportunities for a lab accident aren't limited to genetic engineering. SARS-CoV-2 could be a naturally-evolved virus, but one that was sitting harmlessly in a remote cave until WIV researchers collected it. SARS-CoV-2 could also be naturally-evolved, and spread to some hapless villager who then made a day trip to Wuhan; but the point is that we don't know, and all options require investigation until we do.
I have one big glaring early disagreement: Every engineer is at least a little bit techno-utopian.

If you mean they think the future can be made better with technology in the abstract, sure. But I think some, maybe many, engineers think that the current way technology is being developed and deployed is leading towards dystopian futures, not utopian ones. They may tell themselves that the cool problem they are solving would be solved by someone else, and they get money and a good puzzle. They may tell themselves that it's not their work. They may admit that is the future and say they just want to be in an excellent position in the dystopia. But if you look at the efforts put forth by open-source advocates to fight against closed-source, or the work that goes into blocking ads and tracking, or the way that misinformation propagates over the internet/social media and the responses written about things like that on HN, you see that some engineers are pessimistic about the way technology will be used.

Or see how the inevitable (and existing) facial recognition companies are talked about. Some love it, but some don't.
I just threatened to walk out at my current FAANG job. Crippling tech debt and unreasonable deadlines. Three levels of management apologized. Any other job market? They would probably be looking for a way to push me out. Very strong signal to me that the market is hot.
There is no way that this is a coincidence:

A GRANT PROPOSAL written by the U.S.-based nonprofit the EcoHealth Alliance and submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, provides evidence that the group was working — or at least planning to work — on several risky areas of research. Among the scientific tasks the group described in its proposal, which was rejected by DARPA, was the creation of full-length infectious clones of bat SARS-related coronaviruses and the insertion of a tiny part of the virus known as a “proteolytic cleavage site” into bat coronaviruses. Of particular interest was a type of cleavage site able to interact with furin, an enzyme expressed in human cells.

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

There's more evidence that it's lab made.

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...

https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html
The tully-fisher relation is an empirical relationship IIRC used to calculate distances to galaxies. You don't know that the tully-fisher relation applies in exactly the same way to a class of galaxies that are characteristically different from those galaxies which provide the dataset for calibrating the distance (IIRC, this is done by using cepheid variable stars). By necessity, UDGs are an extrapolation of the tully-fisher relationship. Suppose the tully-fisher is off by two digit percent due to UDGs being strange -- then it's possible that our calculations about the galaxies "dark matter content" could be completely wrong.
You are a hero. This made me chuckle. Thank you for existing, human.
Well when I was in Houston I saw several men in the airport wearing ski masks. I don’t know, I guess they feel regular masks make them look sickly or effeminate or something.
In VS code, .py file can work like a notebook. VS Code treats #%% as start of a cell, while being a plain comment when running the it as .py file. VS code can also convert an existing jupyter notebook to .py with this format
The less cynical take is so many people abuse the system that we have put in anti abuse protection. However the end result is if you can figure out the system you are abusing it as anyone who can figure it out can get a real job and care for themselves
IMHO multiplayer toxicity is orthogonal to game type, you get that both in "violent" shooting games and also in abstract strategy or card games; harming or griefing someone, or verbally abusing them is a thing no matter if the gameplay itself is violent or fluffy.
Hacker News needs to rename itself to Crybaby News.
> compliant vs competent.

I love this distinction. So concise and clear. Thanks.
Go to lowendbox.com search for racknerd.com and find their annual plan for like $20-25. Use mailinabox. You will be ready in less than an hour all included and won't have to me try for a year.
> I’d add that stability in the work environment is something many (most?) people want.

Seriously. I have had 7 managers in my 2 year career. Yet to be in a job where more than half of the team I started with stayed a year. It has always been frustrating, but granted I can't blame them and jump around myself as that's where the raises are.
I mean you're picking something that has a massive amount of regulation on it to compare? What can be sold, prices, taxes, what customers you can or can not deny service to, legal operating hours, and more. The list goes on and on if the app store had 1/100th the regulations 7/11 has it would look vastly different.
We all should have learned from the Silk Road that you shouldn't reveal your identity to your boss if he hides his identity from you.
There’s (Still) a Ghost on the Monetary Throne
A few things (as a user of Google's OCR API):

* How does this compare to other OCR tools on standard benchmarks?
* I don't see a terms of service, you might want that.
* The privacy policy also seems to be lacking. IANAL but you should hire one to make sure that stuff is squared away.
I live to the west of you out on the peninsula and we couldn't get milk for the past week and a half. As in there wasn't a single carton of milk anywhere in multiple stores. Curious if it's just smaller towns relying on distribution from the city, and getting cut off first or what. I figured Seattle would have had similar issues.
It also stems from a laziness to consider where a person is coming from, other than literal reading of text. Brains become callused, or worse slightly autistic, where only precision matters.
Do you have any recommendations for the "good proxies" you mentioned?
> - I already was not surprised by the HackerNews crowd responding with hostility.

You -opened- with hostility.

> - I am pointing the HackerNews crowd to people who have studied this at a high level for a lifetime. Moti Milgrom. Stacy McGaugh. Pavel Kroupa.

And ignoring the other side, presenting it as settled.

Read your opening statement. It is not conducive to discourse. It just flames CDM without advancing any argument of its own.
And depressingly accurate.

I've seen and tried to help people who are navigating these systems, and this describes my observations each time.

I live in Texas fwiw.
They’re probably also looking for a way to push you out now.
> Cool stuff don’t pay bills.

I'm very much on board with this. I put stability and money on about the same pedestal and is why I still work where I do after many years for a salary that is fantastic for 90% of the country but is "merely average" for Seattle.

Working for a rock solid medium-sized that's been in existence for a hundred years and funded by a stable endowment and a pile of public service contracts and has never had a layoff is more interesting to me than knowing that the odds of me still having a job in the 2030s, if I still want it, is well above 90%.
A lot of this is employee incentives. I am strongly, strongly, strongly, incentivized to avoid mistakes over taking any kind of risk to make an improvement.
First off, excellent article. I've read a huge number of these and almost didn't click on this one. I'm happy I did. All your points are excellent and absolutely true.

That said, I think you may have missed an important one for engineers: respect

In my experience, engineers highly value respect in their current position and a slap in the face from the company can breed lasting resentment or an immediate job search in the current environment.

Respect comes in a few forms:

1) Believing you were actually listened to and your ideas were fairly evaluated, even if in the end the decision didn't go your way. If you're repeatedly getting shot down and don't understand why that feels like the company doesn't value you or your opinion.

2) Compensation: While the absolute number itself to a surprising degree doesn't matter all that much, what effort the company puts in when it can, does. If the company posts record profits, gushes about your performance, you max out your rating and get a 2% bump in pay as a result when at the very least inflation seems to be 6% right now that cognitive dissonance hurts a lot. This is another form of lack of respect that engineers rarely let slide.

3) Clear growth path/investment: If the company respects you and your term goals, you'll see it through an established career plan, at least for the short/medium term (1-3 years). If you're going about the same stuff every day with no room for growth and no one seemingly cares that you want to take on more or you don't see how you could given the pile of work you're stuck under, that's demotivating and shows that the company doesn't really care about you, just about your monotonic cog-like output.

4) Impact and impact recognition: Engineers want to do things that matter. (Already a theme in your article) and often they want that to be known. Not in a cheap artificial pat-on-the-back and flattery way, but in a tangible way. Success should lead to greater responsibility. Failure should lead to introspection and another swing with advisors brought in. Given your successes you should be given opportunity to advise others working on similar problems you've been successful solving. If all you're doing is solving problems in a silo and no one seems to notice or care, it gets demotivating again.

I'm sure there are others but I find that a general theme of respect for the individual is usually very important for engineers.
The main problem with such evidence is that even in a lab-made virus it simply may not exist. Basically, a good genetic engineer can create a synthetic virus that would be indistinguishable from a natural one. Moreover, often researchers deliberately introduce some synonymous mutations into their designs so that later they can discern their strain from natural ones. But if the creators choose not to reveal these markers, it is impossible to distinguish them from natural mutations.

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...
I mean I guess if you cooked the books that's the kind of math I expect.
Wow, the substance of that dispute is... this is why people incorporate in Delaware. Nobody thinks the caselaw of Delaware is some sort of divinely ordained ideal corporate law. But it's predictable and thorough, which means you can write contracts in that framework and know what's going to happen. It seems theoretically possible to me that you could encode all of that in a smart contract library, but I am very curious to see if you actually could.

(One of the things you get in Delaware and many many other meatspace jurisdictions is the doctrine of contra proferentem, i.e., ambiguous clauses are read to the detriment of the person who wrote the contract and made the other person sign it. In this case, there is clearly an ambiguous clause, at least in the sense that the parties disagree on it, and clearly one party wrote it and the other party had no ability to negotiate it. This rule incentivizes people to a) write unambiguous contracts and b) not play stupid games where they try to invent interpretations of their own contract so they don't have to do the thing they said they would.)

Anyway, to the meta-level of the arbitration / escrow - if I'm reading right, the only reason it went to arbitration is Kleros voluntarily put up 50 ETH, the entire amount under dispute, into a new cryptographically-binding arbitration contract, and the two parties had a verbal agreement that the result of that arbitration would end their dispute?

Which is to say, if Kleros said "We're happy to go to arbitration but we're not going to lock up 50 ETH while it's being disputed," the process would be stuck? And especially if Kleros said "There's no reasonable argument here, we're right," arbitration wouldn't actually be binding on them? (It seems they only entertained the dispute to show off their arbitration product....)

And also, if it went to arbitration and the claimant lost, nothing would prevent the claimant from saying "I never agreed to this, and I still have a dispute with you"?
The Gender Gap Is Taking Us to Unexpected Places
>Male students preferred protecting free speech over an inclusive and diverse society by a decisive 61 to 39. Female students took the opposite position, favoring an inclusive, diverse society over free speech by 64 to 35.

> Boys and men enjoy direct status competition and confrontation, so the central drama of male-culture disciplines is ‘“Hey, Jones says his theory is better than Smith’s; let’s all gather around and watch them fight it out, in a colloquium or in dueling journal articles.” In fact, I’d say that many of the norms and institutions of the Anglo-American university were originally designed to harness male status-seeking and turn it into scholarly progress.
Why linear volume controls are evil