skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not hyperbolic. I wrote the policy for my company's phone policy. If an employee wants to access any company resources from their personal phone (optional) they must submit to a phone audit. The audit is a checklist of security best practices including verifying that the phone is receiving security updates for the OS. So if they need a phone for work, they either upgrade to a newer phone or carry a second phone with security updates for work purposes. Either way they have to get a new phone. What else would a company do? You can't just have employees storing credentials for company accounts on a device that is likely to get pwned.

Personally I don't see how anyone could justify having an out-of-date phone. Assuming you have it configured to read your email, it becomes a gateway to every account you own, which can have its password reset over email. MFA might help as long as that MFA isn't an app on your phone. But most websites don't support hardware security keys. If you care enough to have a dedicated TOTP device, then why would you want a phone with no security updates?

This use of "forcing" does not require bricking the phone. Creating a situation where the only reasonable choice is to upgrade the hardware qualifies as "forcing" in my opinion. The phone is no longer capable of performing the job for which it was designed in a safe way.
Clarity here, this is how it is, where you live I presume.

Other places do have more horrid, retroactive taxation.

But that said, tax rates are typically based upon cutoffs. So the more you make, the more tax you pay.

So this means that if you get a raise to meet inflation, you could see your raise more heavily taxed, if it is above the next tax bracket.

Eventually, with enough inflation, and no changes to tax regs, you could see the very poor, taxed like the well to do, a few years before.

There are also some tax benefits, which have income cutoffs, and also programs which have income cutoffs.

With inflation at historic lows for 25 years, there is little institutional knowledge about how fast >10% inflation can erase buying power, and at the same time big raises mean nothing..
Chrome OS is proprietary (Chromium OS is not) and it also cannot be modified by any manufacturer. Every chromebook manufactured also is developed with Google being aware so that the chipset and underlying hardware can be supported. It's quite a different licensing model than Android and that's most likely why giving eight years of updates was much easier.
That's a good point: you certainly could. There's some fun exploration to be done with atomic operations.

The issue is that threaded execution requires cross-origin isolation, which isn't trivial to integrate. (Example server that will serve the required headers: https://github.com/bwasti/wasmblr/blob/main/thread_example/s...)
I did this on my Pixel 2, but unless I’m mistaken you have to unlock the boot loader to do it, leaving your device completely unsecured if someone has physical access to it.

I gave up and got a phone from a manufacturer who provides true 6+ year security support. I was surprised to find that iPhone was essentially the only option.
Ok, looks like I have misread, I thought it was a graph database. Thanks for clearing my misunderstanding
You can walk into an Apple store and walk out with a replacement.

If you had backups running to your Mac or PC (which can happen over WiFi automatically when both the phone and mac are on line power), you've got a whole-device backup that will have you up and running as fast as it takes the backup to restore.
Nice, checking out Firefly! Thank you!
Chinese are just as greedy and corrupt, make no mistake.
Interesting to follow what happens. Great that there are still 'watch dogs' looking out for us.
The answer from the company to the order from the commission: "those recommendations were impossible to execute."
Imagine if a environmental commission ordered a company to stop polluting, and the company answered with those words!?
I've got ancestors from Norway and Sweden and am looking forward to getting a chance to visit Scandinavia.
I'll be honest, I would consider running SQLite in production, at least for my personal stuff, but the part that scares me is that there's no "managed SQLite" offering and I would have to manage it myself. Litestream seems like a great option for people like me, but I'd like to hear some experience report on it, especially on more complex case, and how it fails.

Another problem (which Litestream might solve) is that SQLite is not compatible with Heroku, that I use since I don't have much ops/sysadmin experience. I feel like people saying that SQLite makes things easier often have already some experience in sysadmin/ops stuff, which isn't my case.

This is not a criticism of SQLite in any way, just an expression of my own limitations and why it makes it harder for me to consider SQLite. I'll gladly take any learning resources about that.
The shuttle could cary 29,000kg to orbit, the Falcon 9 can only carry 22,000kg (30% more capacity) plus 8 astronauts (Falcon can only carry 3), and was designed and built in the 70s.

So yeah the Falcon is an improvement and I'm sure will be better one day, but the Space Shuttle was a huge achievement for its time, and as of today there is no lift system that can match it for both capacity and reusability.
You are arguing the specifics of my comment and not the spirit of it. It’s not clear all the ways posts are modified and it isn’t clear who all knows all the ways posts are identified.
Ah that's fair enough. I think The Martian is pretty inspirational, for quite a few reasons - it portrays a near future where we're preparing for a permanent Mars settlement, the characters display real engineering creativity and ingenuity, and everybody's working together towards a shared, altruistic goal.

I don't think the issue raised in the article is with that aspect - but that it doesn't paint a vision of a Jetsons or Star Trek future, and Neal Stephenson wants to see more of that.
> I'm not aware of what we've learned from the International Space Station

If you watch videos of the people on the space station you begin to be reminded of "remote hands" in a data center. The space station is like a colo-facility that houses science experiments instead of racks of computers. The people on board seem to exist as "remote hands" that maintain those science experiments for whatever science team is on the ground running them.

This is all conjecture, of course... but I've watched enough of "Hi I'm somebody on the space station, let's walk around" videos to draw this opinion. The ISS is a science lab that orbits the earth. The people on board are there to be remote hands.
I used to think that if people could see the negative effects of climate change- if they could see it right there in front of them- then they would understand.

But, that was before covid. People will be on a ventilator, struggling to breathe, literally dying, and still claim that covid is all a big hoax. I wish I understood it, but I don’t. Some broken adaptation, some evolutionary dead end in the human psyche just primes many people to value what they want to be true above what is true.

Many people seem to have this view that the way things are right here and right now is normal and the cultural norms and customs they were born into are inevitable, and then extrapolate from there. Whereas of course there is no normal, and no guarantee that anyone will be okay, and culture is shifting sand, and whole groups of people die all the time for no good reason. Perhaps the stress of having those facts in your mind is just too much.
In situations like this I've usually had the manufacturer provide an option to immediately ship a replacement and charge the full cost of the replacement if the device isn't received within 30 days.
Wow wonderful set of articles. A big thanks! Wanted to understand this stuff for a long time but could not give enough time to navigate the dense documentation.
I think you'll need to repeat that a little bit louder beacuse it seems like they didn't get the news in the middle east.
My honest opinion is that I think the whole Qualcomm thing is a canard. What I think is really going on is that after three years the batteries are at death's door. Too many people will just replace/trash the phone rather than know to replace the battery.
Surprised this article does not mention Vial (https://get.vial.today/) which is an open source alternative to Via that supports more QMK features and works with most VIA compatible boards. VIA is closed source, seems to be rarely updated, and has very little in the way of documentation.
I think there's a new phenomenon that needs to be addressed: poor WFH communication channels. By encouraging radio silence, so as to not "interrupt anyone", things get missed.

Also some people feel the need to tightly control group chat. Either content (no "offtopic"), membership, or # of rooms. Some chat platforms encourage this by restricting who can create/manage rooms or how rooms are linked together (discoverability).

It's an unexplored area of knowledge for most people in the new WFH life everyone's leading.
Apart from that needing to be a matrix of over 1200 4k TVs or over 300 8k TVs the problem here is opening and viewing the image not displaying it in full all at once. ffmpeg would run into the same RAM issues, the only approach to viewing such images is to split the image up into separate pieces and make multiple scale levels then feed it into a viewer that understands which pieces at which scale to load.
Ah yes, foobar2000 and IrfanView. The 2 tools that I'll likely never replace.

Been using them both for what seems like forever. Late 90s for IrfanView and foobar2000 since it came out, I remember switching to it from Winamp back in the day.

Given how many positive comments there are for this tool, I think it's safe to say efficiency is a primary factor when choosing desktop apps. It's hard to replace something that works great, opens instantly and uses practically no resources. I forgot what box I had back then but I'm pretty sure it was a Pentium III 700@933mhz CPU, it was super smooth back then too.
This is a maximalist position and an admirable goal. As far as I can tell though, this forces Nix (or the developer) to get into the business of re-packaging entire ecosystems.
It's easy you know from testing when your silicon or other parts of the phone are going to degrade beyond the point of it being useable. If you sell hardware that is not obsolete for your customers but you make it obsolete because of software you pulled the trigger to early.
Related to a comment I made in another thread: incoherent code. This is code where the organization is arbitrary, not considered. It's not even one of the many possible reasonable and logical organizations of the code.

As a great (but terrible) example, a project at my first job was a real-time system and the dev for it (I was in testing back then) had decided that since he only had 100 ms slots per task, but had the ability to use up to 10 tasks (or whatever the limit was), he'd distribute some logic across all 10 tasks, rather than making one task responsible for that logic entirely. So the system could have had (and ended up having) a reasonable dataflow, DAG structure relating the tasks (input task, fan-out to processing tasks, fan-in to output task), but instead had a much more complicated internal structure than necessary. It was incomprehensible because of its incoherence. Some of the processing tasks were 2-deep or had another layer of fan-out/fan-in, ultimately. But they should have been done that way to begin with. One of the worst bits of this is that it forced an ordering on the execution of the processing tasks that was not, strictly, necessary except for this distributed logic. Imagine a flow more like this:

In -> Task A -> Out
|
v
-> Task B ->
|
v
-> Task C ->

Versus this:

In -> Task A -> Out
-> Task B ->
-> Task C ->
-> Task D ->

(With some of those tasks being composed of multiple tasks, but in a more coherent way now.)
New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different countries
I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Mather 10 years ago, when he spent a new years with my family, he booked a vacation with my parents company, and he is without a doubt the smartest person I have met in my life also very humble and interested.

One of the best experiences of my life.
I am French living in south of France but I would not recommend France mainly for 1 reason: (the lack of) safety.

I lived a few years in Canada so I can compare to North America.

France is not what tiktok videos about US expat living in Paris show you. You probably know about French strikes, bureaucracy, rude people etc. But also France turned into a violent country in the last 2 decades, and is the worst in western Europe. No city is safe.
The health system is cheap, but not really good and it is very hard outside Paris to get an appointment to see a dermatologist, ophthalmologist, any specialized doctor.
And if you opt for Paris, housing is of low quality, very expensive, cramped and very hard to find a rental.

The only benefits: cheap wine/cheese and plenty of vacation.

IMHO, Netherlands, Danemark, Sweden/Norway/Finland, Germany (especially Munich), Austria, Switzerland are better options.
And if the low wages are not a problem, Portugal, Czech Republic could be nice.
There is no reason to believe anything like that is happening. We do well enough on HN that Dan called us out downthread, and certainly there are no secret tricks we're using --- short of "not having our friends vote us up when stuff of ours gets submitted". I think this is pretty much just conspiracy theories.

The discussion here is pretty unproductive. You're free to simply disbelieve Dan; that's a coherent perspective to have, even if I think it's deeply wrongheaded. But I assume we both know enough about the dynamics of message board "debate" to know that there's an unbounded set of un-falsifiable arguments you can throw up to support the idea that Stripe is unfairly gaming HN. Maybe they've found a wrinkle in the way the second-chance pool is handled!
In terms of astrobiology it is a distraction from getting to the stars. (e.g. but one could say playing video games, virtual worlds, fiction,... do the same)

Immediately it is financial bubble and financial bubbles are dangerous. This guy invented modern finance (government bonds)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)

and had his systems blow up spectacularly. When it blew up in France the king, queen and many of their hangers-on lost their heads.
Any relationship between optical character recognition and "deblurring" images into characters or words that the system recognizes?
A most bizarre terminology the industry has come up with. Almost feels a bit derogatory.
Sure.

But having 'cracked AI' means you are the innovator. Not just using the tools ( eg. Compare that with Google & AlphaGo ).

We're not talking about the same things.
LG Energy Solution, GM to build $2.1B battery factory in U.S.
Check out NextCloudPi [1] I have their docker image [2] running on a Qnap Nas for about three years now without any hickups.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi

[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/ownyourbits/nextcloudpi
I'm sure there will be "test photos" that get published in the interim. I'd be seriously disappointed if there wasn't.
go means it's going to be easier to integrate to esbuild :)

I'm happy to see this, as honestly I don't really understand why you would compile TS without type checking.
Anarchists taken over by socialists, hah. A tale as old as time.
The impact is minimal to nonexistent on a light-to-moderate-JS “site” and only really shows up in heavy “apps”, like YouTube or GDocs.
It hit me when I saw a 3MM home in Tampa vs 3MM in Bay Area. I think many’s definition of money is skewed from living in hcol cities.
I always expect them to use (thread-) global state, not unlike good old errno just more structured. There's always at most one bubbling up so that's how I would do it.
Here you vice crybabys:

https://download.lineageos.org/blueline
> Whats the purpose of sharing types?

Server sends data as JSON to the client. Client parses JSON. Both now have the exact same data shape. Shared TS types let you use the same representation for the same data no matter where.
https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/your-right-to-control-pho...
"Vaguely Tech-related Information for Programmers" wasn't a catchy enough name.
I'm not making the argument myself; it's just one I could imagine being compelling.
Sharing the types of API returns is very useful.
So, the actual database engine is Postgres?
Wait a second, 4chan had a music section?
Nothing will change until a large scale/large target hack or until ecology activists can successfully get photos of huge piles of e-waste in front of people.

Needing to trash your phone every 5 years is still ridiculously wasteful. Just stop making so many new phones. Regulate it so it's so illegal/expensive that they can't keep doing this. I can't even stop using smartphones if I wanted to, because the people who came up with 2FA decided to make the Authenticator App a mandatory part of modern life, instead of physical security keys like they should have.
This is fair. We trust our own black boxes every day. You have a good point.

But on the flip side, even today, a large part of the population doesn't trust people whose black boxes work faster than theirs. Now imagine a new black box that's 1000 times faster.
Thanks for the blog post @picture. I worked on emulating the 360/370 instruction set using both an 8086 processor and a bit slice processor, when I was at Big Blue. The hardware and microcode development was insanely complex. This ended up being a shipped product called the XT and AT/370. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-based_IBM_mainframe-compati...
My old fb2k - https://i.imgur.com/WVt3oCU.png. Loved it dearly before Spotify became a thing... Soulseek -> MusicBrainz -> Foobar2000.
Sure, but Google has all the source code and all the design files for their Pixel phones. I'm not saying Google needs to support ALL Android devices, just Pixel devices. It is definitely possible for them to support Pixel phones for more than 5 years if they wanted to. It's just an economics question of if it's worth it to Google to do so and clearly it hasn't been.

Even 5 year support for Pixel phones is new with the Pixel 6 line. Previously it had been 3 years max.
I think the difference is what the effect is. If China or the US or whoever subsidizes its own industry, people complain but it's not a big deal. I've never really heard any complaints about any of China's state-owned enterprises. Nobody complains that China sells electricity inside China for less than the cost of production; nobody complains about US farm subsidies. What people complain about is when it alters market dynamics. Selling solar panels below the cost of production (I assume that's what happened) upsets people.
Call me an idiot, but for corporate work stuff I am still using my 2XL that hasn't received updates in a long time.

As this is company provided hardware I actually just don't care to switch to a Samsung (as the company only offers these if I do not want to pay additional money - and why would I for a company provided phone)

The phone still lasts longer than a day, I can use it to read my mails, see appointments, use slack, ms teams and use it as a 2nd factor to access corporate stuff.

It just works.

I don't see me throwing it out if I am not forced by It because of security reasons (but I actually doubt they care as long as they can install corporate spyware on these devices).

Why would I trash the ressources that went into making of this thing, as long as it does what it should?
It’s really funny to see the battle about remote pay equality playing out between US states — it’s like watching a group of rabbits arguing over some carrots right before a lion walks in and eats all of them. The Lion being the world’s 6.8 billion non-Americans who will work remotely for whatever the job pays.
You're assuming McDonald's has a much higher profit margin than it actually does - it's a restaurant chain, not a software company. In other words, the wages for the guy making the burger isn't the only input to cost. E.g., if the beef in that $2 burger used to cost $0.50, it might cost $0.75 now, partly as a response to the need for the farmer to pay himself more. There's also the people working at the meat processing plant, everything that went into the bun, the transportation costs, marketing costs, etc.
What.cd was a massive loss for the entire internet.

Some of What's Vanity house stars are now real stars with tours around the world, like "The Flashbulb"
Microsoft used to be in the same place, they started growing once they opened up. Instead of rent seeking. VLSI is hard, but with massive investments in fabs and design across the board, Nvidia will be forced to go the MS way.

Nvidia licensing their GPU to ARMs customers will itself be a big start.
I wonder if it's the “great resignation” because so many millions of layoffs were pulled forward into early 2020 that the resignations stand out against a slowed down rate of firings.
Okay, so NEST is 64-bit, apparently -- 64-bit IOT. I can see 32-bit at Fitbit.
Only anecdotal, but that seems to be how long people last. There are no devs that I knew at either of my past two jobs that remain. Virtually all friends report similar experiences.
I've had an Android phone since the TMobile 3G (second ever Android phone) and I'm starting to seriously consider an iPhone.

I'm not an Apple fan. I don't use any Apple products right now. However, it's impossible to deny that Android phones are always 2-3 years behind Apple in terms of hardware and software.

I also never spend more than $500 on a phone, which has iPhones out of reach.
I'm curious, what about that semantic differentiation is confusing for you?

At least in my experience, "Software Engineer" is a standard title for the kind of work the author is describing in the article and is often used interchangeably with "Developer".
Also is even painful to me to think about frivolities and how people spend money when seeing things like this.

“Lamborghini had its most profitable year ever during the coronavirus pandemic”[1]

Each of this cars may be something like 5 years of average salary in US.

[1] https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/lamborghini-had-its-m...
>Yes Mac is a BSD but isn’t FreeBSD

No one said that ever....
They might be referring to inflation in their specific area or in their specific budget. I don’t think you can apply average national or global inflation rates to an individual in a specific location.
thanks a lot for referencing the numbers. I (German) was not aware of them being so similar.

I was wondering if this might be because most immigration in Germany is actually from more or less neighboring EU countries, and according to [1], that group accounts for 2/3 of the immigrants.

[1] Figure 2: https://www.bamf.de/DE/Themen/Forschung/Veroeffentlichungen/...
It's clear enough, if you pay attention. Follow Dan's comments over time; they're an informal moderation log of the site. You'll see what stuff does and doesn't happen to posts.
The mission I believe the parent comment was referring to was a foreign (Soviet) satellite recovery. It required a larger payload bay and as I recall a very aggressive launch profile that I believe also imposed some undesirable design constraints, but my memory is fuzzy.
If game theory was how reality works, WW3 would have started several times already. Game theory is a guide, not the actual playbook.
Perhaps people have realized that the PPP program was basically a gift to business? And that the majority of the COVID checks were spent by consumers on normal expenses?
> as both an IC and a manager

When juxtaposed to manager, it usually means individual contributor - someone being managed rather than doing the management.
As A German this really bugs me. Von Braun and friends knew exactly what was going on in their production facilities, didn't care and never had to confront their role in this.