skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's also take a moment to whack another conspiracy theory while we're at it. You can find plenty of finger-wagging BS artists out there who will assure you that the "so-called variants" are nothing more than a plot to keep injecting people with vaccines over and over. This crowd differentiates a bit when you ask them why the evildoers want to keep doing that, with some of them muttering about 5G cell phone towers, others about dosages of the latest nanobots for tracking and crowd control, the really hard-core ones going on darkly about plots to weaken the population in order to kill off various targeted groups outright, and others just saying that it's all a plot to keep making money. If any of this were the case, would you see an open discussion in the literature (with piles of data) about how an Omicron booster provided no extra benefit? You would not. So these people should buzz off, too, although they won't. Decades from now they'll be boring everyone around them in the rest home about the same stuff.

Jesus. This article takes quite a turn for the op-ed. The "conspiracy" is that governments are mandating people to take booster shots that may have little-to-no real benefit aside from making the producers loads of money.
Keep in mind valve is a business first. There interest is profitability. Its just that the direction of their interest happens to align with Linux. This is good, but if at some point in time it doesn't align, don't be surprised.
> Ask what a file is, or a directory and majority of iphone users have no idea! Permissions too!

I have bad news for you if you think normal computer users were mostly good at understanding or explaining these things in the 90s or 2000s or whatever.
At face value, just commute time savings is HUGE and easily calculable. I also spent a significant amount of time figuring out what to wear, ironing, accounting for weather, packing my bag. It was 40 mins of "commute" but also like 40 mins of "getting ready". I'm saving 1:20 per day now which is almost a whole day per week.
Do you exercise? That might help you get out of those 6 month bouts faster (or prevent them from coming)
My 4- year old enjoys building Lego kits from instructions and I think it is a good learning tool that teaches to follow some rules (4 year olds don't have much patience but they can build it). The only problem that I find is that these instructions are often wrong and confusing and that's where I have to step in and become creative to get the puzzle in a finished state.
> he's implying Shopify messed up when it seems he just didn't have a clear understanding of what the role entailed and what the tech was he'd be working with.

It seems extremely improbable to me that at no point in the hiring process, starting from the job advertisement on down, was this ever stated.
A quote struck me as relevant during covid and work from home times:

“because more good things will happen to you than bad on any given day, but nothing will happen to you if you just sit indoors.”
First ever free-floating black hole found roaming through interstellar space
This can only be sloppy accounting, and I'm disappointed to see it here of all places.

If every person on earth was carbon neutral, that would mean GHG emissions were decreased by 100% once every sink was accounted for.

That's definitional, that's tautological, if you're only counting 9% of someone's carbon budget as "theirs" that's on your model.
I would gladly pay if I knew I was going to get committed service. I live in fear that someday the Algorithm will decide I am naughty and lock me out of my digital life.

I have considered enrolling in a Workspace plan, but I hear any number of gotchas because it is not the happy path, and X workflow is not supported for paid plans. That is, a worse product, even if you pay.
Riding the waves: A framework for the future of SARS-CoV-2
Blocking internet macros by default in Office
I'm an embedded guy by trade, so the idea of a Unikernel is nothing new to me. But wait... use cases overlapping with general-purpose OSes? nginx benchmarks??? This is exciting.

I know DevOps for bare-metal firmware is a PITA partly because of the tightly-coupled application, kernel, and libraries. I'm hoping someone familiar with Unikraft/OSv/etc could sate my curiosity...

- Do you test your app inside a container before building your Unikraft/OSv image? Or is there a way to create a CI/CD pipeline that builds your unikernel executable + tests the whole thing as a compiled unit?

- How often do bugs appear in Unikraft that don't appear when running the app on a traditional OS? To what extent does the complexity of the app's dependencies affect this?

- In terms of convenience, how does Unikraft/OSv compare to using a highly-customizable general-purpose* OS like Gentoo?

(*edit for clarity: "general-purpose OS" in the sense that it 1) can load arbitrary data using one or more filesystems 2) can execute loaded data as a program 3) has means by which a human or human-controlled machine may cause the OS to load and execute said programs. This definition does not exclude highly-specialized Gentoo/Nix/whatever setups that are tailored to run a particular program)
Agreed, I think they'll just never increase the free storage again. Eventually, people will get tired of quarterly inbox cleanups and just pay for the extra storage, which is a win-win for them and avoids a serious PR crisis.
Perhaps they start adding quality of life micro-transactions?

Some of which provide enough value that a significant portion of the user-base ends up paying for something?
Lernout & Hauspie was a dotcom era fraud that attracted investments from several major players, including a $45 million investment from Microsoft and millions more from Intel and the Belgian government. At one point, it was valued at $10B.

They claimed to have solved real time speech recognition and translation, and claimed to have over $300M in annual revenues. None of that was true. Their speech recognition software did not work, and they had very little revenue. Their management went to prison and it was one of the biggest financial frauds in modern European history at the time.
I’d appreciate if Apple keeps the UI/UX as is. It’s already degraded so much, but changing UI for the sake of fashion might be good for business (average users), it sucks for developers and people that need a stable OS. You know, “Pros”. They’ve fucked with the UI for every generation and instead of refining it, they keep chasing trends. These designers are the antithesis of everything good design should stand for. Function, clarity, robustness, reduction of ambiguity and mainly getting out of the way. I don’t consider them designers, they’re marketers in the disguise of designers. I think the term “design” itself has degraded in my view. Apple is one leading this movement. It’s a strange and powerful company with tech x luxury fashion combined to reap cash. It does so well. But, I wish it didn’t influence designers outside of Apple so much. No one has conviction anymore.
the AX210 is better by far (i swapped out my M2 mediatek, which had bizarre hardware issues)
Really surprised to see such a low quality editorial from such a weak newspaper as the Toronto Sun on HN.

Here's some actual expert content on this issue:
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/02/not-ready-for-prime-time...
Lets say we instituted a 100% wealth tax on the 1%, that's 45 trillion if somehow we could get the cash value for their stocks at a normal valuation(which someone would have to buy). How many years does that fund the UBI for until we run out of that money?
self plug:

https://dusted.codes
What makes you think that people who don't own (maybe can't own) property don't have substantial skin in the game?
Not scanned for advertisements. There are plenty of other uses for that data
I am digging this one. Thank you for sharing.
I wouldn't put it past them, but Gmail is quite the loss leader for Google. And unlike other loss leaders like YouTube (let's face it, ads and $9.99 rentals aren't gonna compensate for the countless live streams eating bandwidth), I bet it's relatively cheap for them to run. Once you have Gmail, email still being a personal necessity, then you've got an account for all of Google's services.

However, they've got people trapped. If they began charging, I think the vast majority of people would roll over and pay.
I'm Dutch and moved to the US in early 2016 to work for a bigtech company. Compensation here is about 3x what I would make back home.

After working here for just six years I could move back home and buy a house outright with the money I've been able to save.

I don't need a big house or a big car, but making more money means I can coastfire in the next five years, so it's absolutely worth it to me.
It will be good to know how tenure is calculated. It is not sustainable to hire 30% more each year and most of them to leave in years.
Not necessarily FAANG, but even unicorns pay more than them.

I got better offers from Bloomberg, Reddit, Stripe, and Facebook.
Amazon also backloads the equity. You get barely anything if you leave after 2 years.
AutoSleep (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autosleep-track-sleep-on-watch...) has been fantastic for my needs.
It did the rounds on here when it happened
Why put in the effort for people who don't even bother?
Yep. You got it. And I would go further - not just ignore but reject. That’s what is meant by separating ideas. You find what is orthogonal and keep what is useful.
OSv has been around for a while, I remember looking into it five years ago. What did you feel was missing in terms of tooling?
Google only explicitly promises to not scan for advertisements. That almost seems like an admission they scan it for everything else
Without power you can change nothing.
Power is the ability to do work, this doesn't solely come from money but money is in a way, a form of stored work deferred in time.

Banks and finance isn't inherently evil but banks that don't optimise the allocation of capital will have less capital and so matter less.
Much like in Norm chompskys Manafacturing consent, there is no need for evil actors. The system rewards particular things and that leads to a series of incentives.

What would the "Moral" activity of smart people be?
Say you create some simple definition of the most moral action and run with it.
Would improving the worlds access to knowledge (Google) not be a part of that?
Would connecting communities (Facebook) not be a part of that?
Would allowing small sellers of nice products to sell without the hassle of the logistics of online sales not be a part of that (Amazon)?
Would creating original media content not beholden to the demands of advertisers not be a part of that (Netflix)?

Would creating the best expression of the mobile device by integrating the hardware and software giving as many people as possible access to leading technology without them having to understand much with regards to the technicalities (I guess that's the apple way?)

Would optimising the allocation of capital so that people can have things before they can afford them not be a part of that? The facilitation of the dream of having it all now while you are young enough to enjoy it rather than saving up for a retirement where you then have a stroke so can do anything with the money you saved. (The situation my grandfather ended up in)
Facilitated by the finance industry.

Sure these companies are not monistries. (Although were the preists in those always so angelic) They are not charities, but unlike charities they generate (correctly or not) the resources to aim at their goals.

If a super smart person wanted to target the dreamy goals these companies claim to address but had a better way to address them, what would that way be?

How can you change the world if you do not have the power to allocate capital?
The answer is you can't.
The US (and Russian, by the way) appropriation of German scientists and Nazi party members post WWII is certainly controversial and there are plenty of people who strongly believe that they should have stood trial in Nuremberg instead of being given a new job with plenty of perks.

As Tom Lehrer wrote:

"Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun."

The sarcasm dripping of those words is hard to replicate without hearing it sung, I recommend the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
That "free money" is just enough to subsist on and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Instead of "choosing not to work", think of it as "seeking work that's a good fit for them". The incentives are set up so that entering the labor market and improving their earnings makes them better off - which, incredibly enough, most poverty alleviation programs (which are a non-trivial chunk of all government spending) utterly fail at.

> see if its worth the second earner working or if they make more just staying home

The available experimental outcomes show that by and large, people that stay at home on a properly-designed UBI are those who can thereby make highly-valued contributions to the household, such as by raising young kids. Otherwise, they choose to work just as much.
Eh, I think they probably don't want to drive anyone off the platform so they can still gather user info/preferences for their ad system.
The nuclear power dilemma: where to put the lethal waste
I see my kids use modern sets just the way I did as a kid.

I would follow the directions to build the thing. Over time I would break it down and add it to my lego pile from which I made random things.

Sure, some pieces are very specific. But you can still take those specific pieces and add it to some other random very specific piece.

As far as I can tell, legos haven't changed that much in 30 years. There were a lot of specially crafted pieces back then too.
Thanks for the feedback, we're in the process of adding a security section[0] which will detail more on the on-goings, but we'll work on adding more highlights on the main page.

I need to highlight we have separate research[1][2] which will make its way upstream soon which aims to provide hardening between internal libraries (e.g. isolating the network stack or scheduler) using gates like Intel MPK or separate hardware-accelerated services.

[0]: https://github.com/unikraft/docs/pull/32

[1]: https://project-flexos.github.io/

[2]: https://github.com/project-flexos/unikraft
it's an arm based motherboard
I've always assumed that Gmail gave Google the opportunity to see how people actually type (use words), so they can link topics together and improve their search capabilities.
The value of this would exceed the cost of email I would imagine.

Also, if you use iCloud+, then you can attach a domain to your account and use iCloud email. Obviously only good for individual usage, but it's been extremely reliable for me.
PromptSource: Toolkit for creating, sharing and using natural language prompts
And aren't the existing anti-cheat technologies the reason that cheats take that form?

You see no cheap aimbots and conclude the anti-cheat is not relevant anymore. May be the right conclusion is that they're working.

Not saying this justifies the kernel drivers. I don't trust my gaming computer precisely for this reason. I wonder if some form of containerization/virtual machine could make it possible to both allow for this kind of kernel-level anti-cheat without exposing my whole system to untrusted code.
> It's pretty standard in Finance that you're not eligible for a bonus until you have been with the company for a full year for exactly this reason.

I don't think I've ever heard of this? I started at a bank in Q4 and got a pro-rated bonus.
I think the lesson here is to be very clear about what you are looking for in terms of role, scope, and development opportunities during the hiring process; negotiate and come to a clear understanding with your direct and skip level managers; and then hold them accountable in your one-on-ones.

If they are not delivering on their end, put them on a PIP. (1) Remind them of what they agreed to, (2) inform them where / how they are not delivering, and (3) work out a plan and timeline to get things on track. If things do not improve then quit. This isn’t being difficult or demanding, it is managing upward.

This also does not mean refuse to do things outside of your scope when needed — on a temporary basis.
Yeah, if you got “deep” connections, you definitely can avoid due diligence.

Where do you think all that printed money during pandemic actually went? Only a minuscule amount was given to plebs, rest goes to shady startups and gets diluted.

Such evaluations also make naive founders believe that they can get a similar amount. If you aren’t in the club, you won’t ever see a dime of this funny money.
The founders can answer better, but a lot of traders are not just looking at individual stocks but rather packages of stocks together.

Say you want to invest in the health + tech space, but there's some risk that covid ends and gyms come roaring back. So then you want to minimize the risk by putting some money in the gym industry as well -- getting an entire package of peloton, apple, and 24hourfitness stock is actually worth more to you than the individual stocks on their own.
I get lousy quality also when I'm logged in.

Even more funny I recently got asked captchas while being logged in with a paid account with a long history of human activity and no bot activity.

Usually it triggers when I try to cut through the "intelligent" cr#p they serve me anytime I look for something that doesn't have many hits. (Crazy not so fun fact: even when they have a perfect match they always seems to prioritize something else that I can only relate to my query by looking through ai glasses and squinting really hard.)

Try searching for something really specific, use double quotes liberally or use

allintext: <search terms goes here> and see how long it goes before you trigger the captcha ;-)
These things never apply to contractors.
I suspect most of the performance improvements came not from being "64-bit", but rather from the new instructions in aarch64 (and even in armv7) over armv6 (which is what the 32-bit Raspbian has to use to be backwards compatible with the first Raspberry). So I don't think it is entirely appropriate to frame the performance improvements due to it going from "32-bit" to "64-bit".

In fact, hypothetically assuming the same instruction set, 64-bit can cause performance degradation over 32-bit, particularly in memory-bound benchmarks, because the size of memory pointers and default int size will take up twice as much space, which puts stress on the limited cache space, which will generate additional off chip memory accesses.
All cultures have differing views on rights. So any culture will have elements that I see people whose rights are being violated. I guess I will have to avoid reading anything about them, unless the author takes an appropriately moralistic and judgmental tone, of course. I have to assume that I am right and everybody else is wrong. It's the only way to be open minded.
The best defense is a good offense.

1) Use a service like JoinDeleteMe to have your name removed from public searchable databases. https://tinyurl.com/DeleteMePermanently That link will take 20% off your order.

2) Use a service like https://simpleoptout.com/ to opt-out of sites and services you personally use that DeleteMe doesn't cover.

3) Now that credit freezing is free, freeze all your credit reports. Brian Krebs has a good article on doing this: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/credit-freezes-are-free-...

4) Read JJ Luna's "How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life 3rd Edition" https://amzn.to/3qxkTWV He also has a website where you can register "ghost" addresses and LLCs that you can use to register your car title too and other financial assets to so they will be protected in case of a lawsuit or anything as they will not be able to identify you. https://www.jjluna.com/

5) Turn on 2FA for EVERYHING https://2fa.directory/

6) I created a list of anti-fingerprinting/security/privacy extensions I personally use: https://bitbin.it/ppcd0UpZ/

7) Get a VPN. I recommend https://tinyurl.com/WindScribe321 - they give you 10GB free a month, but it's only $4/mo if you pay for a year and you get access to unlimited devices, so you can have a VPN on your PC, phone, and any other devices you use. They have been vetted by Torrentfreak and keep no logs and do not give information to law enforcement: https://torrentfreak.com/best-vpn-anonymous-no-logging/#wind...

There's probably countless other things you could do, it just depends on how paranoid you are and how deep down the OpSec rabbit hole you want to go where it becomes an issue of convivence vs. constant security for everything you do.

Hope that helps.

pogue
Personal opinion:

Not a spokesperson, but anecdotally, I’m part of a core Windows Development team and there is a healthy respect for work-life balance. Both immediate level and upper-level management regularly emphasizes the need for that.

It’s been quite a nice change from previous employers.
The signing bonus is some N shares of stock. The $xxx figures in their comp packages are inflated in years 2, 3, and 4 by optimistically valuing those shares.
It is hard for me to comprehend a point of view where that article is not considered abrasive in tone. Whether or not it bothers you is another question.

The tile is in all caps "THE DUMBEST FUCKING THING I’VE EVER READ" and challenges someone to a cage fight at the end. The entire rest of the article could have been honeyed sweetness (which clearly it's not), and that could be enough to call it abrasive.

One person I showed it responded very favorably, commenting that the author clearly considered it "...important to get the basic points across violently vecause no one is listening to the non-violent arguments." i.e. this is abrasive, but abrasive to a purpose.
> Ask HN: How long until Google charges for private Gmail accounts?

They...already do. It's called Google One, further being pushed by the progressive narrowing of what doesn't count against the 15GB free storage limits.
>Please (please) append the word "Essays" (or "Book") to the post title ASAP. This reads like an obituary and I'm sure many others will be concerned when seeing it in this form like I was.

1. I'm not a moderator and can't amend the title.

2. Why is it a priority that people not be "concerned"? They can just click the article and see what it's about.
Consider the whole type A personality thing - it's pure nonsense from a scientific perspective (created by tobacco companies to explain why certain people [smokers] had more heart attacks.)

But at this point it's still a useful cultural shorthand to describe certain characteristics we subjectively experience in others.
> Using a 64-bit kernel (arm_64bit=1) just takes away 50MB of RAM, the worst choice is to combine 64-bit kernel and 64-bit userland since everything relevant get slower, same tasks require much more memory and the device will start to swap if low on memory or even kill processes due to out of memory.

> As a rule of thumb you need almost twice as much RAM with a 64-bit userland compared to 32-bit with the same programs/services running. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Result...
I think this was Brett Weinstein’s hypothesis regarding original antigenic sin.
500K is a good improvement but I doubt you were the norm.

Before last year they were seriously lagging behind in terms of comp.
Even in EMEA I hear they couldn't hire due to low comp compared to other companies. Even non-FAANG were beating them easily.

What I hear from friends at Amazon (joined prior to 2020) is that their comp is well below market rates.