skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except this is kinda important, and so we must pay attention to less likely worse case scenarios.

You don't just stroll through the minefield because somebody said that the most likely result is going to be you passing the field unharmed, and there is just 10% chance you get blown into pieces.

Another reason for paying attention to worst case scenarios is that most people just don't get it. And so it makes sense to oversell it a little bit if the end result is that there is less chance 1B people starve.

I think it is fine as long as these scenarios are plausible and grounded in truth.
> Could Unix Happen Today?

No. You need to learn from the past and improve things. Those things are missing today. The only thing in SW which gets improved everyday is bloat.
> This is because canonical insists on auto-updating and refreshing the snap at random intervals, even when you pin to a specific version channel.

You can control snap updates to match your maintenance windows, or just defer them. Documentation here: https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date#heading--...

What you cannot do without patching is defer an update for more than 90 days. [Edit: well, you sort of can, by bypassing the store and "sideloading" instead: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...]
If it helps, you can point Antwerp's politicians to Copenhagen, where rental scooters have been banned from starting or ending journeys in the city centre.

https://www.eltis.org/in-brief/news/e-scooters-allowed-back-...
It's true that a dollar is different to a different person, but I don't buy this argument.

To google, who is paying its workers, the dollar is the same no matter where you work, if you're working remote either way.

> someone who is in NC (or a lower cost-of-living area), if they're paid the same as someone in the Bay Area, is effectively being paid more for doing the same work.

Yes. This is true. Also, someone who lives in a small apartment and doesn't own a car is paid more, even within just the bay area. Someone who has a child and pays for childcare, or a parent in a nursing home that they pay for, is getting less purchasing power for the same salary.

The cost of living varies by location, but also by lifestyle, life circumstances, and many other things. What things do we change it for? The exact same argument you make above could be used to argue that we should pay workers with a child more, workers with college loans more, or workers who choose to live in downtown SF vs the outskirts of oakland more.

On the other hand, making the pay identical for the same work done, irrespective of life circumstances and location, is straightforward and has none of these weird questions associated with it.
Daniel also did a really fun write up decoding data from the JWST.
And yet I know gamers who have fully switched to Proton. I’m too lazy, and have a windows box reserved for games; it would be PII-free if it weren’t for the darn Microsoft account. But for some, Proton is already a better Windows.
> because it turned out smaller planes are more economical

Per seat the A380 is still the cheapest way of moving a person by air. The 777X should beat it, but it's not in service yet.

The problems with the A380 were (1) it wasn't aerodynamically radical enough to maintain that advantage beyond one generation of airliners and (2) you need to fill it to compensate for (1)
Being tracked when logged off/on other sites is a bit different than shadow profiles.

Users are absolutely tracked when logged off or on other sites through 3rd party cookies, aka the Facebook Pixel. If you go on a news site that has the Facebook Pixel, it will record that you went on their site. When you go back on FB, they will check that FB Pixel cookie and see what other sites with that same cookie you've visited. Through that, they can compile a profile of what interests to use to advertise to you.

Shadow profiles are a bit of a different story, since that would essentially be FB compiling a profile of someone that has gone to all these sites with FB Pixel, but doesn't have a FB account. That's entirely possible, and would make it so that if you do eventually make an account with a FB-owned product, they've already got all of that info on you to start targeting ads.

The most low hanging fruit and directly impactful way to prevent this as a user:

1. Use a browser or browser extension that blocks 3rd party cookies

2. Use an email alias service like Firefox relay. This allows you to generate a random email address for every site you make an account on, and all those email addresses forward emails to your actual email.

Using the same email everywhere is essentially the same as what FB Pixel does, it allows all these sites to share with data brokers that bob@gmail.com has made accounts at these other websites.

3. This is a bit harder/not as cheap to do, but the same applies for using the same phone number when signing up to sites, it allows data brokers/ad networks to connect accounts across dif sites to the same person. If it's not required, don't provide a phone number.

If it is required and the number will be used to send important info, try to use a disposable phone number service that forwards to your personal phone number. If it's required but the number won't be used for important communication, use a fake number like 123-456-7890
> will find their wages stagnate as well.

I think the passport makes a pretty huge difference. The barriers to moving from North Carolina to California – while high – are nothing compared to the process of immigrating to the United States (at least from everything I've ever read about that process).
The blog post about it is better:

https://graphallthethings.com/posts/quantile-compression/
The fact that not all remote workers live in low cost of living areas implies that there is some additional value to living in SF vs NC.

Thus the workers in SF aren't being paid less, but choose to spend the pay on the bay area lifestyle
I have a BuyVM.net 3.50/mo KVM slice that has been idling for maybe a year (yeah I know I need to get on it..), so I can transfer that to you if you want. BuyVM has been around forever and they are awesome, but are almost always sold out (just checked and they are).

If you want to reply with your contact details I can see if I can get that going and you can take over the vps if you want..

Other options for providers:

- netcup.eu (I use them.. they don’t have small instances but they are super great prices for the sizes they offer)

- Hetzner Cloud (never used but heard great things and their prices are very low)

- OVHCloud (I have dedi servers from Kimsufi and SoYouStart which have been great— OVH is the parent company)

- prgmr.com - these guys have been around since the very beginning of vps hosting. They wrote the book (quite literally) on Xen ( https://www.amazon.com/Book-Xen-Practical-System-Administrat... )

- low $ NAT VPS options:

https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?gid=13

https://hosting.gullo.me/pricing

- free ipv6-only vps (or $1/mo to add an ipv4):

https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserve...

- An informative resource:
https://lowendbox.com/blog/free-vps-providers/
Its a no brainer that you should have that any time you mention the term "teams"

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However, I have a feature request (actually many)

- A familial calendar (when is jenny going to swimming, when is edgar going to tutoring sessions) etc... you can extrapolate...

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A familiar "Time Management" dashboard is needed...

Let me elaborate:

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Calendly can be much more. think of it as a deep-capable "sticky note" for a certain day ;

I can throw images, video, events, requirements(to-dos) on a date.

Make the date a magnet.... throw content at it.

Make families want.

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU TIMMY?? says the mom

Timmy: "I threw it on the board, gosh!"

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What is the status of our KanBan for project X?!

>>CHECK THE BOARD we already have updated it!

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Basically, you have built the glue for a kanban<-->Jira dashboard?
He never claims that his code was copied - just that they used the same approach and a lot of similar patterns.

Regardless of what happened, it sounds like they left him hanging without even the courtesy of a follow-up email. Going from being ghosted to having MS release their own version of your OSS project after they've asked you a lot of technical details about how it works would leave a sour taste in anyone's mouth.

Most people don't get acquihired, so I don't blame him for not understanding how it works (nor is he from the states). What he's really talking about is being hired to keep working on AppGet, he's not talking about having the project itself acquired (since it's an OSS license).

I doubt there was intentional malice here but they really screwed up in how they communicated with him, and that can't help encourage devs to work on the windows ecosystem.
I like FreeBSD quite a bit for some things but a desktop OS would likely not be one of them
The twitterer in question who was denied tenure was an associate professor at MIT according to his webpage:

https://cesarhidalgo.com/
They do, they are developing drom[1], a wrapper over opam and dune to provide a cargo-like experience.

[1]: https://ocamlpro.github.io/drom/

What’s wrong with opam? Since version 2 it also supports local switches and locking, and the opam repository has become much more stable than in the past.
Full disclosure: I am biased here, since I am one of the opam-repository maintainers and I am quite happy with opam itself.
I just sent this to my friend who is a doctor. Y’all might get a kick out of his response

“Thanks for sharing. I’ll read later today (I’m currently busy in the hospital making sure patient’s health doesn’t improve) ”
You made the assertion that people are working more now leading to them being too exhausted for sex, which is false. Your reply then switched to increasing housing prices, not hours worked. Average hours worked have not gone up - https://clockify.me/working-hours
Are you sure it's an issue if you use a CDN that isn't tracking people?
I do wonder.

The Windows 11 STIG says use the Windows 10 STIG.

https://public.cyber.mil/?s=windows+11

The Windows 10 STIG says basically fix this stuff before using.

CAT I (High): 26 CAT II (Med): 241 CAT III (Low): 18

https://stigviewer.com/stig/windows_10/

So it seems they have a high tolerance for shenanigans. But what will they do about the online part?
Thanks!

My main job for today was to divest from my unhealthy online activities. Unhealthy for me meant FB and HN. Thanks for the link! FB since 2008 and HN almost as long...thanks for the fish!

Ciao.
If you have the tabbed inbox enabled (i.e. Social, Promotions, Updates, Forums), then Gmail will insert ads into the non-primary tab that look almost like regular emails. If you have the tabs disabled so that all your messages show up in the Primary inbox, you don't get ads.
It's like viewing the floorplan of a house vs a written description of the floorplan. The latter is verbose, long, wordy and ultimately cannot paint a picture as accurate as just showing the floorplan.
I'm not calling anyone anything. The GP of this post claims to be of Hispanic race. You claim he is not entitled to call himself that. Are you the the arbiter of what he is allowed to call him self? I'm must admit I do find it ironic when you simultaneously claim groups of people don't want to be named and then at the same time are trying to prevent somebody from such a group to call himself that.
> How would a union work here if the company just turn around and say "sorry - your members are already at the top of the rate in this market. Our policy is not to pay more than the market rate. End of discussion."?

The union could organize a strike and demand different policies. Choosing not to work is the one piece of pressure that employees can leverage. Of course if you ask politely it won't change things. AWU does not yet have the scale to really make that happen yet, though.
Never considered a BSD general desktop use OS but you are really making me consider installing it on my old Thinkpad T420 which is still going strong and upgraded quite a bit.
> But I just can't get over the very basic logic of "same work, same pay."

Well when same people are taking advantage of not only cheap goods (housing and all) but also cheap services, they may have some slick sounding arguments on their side but not some moral high ground for equal pay.

> I don't know. Does anyone have links to convincing arguments you've read one way or the other?

There can't be any. Unfairness against one's self feels visceral but against others it is mostly along "Well they don't work in IT industry so they are different" or even better "Well this schmuck could go ahead get ML PhD and earn million dollar/year. No one is stopping them."
The only real explanation is that the cookie laws were explicitly designed to wear users down into blindly accepting whatever prompts get thrown at them on website load.

Anyone with half a brain and a real intent to reduce tracking would have mandated websites abide by the existing Do not Track toggle. Unfortunately the law was instead introduced by politicians with strong lobbying from media industry. So no brain, and no intent to reduce tracking.
I am probably asking about an apples to oranges comparison, but could someone knowledgeable help me understand in what situations I would want to use gstreamer vs ffmpeg vs pipewire vs others. They all have some overlap and can use each other for some sub-tasks, but I do not know when to reach for what.
> The police. If you're an adult and someone messed with your phone, you have [or should have] a case under CFAA or some similar law. It's basically a blinking neon sign that says "abusive partner".

If "just go to the police" were an option for all domestic abuse victims, I'd expect that there'd already be plenty of other blinking neon signs they could point to.

> A simplified comparison: if it's possible for a parent to take away a kid's phone, what prevents a domestic abuser from taking away their victim's phone?

The difference is that the phone doesn't sprout legs and run away from the victim, or otherwise assist the abuser in taking it away.
Probably not. It sounds like you're thinking about this from the perspective of a ticket-buyer. They are not your customers.

If you actually want to tackle this business, talk to a dozen people who actually have the decisionmaking ability to pick a ticketing system. Sometimes this is the venue, sometimes this is the promoter. Ask them what it would take to get them to switch to your service.

Be careful who you talk to. There are a lot of people involved in events who hate ticketmaster but don't actually have any input into that decision. You can easily get a skewed view of the industry.

Also, this is instructive when thinking about Ticketmaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e134NoLyTug
I have been using DDG on mobile for about a few years. It shows you the most blocked trackers and google is by far the worst. Google trackers were found on 31% of websites I visit whereas Facebook trackers are at 4%. My results may be skewed because I never visit or view any content on Facebook, but I do the occasional google search when I can’t find something.
Maybe they had a shared account, or the husband didn't have enough funds to cover the alleged fraud?
It all depends on how specific one sees the statement of "paying for value created". One could also argue as follows:

If an employer wants the work done _from and in location X_, the location is part of the value created. If they want employees to work in location X, then they will have to pay according to location. If employees decide by themselves, that they want to relocate, assuming that remote working is possible, or that the employer has offices in the new location, then that is their own decision, with all the consequences, including getting more or less out of their wages in the end.
Yeah this guy moved on to Toulouse in France it seems. He obviously had/has options, but I cant blame him for feeling betrayed.
> You'd be surprised how irrelevant wikipedia and googling are to elementary and middle school educations.

You say that as if the official elementary- and middle-school curriculum are the only things worth looking up. There is much one can profitably learn from the resources which are freely available online beyond the least-common-denominator taught by schools.
Hmm... that's strange. I think it is a generic error message (I'm working on making that a bit better), try using a different username and see if that works!
are these jobs mostly replacing hard drives and what not when they go bad at the server farm?
Linux really doesn't have good alternatives for most of the tools I use, and none of it runs in Wine and similar, so I hope not.
Your account should be premium now!
The companies will call it differently - they all share salary data with a third party, which for a discount shares numbers (probably aggregated by role, experience etc) back to the all those companies. Thus, they do "research" to understand the market rate, which they then use for salary negotiations.
Have a landline?
maybe reuse is inferior to re-implement. Moderately re-inventing wheels may be beneficial. What may be a threshold?
> The energy price predicament is that below $80/barrel, shale and tight producers can't make money (and there will be no further investment) and above $80 and the rest of the economy gets killed.

The numbers you cite aren't anywhere close to correct. U.S. Shale Oil producers were making money at $60/barrel when OPEC was trying to squeeze them out a few years back. Their break even price is about $50/barrel (i.e nowhere near $80 as claimed).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/748207/breakeven-prices-...

http://theamericanenergynews.com/energy-news/column-us-shale...
> The first Rust compiler was written in Rust.

That's impressive!

(yeah, it could have been interpreted)
Similar to the way the FBI doesn't record interviews, because it affords them an advantage in court. Who are you going to believe when there is no audio or video, an FBI agent or someone accused of a crime.

Which is exactly what's happening right now in the Sussmann case (brought by Durham), he's being accused of something based on the memory of an FBI agent when a videotaped interview would have made it trivial to prove/disprove.
Since forever, there has been a huge industry of essentially information middlemen who act as a conduit for information companies can't directly ask a competitor for and wouldn't be given it if they could.

Totally outside of the HR realm, when I was a computer system product manager pre-Web, we had a consulting firm that we paid way too much money to and when we were going to have a product launch, we asked them to, yes, fax us data sheets on various products we were positioning against. Later, there was another firm that collected pricing information which we needed for our pricing proposals.
For the Americas, since at least mid 2000s, everyone is tagged and tracked in near real time. I'd be surprised (shocked) if those systems weren't global today.

How could it be otherwise?
I think he doesn't lie, he just has a severely warped view of reality, and an incredibly inflated sense of his own capabilities. He won a lottery and thinks it was intentional.

His public blabber on ai and automation are a great peek inside his mind.

The mindset is "That problem isn't solved because I haven't worked on it yet." There's no self awareness or humility involved, and he can afford the apparatus to maintain that for the rest of his life.
> (alleged, there is still due process required)

He literally admits to it on the video.

Admitted, not alleged. Leave due process to the courts.
Linux never makes you do anything you don't want to do. That anyone uses anything else really surprises me.
I think that most of the complaining about location based pay at Google has been dumb, but this one is actually people getting screwed.

Folks were initially told one number and then it was adjusted to a much lower number. They were the only group in the US that had their equity refreshes adjusted down. And people working at the actual research triangle site are paid a lower rate than people working remotely in the rest of NC, which has a lower cost of living than Raleigh-Durham. The people at the Raleigh-Durham office are the lowest paid engineers at any location in the US right now. Lower than "middle of nowhere Montana."
How is the browser supposed to know what information the website collects, who is it shared with, and manage consent and revocation thereof?
So the why is pretty simple, effective wages after taxes(which are pretty much zero), are 3-7 times higher there.

It does not matter if you are a Pakistani prostitute, or a silicon valley programmer, an Indian construction worker, or a British engineer, they will pay you a salary three to seven times higher after taxes than what you make at home.

Further, if you dont have the merits for some well paid job, but they need someone to do it right now, they will pretend you do. So junior programmer with a half finished degree and half a year of experience as a web dev, but they need
a senior engineer. Please welcome our senior engineer, and yeah the salary is 3-5x a senior engineer position. The downside is that when they call, you say yes today, dont ask about anything other than salary and start on monday, no matter where you happen to live at the moment or if you are still employed etc.

Oh and if you work there and are white, you write Christian on everything. That way, if you get thrown in prison, you can convert and ask to be released. Its not easy, but it is one of the few ways to get out if it really goes to shit. If you work there and are arab or look arab, you are muslim, and the right kind. If you are black... dont, just dont...
Maybe if everyone wasn't leaking my entire lifes history to 58 different adtech shitcompanies the EU wouldn't have needed to step in.

Now people say "oh but if every website hosts their own fonts the browser can't cache them" while sending me 35 megs of shitty tracking Javascript code.

There is a very clear aggressor here and it's not the EU or the regulators.
The math is called law of large numbers. It might work well, badly or not work at all depending on the distribution and the sampling methodology.

Statistics as an area is full of gotchas, I never dismiss this sort of complain unless I have robust assumptions about the distribution being studied.
100% agree with strategy #3, except I'm finding it harder to implement:

1. Everybody wants your phone number these days, especially those you don't want to give it to. From whatsapp and signal that use it as your main identify, whether you want to or not; to social sites like Facebook or Twitter that MAY let you sign up without phone, but "flag" you for security on first login and require phone; to other sites whether gmail or otherwise that require phone to sign in

2. More and more of them these days send a text to phone to verify it belongs to you

I'm therefore finding it harder and harder to not give my phone to everybody (of course, "not using the product" is always a possibility, so I still don't have a twitter account and by all accounts my life is better for it :)
If you don't like the way Outlook shows you ads then do not use Outlook.
> What is the job worth?

Total profit divided by the number of employees?
Another example of the sad state of python dependency versioning. I'm saying that as someone whose go-to language is fanatically Python.
They have also said they would implement a rating system of how well proton will run various games. From 'Perfect' all the way down to 'unplayable'.

I think it was their quiet way of saying they couldn't meet the standard they set, at least, not yet.