skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about people who inherited a property and then can retire off the rent that someone pays for it? Do they deserve it for the work their parents put in? How many generations does that extend to?

The point is that this eventually devolves into a feudal system of landowners and workers - it's been tried in Europe, and while it's great for the landowning class, it's not as great for the workers.

> Riskier. Why should they?

Yes, my point is the fact that owning/renting houses is the safest retirement option is a political choice, not a law of nature. And that political choice is specifically benefitting retires as a whole at the cost of the working population.

I believe that people should be able to finance their own retirement, but via real contribution to society - yes, I have problems with stocks and other methods of passive income as well. I think they should exist, but that they should be much less advantageous than they are now.

The fact that these methods are the ones chosen to promote to achieve financial independence is a large part of what leads to moral rot in America today. People see that hard work is not rewarded - financial speculation, holding real estate and other unproductive work is what is really rewarded, and that calls into question the whole American dream.

So yes, I believe things need to change - and a land value tax is a step in the right direction. Also increasing capital gains to the level of the income tax.

I understand how to play the current system, but I interact with lots of people (and have friends) at different income scales from the homeless to middle class to centi-millionaires and so I've seen how unfair the system is and how unequal the opportunities at the different ends are. There's also way less options for making big money in a moral way - as a society, we seem to have chosen to reward inherently immoral actions higher than moral ones.
These are prospective teachers with teaching degrees, correct? It seems perfectly reasonable to test them on pedagogy. Arguably it could be done separately from the math test, but it is material they should know in order to be a teacher.

> The above isn't general pedagogy, it's Ontario-curriculum-specific. Applicants are not required to have Ontario diplomas, and there were no prep materials available. This has the end result that the test was effectively testing whether you happened to be educated in Ontario.

Responding to your edit... Wow. So someone can become an Ontario teacher with no knowledge of the Ontario curriculum? That seems like a bigger problem than testing prospective Ontario teachers on what they will be implementing in the classroom.
I guess we'll find out when they finally release the records 70 years from now!
FreeBSD had to reboot the project after some lawsuits -- FreeBSD 2.0 is a different codebase from FreeBSD 1.1

It was a huge setback for every kind of adoption
The voting and moderation system on HN essentially distributes the load of managing & sorting all the information across many people, so that overall the workload is manageable. Most of us wouldn't be browsing HN if it was a free-for-all unmoderated cesspool.
Agreed. Super cheap.
Sigh. Another article on "Agile" that makes it read like "SCRUM" == Agile (Sprint, Stand-Up are Scrum terms, not Agile). Scrum doesn't work without good technical practices.

Also, no developer/team-level process will do any good if "no one really knew what the project was ultimately supposed to look like, or exactly what purpose it was supposed to serve".

Also this article doesn't reference any of its sources and doesn't appear to use any sources from folks like Martin Fowler, Ron Jeffries, and others. Instead it references folks who I've never heard of (I think—again, without references, who knows?).
I use the I Don't Care About Cookies and Cookie AutoDelete add-ons too.

I also use Behind The Overlay Revival[0] for annoying overlays. I just have to click the toolbar button - not even aim at the elements I want to remove.

That said, ekill's grudge mode looks interesting.

And I use Unstick![1][2] which can get rid of annoying fixed headers and footers that chew into your vertical space.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind-the-ov...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unstickall/

[2] For some reason though, I always have to click it twice to make it work.
I think FB makes a natural fit for those that approach it that way
As a not-current-user, I can’t in good conscience +1 the should part of this. But I was definitely baffled by why this app would have this feature built in.
> And a monetary incentive isn't enough, unless it's significant, but no one will pay $500 a month per JS library they depend on.

Maybe they should, and if they fail to do so, then maybe they have zero right to complain about it.
If they want something they can trust they ought to pay for it. If rich companies feel like they can no longer afford to mooch off people working for almost nothing and have to write their own libraries tell me what of value will be lost?

I mean do you hang out in your kitchen hoping that Bezos will come by your house to borrow a cup of sugar?
> I could turn the question around, what evidence do you have they aren't?

I don't care about either side of this argument, but you can't logically turn the question around. The burden of proof is on you, who made the claim.
Internet Explorer 6 (and prior versions presumably).
I don't think it is, the name seems to be spoofed and the email attached to the commit doesn't match @Yaffle. Git author and email are easily forged anyway.
In my case, mostly because it was easier to get buy-in from the rest of the team on ECS than Kubernetes.
Works on 15.4 for me.
Lol I thought this was about the Bernoulli drive for a sec..

It was a bit like a zip drive in the 80s.

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bernoull.htm
At least this doesn’t delete your hard drive. Seems relatively benign.
I run into this all the time in my day job with software automation. Everyone thinks you wave some kind of magic wand when you say 'automate' that makes it just work. I have to put out the speed brakes once in a while when chatting with my VP to remind him that automation doesn't necessarily mean accurate, as much as it means fast. Sure, I can provision a bunch of network gear quickly, but if the automation is wrong, that just means I'll wipe out an entire portion of the infrastructure in seconds.
I interviewed there (with about a half dozen people). Interviews were a joke, it was all whiteboard leetcode with no real insight into technical thought process or real world work talk.

I did ask every person I met "How many hours, on average, do you work in a week?"

Ever single person gave me a non-answer that tried to change the topic. My favorite response to the question was "We are super flexible on where you work, like sometimes I like to work from a cafe". If that had been the only person I asked, I might have thought he misheard me. Since a pattern had been established at this point, I just moved on.

I know every team in a big company is going to be different, but my experience is that they churn and burn fresh coders and let the more ruthless, politic-y type rise up.
We only have so much attention available for consumption. Already there's too much content to keep up with (and a lot of common context has broken down as a result), but what does it mean to live in a world with truly infinite content?
It might not be the most vitally important but ignoring the single biggest organ we have seems like a mistake to be honest.
This is probably the most disappointing thing about being on the left in the U.S. - we’re supposed to be the people who “believe science” and “trust the data”, but I’ve never once seen advocates for this policy or that reverse course when it’s obvious that policy is a failure. Instead, they seem to head straight for the No True Scotsman fallacy. It didn’t work, but only because we didn’t really commit to it. Next time we’ll do it twice as hard and spend three times as much doing it. And if it does work then, it’s because of capitalism. Or white supremacy. Or the patriarchy. If we just fix those, it’ll definitely work. And if not, it’s only because we didn’t really fix those things right because the master’s tools can’t tear down the master’s house.
I was kind of worried. Maybe Tesla had a general AI but kept it to themselves?
I don’t think people expressing their identity markers online is going to stop happening anytime soon. Gender is a pretty fundamental part of most people’s identity.
How QR codes work, and what makes them dangerous: A computer scientist explains
I agree this is an organizational problem, but a lot of the tools we use every day - from bug trackers to distributed version control to collaborative document authoring tools - are technical solutions to organizational problems. One key organizational problem data people routinely deal with is exactly this issue of multiple metric definitions.

Imagine a company that wants to know how much time its users spend on its application, and wants that broken down by country in order to attract investors or something. They probably don’t have one metric for time spent on the application. They have like 12, all of them are different, and although all of them are wrong they each work sort of ok for a given context. To make matters worse, those 12 metrics are defined in different places, computed in different ways, and generated from different data sources. Maybe 3 of them are documented somewhere in the company wiki while the details of the rest live in the heads of 9 current or former employees who are off doing.... something.

That is a mess. Investors don’t care about all that nuance on use cases for time spent measures. Neither does anybody talking to the investors. What they don’t want to hear, when they ask for this simple metric, is “well..... what are you planning to use this for?” On the other hand, things get even worse if somebody grabs the wrong time spent metric and presents that publicly without realizing one of the other 11 was the one they really needed.

It would be better if our hypothetical company had its people define and document a set of consistent metrics and ensure they’re always computed the same way. By centralizing those definitions into a repository (ideally managed by source control) everybody can share the understanding of what a given metric represents. More importantly, they know where to look for pre-existing metric definitions. If this hypothetical company really needs 12 different time spent metrics (they don’t, but bear with me here) then each of those metrics can be named and defined in a way that explains what it’s good for, and they can simply point the makers of their investment pitch at the “baseline_user_time_spent” metric and have done with it.

For any of that to even be possible you need, at a minimum, a place to store metric definitions and a metric layer like MetricFlow that understands those metric definitions, translates them into the relevant queries, and executes them with the required filters and grouping attributes.
Can you give a broad outline of your investment strategy in a high inflation environment?

I am older than you, but one issue that I need to contend with is being in a demographic that will contain a lot of other retirees, so I believe I need to financially be better off than other retirees of my age to have a reasonable lifestyle (and I am unsure how to avoid thundering crowd effects for my generation). Reasonable = comfortable (e.g. could choose to have a small fizzboat, but not a megayacht).
> Fine, then let's adopt a standard of announcing whether you're serious about your projects

I don't believe in Tidelift myself nor I actually pay them any money, but there's that already.

If you're willing to use less recent packets, you can trust vendors like SUSE or Red Hat to do that for you.
> The painting could be done by humans

When was the last time a car manufacturer used humans to spray paint? Decades?
Lots of headroom left on the 1970's, prices are set at the margin: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01300002

Housing prices on the other hand - mostly stable until the 1980's, and then shelter became an investment vehicle: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01300002

The prediction is that we will have a period of monetary inflation to deal with the problem of asset inflation.
Indeed, but I think brains are harder to test than anything else.
Regarding the comic:

1. The Zune is a better deal unless you live for 200 years or plan to bequeath the music files to your descendants.

2. Apple Music is now a subscription service.

3. Steve Jobs knew everyone circa 2000 had a stash of unlicensed MP3 files that they paid $0 for but needed a handy way to play on the go.

Nonetheless I agree with you - not because subscriptions are necessarily a bad value in terms of money (though they often are) but because managing dozens of subscriptions takes time and attention that I'd rather not spend, and the feeling that money is continuously draining out of my wallet just to keep some lousy app working is unpleasant.
any link to this? did he write a book or get recognised?
100% agree, perhaps instead of only tracking usernames it can also track external Github URLs (to portfolios, linkedin, twitter, and the like), email addresses, etc etc, just to make it a little harder to evade the sanction while also taking credit for their work off of Github.
You can’t visit a web site with a gopher browser. The scenario you describe doesn’t make sense.
> But if you're effectively harassing people out of a part of their salary

Don't you mean (effectively) harassing?
Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution
I don't want to setup my email with TB just to try it out, can someone please explain how this works?

We can chat from within TB client using Matrix? So we'd need to be using Matrix (instead of Slack for example) to take advantage of this? Or is there some kind of built-in Matrix chat inside TB?

Also a question for people who use TB - is it possible to use it for teams? So to "delegate" emails for example, or "comment" on emails?
I hit the X. When the X is missing I just leave.
Checking things like bolt tightness is a hybrid automation. There are machines which know where all the bolts are within a given area, and can test each one and adjust as necessary to make sure they are torqued. But that machine is itself handled by a human that gets it to the right spot.
...and then I installed Steam and Portal 2 yet again.

Jokes aside, that's really cool flying and great footage!
Let's see how many people will pay money for their `is-odd` dependency.

Again, enforcing responsibility by paying is non viable and doesn't scale, especially in the JS world when you depend on 500 packages for a bare React project.

Yet I as an open source developer I want to announce that my projects are actively maintained, i.e. I'm serious about them and I'll react in less than 23 days if someone adds malware to my code.
"None" is legitimately the only safe amount of alcohol for many people and "none" may also be the legitimate amount of gaming for many people.
AI for Emergent Ventures
There is some validity in the idea itself, but I am pretty sure there is no way to actually make it work.
Really? After filling the form online, I just went to an AME that I booked and got out of there after perhaps an hour, certificate in hand.
It's not that new, there's been a park&ride there since the 90s[1]. And, my apologies, I'm referring to the greater metropolitan area as Seattle.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northgate_station_(Sound_Tra...
15 years of service gives you 26 days of leave (normal paid time off) plus 13 additional days of sick leave.

If you retire at 62, you get 1.1% per year of your high-three salary for the annuity. This is in addition to whatever contributions you make to TSP, which are matched to 5%.
I mean there are very detailed overviews of Model S taxis with 400k miles on them. There are many many Model 3s with 150-200k miles on them. Anecdotally, teslas seem to last a very long time.

Things that break on ICE vehicles commonly EVs don’t have:
* fanbelts
* flywheels
* alternators
* starters
* spark plugs
* transmissions
* etc

In practice, Teslas break most when other drivers hit them.
The big misconception is that the consent forms are only about cookies. They aren't - they are about data collection and processing in general, no matter the technical means. It could be cookies, but it could be IP addresses, browser fingerprinting, or information you manually entered for a specific purpose (delivery address to receive a package) and don't want to be reused for other purposes such as marketing or tracking. None of that can be communicated at the browser level unless you want to have a gigantic spec that encodes every possible use of personal data imaginable.
It's difficult to say. In some ways, the GPL reassured anyone participating in the Linux ecosystem that no one company was going to make a play for the whole thing by hiring up key people and running with it as a proprietary system or some kind of "open core" thing where much of it was free but the fancy bits were proprietary.
If that happens, I’ll change my tune. I’m much more concerned with actual harm that’s currently happening than theoretical harm that may not even come to pass.
Interestingly DALL-E is really bad at spelling. It knows what letters look like, but struggles with words.
I would send them an email at the address listed in their HN profile (it's there, I checked). I would NOT respond to a complaint like this on Hacker News with some performative demonstration of concern.

I would ask my VP for customer service to explain the state of the operation and why this case is such a mess. Who knows, maybe they aren't getting adequate resources or support. I'd do a deep dive:
- What are our average call hold times? standard deviations? what is our response to outliers?
- How do we QC these calls?
- When we promise to contact a customer, what is our average response time? standard deviations? what is our response to outliers?
- How do we QC the quality of those responses?
- What are our escalation procedures? How often / effectively are they invoked?
- What is our track record with credit bureau reports -- how often are they challenged? what is the outcome of those challenges?
- What is our plan for customer service? How do we know it is properly resourced?

I'd expect answers to these questions in a day or so, if they can't answer these quickly they aren't the right person.

I would be preparing to tell my board, subject to the answers received above, that we have serious problems in customer support, we need new leadership/strategy there, and this might be expensive.

These are the guesses of a zero-management experience dude. I'm sure a real CEO would have a better list -- but they should be doing something serious about problems that are clearly systematic.
No, don't get me wrong. I think DALL-E is very interesting and a potentially useful tool and have nothing against the tool makers.

The tool wielders however.. I think are overyhyping this to say the least. And focusing on the wrong bits. It isn't sentient and it is not making art. But teasing apart how it is deriving these images might shake out serious advancements.
Some platforms may have a way to remember a client certificate as a preference, but you can't really bind a certificate to only specific sites.

If you can find a way to abuse a valid authentication to one site in order to gain access to another site, that sounds like a very firmly valid security issue needing investigated.
The GDPR covers the intent and processing of the data rather than any specific technical means - it's not limited to cookies. Please see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30964163
FYI there's this package called Snapcast which will do something very similar to Sonos. Runs great on a pi. I love the idea of Sonos but after the stunts they pulled sunsetting their expensive hardware plus the data collection, I will never purchase.

This way, you own the hardware, freely pick your own DAC of any calibur, repairability is great, and you can hook it up to any audio source you want. No data collection.
> Cookie banners are entirely pointless since I'm fully in control of which cookies I am sharing.

The GDPR covers the intent and processing of the data rather than any specific technical means - it's not limited to cookies. Please see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30964163
How do they count the number of new stars?

I mean, it's way too far away to see individual stars.
Publicity wins over utility. The flamewars between -baum and Torvalds brought alot of attention to Linux.
Lol @ SagePay. They are an utterly poisonous and dishonest business with crap for tools and completely unreliable. I work at a small and very resource-constrained shop that had to extricate ourselves from Sage under legal threats. We use several other payment vendors with good reputations whose products are fine. Stripe is on a whole other level. Their product isn't payments. It's speed, reliability, analytics, comprehensive and precise APIs and peace of mind. They absolutely have the best product on the market by far.
I played around with Matrix, but it seemed to have a far too disproportionate number of furry porn channels for anything I'd want anywhere my e-mail
I see it as the same dynamic we have in bike races.

There’s a peloton running ahead, and they want to keep a sane distance from the pack. They’ll watch and react to the pack getting closer, but won’t be sprinting their lungs off until any of them gets in reaching distance of the goal.

Except when one of them decide to take the gamble (“cheat” as you say) and start sprinting. But we can agree it is extremely rare to have a sole sprinter leave the peloton mid-race and stay ahead until the end.

When it comes to huge international companies with billions and billions on the line, I expect even less of them to make huge gambles and try escaping the peloton with no goal in sight for the next 15~20 years.
See https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_40.html specifically Sections 40-5 and 40-6, for a discussion of why classical physics fails to explain the specific heat of gases.

As a sibling poster commented, the blackbody spectrum was also inexplicable from a classical point of view (see https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_41.html Section 41-2), but I think that the specific-heat problem was known before the blackbody problem.
Unfortunately matrix is a no go for regulated business (read: you might be required to monitor employees and hand over chats to govt.)
Well I’ll offer a positive feedback. I was curious how well it would accommodate my… sorta weird musical taste. Typed in an artist I didn’t expect to find (Mr Gnome): nope, again not surprising. Realized that was an unfair obscurity, picked another which is less obscure but still not very mainstream or likely to be highlighted in the demos (Toadies): immediately found a great song, and it wasn’t the predictable hit.

I don’t have much interest in radio/shuffle that’s not how I listen to music, but it was pleasantly surprising anyway.
Really amazing seeing it in action
There should still be a zero-tolerance policy for hidden undisclosed functionality in open source repos
I know a guy in there (who most likely isn't making anywhere near 100M), who transferred into the HR org to try to make a dent into the problem of employee turnover, PIP BS, etc.

Last I heard, he was giving middle managers a hard time for perpetuating the sorts of bad behaviors that give Amazon its bad reputation as an employer.

Maybe Amazon is a lost cause, maybe it isn't, but you won't know if you can fix it unless you try. </two-cents>
Just found out the other day that LaGuardia is limited in its international flights, just like Reagan National in DC.

It doesn't have US customs and border protection facilities.
Don't go on the internet.