skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Otherwise, they're forced into paying to buy/rent a suitable workplace, pay any incremental utilities, etc

I view this as just the opposite side of the coin of being forced to live physically near where you work, so you can come into the office. Remote gives you more freedom here, though.

I think part of the reason people choose to live in overpriced studio apartments is to live closer to their workplaces.

The pandemic was an unusual circumstance for forced remote work. Normally people would have a lot more options for where they choose to do that work, be it at a cafe or coworking space or at a library or wherever else.

As for utilities, Canada at least is providing tax breaks for people working from home to help cover internet, electricity, etc. I've never gotten a commute subsidy from my government.
Not always. The client could salt and hash the password before sending it to the server for storage and comparison.

To be clear: a properly designed system can and should operate without the server ever knowing the plaintext password.
I have bad news for you: despite all the HR and recruiting hype, there aren't enough "good people" out there to fill millions of tech jobs, even for top paying companies. Most companies have to settle for structure, flawed individuals and efficient and flexible processes to guide them (which could include peer pressure in actual offices).

Of course everyone here pretends to be the 10x, hyper motivated individual contributor, because the world's a stage and HN is part of it.
Snapchat has been more aggressive at push notifications (such as @xxx friend posted a new story!) to move more MAUs / WAUs into DAUs category.

These strategies have been employed by other competitors as aggressive as well though. So it is probably still comparable. I would say Snapchat's metrics are more "authentic" a few years ago, but now it is more "comparable".
It would seem in this case the bad stereotypes are doing the infantilizing. The activities of the past had the same low barrier to entry as the current ones - my dad started working on cars in high school, and my grandfather started hunting and fishing as a child and never graduated high school.
It's cheap in terms of absolute dollar value, yes. But it's also an EXCEPTIONALLY shallow form of entertainment that I can easily approximate for free by just streaming some different movie off Netflix.

I'd much rather go to the movie theater and pay the even higher price for admission, because that's an actual experience. You can't replicate "going to the movies" at your house very well.
> All while aggressively pushing DEI initiatives and interventions on the tech side.

> I don’t think the irony of this ever crossed their minds.

They were likely thinking of it in terms of “righting wrongs” in the overall sense by increasing the percentage of women in the company.

Publicly, everyone will swear up and down that “diversity” doesn’t mean “fewer whites/men”, but in practice, it’s how those “ideal” demographic ratios are achieved.
At my last company all hands, our CFO was talking about "increasing diversity" at our company.

The entire C-Level or our entire company are people of colour. 4 out of 5 department heads are PoC. Customer success team are majority PoC and mostly women. Out of our entire engineering department, there are only 2 "white" people - myself (anglo-Canadian), and another man of Swedish ethnicity..though I suppose all white men are the same...

Engineering is the only male dominated department, we used to have a few women developers but they left for better opportunities and hiring is currently frozen. 2/3 of our QA department are women and PoC.
I'm not sure that you'd do that even on a microcontroller. If you don't have the ROM space, you probably also don't have the transistor budget for the decoder you'd need to handle that.
This is straight up a prelude to Orwellian thought control via language modification. Can nobody really see through this corporate "woke" smokescreen?

It's not about "social justice," it's about instilling totalitarian patterns in the population. There is no debate about these "woke" issues. There's an incredible intolerance on one side, and they claim to have indisputable moral superiority. Anyone who goes against the "woke" agenda is deemed to be evil. There's no debate. Just an automatic classification, "You're wrong AND evil."

That's just how it was in Nazi Germany. No debate, no nuance. You're a jew? To the chambers with you.
Everything is political, if not your view, to somebody else's. you might prefer to watch fox news for entertainment that doesnt feel political?
> the pervasiveness of the C model has fossilized design decisions of the PDP-11

This is tangential and somewhat pedantic, but I want to point out an oft-repeated mischaracterization.

C is essentially a refinement of B with some additions [1], and B was written for the PDP-7, which was a very different machine.

For example, the increment and decrement operators in C were inherited from B; they could not have been modelled after the PDP-11. From Dennis Ritchie himself [2]:

> Thompson went a step further by inventing the ++ and -- operators, which increment or decrement; their prefix or postfix position determines whether the alteration occurs before or after noting the value of the operand. They were not in the earliest versions of B, but appeared along the way. People often guess that they were created to use the auto-increment and auto-decrement address modes provided by the DEC PDP-11 on which C and Unix first became popular. This is historically impossible, since there was no PDP-11 when B was developed. The PDP-7, however, did have a few "auto-increment" memory cells, with the property that an indirect memory reference through them incremented the cell. This feature probably suggested such operators to Thompson; the generalization to make them both prefix and postfix was his own.

Another person puts it this way [3]:

> It's a myth to suggest C's design is based on the PDP-11. People often quote, for example, the increment and decrement operators because they have an analogue in the PDP-11 instruction set. This is, however, a coincidence. Those operators were invented before the language [i.e. B] was ported to the PDP-11.

[1] Notably, the char type, since the PDP-11 was byte addressable but the PDP-7 was not.

[2] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

[3] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8869/have...
Pushing back against this type of policy is generally a bad idea... There is a very vocal minority who will make life hard for you. This is a case where the vast majority know it's best to keep their thoughts to themselves.
From a purely linguistic point of view, doesn’t ‘content moderation’ imply a work slowdown? I would think any company would be against using anti-productivity language.
I think management wants to keep their options open. My company has been very vague about long term remote work plans. They clearly prefer that people come back to the office. They like being with people, and seeing dynamic office environments. But they also don't want to spook the employees into a mass exodus. So far they have set a mandatory two days a week policy, but it is not being enforced and less than half of the employees are following it. So as long as employees continue getting work done, it should stay.
I think they're making money, sure; but the promoted content on Snapchat is a total tabloid cesspool of click-bait garbage. I'd rather see ads for the Amazon product I bought last week, tbh.
I agree, I was being terse; it'd be more accurate to say you can be banned off of the urbit network entirely if everyone hates you, but if only most people hate you, you can still use it (but may only be able to talk to the other outcasts that most people hate).
I will agree there were some comics that talked about social issues, but even those tended to not hit you on the head with the message so hard, and they weren't the majority of comics books - they were a small minority of books. Now everyone wants to be Alan Moore, or they don't understand why Alan Moore is important and they want to dress their heroes up for party instead of make interesting stories with cool action.

Comics are alive and well in non-western comic traditions. It's the big two (Marvel,DC) as well some some smaller companies like IDW that can't produce stories people want to read on a regular basis.
I mostly agree with the first part. But the second part is not universally true: my (mainline protestant) church growing up was not at all a vehicle for monetary greed, and like I was pointing out in my comment, I certainly was not psychologically "abused". But some churches are vehicles for the greedy and some people are abused; it's just not universal.
I got a $25 Fire TV Stick and plugged it into the back of my TV. I push 1 button and everything powers on and Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+ launch automatically. Any other service is a couple button presses away. All in 4k. (Well Hulu is upscaled)

I never have to leave my sofa. I don't have to dick around with plugging and unplugging my PC. No keyboards to manage. No OS or software to keep updated.

Your solution is easier than some other options but I'll stick with mine.
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> "On the contrary, world leaders who can live 1000 years will be much further-sighted than those we have now."

More like a recipe for an omnipresent gerontocracy, locked into the culture and values of a millennium ago, but wielding immense wealth and power ruling over everything. Sounds like a conservative's wet dream.
You asked about Python, which obviously has fantastic support: Emacs has super good support, and I also like VSCode and PyCharm. An embarrassment of riches…
> intelligence distribution skews more male at the higher end

Really? You think there are inherently more intelligent men than women?
I know a few people who spend hours doing intensive work a day (PhD program for one, medical school for another), and don't want to become involved in more intensive hobbies (e.g. literature study, art films). The deeper pursuits are left for the career, and hobbies are an easy way to get your mind off it during rest periods.
Netflix hates free speech!
And this is common in tech hence why i said

> across many industries.
No, they are not.

Teach someone with no previous cultural knowledge what "allow" and "deny" means, then ask them what white list and black list means, then ask them what allow list and deny list means.

Black and white list requires previous knowledge of what those terms mean, allow and deny do not. Someone can intuit from just basic language knowledge what the feature does.
The author says they loved superheroes as a child, but assumes that was because the content back then was kid-friendly. In reality if you look at comic books from decades ago they were a lot more "adult". There was an order of magnitude more death, blood, gore and general adult themes. Heck the PG-13 rating didn't even exist before the 80s.

The difference was that there was a lot less supervision those days, and no one would blink at a 7 year old browsing through the aisles alone at a bookstore. Groups of kids sneaking into an R rated movie was perfectly routine.

So it isn't the superhero industry that changed but our own treatment of children.
Or we could all just admit that it's theft.

Society being in a lurch between how we handle our physical goods and our digital goods is a very important subject that is going to get ironed out over the next few generations I'm sure.

That doesn't make it not theft, even if its' really easy to do.
This is a privileged take that only works for people who have options to shop around for jobs.
This.

I cancelled it when they raised their prices, it made me think about how much I watch things on there. Which was rarely - my guess was around 1 show/month on average.

> Now all the streaming services also seem to rate limit each episode to once a week.

Yeah, screw that noise. Torrents are still their primary competitor, and the operative issue is not cost, it is convenience.
In my experience, I've always found it quite strange that HR and recruitment is a field that seems to me to be female dominated, at least in the part of the UK where I am, and I can't help but feel that the imbalance at this level of the process reflects who gets hired.
I should have yes, thanks. I didn't think it would be a problem, I usually don't check before posting, but there am I.
Gurobi had excellent speed for us, but we didn't notice a difference between Gurobi and open source tools on final solution quality; all the linear solvers we've tried get to certifiable optimality on our problems, some just faster than others.
And the minimum lease time is 24 hours, making it inaccessible to hobbyists or on-demand, intermittent work.

I wish MacOS licensing were available for Graviton and ARMv8 generic, that would be incredible. It isn't, and the costs to support Apple's platform is a substantial barrier for many projects.
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Who, exactly, is it supposed to be "nearly" an actual slur against?

Because I'm sure that actual landlords don't have a problem being referred to as landlords, so you must be referring to some other group.
yes lets talk about the actual reason for god sake. it was hugely due to Russia
This is a bit like saying "Money is only as important as you make it". They are all inter-subjective games, you can treat it as unimportant until somebody you treat as important treats it as important, and then it's game over (hehe).

To quote a meme, "We live in a society". This is at once an ironic shitpost and one of the most tragic facts about the human condition.
Does an airplane provide substantially more resistance than trying to roll through a decent sized pothole without the benefit of much momentum?

That airplane is small enough it probably gets dragged around by hand when it's not chocked. The chocks small airports tend to use are pretty small to fit under the wheel fairings many small planes have. I can see it pushing the aircraft around by the tail.
When I was 7, my mom thought it was a good idea to buy me a Batman comic book (not realizing it was meant for adults). There was a particular scene where the Joker knocks on the door of the police commissioner's house. His daughter opens the door, and the Joker shoots her in her stomach, while smiling. [1]

The next 2 years, I was terrified of any doors that would open to dark rooms.

[1] https://marvballrutodc.quora.com/When-the-Joker-shoots-Barba...
Perhaps certain words disable the feature entirely?

The feature only seems to trigger when it has a suggestion. I can't imagine what suggestion would be suitable to replace the n word.
Many people willingly do things like this voluntarily at their jobs to the point that the job they were hired for seems like a second priority for them.
NNetflix can pay their customers ISP if they want some kind of improved QoS on behalf of their customers.

But they shouldn't have to pay 'just because'.
It's worth noting that aside from the overhead, function call / returns are not quite enough to reconstruct the callstack: tailcalls are just regular branch instructions.
Sure, like those hermes apple watch gen 1.
> You're responding to a stuntperson who, unfortunately, has no control over the distribution of the product they worked on.

And he is yelling at us, which also have no control, he should be yelling at the people he works for that do have control.
Oh, 100% I need some more docs on the page: it's definitely not foolproof.

From my testing, it works even if the window is in the background somewhere but generally it stops working if you switch to a different tab within the same window.

You should get a popup though if you do something that causes the page to lose its Wake Lock (which works by listening to the release event: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...)
Snapchat has been more proactive on fighting bot than other competitors. You can easily copy the cookie from instagram.com and write a bot with puppeteer. You cannot just sniff the traffic from Snapchat app and hope to write a bot with that. It has been aggressive at binary obfuscation for request signing, and cracking down the 3rd party mods (such as the Snapchat Phantom mod).
I love this question because I’ve also been fascinated with the history of the field, some suggestions below.

From September 2021:

A new history of modern computing

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-history-modern-computing

Skip around it’s various chapters, it’s fun of little details.

Also a fun read, this old article about the silicon in Silicon Valley, it’s from a long dead magazine and it’s titled They Would be Gods:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9mi2aqnyf5fp3l/They%20Would%20Be%...

Lastly, the part I enjoyed the most of Walter Isaacsons bio on Jobs, was the adjacent history.
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> Rigidly hierarchical, rent-seeking obscurantism isn't, uh, popular.

What is the current state of the web?

Rigidly hierarchical

All internet governing bodies wield absolute power. Most of the computing experience is completely controlled by a handful of global corporations that are more powerful than many nation states.

You don't control or have any influence over most of this.

Rent seeking

AWS, domain names, social networks? The web is rent-seeking at every level.

Obscurantism

Most of the code we use is worse than obscure, it's literally proprietary.

I would say these qualities are very popular today.
I've been using Urbit for a few years now and honestly find a lot of value in it. Loads of interesting people and conversations to be had in various groups. It's really confusing at first but isn't hard to get up to speed by just diving in and using the software. Regarding Curtis Yarvin being the founder - I just don't care. I use products by people I politically agree with and disagree with ALL the time. I personally don't see any monarchism or NRx stuff "baked into the system". I understand Urbit is not for everyone though and that is perfectly fine too. As with everything, I think people should make an effort to try it before coming down hard with reasons why it should be avoided.
This is I think a major issue. The passionate people on these committees have views that are perhaps in the 10% edge of spectrum. No mothers, birthing persons etc etc.
Yeah, they're old, but are the talking points wrong?
had to look that up

Retarded differential equations (RDEs) are differential equations having retarded arguments.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037704270...
> Many Google employees are just so out of touch with the real world

This isn't remotely limited to Google. My company does this too. I've heard of others making similar changes.

Are these kinds of arbitrary changes to language usage silly and pointless? Maybe. But tough love here: languages change in arbitrary and pointless ways constantly. They always have. They always will. Your own common usages and idioms would seem outrageously weird to your grandparents. People had these same fights in the 60's, also 80's, and 50's... The 40's too now that I think of it...

To wit: we aren't getting oppressed here, we're just getting old. And the attempt to turn it into a political fight (on both sides) is largely just a reaction to the friction. It's not the cause.

I mean, really. Is "mainboard" such a hardship? It's not even a new word, it's two bytes and one syllable shorter. Must this be a fight?
Snapchat's userbase is more organic than most other social media platforms. I don't think I've ever seen a bot, and the "social circles" are much more private since it's less optimized towards meeting/finding new people. I'm sure there are still ways to profit from spamming or botting on snap but I can't really think of any. And not only is the social discovery potential pretty limited ( a part from celebrity accounts) but it's also only available on mobile apps (maybe the new snapcamera changed that but that's recent).

Maybe it's just me but in general, I use snap in a way that's pretty different to any other social media. I don't use it a lot anymore though, and it's still hard to explain that "difference" honestly
The question here is: so what?

Valve makes a lot of money from the steam store. They’re not going anywhere. There are competitors like gog games that sell them without DRM. You download the games anyways so I’m sure a solution will be figured out if Valve starts to have issues.

Steam provides a pretty seamless experience for gaming, and it provides useful services to developers as well. Then you have things like the steam workshop and marketplace.

And for minecraft being open source: who cares? Gamers want games that are good and fun to play. There are very few open source games that are actually fun to play.
Every single show or movie I wanted to watch over the last year has been an exclusive to some streaming service or other.

Amazon used to let me buy anything, and the Prime was there to entice me so I don't have to pay for individual catalog items, but that's not the case anymore.

Now I have a choice between:

1. paying for a crapton of streaming services so I can watch a handful of things I'd like

2. pirating

3. not watching most of the stuff I think I would like to watch

I'm not picking option 1 for what I hope are obvious reasons. I really don't want to pick option 2 because I empathize with people like you, who would be affected by that. For the moment, I'm picking option 3.

However, if you really want to "educate consumers", you might be more successful if you change your tone so it doesn't sound like aggressive victim-blaming. People like you and people like me are being screwed by a third group.
The complexity of life is nuts. Once you start learning about how things work, you can see that we only know a tiny fraction of what's going on
I don't really agree with the original premise, but I would point out that:

> The wealthy are always able to buy the nicest things,

the problem is that there is no product differentiation when it comes to road usage. You're either on it and paying the same fee, or you're not.

It's not like food, clothes, housing where you might be paying a lot for these things, or you might be paying less. We price specific items of food without regard to income, but there's a wide variety of items of food to choose from, at different price levels.

Not so with a lot of transportation.
Any of the Kickstarter projects I've participated in. I used an alias for my Kickstarter account and I know for a fact that at least one of those projects sold my email because now I get random Kickstarter-type project emails in my spam folder.
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Agree, this purports to not be “yet another”, but the one that converges. Oversimplified, Thread is already an IP mesh on Zigbee hardware, and Matter is a device/app protocol on top of IP.

“To simplify adoption, Matter will start as an application layer on top of existing IP technologies, including ethernet, Wi-Fi, Thread, and Bluetooth (for device provisioning). This means Matter is not reinventing the wheel; it’s adding better technology to the highways our smart homes are driving on.”

https://www.theverge.com/22787729/matter-smart-home-standard...

I like that article as a casual overview, which also references “What matters about Matter”, an ‘explainer’ and a ‘living FAQ’:

https://www.theverge.com/22832127/matter-smart-home-products...
I'm working for a company that has over 50% female engineers and it's the best experience I've ever had. Im a guy and I've worked as a tech lead at a FAANG, at a startup, and in academia.
Large planes tell pilots vocally to “retard” when landing…