skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can ask for anything. Stuff costs more is a you problem, not a them problem, until you actually quit though.

Every year you stay, expect your compensation to drop further below the wider market. Then when you move it gets reset to some point vaguely correlated with the market.

It's also way easier to move than to fill out a "promotion packet" or whatever corporate nonsense is in the way of internal ladder climbing.

This obviously sucks. Management know it, engineering knows it. Maybe it'll stop being the case at some point.
This looks lovely. Pocket-sized? Perhaps with big pockets. But certainly it can be thrown in a bag without worrying that it's taking up space.
You are right it does have a baseband processor. It is using a uBlox TOBY-R20[02] chip to act as one. That runs some proprietary code written by who knows who and it can act against your interest.

There are some mitigations in place: They claim to have a physical cut-off switch for the microphone. They also say that the power switch is an actual slide switch. If these are correctly implemented you can be certain when is the phone able to listen to you, and when is it properly off.

Also it is much more likely that the AtMega2560 acting as the application processor is properly isolated from the baseband processor. (If for no other reason that the developers would have to go out of their way to program/wire it in such a manner to be half as vulnerable as most other phone's application processors are.)

That being said the text of the product page focuses on the usability of the phone not on the privacy or security aspects. Out of the 9 positives they list, only 1 talks about privacy/security. This would indicate the focus of the people who built it.

Just to be clear on this: There is nothing wrong with focusing on UX. Not every product has to be laser focused on privacy/security. It is clearly made by a small team. (Perhaps only by a single person?) They wanted to make a phone which causes less distractions to the phone's users. All the power to them.
> Apple went with their custom iTunes-related protocol with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, because why not.

You can mount an iPhone as MTP. But only for pictures, not for music.

I kinda get why, but blah. It’s a bit of a weird distinction to me.
If I read him correctly, he is saying that only 30 per cent of current employees will be there in a year.

It is possible that some of them will be replaced by other people who now work elsewhere and who will try their luck with remodeled Twitter.

There will likely be a major cultural shift at Twitter; for someone, deeply repulsive, for other people, possibly very attractive. So there might be significant staff churn even though the total numbers may stay similar.
Exactly. That's why neglecting tools in favor of "simplicity" is so dangerous. If it Just Works, great! But what if it Just Doesn't?
My limited experience in engineering organizations, I have found that the core task can be accomplished with probably 25% fewer engineers. The rest are working on products that are going nowhere or are generally inefficient at their jobs. It's not even "50% of the people don't do anything, we just don't know what 50%". It's pretty obvious to everyone.

Is this the norm? Are there any eng orgs that exist without this padding? Is that spare capacity working on meaningless projects ever worth it?
It allows for you to make big changes to the product without the market freaking out and being beholden to shareholders.
I agree - something has substantially changed about the tone and nature of comments in the past year(s). Humor is underappreciated. Self-deprecating humor in particular is useful for humility and being open to new ideas as well as being open to being proven wrong.

Overall posting and comment volume has decreased from my observation as well, so a smaller number of comments tend to dominate, which contributes to the overall perception that you've noted above.
You can run something like Twitter with 500 good employees.

That is, unless, you mean the massive manual censorship organization needed to "run" the current "algorithm", which Twitter will no longer be needing.
> Something I do appreciate on Windows is that focus stealing by and large isn't a thing.

Interesting. Focus stealing really is annoying, but from my experience Windows is not really better.
Strategies for Thriving in Spite of Imposter Syndrome
I briefly considered penning a response called "Things I can’t do on Ubuntu which I can do on macOS" and then realised nobody has that much free time, especially me.
FAA investigating plane-swap stunt that resulted in crash
I think a lot of it boils down to knee-jerk reactions about MS products. When I speak of powershell with colleagues, their first reaction is usually "I couldn't use a non-free shell!"... Even though powershell has been MIT licensed and open source for years now.

As for the verbosity, this isn't a good argument. In my mind there are two "modes" of powershell:

* Day to day shell use, which should definitely use aliases. Nobody wants to type Get-ChildItem to get the list of files in a folder ten times in a row.

* Script writing, which should use the long form of commands. Any good text editor (e.g. vscode does it) should be able to translate aliases into long form commands.

I think they really hit the sweet spot when considering these two aspects. Long scripts are readable without referring to manpages all the time, while day to day shell is quick and easy.
Imagine having to install kernel extensions just to adjust the volume over a digital output like HDMI, maddening since you know it can do it, but stock MacOS won't allow you to. Or how about volume levels by app?
On the topic of getting things done, I’ve applied a bit of software development skills to making music. Instead of creating an increasingly growing body of works I focus on a smaller number of “products” that I improve on over time. I get some ideas that are my backlog and I implement them and release a new version. I think of it as an analog to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass; one work that he made and just kept improving over the course of his lifetime.
Just have a down vote button and just moderate the contents that breaks the countries law and it will be like the old internet, the best internet.
Everything on Linux that isn't part of the "Linux-utils" package is a third party tool. (I guess GNU packages are "second party.")
I'm getting bi-weekly updates on LineageOS for MicroG (Xiaomi Poco F3), which I consider more than enough.
The fact that Helvetica and Arial are far apart, yet completely indistinguishable by the average non-font-nerd is another indication to me that this ordering is fairly random.
Designer Diary: Oranienburger Kanal
A healthy control premium over the market price for a publicly traded stock is a bit far and away from being "rugpulled"
Do you also think that you can't just fire 12 floors worth of people?
That doesn't make sense for stock you'll get in 3 years, as it assumes appreciation in value.
>Within the corporate structure that allowed you to be issued/sold these shares at the outset are stipulations that the board can liquidate your shares, under certain conditions.

Those conditions and corporate structures should be regulated way more thoroughly, preventing legal fuckery such as this. Or share classes.
I want to ask a question in good faith to macOS users recommending people to download (and a lot of times pay for!) 3rd party tools to improve userspace functionality on macOS: Why is this the norm?

Downloading a 3rd party tool is one thing (I wouldn't have a huge problem if it was open source), but a lot of times these tools are closed source and require you to pay out of pocket! This would never ever fly in the Linux community. How come this is commonly accepted and never challenged?

(A controversial viewpoint I thought about is maybe that macOS users on average make more money than Linux users and hence never think about this, but I don't want to put it forward as the definitive answer)

EDIT: Perfect example I thought of is my friend asking me for help on how to reconfigure deep click (or Force Touch as it's called) to open new tabs in his browser, and I had a look around and the recommended way is to pay for BetterTouchTool [1]. No free way to do this that I could find.

[1]: https://folivora.ai/
At the very least double height, double width, and double size letters are specced out but are unfortunately not supported by enough terminal emulators that I'd use them for more than a toy.
I don't think that logically follows :)

If Amazon had a ratings black box, they would not be incentivised to be fair with it.

But a simple-to-understand ratings system may help sales more than an untrustworthy-black-box calculated rating (particularly considering reviews are about trust).
I've had a similar approach to music except, instead of field recordings, I started with MIDI keyboards in the mid-90s instead. For me, it's been a fun hobby to keep my toes in music while I play software engineer most of the week. I can confirm all six of the tips in the article are correct.

> Anyway, I eventually discovered a life changing life-hack which I have now used for years to force myself to finish and release music. It’s called ‘Christmas Music’.

Funnily enough, my life-hack was 'Birthday Songs'. I would write 30-60 second songs, most not very good and some parodies, for my friends' birthdays just to keep busy musically. Eventually I wrote a full-length birthday song for my friend's dad's 70th birthday. I also wrote a Christmas song and a Thanksgiving song.

> 6: Making your own work is a good thing to do, even if no one else is interested in what you are making. To create is to be human

Now I have a fancy audio interface, Universal Audio Apollo x4, and a small collection of high quality microphones and instruments. And I'm still happy recording pointless, joke songs.

Example songs

First birthday song: https://soundcloud.com/mitchell-anicas-project/easy-29

Korn parody birthday song: https://soundcloud.com/mitchell-anicas-project/happy-birthda...

Full-length birthday song: https://soundcloud.com/mitchell-anicas-project/ferrell-dise

Thanksgiving song: https://soundcloud.com/mitchell-anicas-project/ooh-its-thank...
I am back in graduate school at 31 after a few years working and I also wondered if I was too old to go back. It is definitely possible if you have the drive to do it. I can say it is both easier and harder than my first time around. My drive to succeed is much higher, my focus is sharper, but my overall energy and free time budgets are more limited (kids). I would recommend if one can and wants to do it.
Have they confirmed identity verification?
While I agree it's silly to think musk is going to fire everyone, Whatsapp hit 1 billion messages a day with only 11 engineers. I certainly think twitter could function at a base feature set with far fewer than 2k.
I haven't used Windows since 2005, so my opinion might be unwarranted, but I've been upgrading my home Linux distro since sometime before 2010 without a clean wipe. During that time I've heard of so many Windows "fix it by reinstalling" stories that I wonder if that is simply the default first step in Windows troubleshooting. After turning it off and back on, of course.
> If I buy a CD-ROM, I know it’s going to outlive me.

Not necessarily true: they do degrade over time. DVDs are even worse, so I imagine (without evidence) that Blu-Ray discs are even more sensitive.

Really, you want to move your physical media to lossless digital as soon as you get it, and store it in a format that is both backed up and resilient to bit flips.
Tribblix – A Unix for the Modern World
In my experience, that often leads to solving issues for nonexistent clients, or bad product-market fit.
What does the GPT-3 element do?
> Powershell improves on Unix commands being based on text streams, and makes them based on objects

I assume this means that PowerShell is deeply integrated with the .NET ecosystem? I don't like .NET very much, so that's a downside for me.

One of the reasons I use Bash is the decades-old ecosystem of various utilities people have written. Can PowerShell use the same CLI utilities as Bash, and do the plain-old-text-stream processing pipelines like Bash, or is it .NET objects only?
Agreed. I've been running nightlies for years now, and it's very rare for something user-facing to break. This probably depends on how well the device is supported, but I've had very few minor issues on my OnePlus device.

Kudos to the LineageOS teams and all contributors! You make Android usable. Which reminds me I should definitely donate.
The trick is not visiting from far away, it’s getting there early enough. Someone from the lost continent of Atlantis could also do it with their fabulous technology.
That's true we might not have been able to mobilize so much productivity so quickly for business without throwing frameworks at the problem. However, I think also a lot of effort might have been wasted by reinventing wheels and rewriting application many times over because some framework or language fell out of fashion and hiring for it became difficult.
The field is still mostly the same
there's no reason an url shortener couldn't be an archiving service as well, other than of course where's the money for that coming from.

on edit: this of course does not answer the inscrutability of the url, only the archiving complaint.
It's perfectly principled to take your cash and then walk away.
Talking to the graduate programs that you are interested in is probably a better place to start.

Since you don't have an academic background you will have to do that anyway.

And if you are admitted to a program, you will need to read what they tell you to read.

Also, you will get a feel for the reality of particular graduate programs and whether or not they will meet your interests and goals.

Good luck.
> the world today runs in an interconnected mode, is based on Services-as-a-Software-Substitute

really now? the entire world?

> People & nations dont respect the terms of service & licenses because they're in obesiance to the Empire, they do it because they just want in on, want access to the great vast online places that will kick em out of if they start mucking with the terms of service.

you have discovered the old ways; many Empires of old operated exactly this way, with speech, coin, writ of passage, conscription and income stability, all checked at the borders, just in meat-space time, not nand-gate time.

> Viewing the cyberspace we have as a legal framework the rest of the world accepts is false.

wait, I have a catchy name for your insights "code is law." Well the "code" is new, not the "law".. your timer frame of reference only sees in seconds it seems. Law is quite old, and works socially in ways you are describing, as if only computer networks do that!

> Companys operate in cyberspaces lightly regulated supranational domain, and states have minimal leverage they can apply to force behavior upon greater cyberspace.

tensions between merchants (with ships post-1500) and stationary govt, are not new! West coast of Europe, top to bottom, check it out yourself.

> The privilege of being interconnected to the global whole comes with a realizatuon that you are connecting to other places that wont follow your rules. Contrary to what the EU has insisted upon for itself.

don't get me wrong, I appreciate this insightful rant, BUT. you are describing the "outpost" experience.. who is interacting with whom? via what format or forum? most people do not sit at the edges of civilization.

> Other mations simply dont have the mainframes in their jurisdiction to boss around or use force against, so rebuffing their business is merely an impact on the bottom line.

yes, cloud computing anxiety, agree this is serious among people who take power seriously. Not everyone is an artist or decadent Bohemian.

> The legalistic modes are self enforcing, the terms of service dont need marshals to be enforced: we simply turn off access to violators, cancel their accounts.

"we" LOL .. you must be pretty comfy to think yourself as immutable part of "we." Get ready, life may have some unpleasant surprises for you in the "free" world!

> This isnt imperialism or legalism, it's just ..

LOL - absolute control of vital access for others is not a mean scary arm of industrial-capitalistic-militarianism, its a big cuddly services machine, with instantly strict rules, thats all! not!
> Linux desktop tries too much to be like macos

I think using "Linux" here isn't accurate. ElementaryOS? Definitely. But default KDE Plasma for example does not attempt to look like MacOS at all, same as Cinnamon, which by default resembles Windows to an extent.
I feel this greatly as an author, but I also acknowledge that other people have different motivations. It's like saying "Don't write software if you aren't passionate about software."

If we're lucky enough to have worked our way up Maslow's Hierarchy to the point where self-actualization is our prime motivation, that's great! But others may want to put food on the table, or enjoy a minor amount of prestige as an author, &c.
> Does that imply that Linux is not stable?

I think I've almost never seen someone connect to a projector from Linux without some kind of glitch along the way.
Actual question for anyone familiar with the company inner workings: What are those ~8000 people doing at Twitter?!? I guess they do sales and advertising stuff. Would that be a large chunk? The tech doesn't seem that crazy and they don't really ship much so I wouldn't thing they need that many technical people. Is it mostly an army of moderators?

I know nothing of how such massive-scale tech companies work, but just seeing what Twitter does, the ~8000 number seems crazy, doesn't it?
Really like this approach.

The rawness of the use of everyday sounds reminded me of Burial - Untrue.
I believe it's because we know who is now concentrating on systemd. Maybe in 2080 that will be flawless too. Even usable perhaps? :)
I'm not familiar with AirDrop, but KDE Connect can easily send files between the desktop and and Android phone.
That's how mine is as well.
Having a lot of experience myself as a consultant I can see that you are on the right track. Good luck in your endeavors.
FYI: See: Adenovirus Infection as possible cause of acute liver-failure in a healthy Child : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19119490/

Posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31164574

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search: Adenovirus+Liver site:pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=Adenovirus+Liver site:pub...>

Related:

Increase in hepatitis of unknown origin in children (104 comments) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094459

CDC Alerts Providers to Hepatitis Cases of Unknown Origin (17 comments) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31131303

Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology – UK (36 comments) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044907
There will be no stock in three years if the acquisition goes through. My understanding is that effort is being made to compensate employees in a roughly equivalent manner, albeit without appreciation or deprecation being involved since Twitter will cease to be a public company.
The threat of nuclear war is real, top Russian official says
Same with D..
I doubt kids will find this appealing unless the parent's have already shielded them from the world of ipads/minecraft/roblox. It harkens back to the days of craning your neck to play an original gameboy with the table lamp in the corner of the room.

I ordered one because I'd like to build a simple game for it, my dev career started in z80 assembly building monochrome games for the TI-83+, so 100% nostalgia for me.
Mastodon: How a Decentralized Architecture Influences Social Relationships
You can still use old devices with WiFi. If you need phone service you can configure a VoIP provider. You lose the cell network but it's still a phone. Some would even say you'd regain privacy this way.
https://www.sustaphones.com/

Gives you filters for battery replacement difficulty and headphone jacks.

edit: add explanation
At least one point is control. When you're not beholden to shareholders, you can run a company effectively as you see fit. As an employee, I actually look at whether a company is privately or publicly held because I'm of the (possibly mistaken/excessive?) opinion that you cannot run a truly mission-oriented public company (unless that mission is to maximize shareholder value, I suppose, but that's not a particularly compelling mission for me).
High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)
> Back when I couldn't afford new smartphones, it would allow me to keep years old devices on relatively new software

I hope you're not implying LOS is only useful for old devices.

LOS supports many relatively new devices, including many flagship phones. It also arguably offers much better experience than the default bloatware-ridden OEM OSes, which is the reason I check which currently sold devices are supported before buying a new phone.
In KDE one can set the focus stealability. That used to be a terrible paper cut for me, but now I haven't even thought about it in years.
Good news: cat is a built-in alias for Get-Content in powershell.
In addition to the official wiki, or running queries on the yml data yourself (it's published under the lineage OS Github account), you can also check these two third party tools:

https://lineageosdevices.com/

https://lineageos-device-finder.org/lineageos-device-configu...
I recently switched from a Go shop to an Elixir one. Exceptions as control flow, arrgh! Compile times, gnashing of teeth. Unmatched patterns with zero context bubbling up.

Ecto is helpful for what we do, but I asked the team about handling (monitoring, logging what failed for what customer, metrics) db connection errors, and they are fine with exceptions. A connection error is not exceptional - they are expected with an app our size.

The modules seem written to deal with a lot of happy path. I want to know more about failure routes and ensuring we have the information to fix issues.

I'm assuming my frustrations are because there is more for me to learn and understand of the ecosystem.
Will there be namecoin support?
But you have to pay for it...
Why not? Its a perfectly valid criticism of linux and a good reason to choose OSX if you need adobe.

As a developer who needs docker, OSX is not the best choice. If I was a designer, OSX is a better choice.
When a piece of production software is misbehaving and the string "UAT" - User Acceptance Testing - appears somewhere it suggests something got misconfigured (that prod is referring to uat somehow)
World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
No, heck, there are apps like Mountain Duck that do it fine. I should know, that's how we did share drives for offsite staff during Covid. There are plenty of free apps, I just went with a non-free option.

Comparing a stock Mac OS to a Linux distribution with packages installed is pretty shady.
Twitter already had a liquidity event, the IPO. A going-private transaction is unlikely to be contemplated in any existing options or RSU agreement. Unvested options are technically worthless, being an option to purchase securities that will no longer exist (TWTR). In practice it would be very silly to do this to employees unless your explicit goal was to massively reduce headcount.
I'm using Docker for Mac on an M1 Pro and it's stupidly fast, to the point that my dev environment runs faster than the Intel production servers on some things.
I don’t think you acted in bad faith but I don’t think your announcement, whatever it was, got to everyone. I mean, you have multiple people telling you they didn’t know about the large % increase, right?

I think, unless you acknowledge the issue, it's hard to have a lot of confidence it won't happen again. And that's not to mention all the licensing language people mentioned elsewhere. It just seems like using your service would require me to read all the legalese and revisit your website at some frequency to make sure nothing's changed.