skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are interesting enough, Signal doesn't help at all. Some nation state will have NSO infect your mobile device with Pegasus and record everything you type, say and do.

People need to understand this. There is no solution for mobile device compromise other than to stop using these devices.

And if you cannot stop using them, then you must understand that everything you type, say and do on or around your mobile device is (or will be) public. So treat it like a public device at all times.
> Maybe all this goalsetting, OKRs and such is exactly the problem with the industry,

Yes, yes it is.

That is also a symptom of a bigger problem: management doesn't really have to be useful for the company, they merely have to _appear_ to be. Exceptional management is nearly invisible, which is great for companies, bad for careers.

The solution? Managers will make noise and a lot of it. Part of this requires crazy deadlines. If the ship is not creaking it's not being pushed hard enough. Attrition? Bad culture fit, we work hard, we play hard. "I delivered <project> months ahead of schedule" sounds way better than "I delivered it on time" - nevermind that the "delivered" project is a buggy mess noone uses and will require a lot more effort to get to an acceptable state.

We should be praising progress. Not everything should be a 'sprint', it should be a 'march'. What's all the sprinting for?

Most deadlines literally don't matter. Motivated teams that are able to perform their best work do matter.

> when most people just want to put in an honest day's work and progress.

This.
Keep in mind Apple just returned 27 billion to shareholders [1] because presumably there was no better use for it. I doubt the cost of a 5 billion office park is causing them to loose sleep.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apple-reports-second-...
Haha Emacs is truly an OS, lacking only a decent text editor /jk
I picked up a 49" Samsung Odyssey ultrawide. It looks ridiculous but it's such a game changer. It's effectively two decent sized 4K screens glued together and is much nicer than the awkwardness of multiple displays. It's 144hz and supports HDR.

It has a picture-in-picture mode too, letting you effectively have two monitors for different inputs should you need that.
Bunny Roundabout
I think a more apt analogy would be paying $3,000 to fill your tank for ~$6/gallon gas for your car
Data from wearable devices is changing disease surveillance and medical research
This is simply not true. I've had mine since February. It is a 7" ONYX Boox Leaf. Either the article is incorrect, or they are referring to some sort of updated version of it (still calling it the 7" Leaf).
when teaching myself web development in high school it was very straightforward to use the "PortableApps Launcher" from my iPod's hard drive over USB to get me Portable XAMPP, Portable Notepad++, and Portable Firefox to develop locally with, and Portable FileZilla (but also the Notepad++ SFTP plugin) to deploy to my paid host. couldn't have been easier.
This is the game right? Build something people need, and ideally situate such that a larger player with deep pockets goes "yes, this" and cashes you out. Much like the "Thank you for smoking" film trope, you can't take the money AND call the press for the expose on how dirty the whole thing is. I'm reminded of the South Park founders more or less laughing "yeah we sold out" because why wouldn't you? Everyone has a number (unless you're a martyr, bless you, or already fuck-you-money). That number turns out to be much lower than you might expect when the real deal knocks on your door.
Actually, I'd caution you there. There's roughly 25k Apple employees in the Bay area and Apple is a top payer in terms of salary. I've been shopping for homes in the Bay since I arrived and South Bay is easily 1M+ for a very tiny home. Oakland is about 600k+ and usually both markets require cash on top to get a home. That puts average mortgages (and rent) in the 3-5k range. If the average salary is limited by the number of companies that can pay more than 3-5k per paycheck (you want rent or mortgage to be 1/3 of your paycheck for risk purposes) then yes, Apple employees, depending on when they get their place to live, could already be over leveraged and at risk.
Ask HN: You can take one other person with you to the moon, whom do you invite?
Nuclear is more expensive than renewables. If we spent the same money on renewables we'd get more done. It's not overly complicated.

The vast majority of people advocating for nuclear simply cannot hold in their criticism of renewables. That's because believing lies about renewables is a basic requirement for thinking nuclear is a useful solution in a world rapidly deploying renewables.
The logic behind this is that work from home allowed greater participation from not-these groups. Folks whose physical or mental health was improved in a work from home environment (I know someone with chronic migraines, for whom the typical 'Glass and steel open office' workspace is basically hell on a random draw of days). Additionally, for those whose health conditions are such that COVID-19 is still a concern in the "Manage Your Own Risk"-era, losing work from home means losing one of the major ways to manage that risk.

Work from home also allowed for more schedule flexibility - it's hard to run an errand, pick the kids up from school, etc. when that's a 15 minute trip, rather than having to commute back home. This burden often falls disproportionately on women, and workers with families (who are likely slightly older than those who don't).

Removing the constraint of "You have to have the capital to move to SV to work here" allows hiring from a broader and more diverse pool of groups with less generational wealth, which means likely a more diverse body of job candidates.

Whether you agree with this or not, there is a logic behind it. Heck, I think they actually missed a couple axes of workers Apple is going to miss out on.
My DMT “time loop” experience makes this whole topic extremely fascinating to me. I very clearly (to me, within my own subjective experience) witnessed some of the exact same events happen multiple times (within the timeframe of the experience, anyway). It was like there were two separate chronologies existing simultaneously - that of my subjective experience (the “observer”, if you will) and that of the perception of my reality.
Most of EU has prepaid SIMs without registration AFAIK? It's really not much of a problem.
> The additional pumped storage needs of solar and wind are more than offset by their vastly lower cost.

This is seriously glossing over details. The cost of pumped hydro is highly geographically dependent. If you happen to have an alpine lake handy, then yes it can be cheap. But building pumped hydro in flat terrain is much more expensive.
This tool does not correctly handle stock splits and thus all the correlations it produces are wrong for any stock that has ever had a split or a reverse split. It shows a split as a huge price drop, but that is not really how that works, since the number of shares expands, thus anyone holding the stock does not, in fact, face a 4x loss for a 1:4 split.
I'm frankly pretty confused about what heroku is asking me to do. "The credentials used with these log drains" means... what?
'Eye-Catching' Smartphone App to Screen for Neurological Disease
Vuls: Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD
OP mentioned owning a MacBook Pro M1 Max, so I would say the wanted refresh rate would be 120 Hz.
Just because it's not a typical circuit doesn't mean the comparison is useless. To your point though, Monaco is the best case scenario for Formula E when being compared to Formula 1.
Yeah but pixel density makes this non-issue on Apple panels. 4K on 27" or more is a whole another story.
There's dozens of languages out there I haven't programmed in. If I were going to learn a new one, I'd have to base that decision on something beyond just vibes.
Someone else posted this in a toplevel comment, but in case you missed it, 3d34-2 is a binomial distribution from 1-100, which approximates a normal distribution.
Compared to Python, Ruby and Javascript, Golang is high performance. Compared to C, C++ or assembly language, you sacrifice ergonomics for a bit more performance.
> As I’ve moved into larger companies and am shackled by OKRs, I am enjoying my work a lot less and feel under more pressure than ever but am getting less useful work done.

Ditto.

At this point I feel that spending my entire day writing emails (even though I'm on engineering) would not only look better but would meet OKRs, while getting zero actual useful work done.

I hate this fad.
So far windows 8/10/11 made me move away from microsoft, i never been happier since i own a new M1 macbook and a linux desktop
That reminds me of my mother telling me to eat all of what she served me because there were children starving in Africa. That was nonsense -- not that Africans were starving, but that I should eat more than I wanted or needed because of it. Avoiding food waste is more about serving what you need than about eating everything in front of you.
I really dislike this when it feels forced and artificial.

Also there's a strong risk of doing some little employee-appreciation gesture that backfires and pisses people off. Most of them do, because it feels like the company has cheaped out, or worse, spent a shit-load of money on something that you hate and then expects you to be grateful about it.
> The number of validators is a function of how many people want to invest (capital and resources) to secure the network.

My point isn’t that every new user adds n new validators. My point is that larger the network and the more money involved, the more reasons there are to be a validator. They’re linked, just not directly.

As for my own activities, first - my carbon output doesn’t negate your carbon output, they’re both something we need to tackle. Second - I’d be the first one to say that the apple tech ecosystem has huge carbon costs that haven’t been reckoned with. That’s a big part of why I’ve been refocusing my attentions in the 6 years since 2016 when I last posted something about iOS.
I feel the branding here is just not very appealing. "Federated" brings up associations of something boring and complicated and bureaucratic. And now because of the metaverse hype, "Fediverse" sounds like a VR training program for FBI agents.

Take a leaf from the crypto pumpers and call it web4?

"It's like web3 but advanced beyond money. You know, like in Star Trek. Hoarding tokens is just so 20th century."
This is true. However, we need to start somewhere and the GOP is overtly a far-right, terrorist organization. It would only take a declaration from the President to that effect, and then the government could legitimately freeze its assets and lock it out of political life, setting the stage for a Democrats-Greens bipartisan political axis. When the farthest right party that's still acceptable is the Democrats, maybe real work can begin.
But taking "economics" in isolation like this ignores much of what actually happens in reality (the politics part).

It's a large part of why economics as a field is made fun of when its models are too simplistic to accurately describe reality.
Rich?
That's what I thought the Apple Car project was, so he had something to design that just wasn't a rounded rect with a black mirror
Even the official Markdown guide suggests using a table generator because the markup is a hassle:

https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/

HTML tables are similarly cumbersome, with or without closing tags. If you have a table of static information to fill in, copy/pasting from Excel into a HTML table generator and pasting the output is signficantly faster.
Hy is a false promise. It looks like a lisp; depending on your idea of a Platonic lisp, it may be a lisp --- but it preserves Python semantics, including its odd scoping rules, and it doesn't feel like writing actual lisp. Scheme or Common Lisp simply feel more coherent, having semantics that make sense with the language.
>Programmers aren’t bound by practical limitations such as laws of physics, they are bound by their limited ability to understand the systems they create.

First line is already wrong. I mean I get the meaning but this is not technically true. Computing is bounded by the laws of physics. We have bottlenecks and limitations everywhere this is entirely due to physics.

It influences even the style of programming. There is much more parallelism in programming today due very much to physical limitations in raw speed.
Yes, as a several-year fedi user I don't see anything wrong per se with having and using both. (I never got into twitter so I personally don't.) The most important thing to remember is that it is specifically not Twitter, and you'll be disappointed if you try to bring the exact same kind of interactions you might have had on Twitter. Every instance has its own themes and inside jokes that you can get to know and become part of. It's designed to be more about forming relationships and community than getting lots of likes and followers.

It's possible to use a bot to crosspost your tweets onto a fedi account. Hardcore fedi fans tend to frown on it because it's a very arms-length way to interact with people on the platform, but a lot of people do it and I've even followed a few. If you're considering using a crosspost bot make sure your instance's rules allow them; different instances have different policies about that kind of thing.

As far as Musk goes, I have no doubt he will try to improve Twitter according to his vision of improvement, which not every user will agree with. We've already seen similar situations with Tumblr's policy changes a few years back leading to a wave of new users across the fediverse. Eventually some people go back/elsewhere and some stick around and become a part of these communities. Welcome to the fediverse!
No, because there is no scientific evidence and it can be used as propaganda for the rich:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe

[2] https://trendguardian.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale...
Silicon Valley companies pay very well because _other_ Silicon Valley companies pay very well. Fast food companies don't pay anywhere near as well even though the cost of living is the same for those employees.

The demand for good engineers far outstrips the supply, so companies are forced to compete with each other, which is why you get lots of other perks other than salary (free gym, free lunch, free dry cleaning, etc). Any big tech co that decide to pay the same regardless of location will have a huge advantage recruiting and maintaining remote employees. If a remote employee's only option is to jump to another FAANG company for a 15% salary decrease, what motivation will there be to leave?
Have you considered making the site a PWA?
I very much feel you on this. At some point I have enough company swag.

I do think the "appreciation store" model is a really good one. Allowing each to choose their reward.
Thanks for posting gmemstr. I'm on the DevRel team at Teleport. I'm happy to answer any questions about Teleport.
Correlation between assets change over time. Predicting what the correlation will be in the future is important for asset managers.

I am supervising a master thesis project (in fact the second such project on the matter) where we are trying to predict the covariance matrix of a portfolio of assets using machine learning. Results are promising!
I would say $60,000/yr plus a pension would be a start. At least that way he could have a home and maybe have a family of his own in the time he has remaining. Money doesn't fix everything but better a bandaid and a kiss on the booboo than a "tough luck, piss off", right?
I would like to comment on something slightly tangential. With all this remote talk (other posts as well), you would think pre-pandemic 100% of people were in the office, but people seem to forget most tech companies have always hired some form of outsourcing in other countries and timezones.

For more than a decade I have been working with people in China, India, Mexico, etc., and now some people pretend like WFH is going to change everything. It's a bit hypocritical on the part of companies, and I suspect it's purely because they perceive WFH to be for cheaper, outsourced labor.
Correct, they can and should provide funds so that employees can rent out coworking spaces that are located near where they live, as opposed to commuting far to the physical office.
Correct -- and he cites big companies like Google and Amazon as still being startups. I agree with this definition -- it's very useful for distinguishing different types of companies and ultimately why some can earn SO much more in investment compared to others.
>Of course you do. We all tend to think that we're living the right way (obviously, else we'd change).//

Do you think so? I'd imagine most people are like me and echo St Paul's position of (paraphrasing) "I do what I wish I didn't and don't do what I wish I did".

I guess you're able to always summon the motivation to make for any activity you wish, but I suspect that is very rare.
Yet you can't watch age restricted youtube videos without giving them your ID or credit card information. In the name of "protecting children".

The German government also threatened to ban Telegram which would have put them in line with places like China, Russia, Cuba and Iran. I think Telegram folded and now removes channels at their request in order to avoid being fully censored.
This should be the top comment. The utility of the word "steelman" is already mostly covered by words like "Devil's advocate". Instead, the real purpose of the term is to signal "look at how smart I am, I'm putting in way more effort than anyone else". Posture first, discuss second.

The equivocation in the current top comment thread stems from that ego problem. People use words they don't understand that they think sound smart. When confronted by more effective & but less smart words, they're too lazy and prideful to switch so they instead pretend they mean the same thing.
I believe they were referecing a bit more relevant to the discussion short version of "Richard", which is "Dick".
Personally I’d ask for a bigger rocket so I can all my homies with me.
Ask HN's: What city would you recommend to relocate to?
Can anyone honestly and sincerely tell me that online whiteboards are exactly equivalent to in-person whiteboard sessions? There is no value in having lunches together with your colleagues? There is no value in body-language when communicating? I'm all for fully WFH policies, but I think it's a bit naive or dishonest to say that it's exactly the same work experience. I've been working remote for over a decade and will never work from an office again, but there are some things you just cannot replicate online or with video calls.
> Looking back, the issue was a company pretending to care about Agile and just making everything worse in the process.

First, thanks for your honest input. I suppose the fix was to change job to a company that doesn't pretend to do agile?
What kind of abuse could I be subjected to if I accept Monero? Seems like the most that could happen is that people can send me money.
It's possible to do (I'm doing it), but it's definitely more complicated than in-person, especially when operating across a team.

From a hardware engineering perspective, access to equipment is also important; I have a decent lab setup at home, but I've still needed to go into the office regularly to access some testing tools.
> Additionally you have Prolog clauses without Prolog's reasoning power!. SPARQL is just a query language, not a tool for automated reasoning.

That's not necessarily bad, however. A direct consequence of this is that finding the answers to a SPARQL query can always be done in logarithmic space with respect to the RDF graph, whereas computing answers to a Prolog query need not terminate at all.
We have enormous reserves of fossil fuels. The U.S. has 1200+ years' energy needs' worth of natural gas alone. We have less _oil_, sure, but as far as energy goes, we have plenty.
> What we discovered was that these problems only began to manifest themselves once the client reached max drive capacity.

I think it is common knowledge that flash drives perform badly when full - I'm a bit surprised that the author ("[...] despite spending decades as a chief technology officer") was surprised by this.

That's also why it's important that discard/fstrim is supported in the entire stack filesystem, operating system, hypervisor, storage controllers, storage device. I managed to fry a flash disk in a Linux software RAID because I neglected configuring md to pass discard commands to the underlying storage.
...which I consider as one of the bullet points in the list when checking UB in unsafe code.
Yeah and even then they have different goals, histories, and incompatibilities. Pipefitting and residential plumbing are completely different domains despite the abstract similarities.

Our tools are relatively cheap to build and test compared to other fields, so we have a lot more of them.
OP was being sarcastic.
Progopedia is a free web-based encyclopedia of programming languages
I want LAGGING correlation please thanks.
> Then it sounds like they probably do want to a full return to in-office work, but don't think they can get away with it.

I said "not the least of which because". I didn't say that was the only reason.

This is precisely the kind of cynical reading-between-the-lines that I'm talking about.
Will second this - for the money the BenQ panels are hard to beat.
But I always seem to end up with Dell panels. I have an over six year old Dell U3011 32" 2560x1600 panel and other than not having variable refresh is still a great panel. And the few times I have had support issues Dell has always been pleasant to work with whereas Asus, Benq and other more consumer oriented companies tend to force you through a morass of automated systems/forums/email/chat which can be a huge time sink. If there are two similar monitors and even if Dell is 20% more I'll buy the Dell. However if you aren't in a hurry, Dell runs amazing sells or you can get incredible deals through their refurbished site. Indeed the 32" monitor I referenced above was going for $1400 and I got it for $800 "refurbished" - as far as I could tell someone got it, opened the box and just returned it without even taking it out. Either that or Dell did an amazing job repackaging it.