skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with pricing in this space, but $3.80 / MAU (says $3 for element product, then 0.80 for the chatterbox product on top) seems really expensive that you would have very specific use-cases (government, hospitals?) to use the product to want to pay the price for it.
His number one bad decision was to be a greedy liar and all around asshole (judging from the book “Bad blood” ). I don’t think he deserves any sympathy. He and Holmes didn’t just make one bad decision but lied and abused people for years. True psychopaths without any humanity.
Given that all of recorded history has taken place in the last 10500 years, and that time has seen a huge diversity of social structures in civilizations across the globe, I think your pessimism is unfounded.

Yes, people are selfish. People also have a great capacity for cooperation and altruism, given sufficient cause to bind them together.

I rather hope that the impending collapse of the biosphere that sustains all life is just such a cause. Then again, we appear to be setting the world on fire at an ever greater pace.
Schools also have oversight, accountability, hiring background checks, and almost everyone interacting with the children will have gone through years of education and training.

Roblox (and basically all social networks/games for that matter) are pretty much the wild west when it comes to moderation and protection of minors.
You should look at it the SF Bay Area affordable housing income requirements. You’d be surprised how many tech families qualify.
> We held the line on refusing to do background checks, and ultimately got out of it after tracking down another company our auditors had worked with, finding out what they did instead of background checks, stealing their process, and telling our auditors “do what you did for them”. This worked fine.

Wonder why the author is coy about the specifics of this when they weren't earlier on a different topic...
People learn from mistakes
Agree. When I went to read it, I expected a general discussion about the fallacy of using history to predict the future. (History is an excellent way to learn about human behavior. That alone is a great reason to study it.)

You can't really learn much from the history of a specific (and remarkably talented) individual.
Is this real?

Also, how long are texts saved for?
> I'd also note that it's likely that the equipment is a lot better to withstand the motion and environment of being at sea. These are going to have to withstand a lot of salt-water air and spray while maintaining their motors in good working order. They'll probably also need to be rated for a longer lifespan given the amount of movement the motors will be doing compared to a stationary one (not just the travel of the vessel, but also the waves).

The dish cost has some good engineering explanations.

The 40-50x service cost increase, at least in territorial waters, is all about competition.
>With regards to SpaceX ratting on our location, I don't think that would be a serious worry but in any case whenever shit gets serious a warship will go into "black hole" operations that block any non-essential comms.

As a practical matter as well, both in theory and based on usage in Ukraine, Starlink appears to be a somewhat challenging target too. A phased array doing 10-12 GHz is a fairly tight beam and it's tracking very fast across the sky, jumping around between LEO@550km (and in the future VLEO@~350km) sats. In a naval setting it's not clear that'd be much of a limiting factor: something capable of seeing that would probably need to be at such an altitude and angle to ships on the ocean that it could also just plain see any surface naval vessel directly optically or via radar. The stealth ship proposals Skunkworks suggested back around the F-117 never went anywhere since the US Navy is dumb^Wtraditional.

But as you say either way they can always just turn it off as needed. It'd be very helpful the much higher percentage of time that things are boring.
Job boards need to focus on signals and data that matters.

- remote definition plus remote where? Not everyone is US based. Timezones may be important

- salary currency, benefits, rays, bonus, etc. Salary based on geo or wherever you are?

- tell me about culture without a team ping pong photo

- why is the company worth applying to, what's the growth rate and funding, how long in business

- leadership info and views they share, this often leads to company policies. Have they built successful companies before?

- is this position urgent or just a casual fill when needed
Yes, it's extremely common to see applications which need a datastore to end up needing lots of version control type features later on, which end up implemented ad-hoc over a general database.
> The other side of the coin is that you pay significantly less taxes if you hold on to the vested shares. They increase in value after vesting, and you structure your sales such that you take a long term capital gain. A lot of my coworkers did that, and have a lot more money than me. But it's a gamble, and you should always weigh your gambles by how badly you can afford to do.

This depends on how the stock plan is structured.

For example, with RSUs, you pay income tax on the value of the RSUs whether you sell them or not and some companies do that tax withholding for you. The value of the RSUs on the vesting date becomes your basis. When you sell the shares is when capital gains taxes come in -- on gains above the amount they vested at.

So, there is not a tax penalty to selling RSUs the day they vest and reinvesting them -- you have to pay the income tax whether you sell them or not. If you decide not to sell them, then you do benefit from holding them long enough to make the capital gains long term gains -- but with the risk of having a lot of your eggs in one basket.

With options it can be very different based on the type of options.
I don't know what you are trying to say here, but know this:

ETH and USD are not comparable. The US Government secures real-world business operations themselves, while cryptocurrencies merely secure payments.

Who pays the price of USD inflation? It's largely not Americans. It's a net transfer of wealth from the satellite economies (that the USA secures through its military presence) to the USA. Not to mention, (an appropriate amount of) inflation promotes actual spending.

Cryptocurrencies are not economies, they are merely payment networks. They should be useful as payment systems. They should primarily serve to provide value to those using them as payment systems, not investors, developers, inside traders, stakers, miners, or any other middleman. The moment that it's more favorable to become a middleman than to use cryptocurrency for it's intended purpose is the moment that the dynamics of the system switch from payment network to ponzi scheme.

Cryptocurrencies SHOULD NOT favor early investors. They SHOULD have inflation in the form of a block reward, which ensures the security of the network for those that USE cryptocurrency at the cost of those who merely OWN it.

You can't escape consequences forever.
Them = Bad

Us = Good

Foreign protesters = Good, innocents expressing civil discourse

Domestic protesters = Bad, renegades out to disrupt society
Not the person you're replying to but following up on an identical past thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30996203

> Linux, x86_64. Getting the same behavior across distros and installations.

It is still very much the case. To emphasize, we have for the past couple of years used Matrix routinely on:

* Multiple client implementations
* Multiple OSs (Linux/Android/iOS)
* Multiple accounts and profiles
* Multiple Linux distros, desktop environments, window managers, X11/Wayland, CPU architectures (x86_64, aarch64)
* Private and public homeservers

In particular, multiple accounts on the same Linux installation of element-desktop.

The common denominator seems to be that the account with many (thousands) of rooms (almost all of which fully historical/archived with no ongoing activity apart from participants presence) consistently gets Element freeze, hang, be extremely slow.

This makes element-desktop practically unusable for that account. Other accounts in the exact same environment do not have this issue. Signing in to a fresh profile seems to improve this, for a while, until it starts happening again

The same issue does not appear on Element iOS/Android, or with other accounts on the same client.

It gets more annoying by the fact that even under normal operations it's slow enough to start up that it can take some time to tell if this time it'll eventually resolve by waiting or if it needs to be force-killed and restarted. This is also the case on an otherwise idle 8-core Ryzen3 with 64GB of RAM and fast NVMe drive sitting close to its homeserver on a 1GBps link. (The slowness seems to be all or mostly locally in Element - even when in a mostly empty room, it can take a very long time expanding/collapsing/navigating the People/Rooms sidebar. This, too, only for those particular high-room accounts and only on element-desktop)

For a while we believed it could have been the same cause as this issue[0] but alas, 1.11.0 with Electron 19 has not resolved it.

The common factors that consistently exhibits this behavior seems to be Linux, element-desktop, account with large amount of rooms. Been like this for a while now.

[0]: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/21147
Unlike alcohol there are substitutes. If Facebook was banned, people would just use the next social network.
The cost to store nuclear waste is $600 / kg

When Starship is fully operational the expected cost to launch payload will be $20 / kg

IE you can have a 30x margin of error and still just launch the nuclear waste into space.
h1binfo will capture prevailing wages.
Check out projectM, "an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop": https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
I think in most cases, the impetus for the request is that the customer wants the vendor to perform a formal RCA, not that the customer wants to read the RCA.

I have gotten a tangible benefit (both as someone requesting an RCA and as someone only performing an RCA because of an external request) in the sense that the RCA revealed an underlying problem and likely prevented a future outage.
My biggest annoyance at this stage is a few blurry apps when using fractional scaling. Eg Calibre & GIMP.

But I don't think that's Wayland's fault - it's up to those apps to upgrade their UI libraries (which might be a monumental task, I'm not sure).

I know GIMP is working towards GTK3 and hopefully that fixes the issue.

As for Calibre. It uses PyQT. Does anyone know if PyQT supports fractional scaling now? And what it would take for something like Calibre to upgrade to a newer PyQT version?
Come on, I would lose contact with most of my friends if facebook is banned in Europe. Let's stop being obtuse and ignore the fact that there are actual users of the product.
...and if it is predictably half a year away?
> Configuring Electron things to use Ozone auto detection makes them run native rather than via XWayland which is nice too.

How did you manage to set this up? Some environment variable? The best I've managed to do was to change the applications .desktop file to include Ozone wayland parameters.
An Iridium embedded modem is one of the things we came across in the wreckage of a small plane we were recovering the pilot's remains from[0].

It was for his Spidertracks[1] flight tracking system. (Which, with the ADSB track, helped us hone in on the possible location. The wreck ended up being right in line with the last few pings.

[0] https://lompocrecord.com/news/local/experienced-solvang-bush...

[1] https://www.spidertracks.com/
I'm a taller guy with wide shoulders. Not obese at all. Most cars are uncomfortable to me because the bucket seats aren't wide enough. I own an 2007 Tundra and it's the most comfortable vehicle I've driven. It's also the smallest truck that can tow my boat. I don't think corporate interest shaped my desire for an old truck and even older boat, but who knows.
I think there's a misunderstanding. I noted that I wouldn't see these businesses as a good investment any more because of SpaceX and further developments.

I believe they can still commit highway robbery even without their net margins being dramatically high, since highway robbery is exactly what you stated - charging too high a price for its products/services.
Good luck trying to recreate the social graphs you created thanks to fb
To be clear (which Americans get really diverted into believing) this is not about banning Christmas or forcing people to say Happy Holidays. This is the hypocrisy of refusing to let Muslim women cover their hair if they are a public servant (and the Govt sector is large, including pre-school workers, cleaners, teachers, council office workers, librarians, road sweepers, health workers, archivists, town planners, etc) but still having profoundly religious symbols in places like schools, hospitals and other Govt buildings. Also cultural matters, e.g. an incredible refusal to acknowledge that people are fasting during Ramadan.

The use of saint names is unavoidable, a reminder of how the Church used to control everything. It would be a powerful statement of actual secularism if some schools were renamed, even some streets. But most people don't care, they just stopped going to mass and kicked the priests out of schools, job done. Secularism is now code for xenophobia.
What % of Twitter? (not being facetious, honest question)
There's an attempt to make this work for Rust desktop applications. There's the winit crate, which does cross-platform windowing and event loops. There's egui, for menus and subwindows. There's rfd, for file dialogs, which are special for security reasons. And there's wgpu, for cross-platform 3D.

I'm using all of these in my ui-mock,[1] which is a GUI for a game without the game. It has 3D graphics with 2D GUI elements on top. I'm using this to shake down all the cross-platform problems for my metaverse client. My own code, which is 100% safe Rust, has no platform dependent code.

Results are pretty good. There's minor dirty laundry in those libraries, which has been reported to the various maintainers. Stuff like this:

- You can get a file dialog hidden behind the main window, which, in a full screen program, is a real problem. Mostly a Linux problem; works fine on Windows.

- Full screen on Windows mode under Wine 7 crashes Wine. Known Wine bug.

- Warnings from WGPU, but it works around all of them with some minor performance loss.

- Cross-platform packaging, to make a Windows installer without Windows, isn't implemented yet.

So, not big stuff. A lot of stuff works that you might not expect to work, such as profiling with tracy. Wgpu is taking care of Vulkan vs Apple's Metal. (Apple just had to Think Different, to the annoyance of everybody doing 3D.) Opening a web page in the default browser is cross-platform. You can cross-compile - I build the Windows version on Linux, without using any Microsoft tools.

With some more work, I could make this work on WASM and Android as well, but that requires some special casing, mostly because WASM doesn't have proper threads.

So cross-platform desktop development is working pretty well. Most of the problems I'm running into would not appear in a more typical application.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/ui-mock
Context is something I’ve found constantly challenging in a number of roles over the years. It often seems under-valued.

While the ideal might be a well-structured team wiki where decisions and their context are recorded in full, in practice those tend to end up de-prioritised and poorly-maintained. They just don’t reflect the way people actually work.

With the growth of remote work, the mass adoption of the context-free Slack model of team chat feels like one of our biggest problems. The threading model of apps like Quill (now gone), Zulip and Twist (and even email) feel like a better solution because they explicitly place context next to decision. They’re not perfect, but they’re much more likely to stay relevant than a wiki.
> a "new chernobyl" can happen at any power station, be it hydro, coal, solar, etc

Clearly, the nuclear energy in power plants is far more dangerous than those other forms. This is devolving into a silly discussion.

There is a serious discussion to be had about the trade-off in nuclear energy between cost and safety, and whether it's worthwhile.
This is a bad way to treat people, but what is illegal here? Isn't this what at will employment means?
A spat is a minor conflict. I think you meant spate. Perhaps it was just a typo. I don't know, I'm just trying to clarify and improve communications.
Strongly agree that you ought to be able to drive most anything you like on roads that you build and maintain on your own property.
That's not really true. I mean, if any auditor knew you were doing those things, you would fail the audit (or, rather, should fail it, if your auditor knows what they're doing).

It's not like it's impossible to hide those things, but that's a whole other issue.
> regulation should be proactive

you really risk thwarting innovation when you do that though
> If I don't, then my customers will forgive me in a few weeks and life goes on.

If you don't, you are missing out on a lot of customers who would have given you 10000x the one-time cost of SOC2.
Interesting how the pendulum swings.

My first PC I built and used with Linux used an ATI Radeon graphics card (now owned by AMD). It had such poor Linux support that I swore I'd never buy ATI again. Nvidia's drivers were way better in those days.
Hah sure. I was surprised my simple and very factual statement was being contested!
whatsapp is a product of Meta, not fb
IMHO the most frustrating thing about Wayland is how it's fracturing the Linux landscape again.

For example Ubuntu switched to using it by default a while back. Unfortunately since Wayland prevents the usual screen sharing in many popular communications applications from working I usually have to go back to X in order to do any real work remotely.

Combine that with some significant bugs that seem to happen in recent versions of Ubuntu/X but not Ubuntu/Wayland and now I have no fully working GUI on my Ubuntu machine because both options now have game-stopping problems.

I do understand that there are good reasons for Wayland wanting to do what it's doing and breaking the old-fashioned screen sharing is a consequence of those. I understand that applications should be updated and other packages should be used and so on. I hope that these issues can be fixed sooner rather than later and we can all benefit from the technical advantages of Wayland.

But if I'm in a conference call with important people about an important subject you can count the number of excuses I care about on the fingers of no hands. Wayland won't be ready for "normal" users until essential functionality works out of the box.
Perhaps give some examples? Or anything more than what you wrote. So there can be more substance.
Lego is sheer agony, the pieces have no give to them, and the pain is delivered damn near instantly. No chance for weight distribution.
Carryou’s book documents in great detail that she had near total control of the board. They didn’t give her instructions, she gave them instructions.
Nuclear waste doesn't need to be sequestered for anything like 200,000 years.

After a few hundred years it's no more radioactive than the rocks from which it came.

You seem to have the common misconception that "long half-life" = "more radioactive", when in fact "long half-life" = "less radioactive", by definition.
Deputization and vigilantism are antonyms, your framing is incoherent.

An elected legislature sanctioning civil action is "dystopian", but rioting and arson? Intimidating judges at their homes? Laundering a decade of domestic terrorism into universities and district attorneys' offices? Never heard of that stuff!

Not surprising to me, just absurd.
I'm running it on my own server and performance is quite acceptable. Picking the right client is very important, though; Element isn't always the fastest, and I find Cinny's UX to be much better for general chat, which is clearly very much… inspired by Discord. On the other hand, Element is ahead in terms of features and protocol support (like the (live) location sharing feature), but Fluffychat has the superior mobile app in terms of general look and feel IMO. On the desktop, Nheko is incredibly fast, being written in a native language and being optimized for performance and all, but I don't use it because I just can't get used to the design.

When joining huge chat rooms like some of those on the matrix.org homeserver, it can take a bit for the clients to sync up and get going. Performance is getting improved all the time, especially in terms of quickly joining a room. Latency also doesn't help, the protocol requires loads of round trips for the JSON payloads to go back and forth, so if you're not near your homeserver you're going to see some annoying problems.

I recommend giving the platform another quick try using https://app.cinny.in/ which to me feels very Discord-like in terms of snappiness.
Hah, poor recruiters, I hadn't thought of this, when hiring slows down, of course you don't need that team of people you're employing to... find people to hire.
In the past there were companies that treated their employees well, and also companies that didn't. I am pretty sure that all the points you mentioned are not new developments of the last 20 years.

In the present there are also both kinds of companies. Are you sure you aren't comparing the worst of today's companies to the best of the past's?
"Honor is the gift a man gives himself."

I'm fairly low emissions but mostly by accident. I work from home and have until recently been too poor to travel like that. I just always found it annoying when people who are jetting around the globe complain about other people's cars. You on the other hand have a leg to stand on in that regard.
> politics had nothing to do with system's adoption

So Poettering wasn't an employee of Red Hat when he was writing systemd, wasn't coworker of Fedora developers when they were adopting systemd and all its subprojects? He also wasn't working at the same company with Gnome developers when they were making logind a hard dependency? I bet he also didn't have anything to do with his coworker Kay Sievers taking over udev maintainance only to subsume it into systemd shortly after.

Politics has nothing to do with systemd's adoption, really.
Who Invented Sliced Bread
The SEC won’t do shit in this case with respect to your personal shares in a company you just left.
I think the model that Free Pascal uses could be adapted to C. It's a reference counted, counted string of bytes. The pointer to the string actually points past the allocation, reference count, length, etc.. at the first byte of the string. There is a \0 added on the end for safety when passing to OS calls.

Code to modify the string does a copy, decrement the ref count of the original, and then modify of the new string.

Copies of a string are essentially free. You can return them from functions, etc. with no worry about allocation. The run-time handles all of that.

In C, there are mechanisms for running macros when a variable goes out of scope, those could be used to decrement the reference counter to a string used locally inside a function. (Returning the string would need to increase it's ref count first, of course)
Mesh networks will always perform poorly. Each wireless hop cuts throughout in half. People don’t want their device’s battery charge and timeslots used to relay other people’s traffic. To simulate the slowness, use Tor full time.
The flora and fauna in the Chernobyl exclusion zone appear to be thriving.
Can you be specific about what you spotted?
to understand what is bad and what is good, you can compare for example criminal punishment handed down to protesters just for participation in a protest.