skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mandating things that are impossible and then fining companies for failing to achieve them is just a silly and roundabout way to impose a tax, and if the EU just wants to tax a bunch of tech companies they should do so directly instead of this absurd charade.
Sounds like a great way for Snapchat to undercut themselves and cause a competitor to arise.
> Complete spaghetti.

Birmingham is the OG of pasta-named roads however.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_junction
I’ve read an estimate that teams pulls in five to seven billion yearly revenue. And they still can’t fix it
"Foxes volunteer for guard duty at henhouse."
If you keep using HN for ideological flamewar, like you've been doing in this thread, we will ban you. We've warned you about this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Real people just want to use the thing that's easy to set up, good enough for their uses, and most importantly already popular.

In reality this is not one app, but Skype AND Facebook Messenger AND Discord AND Zoom AND Teams AND Whatsapp AND ...

I am really glad that the EU is now requiring messenger bridging by regulation, so people don't have to install an ever-increasing number of spyware apps, just to be able to talk to their families, friends and colleagues.
Age of Empires IV wants you to learn history while playing the game (2021)
> Capitalism can work, but what we have is lopsided in terms of power balance.

This is incoherent. Capitalism is the assigning of power and capital to those who have power over capital. It is fundamentally opposed to a balance of power.

Assigning power to the collective or to workers is definitionally not capitalist. Mixed systems can work fine, but they are just that. A mixture of capitalist and other systems of organization.
I totally agree and can only recommend donating to Archive: https://archive.org/donate/

Similar to Wikipedia/Wikimedia, in my opinion they need support.

Why I love archive.org? I downloaded lots of old manuals from ancient computers for personal pleasure. Thank you archive.org!
That clarifies a lot. Thanks for the concise explanation.

I look forward to use it with a few Hugo themes :). All the best!
Dear god that's horrible. If the people on calls knew what I was saying while muted...
> without making everyone else much happier

This is actually a really good point. It probably just replaces the topic-du-jour to whine about and has no actual benefit whatsoever.
I’m always skeptical of economic models of the present let alone the future. Past performance is not indicative of future results and all economic models have very poor prediction performance over longer terms because of this. Black swan events completely eclipse and wipe out any growth that was sustained over the longer term.

If we miss something in the forecast that results in a rapid ecological collapse, then reality will look different. Additionally, a slowing down of progress is actually a worrying sign if it’s driven by pushback from our world. The reason is that even if we stopped all human CO2 emissions, climate change would continue to get worse because it takes time for the climate to stabilize. And we’re not at net 0. We’re still pumping out more each year than any other in the past and we’re just starting to level off the acceleration of that growth. My point being here that even if one or two might be slightly better, three or four might be slightly worse and the downward slope from there is significantly faster (easier to increase entropy than decrease it).

The only thing that gives me the tiniest bit of hope is that two generations of progress is a significant amount of time for scientific breakthroughs. If we can really unlock our green energy production (which we can with nuclear fission today and hopefully fusion not too far off) and get our sequestration up by many orders of magnitude (which with fission and fission we could conceivably enable but there are other logistical roadblocks), then we might be able to unwind some of the damage. Some damage will be permanent obviously. Still, I think betting on that outcome is a fool’s wager. The outcome scenario of a loss is quite bad. Much better to try to arrest the damage as hard as possible now.
This is a big step in the right direction to rein big tech. 100% inter operability based on common and accepted standards should be the next step. For eg. XMPP for messaging etc. I don't use Whatapp, and remain unconnected due to the mass adoption of that product.
The people who make the cuts see a small immediate gain. The losses of the company as a whole as people leave take at least some months.
It isn't going to work if the account is already locked. Need another number? Use a free SIP service.
You're missing the bigger picture.

The 'bad move' is to have different packages on different teams, which is completely untenable.

It will cause chaos among the ranks just as you indicate.

Therefore, it has to even out one way or another.

It's a big deal to give everyone else in the company an extra week off.

So they pulled the bandaid.

It would have been interesting for them to contemplate the extra few days, but their move put them in line with 99.9% of other companies so it's not unreasonable.

They should have figured out a sneaky way to give the Slack folks something else on the down-low though.
Because you don’t need to on Android.

Googles standards for the App Store are low and they’re more than happy to let apps exfiltrate basically whatever user data they want.

Do you remember the hissy fits developers-and more notably advertisers-threw when Apple went “no you can’t have fine grained GPS unless you have a valid reason” and “the app still has to work even if the user declines sharing data”.
Well, no. You can have capitalist economies supported by slave labour. Capitalism on its own does not guarantee individuals freedom.
I wish airlines would partner with apple and add AirTag beacons throughout bag processing lifecycles.
It's a computer. That's the impressive bit.
Unions also fight to have everybody paid more. The company dropping everybody to the lowest bar instead of increasing benefits for the worst off is absolutely not something the union demanded.

As for outliers in general, sure. The whole union thing is based on collective bargaining after all. If Bob is making more than everybody else in the same position, that means there's more room for everybody else doing that job to make more.

If something like this did originate from a union complaint, it sucks now for the best-off, but it's also going to be a real strong point for all the workers to use when the contract is renegotiated.
While we're here. Does anyone else notice that on a mac it doesn't support the completely basic concept of a red notification dot in the application bar? People literally wait hours when they msg me because - I don't get notified when the app is just sitting there running.
I hope I don't come off as rude but do you really not remember spending $1000 on shoes? Basically any transaction over $100 stays in my mind for a while and I never get confused when I see my CC statement.

I guess if you're making $1M/year your threshold is different but I feel like larger enough transactions should still register.
Posted link is to a jpg, here is the blog post: https://samy.link/blog/build-your-own-wifi-pineapple-tetra-f...
When I hear of something like that scenario, I can't logically see how the executive team making those initial decisions can spin it as a victory, but I can readily imagine them doing it.

"Hooray, we've reduced headcount and improved productivity!!"
"Yeah, but your wages bill is now stacked with contractors and is 10x what it was before."
"OK,OK, but how about that next exec bonus?"
I ended up just uninstalling Apple Music so that music wouldn't autoplay in my Prius. Absolutely ridiculous that that was the only way.
The other day I read a comment here on HN that said "prefer developer experience over performance of the app".

So yes, we are in it for bad.
Never seen it not work
> You still have to wait in line to hand your luggage to someone so they can check if it obeys the checked requirements.

Wow, where I'm from you can check it yourself, and we still use paper tags. There's minimal queues, usually none, at the automatic check in so you save lots of time.
If you'd please review the site guidelines and not post like this, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Either you or I (or both) are misunderstanding each other’s comment.

My point was exactly that. At a store by store level, the workers have much less power than Chipotle. Even if they vote to unionize the store one at a time, Chipotle still wins if chipotle choose to close the store since it’s less costly for them to open a new store than it is for the workers to find a new job.
That won’t happen
You wouldn't have this opinion if you ever tried to build something.

These people solve problems all the time. Maybe not math problems, but hard problems nonetheless. Reality has a surprising amount of detail - http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...

I build stuff. There's always problems that need to get solved that you haven't anticipated.
I'm thinking more Coase than Pareto for that particular scenario.
There's Slant in the collection, which seems similar... haven't played Shakashaka though, might be mistaking.
The reason the dilemma is of any interest is because people do defect.
> Similar to Wikipedia/Wikimedia, in my opinion they need support.

The WMF has a 9 figure surplus, they have far more money then they can use (despite the begging banners implying they're on the brink). The Internet Archive is a far more useful donation.
Yeah that. It's extremely confusing and where a ton of people stop reading it.
Never had an issue with Teams myself. It seems most problems stem from people using a crummy wifi connection to videoconference on their laptop.
> Luckily the dean was understanding

Actual educators probably hate this shit almost as much as students do. Unauthorized learning should be not a punishable offense. I assume the professors who insist on the newest editions of textbooks are either getting kickbacks (certainly true when they wrote the book) or they were forced to by the school's policy and someone higher up is getting paid by publishers.
That's not what I was responding to though. This is:

> Imagine if almost everyone collectively at Salesforce said, “nope, this is dumb! We are going to stop working until this benefit is handed out to everyone at the company.” It’d be changed back / expanded within 48 hours.

That's a prisoner's dilemma, people holding out for the best they can get. If enough people defect then it won't work.
Apple Explains What Happens When Games Are Removed from Apple Arcade – MacRumors
I’m asking generally.
> Today they have announced this policy has ended as a result of the economy…

How is this exactly helping the economy?

> …as well as making the workplace more equitable

And if this was the real reason, why wouldn’t they give this benefit to everyone instead?

What a crap mentality.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/can-frogs-be-venomous.html

"There are currently only two species of frog known to be venomous: Bruno's casque-headed frog (Aparasphenodon brunoi) and Greening's frog (Corythomantis greeningi)."
EU is a democracy.
A massive increase in the offer will mean the price of these NFTs will tend towards zero.
Yeah. Place I was working did a massive layoff at the start of COVID, and immediately began hiring again for the vacated positions. Except now the hires were contractors in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe rather than FTEs in the US.

I mean no offense to any posters from those locales. You are a human, I respect you and your skills, most of you are probably better at tech than I am. I am glad you have jobs.

The point is the company said "OH NO, THE ECONOMY, WE HAVE TO DOWNSIZE, CANNOT AFFORD THIS HEADCOUNT" out of one side of its mouth. While backfilling those vacated spots as fast as it could from lower cost regions. It was a cowardly, calculated move that they had been praying for an excuse to execute.
That's just not true, it's a going concern for anyone working on online projects in Europe. It's come up for me personally in discussions with every client on every project for the last 4 years now. We're even at the point where major companies are being fined for misteps:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/facebook-2018-breaches-dpc...
That's literally half of the legal minimum here in the Netherlands. I keep being surprised at how people in the US allow themselves to be worked to death.
- This is not a photography/illustration focused forum.

- Unlike software photography/illustration are not used to run essential systems like banking, manufacturing, medical equipment etc
I just started learning myself, and this weekend got VS Code to launch Reaper as a debug target so I can read print statements from my VST built with JUCE. This is where the fun begins.

Open to helping anyone else get to this point as well.
Oh no, how terrible. My friends have to pay 15% commission (30% for my extremely wealthy friends who are not in need of sympathy) in order to cover API licenses[1], app store operating costs[2], card transaction costs, gift card costs (including a margin for the retailer), and by no means least, the attached goodwill of transacting via Apple where consumers have high confidence of refunds and easily cancelled subscriptions.

Of course, all of that covers the few friends who want to take my money. In reality, nearly all of my friends aren't selling anything, they just want to hang out in my pad. They value my company in other ways which the door doesn't concern itself with.

And if it turns out one of my friends wants to surveil my home and send the information onto a third party, the door makes sure I'm okay with that first. Thanks, door! While it's true that the door isn't perfect and can't spot every scam, I'm still overall more comfortable in my home.

And when I want to risk getting beaten up by the local mafia, I don't need to uninstall my door — I can just hop into my very comfortable patio shed any time I want. It doesn't even have a door at all, only some Windows.

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[1] Epic sets their price for commercial use of their APIs. Why can't Apple? I've never understood why Epic are allowed to be such hypocrites here.

[2] Epic hasn't been able to turn a profit on their Epic Games Store with a 12% margin. And they're not even maintaining an entire ecosystem; just a file downloader and game launcher client.
They can try but it’s much less effective in the EU.

US government just doesn’t care about its people
That looks like an awful lot of billable hours have gone into this useless lawsuit already. I hope the costs of this isn't hurting archive's ability to keep doing what they do.
yeah, pretty much
> Next up, white space. It really is important. Packing 200k things on screen will annoy everyone.

My favorite rebuttal is Excel. Imagine Excel with no more than 10 well spaced buttons in the tool bar and a quarter inch padding around every cell. Totally unusable for most of the things we do with it.
Ok, the manual loaded. Yes, you do have to provide a boot loader for serial:

> Serial I/O needs a program. You can "toggle in" a simple serial loader, or, add an EPROM at U2 with a serial monitor to communicate with a Terminal program…

The parallel port version allowed you to control every switch and read every LED via your host computer, which means you don’t need to toggle anything into RAM manually.

And of course a serial port doesn’t provide any GPIO, so you can only beep a speaker with Q.
I suppose it also makes it harder for the publishers because they now have to the homework of proving which titles would have hypothetical been over subscribed of the gazillions of books lent by archive.org and of those proof which specific publisher was damaged.
> I think it's irresponsible of the Internet Archive to play so fast and loose with it.

That's what I think too. Despite what the HN hivemind wants to think, this was a crystal clear act of piracy and the Internet Archive will suffer for it. I have no idea what they were thinking. They would need to demonstrate they had a strict license counting system in place where libraries put in what they had and the system counted how much it borrowed which clearly they didn't have , they just said "go ahead and borrow". Say, they borrowed out 10 copies of a work at a time, this would be allowed if they had 10 licenses of it and if they can't show they had it which I bet dollars to doughnuts they didn't then they will be forced to damages for each of those. I do not even know where the damages will stop. This will be a terrible massacre.

Dura lex, sed lex!

The judge will throw out the argument "there was in theory this many copies or even more at closed libraries" -- just because it is true, the law simply doesn't allow for this.

I only wish the best for IA but they completely botched this. I can't understand how, they have good lawyers.

Hell, https://controlleddigitallending.org/ only dares to say

> When CDL is appropriately tailored to reflect print book market conditions and controls are properly implemented, CDL may be permissible under existing copyright law.

It does not say "it is".

Ps. if you are downvoting for this, where am I wrong? Where is this allowed in the Berne Convention or US Code 17? What do you think applies here if not https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 ?

> Except as otherwise provided in this title and notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement of copyright for a library or archives, or any of its employees acting within the scope of their employment, to reproduce no more than one copy or phonorecord of a work,

No more than one copy. Go ahead, show me the carve out for, I dunno, inaccessible works or something that overrides this. This is the law, your preferences -- which are the same as mine which loves the Internet Archive and doesn't much book publishers -- have zero relevance here. You downvote because you don't like what I say or think that I want harm for the IA and it's not true -- but they will suffer for this. How can you not see this?
Never has any of these problems at my corp.
Couldn't these employees then all just take PTO around that time with the same arrangement?
Tracking, repeated prompts to login etc.

I have started using https://scribe.rip (and its other instances) for reading medium articles.
I’m an adult, and I want Apple to sell a product that doesn’t comply with these regulations.

“You can opt out” doesn’t help, because I want Apple to leverage its market power to force other companies to act in my interest, such as by banning unnecessary location harvesting from the App Store. Today, if someone wants access to the iPhone market, they have to comply with a pile of requirements that benefit me. If Apple loses the power to force policies on developers, for example by being required to allow sideloading, developers won’t have any incentive to offer non-user-hostile apps, and the the product “a smartphone where apps are available that are not user-hostile” will be gone from the market. The only options will be “a smartphone where user-hostile apps are available” (if you succumb to sideloading), and “a smartphone where apps aren’t available” (if you refuse to sideload), because given the opportunity app developers will only make user-hostile apps.

The EU is making my life worse and I’m annoyed about it. People who want an Android can already buy an Android, why is the EU banning the product I want to buy?
> People that simultaneously complain about Disneylands price and the crowds are delusional.

perhaps in a simplified model of the world in which the only way of allocating limited resources is via a pure free market, and we assume that there's no way to satiate more demand

just off the top of my head for the latter: an online pre-sign-up and scheduling system with phones or wireless wristbands that assigns you times for your preferred rides, should help level demand and avoid bottlenecks, and thus increase throughput, and thus increase turnover, and thus increase daily attendance capacity

essentially MRP but the people are the materials and the rides are the workstations
> I would claim that TDD done properly

"I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence" — Kent Beck

https://stackoverflow.com/a/153565
I am over 40, get paid over 700k a year. Just a normal software engineer at a normal company.

Unions would mean I get paid less, and the guy sitting next to me who can’t find his way around a computer would get paid more.

I know you folks like to say it’s a stereotype of unions, but unions really only protect the lazy. If you do your job well companies will fight over you. If you are not so good at your job that union sure does sound like a good idea.

Weren’t police unions why we have bad police?
Bloomberg has X subscribers at $24k per year. They'd have 1.05X subscribers at $5k per year, and 1.1X subscribers at $1k per year.

Do the math ;)

Almost everyone who wants one has one.
Presumably in fact Lawful Good, Neutral Good, and Chaotic Good, respectively.
Thanks for the feedback! It is already in the roadmap here https://feedback.okso.app/feedback/p/love-it-is-in-desperate...
News are in crisis and try to make more and more sensation articles like this.

If creating parallel world is new normal for journalists then loosing trust of public in news is natural.

I hope that manipulation and government propaganda pushed in news will be naturally eliminated. The question is, how far they will go to keep our attention.
Any university where the "teaching" involves just answering questions in a book you can just buy is a scam. I can get that for, at most, the cost of the book on my own. I don't need to pay 4-6 figures for that as well as still buying the book.

I don't think I ever was assigned to answer questions from a published textbook for credit at university. If we had such question-based assignments, the questions were written by the lecturer to fit the course material.

We were recommended to get certain books, but they were never required to complete the course.
Inequality in pay is what unions typically fight against unless it is based on seniority. Many union shops have underemployment problems solved by bringing in contractors - or non-union organizations that exist in states with strong labor laws, where businesses only hire a small number of FTEs and hire contractors for the majority of the rank and file work to get around strong labor laws.
This must be one of the best/most entertaining posts I've seen on HN.

Especially the bit about Gillette making razors for babies. Literally something that could become true in a parallel universe.

Incredible work!
So Google had roughly x% attrition rate for many years, for real. Even when a lot of engineers were leaving, it didn’t put a dent because of their hiring. That x remained almost constant for years. That might be what OP is referring to.

> nobody hires you're basically stuck where you are and grateful to have a job

Well that’s true. It’s also possible to live below your means with a fat emergency fund and just not worry about that at all.