skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's useful to distinguish the behavior of FAANG [0] as a collective vs. any individual FAANG company. FAANG as a collective almost exclusively hires recent college grads, who work there until retirement [1]. Any individual FAANG company is constantly hiring senior devs, who work there for ~2 years before going to a different individual FAANG company for a pay raise (or for various other reasons). Some FAANGs (or at least some teams) are meat grinders, but my impression is that that's pretty far from the norm.

[0] Meaning those 5 specific companies + other large tech companies that compete with them for talent + startups comprised of people from those companies.

[1] Leaving in your thirties to become a carpenter or open a restaurant or whatever still counts as retirement if you have enough in the bank to never have to work again.
I agree - it seems unlikely that incriminating recordings or other records were not found.

But perhaps he was as careful to avoid storing anything incriminating, as he was at avoiding any hint of blackmail that would have killed off access to new powerful people, in all his social engineering.

He was evil, but he was very smart. He seems to have preferred using carrots, good and evil, to expand his influence. Not sticks.
A typical rule of thumb for backpacking is 2lb of food a day. With a 15lb base weight and a maximum of say 95 lbs backpack weight, that’s 40 days worth.

(Yes I have carried a 95lb pack on 2week mountaineering expeditions)
> Outside that sort of bubble I'm not sure how "problematic" it's actually considered to be, by the average person.

to be clear, i'm not trying to call you out with the following. I'm just using that sentence as an example because it's... such a _good_ example. It's not clear that you were even defending that sentiment so much as pointing it out, so please don't take this as me attacking you.

Statements like that are precisely the problem of abelist thinking, and precisely why we need to be active about speaking up for the minorities amongst us. It basically boils down to "it doesn't affect me or folks around me so it doesn't seem like much of a problem".

Most people aren't effected by stairs either, but they really suck for anyone in a wheelchair.

> Tons of movies from the 00s up to the early part of the 20-teens still used it freely and there was no major uproar over it—in general

Calling someone a "fag" wasn't problematic for the same time period too, except for all the people who it was problematic for.

I will agree that "retarted" is a word that a lot of Americans (most?) still think is fine to use, except for anyone with a family member or friend who people disparage with that word.

Does that mean we should continue to be "well, not a problem for anyone I know"? Or should we recognize that it hurts some people, helps no people, and stop using it.
Blender has been using this exact technique forever for embedded fonts, icons, the splash screen, and who knows what else.
Wouldn't be surprised that the conversation is happening behind the scenes, and Google doesn't want to make a public fuss about it.

Happened before with Kindle, for example (that originally had a store built in …which Apple blocked so that they could release in-app purchasing a few months later)
Rather than just scrutinizing a single hypothesis for AD we must understand that it is a multi factorial disease and that there are other hypotheses as well (i.e., acetylcholine, tau, transport-clearance), which affect and complicate this disease. Furthermore, we know very little about the brain, hence why novel therapies consistently fail in the clinic compared to other diseases (i.e., cancer). Most of these antibodies that target amyloid don’t even cross the blood-brain barrier (<0.1% and need an effective dose of 1000x blood-plasma for effective amyloid lowering) - provided with this, can we really attest the failure of the amyloid hypothesis? Moreover, the commenters there are big names in the AD community
Nobody hates Facebook users more than Facebook, I guess. :-/

I've tried to type out several pithy comments, but the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs.

Can you imagine if brick-and-mortar businesses tried to do this? You go out for a Big Mac, but it's not on the menu anymore because Taco Bell had a few really good quarters, so McDonald's decided to pivot to tacos. Maybe you can still order the Big Mac if you know to ask for it, but most people won't, and they'll leave disappointed instead of getting what they wanted.

Edit: To clarify, this example is contrived and the details are not the point. The point is that Facebook offered something to their users, spent years and billions of dollars making sure that as many people as possible got it from Facebook, and then decided to just yank the rug out from under all those people to chase the fairy tale of endless growth.
Egregious Failures in Gmail Spam Detection
If I'm not mistaken, "no one has figured out" is factually incorrect. https://ameliorated.info/ blocks nearly all OS network requests (and hopefully all OS telemetry) by physically removing the relevant files from the system (though this breaks UWP apps, .appx, and such), and disables Windows Update to prevent telemetry components from being reinstalled. I use it on a near-daily basis, and it works quite well in most cases, although having a separate admin account by default, not being able to create new accounts (they show black screens), and missing features (Action Center and notifications) do sting, and I'm worried about the lack of security updates. If you do choose to use it, https://git.ameliorated.info/Joe/amecs is important for configuring the system.
You do realize non-repairability was not always the norm? My tape walkman has a dozen phillips screws all over the outside. It has a slide out AA compartment. I'm sure you could mod it to use LiPo with no work. It hasn't failed in almost 40 years, but if it does there's nothing stopping me from opening it up.
If you do this right, it ends up in just one place and the code that handles checking in / out connections from your pool will handle wrapping your connection usage with the appropriate session context. And of course subsequently clearing it with a DISCARD ALL.
If you're not familiar with Meow Wolf, you should definitely check out their Origin Story film: https://originstory.mw/

It's just such an inspiring story about a group of humans who absolutely poured every last drop of their souls into their work. Meow Wolf holds a really special place in my brain. I hope before I'm done I can make something 1/10th as cool as what they've created.
I'm interested in knowing this as well!

Maybe because, from the purview of the some parts of the market, saying you are going to raise it is the same as raising it?

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not knowledgeable in these matters, but from the naive perspective, If I was considering market movement I would package in the higher interest rate into my decisions.

As an example, if I was a bank manager that knew the interest rate were going up, I would preemptively advertise higher rates on my loans.
Ooh yeah that resonates. Especially if playing from a completion isn’t perspective and trying to do minor deviations that don’t really pan out.
Conversation-Stopper: Will the development of AI tools make us less intelligent?
I know a couple jet setters who've gone through 12 pairs!
I was in Sacramento over the past year and a half and heavily considered Hacker Lab. I actually toured it, and almost got a membership.

The reasons I didn't were mostly financial + time investment.
Membership fee was decent ($99 month iirc) though not extreme. On top of that though, most of the equipment required an additional course just to use specific equipment. Those courses were $300, and would take a few hours, just to use equipment that I already know how to use.

For me, with my limited time, it was tough to validate ~$2000 for the first year membership + classes, vs spending that money on my own equipment and space. If I have to pay $600 to use a CNC machine and then a laser cutter, I'd rather purchase a 3 in 1 hobbyist tool.

There are a bunch of clever solutions to keep going, but it doesn't seem to me that the people running it tested different options. A cheaper membership for infrequent use could have been good, as well as a way to opt out of classes and just "use the equipment" with a test or something.
This sorta thing works if your procrastinating isn’t coming from some deeper issue, but if you’re stuck in some childhood trauma that’s preventing growth no amount of life hacking is gonna overcome it. You need to approach the issue directly.

I personally believe that a large amount of 21st century issues are caused by “ghosts” that our grandparents brought to life during the world wars that have haunted them ever since and they’ve passed that onto their children who passed it onto us.

There is real research into “genetic trauma” from Jewish Holocaust survivors, but I think everyone who went through the war likely passed on a significant amount of pain, which is only now being addressed with the advent of less stigmatism around mental health. Hopefully our children will be better off.
The new Golden 1 Arena was built a few years ago and has driven all the surrounding real estate prices through the roof. A great many businesses were driven out of the area by increased rents or just plain kicked out for a demolish/rebuild.

A hackerspace like this might be able to find cheaper rent in a more industrial area... but then convenience and safety for members becomes an issue.
>… insanely cheap deals to nonprofits…

Amazon and Microsoft both do that as well.
like at the kernel level? even if not, seems like a such a great exercise.

i guess i'm also interested in routing... any tips on creating a network of computers to experiment with? I guess ideally, you'd have real hardware to assemble, . what's the next best option? VMs? jails w/ vnet?
I haven’t yet watched the video, but I agree with the text in that I found the Signal’s hostility toward third party clients both confusing and disappointing. That single decision probably dampened my excitement for it as both a developer and user than anything else.
Analysts and SWE interns are agents?

While I get LinkedIn profiles are public information, this is just some irresponsible "journalism" that could lead to some negative attention for these folks.
Yeah, apple went from selling personal computers to iPods, phones and headphones, where they make most of the money....

Would you have said the same for Apple back in 2007?

Ps. Restaurants change menus all the time.
You don't need to go all orwellian though. Just charge a security fee that makes spamming or scamming unprofitable for every call and add a simple way for the recipient to mark calls as wanted or unwanted.

Wanted calls get a refund.
I'm working through a jazz guitar course focused on bebop vocabulary and every day we're instructed to improvise for 15 minutes over a given set of chord changes we're studying.

The first couple of days it was novel, so it was easy to get motivated. By the 3rd or 4th day I began to feel like "I've explored everything that can be done with these changes; this is pointless." yet I pressed on.

Turned out that almost always I came up with something that surprises me.

I now focus on just doing it, regardless of how 'inspired' or motivated I feel.
It’s not that easy. This is life and death for Facebook. TikTok is really taking over and is a force. It’s also a Chinese company and so they can’t buy it. They are forced to compete, either they do this or become fully irrelevant
Had this same thought a few weeks ago too. Nothing short of contempt.
If you're into maker YouTube, Simone Giertz (the "Queen of Shitty Robots") sells a decorative electronic 365 button wall calendar for this.
What is there to "fix?"

The system is working as intended in many ways. People just aren't aware who the meaningful stakeholders are. It's not the PhD, it's not the taxpayer, and it certainly isn't "science."
> i don't understand this part. you already have your salary, as negotiated

In FAANG your salary is only a small part of your compensation.

At end of year, based on your perceived performance, you get:

- a bonus (10 to 20+% of base salary)

- a stock refresh (80 to 120k over 4 years for instance for entry level/mid-level)

- a merit increase of your base salary

All these 3 influence your compensation significantly.

You can do the math, someone starting at let's say 140k base with 4 years of 15% bonus, 80k refresh, 2% merit raise, will have a different compensation than someone who's also starting at 140k but with 4 years of 20% bonus, 110k refresh, 4% merit raise
"mentally challenged" and "developmentally delayed" aren't pejorative terms so they're not relevant to the discussion.

anyone can be an "idiot" or "moron" or do something "stupid". It doesn't denote anything specific other than "your actions weren't intelligent" and a sense of belittling.

"retarted" is a word that is extremely hurtful to those it is used against. I'm sure that "developmentally delayed" people are more sensitive to being called "stupid" than your average person, but it's nothing compared to being called "retarted". Imagine your brother or sister was "developmentally delayed" and was regularly spat on by society (as we do to anyone who is) and bullied and called "retarted".

Would you still say it's "white knighting"? Or would you stand up for your sibling and say "hey that's mean. don't call them that!"

I would like to think you would stand up for your sibling. I would like to think that if you spent a moment putting yourself in the shoes of someone who is abused with that word you would recognize that it has long since transformed from a medical term to a harmful slur that helps no-one, and hurts many.

I would like to think that you would recognize that people are worth standing up for even if you're not related to them, even if you don't know them.
McDonald’s does remove menu items that a vocal minority of customers happen to enjoy. They freak out, everybody else shrugs, and the world moves on.

Also TikTok is dope and I only go to Facebook to see ads for clothes and other stuff I might want to buy.
At this point, even if a TPM can recreate much of Pluton's functionality, I still believe some fear regarding Pluton is still necessary and healthy, although I do not dispute that for some uses it may be useful - after all, why was my fear mongering section explicitly labeled "Fearmongering and Doomsday speculations"? Microsoft can still screw people over, but Pluton is different from a TPM and should still be (generally) regarded with caution where possible, and more caution than a standard TPM.

This is mainly because, at this point,

A. A TPM's level of access and capabilities to a system is well-known at this point. Pluton, we do not know with certainty what all of its capabilities are.

B. Microsoft has explicitly stated Pluton will have functionality added to it in the future though software updates, most likely that cannot be downgraded, that are not present yet. It's not that Pluton might have stuff added later - Microsoft has said stuff will be added later. What these upgrades entail or are capable of is also unknown.

C. Because of the above, Pluton requires a previously-unknown level of trust for Microsoft, because Pluton almost certainly has anti-downgrade procedures. Microsoft could, potentially, send out an update just blocking Linux and if Pluton received the update, it would be irreversible. Maybe this isn't within Pluton's abilities, but we just don't know. Just that Microsoft (or a hacker of Microsoft - I'm more concerned about a rogue employee than Microsoft at the moment) could have permanent effects on the security of a system is worth paying attention over.

D. Because of the reasons above, Pluton should be regarded with extra skepticism as it is a magical black box, with unknown capabilities, that it is not clear whether it can actually be disabled. (Already on my blog, there's a user talking about how Pluton briefly boots and then disables itself if the UEFI says that it should be disabled, not that it never starts, so theoretically a Pluton update could ignore its own disable switch.) I don't have verification of that, but until we know more... TPM is known, TPM can screw people, Pluton has the potential to extremely screw people over, and while many of my doomsday speculations can actually be recreated with just a TPM if TPMs are widely adopted, perhaps it could be enhanced with more Pluton-specific ones. Perhaps my doomsday predictions actually weren't far enough.

Thus, your point that Pluton doesn't add too much might be completely valid right now. That doesn't mean Pluton isn't also a potential Trojan horse that Microsoft updates as they please with new things that we didn't expect or ask for with no ability to undo them.

Edit: Removed a previous edit, and adding that, to complement the above notes, it does not help instill confidence that Microsoft isn't telling what Pluton can and cannot do at a hardware level. They've said a few things it can do right now, and just said more stuff will be coming in the future, but they won't talk about where its limits are. So... trust the black box without questions please. To be fair, this isn't the first time (Intel ME, AMD PSP?), but it is unsettling to have another one.
And so you see, it's only the dangerous gas stations where the danger is. Ho hum!

"Inner city gas stations" are where people are, because they're in cities, where the people are. Nobody is claiming that they aren't safe on a per interaction basis: the observation is that, if we're including arbitrary areas around all public transportation, then we ought to be doing the same for automobiles.

> It falls back to exactly what I said. I know how not to get killed on the roads, and I know how not to get attacked at a gas stations.

No: you think you know how not to get killed. You might be a great driver, but the drunk guy next to you doesn't care. The guy who runs through a light because it's worked every other time for the last 20 years on his commute doesn't care. The guy who's checking his text messages in the car behind you doesn't care. The sheer number of deaths on America's roads do not substantiate the claim that you can excel your way into safety.

If you look elsewhere in this discussion, you'll see that fewer than 300 people die in total each year on US public transport. That's all modes of death, not just crime or negligence. Nobody likes being locked on a train with someone in a mental health crisis, but the statistics simply do not bear out a disproportionate risk to your life or safety.
Obligatory reference to http://thistothat.com/. It doesn't cover every factor, but if you just want to quickly find an adhesive that will do a good job holding one thing to another, it's great. It also gives decent toxicity warnings.
If they ever make the optional typing give you optional access to faster python execution or possibly export of a single binary with no need of an installed interpreter I think I’d go nuts.

Python is so great for iteration - but it’s not so great for packaging or small docker containers.
The web sucks. Browsers need to innovate (2010)
The point was not that it's ok for the mines, the point was that there is nothing unique about them, and there isn't much justification for focussing on them. Not to shield them from scrutiny, but to avoid making them into a distraction from child labor and slavery in general.

If you drummed up a big movement to deal with the problem of child slave labor in lithium or cobalt mines, what good have you done for the world or the kids? The same kids are still at the same risk tomorrow as they were yesterday, they just wind up in some other kind of operation, or in the extreme case maybe their only value (to those people) becomes as organ cattle. Great job!

It's a distraction to pick a specific example like that and present it as some kind of unique problem. What specific work they are put to is not the problem, it's the fact that they are enslaved at all.

It's also to say that "the green revolution is fueld by trafficked child labor" is a mischaracterization, because it is not fuelled by child labor, it merely includes child labor.

The cotton industry in the US was fuelled by slaves, because the labor was 99% done by slaves, not merely that there were some slaves.

The green revolution is such a large thing that 40k children are hardly a drop in it.
Bullwhip effect
In other words: you feel safe. And that's fine; I'm glad you do. But I like feeling safe because the statistics bear it out.
Money is tradeable for power and vice versa.

The exchange rate depends on power and lack of ethics.

Power is the goal.
Tuk Tuks go a lot faster than 25 mph and they aren't trucks. I'm not sure why you are so upset about so many things in an article about a scaled down electric truck. Google polaris and you can see that there have already been things like this sold for years. Your whole meltdown over this is pretty bizarre.
>They're this era's Nortel (Canada has a primo bubble stock with each big run; during the housing bubble era it was Blackberry).

It's interesting how Canada has exactly one each time around; no more, no less. While having one is certainly better than the average of zero for non-US developed countries, and having each be in a different sector is also good, I suspect that each also benefits/benefited from being the hot tech company that those in Canada had to go to if they didn't/couldn't move to the US. (Elsewhere people have mentioned Shopify being known for lowballing salaries.)

>There's very little that is special about their business. They have no great competitive moat.

I don't know. Shopify is known as the company you go to for quickly setting up an ecommerce storefront. Yes, there are competitors, but Shopify seems to be the brand name in the space. Unlike Apple vis-a-vis Blackberry, there doesn't seem to be great risk of someone coming in with revolutionary technology and immense market reach that upsets the field overnight; we're coming up to 30 years after the release of Netscape, after all.
> sideload /ˈsīdˌlōd/

> 1. install (software, especially an app) obtained from a third-party source rather than an official retailer.

> 2. copy or transfer (data) from one device to another directly, typically by means of a link such as a USB cable or wireless connection.

The Google Ngram for “sideloading” shows, like you mention, a measurable uptick in usage after the iPhone launch in 2007.

Looking closer, there is a steep increase in frequency after the year 2000, with the steepest slope from 2005 - 2009. [1]

[0]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideloading&ye...

[1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sideload_*&yea...
The change for Apple was a slow boiling pot. And initially you couldn’t even set up an iPhone without a computer (with Mac OS integration making it a lot smoother).
Are those positions real? It feels like once the model didn't work if you did not have the background to know why it wasn't working then you'd be in trouble real quick.
Random but idk how to dm people on HN - how did you find the problem and validate closingCredits? How did you market it?
No one is suggesting that Tesla ought to be obligated to replace the battery for free whenever the new owner wants.
They borrow money to fund construction and don't earn income on it until much later, after leasing or selling completed properties. The higher the interest rate, the more it costs, and delays mean more interest paid while waiting.
Facebook is a sinking ship. It's hard to turn that around.

It seems like it would've been easier to go after TikTok with Instagram - which is basically the same product, growing, and still has some brand value.