skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree that it's unlikely we'll see any serious accountability. However:

> - The only group who could really hold Twitter accountable are shareholders, but why should they care if the public and Congress don't? The money will roll in either way.

This might be what does it because is it true that the money is and will keep really rolling in? Twitter doesn't pay a dividend and is it reasonable to expect that the company's stock value should increase that much going forward?

Twitter's gross profit numbers aren't as large as you'd think given the household name recognition of the brand. You might be as surprised as I was to discover that meme-stocks like AMC and GameStop are approximately the same size as Twitter in terms of gross profit. Perhaps Twitter is just as much of a big name but ailing dinosaur as those businesses? Or if you want to make comparisons within social media, isn't it surprising that Snap's ~$2.8 billion cap gross profit is right up there with Twitter's ~$3.2 billion. How did that happen? It is also interesting that snap's market cap is only 2/3rds of Twitters despite a much closer delta between the two companies reported profits.

On the whole, things aren't looking too good for the social media right now, take for example facebook losing active users YoY. I often wonder what zeitgeist web properties are going to be remembered as a BIG thing that receded in popularity in the course of about a decade, say like bell-bottom denim jeans from the 60s or disco music from the 70s. Could it be social media for the 2010s?

Anyhow if they aren't paying dividends and they aren't able to keep growing at pace with expectations what exactly are they delivering in terms of value to shareholders?

Given that the allegations are about defrauding shareholders by actively deceiving them and sweeping things under the rug. Twitter's shareholders might be better off revolting against the current leadership to recoup their loses than to look the other way and let this slide.
If I had a dollar for every time I've done that I'd have...

checks screenshots folder

$78 dollars!
If you wish for a computer to be able to sign commits but not push (or push commits but not sign) that would be impossible.

Anytime you use that public key (for example, to SSH into a server) that session is linked to your identity via git commits (this doesn't actually matter for github, as github exposes all your SSH keys via its API anyways).
I know this is difficult to understand how it works, but the beauty of the free market is everyone benefits while selfishly working for their own self-interest.

Socialism, however, requires altruistic behavior, and very few people are consistently altruistic and self-sacrificing for the common good.
It’s also really hard for most people to think of what to cook at the end of a long day. Meatballs and potatoes is the first thing that pops to my head and turning that into brussel sprouts and potatoes sounds unappetizing but impossible meatballs and potatoes is quite close especially if I add a sauce. I guess that’s the cultural imprint.

I do also care about the animals and the environmental impact and it’s just extremely naive to think that a large part of humanity would switch from meat-based diets to tofu and steamed veggies. People are lazy and like tasty easy things.
First party E2EE has some value even under a "trusting trust" scenario: it lets service operators keep rogue employees from accessing your data. To compromise your data requires pushing a software update, which on pretty much every platform[0] creates a paper trail of cryptographic signatures leading back to the company's signing keys. If someone finds out about user data being stolen through a modified version of the app, that can be traced back to any developer who had access to key material.

Yes, if the organization itself decided to compromise its own scheme, E2EE cannot stop that... but again. That creates evidence and paper trails. The kinds of people with the power to do this want plausible deniability; the last thing they want is mathematical proof that they screwed their own customers on purpose. Same with that rogue employee: they don't want to be known as the guy who signed spyware.

[0] Yes, including sideloading-friendly ones. If your rogue update isn't signed it will trip a bunch of scary warnings at install time.
I believe the comment you replied to is just the meme of "don't California my Texas" :eyeroll:

But seriously - if any of y'all decide to go back to Cali please cast a vote in November before moving back ;)
I don’t understand why you think this would happen. Whatever Twitter would agree to, Musk would rather overpay by $10B with other investors and own Twitter, than to pay a $10B settlement and own nothing. And if it were a small enough settlement without an acquisition, Twitter investors would miss out, and Twitter’s management would be embroiled in shareholder lawsuits.
Yes, I work in professional sports. We recently had our technology conference. There was a welcome reception the first night. Where they had an free, open bar. The only real limit was how much you could drink before the event was over. Another night, there was an event held at a brewery and catered by a bbq place. It was another free, open bar. No limits. It was more difficult to get food than a drink. Some people went karaoke after the event.

Another night, we were taken to dinner by a vendor rep. We had drinks before. We had drinks during. He left to go to a bar or club with another group and we stayed at the hotel we were at and had more drinks. And I mean "we" as a group had more drinks. I personally was only getting a drink every second or third round as I did not want to pass out.

And I have nothing against drinking. It's just something that doesn't occur to me to do very often. But it was every night with this event.
How to Vet and Hire Engineers as a Non-Technical Founder
"adding absurd things to the phone"

That's how Apple does it, good job!
This defeatist "give up civilization or accept all it's evils as inevitable" is a very simplistic way of seeing it. Open society will always have a chance of improving as long as some people are paying attention to something that interests them and making some effort.
`given he's never paid YouTube a penny` - this is not how yt gets paid. One day someone will sue them for the income yt earned off a creator they demonetize/ban. ps - never actually heard about him
Shoot raw then import into darktable. This seems like the simplest way to get there until more infrastructure is developed.
Yes, I made those same upgrades both personally and professionally. I’m not saying you can’t criticize pricing, just that in a technical forum I’d also expect acknowledgement that there are benefits rather than an assertion rejecting that possibility.

I’d also be curious how many people ever did this - one interesting question is what percentage of users need to actually use an option for it to be expected. I haven’t looked for data in years but at one point heard that it was something under 20% of people ever upgrading their Mac.
I think it's sarcasm (hinting that OP doesn't want people moving from California to Texas).
In that vein, this spoof captures the experience of reading a Springer "Introductory" textbook: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2022/05/20/every-sprin...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This most recent comment of yours is definitely not HN appropriate. We try to maintain a higher level of discourse and respect for others here.

My original comment is a parrot of the mods replies to these types of questions.
board-games in the office.
for tech people a fun-hackathon.
outdoors a picnic,
bbq in the park, or even in the parking lot.
one company where i worked had a nice roof terrace they would use for all sorts of activities
This is obviously the answer. Rank the H1B applicants by salary and let the most valuable in first. This will force companies to consider how much a worker is actually worth.
> I think a lot of people just don't like change, so they fight it

This is it, hilariously. Locally the railroad started building a rail yard, and everyone got up in arms and the city and county was howling and a meeting was called and the rail company politely explained that they're regulated federally and are building a nice berm around the rail yard, but there's nothing you can do to stop it.

And everyone stopped complaining, the yard got built, and nobody cares.

We need more of the straight bribery that used to happen around nuke plants - if the plant is approved, everyone gets $1k off their property taxes for X years or whatever.
Apologies but what money is spent on in the UK is public information —- it is part of the budget. The fat cat and the hoodwinked mouse is a poor metaphor.
Of course we evolved to eat meat. Just look at your teeth.
Read the report of the problems he was trying to surface:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t...

This doesn't seem like he was "butthurt and caught slackin'." The tone of the report seems like he's frustrated that he was hired to do a job, and not given the resources / authority to make the necessary sweeping changes. Perhaps someone with a more political approach could have influenced leadership better. But they hired an extremely technical person, not an extremely political person.
This reminds of news channels quoting tweets by random Twitter users.

They could be real, or credible, but even if they are, if I see journalists directly cite Reddit/Twitter, I can't help but think the exact same thought: "Quality journalism right here."
M12 is quite common in "dirty" industrial environments and military apps. its vibration proof, resistant to corrosion, can meet low/no spark requirements, and you can manipulate the connectors with gloves on, which sounds silly but is not to be discounted when you are in a foxhole being shot at.
> Even highways are bad.

This is not my experience near Austin.
You need karma > 500.
A related anecdote. 15 years ago, an investment advisor was pitching us on investing in water funds. Yes, the move to privatize water was well underway a quarter decade ago because the people with money KNEW we would have a world where rivers in multiple continents running out of water in the future.

That it's come sooner than most predicted is likely making those ghouls salivate even more.

Needless to say, we turned him down and just plunked our money into index and sustainable funds and chose handpicked stocks instead.
So does it just average property taxes? That would mean it underestimates the tax burden of a new homeowner in CA relative to TX, but after 8 or 10 or 15 years, overstates the property tax burden of a CA homeowner relative to TX.
But is it completely green? I live fairly close to a huge lithium deposit, and while people from western world are enjoying the benefits of EVs, people around here might get their habitat destroyed.

In my book it’s not green if it’s not completely green. And EVs are certainly not.
Idealism is a thing. People do things because they believe in them, that the world will be “better”.
You dont have to agree with other opinions but dont call them “incredibly stupid”.
I empathize for you, I do, but nothing you've said here means you deserve to live in San Francisco and a) not somewhere else or b) more than anyone else.

You do not deserve to live in San Francisco. Sorry.

What's probably a bit more toxic about your attitude is the implied belief that you deserve "better" than everywhere else in the US, that San Francisco is "yours* and not anyone else's.

And not for nothing, but I do have children (two) and am entirely capable of empathizing with others.
There are a lot more reasons than that.
How can people benefit when in the free market system consumers are seen as a resource to be exploited?
No. You're thinking firmware.

The driver layer (code around firmware that initializes the hardware and marshals/unmarshals comms to/from the device).tends to be GPL lest it taint the kernel. The firmware on the other hand, is the last unconquered vestige of the Open Source landscape. Logic locking, and the prevalence/nature of fabless semiconductor IP tends to make that endeavor incredibly difficult.
Prop 13 would probably keep the CA property tax burden understated.
This hasn’t been my experience, certainly not in 2022 with all the progress typescript tooling has made. Testing is annoying to set up the first time but once you have it working you barely ever have to mess with it.

As a library author myself I struggled a lot more with monorepo management and changelogs/publishing but tools like turbo/nx/changesets have really helped here.
Low quality HN post right there. /s
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I do something similar for Amazon Recruiters.

Hi there!!

You seem to have contacted me even though I explicitly told Amazon that I'm not interested in pursuing opportunities at this time. It's been very bothersome the number of mails I get (2+ on certain weeks). I've patiently requested earlier to be removed from your reach-out list, but alas here we are again!

Sent from an auto-drafted template that I've set up for specifically Amazon Recruiters.
Why should people have to buy extra services for a non free piece of hardware just to remain ad free on that hardware? Apple is double dipping here (probably triple dipping if you also include AppStore fees and charges).

People want to be able to own the things they buy, without further nonsense.
.. and I imagine, to the extent that people DO move because of "taxes", it's often more of a perception than a carefully calculated comparison.
People need to live somewhere and the population is growing. Where do you suggest that the kids of current residents live?
>bad and very expensive housing

Are you kidding? London has the highest quality apartment buildings in Europe. Well designed new builds with good services are abundant. This stuff hardly even exists in countries like France, Germany or Spain.
I moved from Austin,TX to CA many years ago, and everyone told me I would be crazy moving to a state with over regulation and high taxes. I told them I did the math one day when looking to purchase property, and I'd be paying more taxes in Austin than CA. I also prefer much more over regulation than lack of regulations. And this was wayyyy before the whole fiasco with the winter storm. I am so glad I moved.

now if I were to start a business on the other hand, then things would be different.
I don't think this is good policy and I also don't think this is good politics. What is thought process here? Give a handout to a portion of your base that doesn't really turnout to vote and give Republicans something meatier to get their base off the couch to vote.
This is probably not what it seems, because the overall cost of living (tax included) is nevertheless lower in Texas than it is in California. Sales tax is generally higher in California than in Texas so what is happening with these statistics?

This is not to deny that we pay taxes in indirect ways. For example, property tax can be higher in Texas than in California, especially for older properties; and anyone who pays rent is going to pay some surplus in order to cover property tax. Say that a person rents a studio in a major Texas city for 1500 USD a month. With a Gross Rent Multiplier of 10 (probably high for Texas; low for California), that is about 180000 USD of property and it will be taxed at around 1%, or 1800 USD, per year. This suggests that about 150 USD/month of that person's rent in Texas is to cover taxes -- that's considerable!

In California, a room in a house in a major city might cost 2000 USD a month; a studio might cost 3000 USD a month or more. Even if the nominal tax rate in California is the same as in Texas, for much of California's housing stock, the tax rate is based not on the current valuation but a valuation from the time of sale -- which can be many decades ago. Instead of paying 10% of their rent to cover taxes, a person in California might be paying much, much less -- 5% or even 1%. Even when they're paying 3000 USD for a studio, then, they might be paying much less property tax.

However, a person in California paying 3000 USD for a studio is not better off than someone paying 1500 USD for a studio in Texas, simply because they are paying less tax. They do not have more space, more bathrooms, &c -- they are paying more for the same thing. The focus on tax policy ignores many other policy factors that overall contribute to a more manageable cost of living.

Here is a web site you can use to look up Gross Rent Multipliers: https://apartmentpropertyvaluation.com/gross-rent-multiplier...

Here are the analyses that the Reddit post that the article referenced are based on:

https://itep.org/whopays/california/

https://itep.org/whopays/texas/
A spectral signature of the light emitted from the object might help to decide if an object is “man-made”. Military aircraft should be carrying hyperspectral sensors, I believe.
I did the same thing but with two changes:

* Home button doubles as the power button (press and hold)

* Headphone jack at the top
> Politics will be influenced. You can't trust anything you see anymore

How much could you trust media content previously? Staged footage, false narration, biased coverage are nothing new. A counter-intuitive side-effect of opening the Pandora's box could be a realization that media is a form of simulation. Perhaps this will lead more people to filter what they see through a prism of critical thinking.
Z-Library
Not that high.
Such substances do exist, though they're never as convenient and reliable as mystery writers make them out to be.

In this case, I'd guess that what was on the napkin is "nothing", and her mind does the rest of the work. Though tingling in the fingertips can be produced by a vast array of substances, and my second guess would be "napkin smeared with Ben Gay".
Friendly reminder that income taxes are still an awful idea. They disincentivize making income, and income is a wonderful thing. They also make it easy for the top .1% to avoid paying taxes better than the top 10%.

Progressive taxes can still be achieved, through property taxes, sales taxes on luxury goods, and taxes on excessive usage of public goods.
The thing I thought was hilarious is that they put in a zillion funny gadgets, but you can't get a USB-C port instead of that godawful Lightning port.
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If electricity doesn't come down enough in price, I fear it will take a lot longer than 2040. IF the price of electricity can be brought down below the price of natural gas per unit of energy, many use cases (the low hanging fruits) can be replaced relatively quickly.

Over the last couple of decades, though, the electricity price in Germany seems to have risen sharply, even when not including the last year.

It seems to me that many of the energy related policies in many countries have been focusing way to much on symbolism, instead of minimizing the price while also limiting actual harm to the population and the environment as much as possible. And when the price of electricity doesn't come down, consumers want to use it for as few things as possible.
This is something that is really concerning to me. If everybody is pushed towards a STEM job the market becomes saturated affecting salaries (and the associated "prestige" in Indian society). And to top it off young children are forced to give up their childhood to pursue Byjus and other scams that prey on the parents' emotions. I grew up in the professional class in India and a lot of thinking is plain irrational and just driven by a herd mentality and superiority complex. Just toxicity all around tbh.

If someone wants to become a travel photographer and is happy with the job and the lifestyle why push them towards a soul sucking STEM job where they may not even excel? But somehow having a low paying "engineer" job is somewhat better than a higher paying "artist" job in their eyes.

And to those reading from outside of India: WITCH company jobs are actually considered prestigious in India. Maybe not by those who frequent HN (bubbles everywhere) but the vast majority of STEM graduates and their communities.
It's about the lowest form of credibility one could possibly have. Quoting Wikipedia would be infinitely more credible, and even then, Wikipedia itself tells you not to use it is not a reliable source, and not to use it as such.
Can I just say, I feel like the world has missed an incredible opportunity to colloquially refer to this sort of business lingo as “Blingo”?

Think about it, you could be playing Blingo Bingo in all your meetings!
We're talking about C, though. I hope the average human is not writing C.
> But I fail to see much evidence of that.

Every large company on the stock exchange is evidence of that.

> are you really arguing corporations aren't driven by quarterly and annual results?

Have you ever seen companies beat their quarterly earnings estimates, and yet their stock drops? That's because the shareholders were suspicious that those results were short term, and the long term outlook didn't look so hot.

Any shareholder that is suspicious that a corporation has sacrificed the long term for short term profits, is going to dump that stock. Wouldn't you?
Do H1Bs really earn above average wage? Haven’t seen that. Overall, H1Bs increase the labor supply, which decreases the price of labor.
Fairness isn’t the goal so of course it fails
Alright, glad to hear :)
A well known "high tax state" with astronomical property values (but low property taxes).
What are your thoughts on the land value tax
A tale of two states: Contrasting economic policy in California and Texas
And yet we had a $15 billion tax surplus...
Was it a paper loss or an actual loss?

I.e, did you buy for $200k and sell for $130, or had you bought for $200k and sold for $330 which was $70k under the current market value?

The latter isn't a loss; and likely wouldn't be even for a corporation. You'd have to sell at full value and donate the $70k or something to get it to "work".

Amusingly enough, if one of the 87k IRS agents hears about it, they could go after the deserving family for taxes on the $70k windfall they got (though this one is really hard to prove, they will do it on forgiven loans).
Isn’t his wife’s family in commercial property? So he’d be naturally aligned in favor of building housing any place they have commercial property. Not “affordable housing” which is a tax that makes less construction happen, but cheaper housing for everybody.
Income taxes only "disincentivize making income" for those who don't understand how marginal taxation works.
Tabloids have only existed for 150 years or so. Before them, most newspapers thought their role was to help voters and investors make good decisions.
> Hahahahahahaha!
It's like you don't know how startups really are (and also are somehow unaware

Hey, can you please not break the site guidelines like this—regardless of how ignorant someone is or you feel they are? We have to ban accounts that post this way.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I imagine you own a decent home in Texas, though. Quite the issue in California.
Nearly all of this is accounted for by property taxes and is really only true in specific locales (Austin). Most of the rest of Texas the overall tax burden is lower than you'd have in other states. Property taxes represented 1.9% of my income when I lived in Texas after my house doubled in value over ten years, My effective tax rate if I lived in California would be 10% of my income to the state, and on top of that sales tax ranges from 1% less to 2.5% more than the sales tax rate I paid in Texas.

The only reason this is an issue for people is because of property tax in high real estate cost locales (Austin) compared to California that has wonky property taxes due to Prop 13.
> preserving land in the suburbs for deer hunting

Uhhh.... what?
Here's the report it's based on at least: https://itep.org/whopays/