skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no real winning these on a point by point basis because the entire system of wage labor is set up to separate you from the value you create for owners as much as the market will bear. Employers agree with this openly every time they talk about how this is a market, though they avoid the charged language and obfuscate it by drawing focus to other ideas.

These kind of logical points from employers are not rules or based in any reality except for ones where they simply have power over you to suppress your pay. Hence why these "rules" shift over the years as standards shift in favor or away from workers. These are among myriad tricks for fighting a class war against labor and maximizing extracted value. The best way for workers to beat these pay systems is to apply organized pressure collectively, not for you to have a private conversation with your boss or HR.
Wikimedia HQ is in San Francisco. There are many 25 year old code monkeys here making more than the Wikimedia executive team. Sure, as of the last few years the world has changed enough that I agree it makes sense for Wikimedia to defrag and go remote, but until COVID it made complete sense for a technology-focused nonprofit to make its HQ in the Bay Area. It still does, BTW - it's never as simple as just hiring a remote team in Poland or India to cut costs.

I don't think it would be bad per-se for the CEO to make up to $1M or for senior individuals to be making over $300k, or even for line developers to make up to around $200k. That is the cost of doing business, and I don't think Wikimedia should have to pay employees far below market rates just because it's a non-profit.

That said, I completely agree with you that Wikimedia is way overzealous in asking for donations and it's sickening how they make people think Wikimedia desperately needs the money to continue operating Wikipedia when they just don't. Wikimedia actually funds a lot of stuff that, as someone that mostly just cares about Wikipedia, seems completely unnecessary. I'd much rather they cut the fluff and stop freaking people out (maybe change their strategy to soliciting donations from whales or at least a less aggressive banner) but I'd have no problem if they raised individuals' comp, within reason.
Cloudflare blocks fringe message board Kiwi Farms citing 'targeted threats'
A thread from 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19152561
> If it were a back-and-forth protocol, more like TCP, then you have way more options for congestion control, error reporting, load balancing, and the like. The server can choose to accept the incoming request, ask for more verification, or interrogate the client in various ways.

That's basically what graylisting aims to achieve.
the screening guidelines take into account those risks and it's still deemed worthwhile because cancer can grow and become lethal despite being asymptomatic. colon cancer is the mid-life killer...plenty of ppl in their 50s or even 40s get it despite no risk factors. Screening is the only option to catch it early.
Bar raisers,hiring committees,and other complex ways to improve hiring quality
Fine the company $1 per unit sold per day until the 911 feature is fixed.
So much this. The idea of being unable to call 911 when you need it is absolutely horrifying. I'd argue that one of the main reasons for owning a phone is to protect you. I think Android's entire company needs to be shut down and taken over.
I suppose it's a sign of how good her articles and videos are that the only stuff you can find that're wrong are details.

In the spirit of being pedantic (don't take too seriously):

"There's also beamforming and MIMO" No. Beamforming attempts to increase apparent power by changing parameters. One could just as easily say "moving sender and recipient closer". MIMO is also manipulation of sending and receiving antennae, and therefore irrelevant to the discussion about transmitting through a channel with a fixed noise level.

She did make a mistake about the number of orders of magnitude, though.
Apple supports encryption on Mail:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mlhlp1180/mac
You're only tackling what you gain from your changes, not what you lose.

Digging in requires people to spend more time. Most interviews are already massive and exhausting. Candidates in general aren't looking for longer interviews, they are looking for shorter interviews. Your changes propose even longer interviews when the number one complaint is the sheer length and volume of interviews.

Most candidates are not amazing at interviewing or figuring out people, let alone when they spend most of their time doing other things at the day/week of interviewing. The majority of candidates are either tired, inexperienced, or both. Increasing the volume of information isn't a strict gain under conditions which are true far too often, and can even be a loss.

Lying isn't uncommon, but I'd think twice about whether saying "no" is really that much easier than weaving an elaborate half-truth. At the same time, most candidates will be treading a fine line between not getting on the interviewer's nerves, and figuring out what is actually happening. Navigating social dynamics is difficult for a reason.

>it could suggest a few things

That's the entire problem. I reckon this is part of the reason why author is so direct in their questions. They don't want to deal with multiple possible answers and spending more time figuring out the answer. They want a 'is this company worth my time' checklist which doesn't take multiple hours to fill.

For obvious reasons, that checklist isn't going to work for the majority of people (you named several reasons yourself). But changing the questions isn't going to help reach the intended goal either.
This is known in the running community as the MAF method or Zone 2 training and it is key to sustaining an injury minimizing habit of running.

Think about it this way, do you enjoy a nice long walk? Most people do. You also don't have to mentally prepare yourself to go on a walk. Do you enjoy a nice long sprint? Probably not. If you tried to do it every day you would have to mentally prepare yourself for the upcoming suck. That's a huge hurdle to making it a habit.

So why not try to find a sweet spot in between a walk and a sprint? Just build up speed gradually from a walk. Once you have days where you have to psyche yourself up to go for a run, you know you are going too hard. Going for a walk and going for an easy run should not be any different for you mentally, although you might have to take a shower after a run.

Hope anyone who has struggled with running in the past is able to regain confidence with this mindset
They do. Most of them use proprietary https web interfaces that usually have "secure email" or "secure messaging" in the description but they are just fancy web portals. I despise those systems. The content is not encrypted at rest and can be leaked. With OpenGPG the emails are only decrypted on the recipients end points and can be deleted by request.
Voyager – Real Time Mission Status
They bought me a computer when it was expensive.
WMF's "operations costs" that don't count as salaries are probably basically just the costs of server hosting etc. They don't do charity work like prototypical non-profits.
It was more of a "how do industry behemoths deal with this" in case I create my own file hosting service (which is highly unlikely).
> store stuff in the cloud without ever having heard of the Third Party Doctrine (which allows the US government warrantless access to those documents)

Or because they know the third-party doctrine doesn’t apply to attorney work product and privileged materials.
My parents would talk about their struggles growing up without any money.

My mother who was orphaned at a very young age and was raised by her grand mother would tell us about how she would have to erase their books and turn over their school uniforms and restitch them when they got faded when a new school year began because they couldn’t afford new clothes or books. My uncle who was all of 8 months when my grand parents passed away, had to struggle to make his school fees. Yet they have done well simply because of their perseverance and hard work. When I think about it, luck must have played a role but they still worked very hard to make their lives and their kids lives better.

My father would tell me about the time when they couldn’t afford to buy milk for me as a kid. And his cousin who was many years his senior asked him if he had any savings and when they answered in the negative, implored him to start.

These 2 things have always been my guiding lights. Very recently I have started losing interest in everything that is happening around me due to life circumstances. And writing these things has truly helped me understand where I’m from and what I need to do. Thank you OP
I would love to be able to tell time with a sniff.
much of this discussion is bad, whether it's people who insist their healthy lifestyles will prevent cancer or thinking that all cancer is preventable
The topic often comes up. Can't say I share the experience. My servers have never been put on a blacklist in the 7 years they've been running, and one of them operates from my residential DSL connection. Standard postfix+dovecot stack on an Archlinux VPS, I log in once a year to update the packages and make sure there is enough disk space left.
While I agree that the danger is there, I don't think it will happen, yet. There is a race between regulation and finding a way to fuel Bitcoin the most efficient way. Regulations are coming on strong but miners are working hard to find the best energy source, at the minimum, to gain a mining cost advantage over the competition. The biggest advantage Bitcoin has is the security. The protocol itself has not been hacked. Ethereum has been hacked in the past and proof of stake has not proven its security robustness as of yet. So people that want to pick between the two will find better security with bitcoin.
I actually wrote three articles on how and why I've been running for 50 years (https://albertcory50.substack.com/ the first three articles). The subject of motivation is considered deeply, since no trick, not even a wager, will keep you doing it more than a couple years (although maybe a bet with a relative will last a while).

The overall answer is "whatever works for you." One saying that I've found does impress people is:

If you can't find time to exercise, you'll have to find time to be sick.

Do you have time to wait on the Customer Support line for your health insurance provider, listening to "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line." for half an hour? Didn't think so.
Wikimedia has plenty of whale donors that aren't making spur of the moment donations based on banner ads.

Wikimedia spends plenty of money on things that aren't growing their endowment or operating Wikipedia.

I don't think anybody is asking Wikimedia to stop fundraising, just to be less deceptive and less zealous. Especially if the money is going to things like grants to other nonprofits or developing less-familiar parts of wikimedia that donors likely don't care about.
The trouble with 5G is that it will be the final nail in the coffin of location privacy, assuming most people carry their phone with them at most times. LTE is already very "good" at this, but 5G brings centimeter-precision.

https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2020/12/5g-positioning--wha... sez —

“The arrival of 5G delivers new enhanced parameters for positioning accuracy down to the meter, decimeter and centimeter.”

“Positioning of users and devices across general indoor environments, such as offices, shops, logistics, etc., was a focus area of 3GPP Release 16.”

https://venturebeat.com/mobile/sk-telecom-will-use-5g-to-bui... sez —

“While current [2019] smartphones can under some circumstances send and receive location data with 3-foot accuracy, it takes an external GNSS receiver to access location services with centimeter-level accuracy.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90314058/5g-means-youll-have-to-... sez —

“[5G network positioning] data can also enable advertisers and data brokers to see the exact routes you take each day and even which buildings you go into. And anyone with access to your mobile network’s cell tower data will now be able to track your movements in real time.”
Horrible people appear to be found at significantly above background density among posters on Kiwi Farms.

My comment about transwomen being disempowered is in the broader social sphere, where trans people in general are under social and legislative threat against their access to basic decency, public visibility, and medical care.
Having used retro computers since before they were retro, unless you enjoy the retro vibe you can get much the same benefits - and more useful skills for future life - by just using a microcontroller such as ESP32.

Back when retro computers were the modern hotness, it would have been astonishing that you could buy a computer with a display for ten bucks or so (https://www.amazon.com/LILYGO-T-Display-Arduino-Development-...).
The article keeps saying low latency when meaning high latency.
They might be talking about S/MIME.

I use https://github.com/Free-GPGMail/Free-GPGMail which is a plugin for GNUPG, without the "support" plan.
Thanks for verbalizing this so well, I've been thinking the same recently and that's what's causing me to withdraw from my work.
For the ambiance and the community.
At the large tech company I work at, we get two machines- one for day to day dev work and one for sensitive tasks. I get full admin on the day to day dev box and can do all sorts of email and collaboration on it, but I can’t do certain administrative functions or access some types highly sensitive data. The admin box is severely locked down, uses a different identity, but lets me edit shared services and access sensitive data. It can be annoying, but it feels about the right level of paranoia to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28196403
> We had different connectors that would or would not work depending on your specific application. Some connectors would only have a smaller set of pins for restricted use cases (charging only, sound only etc.) than the full standard, you still had the quality and ratings issue (think ethernet cables), some companies would still recycle connectors used in other contexts for their specific purpose (a sheer round connector is one of those: there must be hundreds or proprietary cables with a round connector).

Er, but isn't that exactly the problem with USB now? Not all USB ports and all USB cables are interchangeable, some devices use certain pins for restricted use cases (charging only, sound only), cables and devices have painfully varying quality (https://www.pcmag.com/news/poorly-designed-usb-c-cable-kills... , https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leav...), and companies reuse the one connector without actually being fully compatible (Nintendo, I'm looking at you).
The technical analysis you're putting out here is a bit of a canard. Yes, better filters help, but radars are really, really picky. After all, there's an inverse fourth power relationship between return strength and distance.

So we have our doppler weather radar transmitting at 450kW, traveling out a big distance to a storm (inverse square), and reflecting at very low efficiency, and traveling back (inverse square). Compare to a base station putting out 40W that's closer and just subject to inverse square law. It can easily be 10 orders of magnitude stronger. You need pretty good filtering for this.

> One thing is different: around 20 GHz there's lots of frequencies available (vs 5GHz) so we could have larger guard band without significant impact.

You need a much larger guard band. It's easy to make a 1MHz wide filter at 10MHz, and really hard at 100000MHz.

Another important thing: parasitics start to matter a whole lot, too. You can have a filter that sharply rolls off around your fundamental, but then above the resonant frequencies of your passives/filter elements become transmissive again. It's pretty hard to keep 20GHz out of a receiver that was designed for a lower frequency before 20GHz was a major concern.
There are many benefits to running your own server. The three biggies for me are:

1. Control. A third party can change anything about the service any time they want, and if you don't like the change they made you're screwed.

2. Expectation of privacy. Because I am not contracting with a third party, the government cannot argue that I have waived my right to privacy. (As a practical matter of course this matters not at all. If the government -- or anyone with the right technical skill and access -- wants to read your email they will. But if push ever comes to shove in a court of law it could matter.)

3. Spam filtering. I think the whole industry is doing it wrong. The Right Way to filter spam is to use your outgoing mail as ground truth for what is not spam. I have a custom spam filter that I wrote based on this idea and it works like a charm. No Bayesian analysis needed. I don't even look at content at all. Just the headers are enough to achieve >99% accuracy.
Sure, but vercel has nothing to do with the UI look. It’s a framework for developing the overall application, not the components or designs.
What?, no this is real. The URL is wrong. I put in "plink.in" and HN added "test." or something... Go to https://plink.in/ and click "play now". You "Jam" with other random people. It "makes" you sound good. I don't know music, but I have a feeling that anyone who does would just bash this for being superficial.
Okay, there's one hardware issue out of seven, I stand corrected.
“Action comes before motivation” is something I constantly tell myself. On occasion I remember this and I actually do the thing.
I am still hosting my emails via docker mailserver[1]
I got some trouble with outlook.com bans, but Linode helped me to switch to a “good” ip address and it is working fine for now.

I will try ti resist as much as possible, because email is your primary identity “link” on the Internet, and you deserves to own it if you want.

[1]: https://gioorgi.com/2020/mail-server-on-docker/
Tesla is testing in the real world. Unfortunately this has led to the death of many.
I was under the impression that WSL2 runs on the actual hardware with only the hypervisor as overhead, and so it should run nearly as fast as the real thing. I haven't noticed particularly slow performance, but it could just be that I haven't looked into it enough.
I’m having a hard time understanding what you mean. Can you give some examples?
You missed nothing. It's a "jobs for the boys" jackpot.
They do actually do on device processing now…

Siri, G Assistant, Alexa, Bixby, Sonos all perform at least some locally. It seems the major issue is large dictionaries (eg music libraries) or complex queries. Most had an article about how basic features (times, smart home) work entirely on device.

[1]
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22523438/apple-iphone-siri...

[2]
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/07/google-assistant-...

[3]
https://www.amazon.science/blog/on-device-speech-processing-...

[4]
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-bixby-will-speed-up-r...

[5]
https://www.engadget.com/sonos-voice-control-music-assistant...
Things are just insanely complicated now but I don't blame the connector. I had the un-fun experience of trying to get 4k 60hz working on my Mac recently. Turns out I had to toggle a setting on my monitor to reserve more bandwidth for display resolution instead of for USB devices. This supposedly isn't a problem if the Mac supported display stream compression, and it's supposed to, but apparently that broke as part of some Big Sur update.

USB has always had software bugs but the explosion of optional features and unexpected hardware combinations has made it feel like Bluetooth; connecting is the easy part, but have fun negotiating all the different profiles and making sure both ends of the connection support the same things.
You can hold the mouse down to advance. This is all I have figured out.
Or use a cheap zigbee or zwave power plug to switch the fan, then run the logic somewhere else. (I do this)
Remember also that they prefer demoralized workers leave on their own since there's no need to provide exit compensation/benefits. Look out for employers "quiet quitting" on YOU.
I took his class as an undergrad. He struck me as ideologically driven.
This indeed looks like a good direction. A decade ago Freenet (not sure if it still exists?) had a problem with spam on its equivalent of USENET. It was pretty bad, until they changed the protocol so that it's the sending node that keeps the message, which is then pulled (or not) by the recipients. It made a lot of sense to me: I'm the one sending you the message, I want you to see it, while you don't even know whether you want to get that message. So it's me that should pay for storage and propagation of the message in terms of bandwidth and disk space. Not sure how it turned out in the end, but the approach seems right to me. It's like phone calls: it's the caller that pays the cost, not the one receiving the call.
I don't think modern gears and bearings will improve efficiency by more than a few percentage points. Most of it is in the size of the wheel, and the energy of the water.
Spam is just the opposite, it is actually a pricing issue and not a service issue.

As long as the expected value per message of spam sent is positive, someone in the world will send as many messages as they are able to. You either fix this by raising their costs so that spam no longer has a positive expected value, remove their ability to send an unlimited number of messages, or both.

This is not exclusive to the e-mail system, robocalls are still a major annoyance, and the global telephone system is much more regulated. Mobile phones now automatically filter calls, even! It's wild.
I have self-hosted my personal email account for years without issues. At some point early on I started relying on AWS for sending emails, but that can be easily switched out or removed at any time (and its free for my small volumes of sent emails).
> I don't know what you think we lost, but every type-C plug I could find in any household or office, always managed to charge my Android phone, just like micro-B before that.

if I show you a photo of two USB chargers, can you tell me which one will provide 5w to my phone and which will provide 15w?

Why do the two ports on my 45w USB adapter provide different wattages with no visible difference to them?

Why does my macbook have the same ports as my phone and iPad but not charge from them when using the almost identical charger to the one I'm supposed to use with it?

Why does my PS5 controller only charge to 2 out of 3 bars when using any/all of the adapters above?

> I think you're looking at other issues.

There are enough issues with where we've gotten to that didn't exist 5 years ago for me to be confident in saying we're going in the wrong direction. We've standardised _cables_, but the important part is the protocols, not the cable. I _want_ different cables for different protocols .
Here's my Google story. I was planning a trip to a remote mountain town, to completely separate from all the big tech giants. So I went online to review the map to the cabin we'd rented...

And Google added a pushpin to the cabin where I was staying, along with the dates for the entirety of my stay.

They'd scanned my Gmail inbox, found the reservation, extracted the dates and location, and then waited until I went to Google Maps for driving directions.

There's a way to turn off some of this -- which I immediately hunted down and activated. But it still bothers me that I didn't know it was on by default.
Oh I'm not saying it's not a book, I'm just saying I don't think OP was asking for religious texts.