skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our local permit office would just reject things randomly. We had one office cheerfully let us know they didn't plan to spitefully bankrupt us, and half of a two-person department became visibly angry with our general contractor when the other person in that department told us how to tie his hands and force an approval.

These shenanigans cost us rougly $500-1000 a day in insurance, interest, etc. They drug it out for about a year.

The department that decided they liked us has bankrupted multiple people on our street. We'd have at least 5-10% more houses on our street (there is plenty of room) if not for them.

California's state government has an alert on their website specifically listing various things that department did to us and pointing out they were illegal. Instead of suing, we kissed all the right asses in the right order, so now we have a house. Again, this is best case for interacting with them because they liked us, apparently.

Based on conversations with neighbors, my level of satisfaction with this planning office is roughly median for the area, but our experience was way better than average.

Marvin Heemeyer of Killdozer fame is a personal hero of mine now (Don't worrtly, I don't know how to weld. However, I do know how to make campaign donations and vote!):

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marvin-heemeyer-killdozer

Missing from that article are apparently true allegations of direct financial conflicts of interest within the zoning commission, and him being forced to sell land so that one of their cronies could develop it instead. Also note that he fought them for over a decade.

One of our state representatives is running for reelection on a plan to spend huge amounts of state/federal infrastructure money to bypass the office that likes to bankrupt people. 100's of familes will be forced off their land before the plan kicks in (assuming it passes).

So, anyway, there needs to be harsh financial consequences for just rejecting permits for the heck of it.

Ideally, promotions would be tied to correctly processing permit applications. That's probably illegal around here or something.
Isn't modern system administration very much still a thing, just with a different name: devops? I worked with a really bright (sysadmin/devops) guy that built out a FOSS configuration management service using saltstack and zabbix; a near real-time visualized platform of critical assets that also afforded a great deal of control, all from a distance.

I do very much agree that use of command line is declining, though; in general, technology - both its physical form and digital interfaces - has become more closed to the user. Really hope that changes.
> Even in most post-apocalypse antiutopia science fiction, all of these attributes are present except perhaps urbanization.

That's the key one for real property (well, settled agricultural society probably more than urbanization per se, but if you have one you probably have the other.)

> E.g. a roving gang with a warlord at its helm has a political state and social stratification, and they would still have access to pencils.

But probably not have a system of real (as opposed to personal) property. Which is my point.
Single family only zoning is not very universal. It's largely a US and Canada thing and it's a relatively recent phenomenon.

Residential in european countries allows small multifamily and small-scale business like bakeries so it would be considered mixed-use in the US/Canada.
I wish I could do this. Audio books put me right to sleep.
I reviewed the article, people pay for SAP? And ... "Developers can create their own database tables using the SAP interface." - everything is fine though because users can create their own forms!
Ability to be housed trumps luxury.
> buy yourself a tie machine and write apps for windows Phone

Took me too long to realize you probably meant ti[m]e machine, but I still don't see how that would fix getting a non-techy off their iPhone.
This comment is pretty incoherent but I assume you're talking about CSAM.

In which case, (a) you are not required to use iCloud Photos and (b) it is not out of the ordinary for US-based photo hosting services to scan for CSAM.

There is no evidence otherwise that Apple is "spying on you" whatever that specifically means.
I hesitantly disagree; the only thing better about Android in my experience is the Samsung Camera AI makes pictures pop in a way which is unrealistic yet pleasing to the eye.

Apple is the one pioneering features at this point, especially in the privacy space. Does Gartner cover this? If not, I wish they would do a quarterly feature matrix analysis.

The Apple pics might not look as good, but the Apple camera app is far smoother than flagship Android and the Apple pictures look more realistic.
I'm slightly surprised they don't put more effort into cleaning for more expensive seats. Economy, or worse, Ryanair, yes, assume it's rarely cleaned.
This just reminds me how much a Hail Mary the appointment of Meyer was. There's an argument that nothing could have saved Yahoo. Essentially, by hiring a inside-SV PM-type, the board thought that Yahoo had a product and technology problem. It did, but its business problems were far greater.

In hindsight, 2013 would have been the perfect time for Yahoo to have been sold for parts. Perhaps a more business-minded executive would have recognized that.
Data collection is not the reason that Android is a bloated mess.
It is prestigious to those who believe in its ideology.
> they don't shove merchandise and minute long sponsored contents to you.

I find YouTube unbearable without ublock origin and sponsorblock.
A 72 year old architect is a person who's decided to keep being an architect after all these years. I bet in 1980, you could find 30 year old architects who would take a week to figure that out. They've just gone into management or retired by now.
This is the correct response
You do understand that they only proposed to scan photos that were going to be synced to iCloud Photos.

Which is an entirely optional and opt-in service.
My phone is about 5 years old, not getting cool updates any more. I'm about 95% sure there are many moments when the OS inserts a fake pause in various places to make me think the phone is getting slow and it's time to upgrade.
The photos were synced to Google Drive where we know it would be scanned...which is fine. Apple's proposal would report you as soon as you took the picture.
So what will be illegal, are things iMessage does not do. Got it.

(iMessage can interoperate with Android, it just changes the formatting. Show me where the EU lawmakers determine CSS policy).
More like ability to be housed trumps bystander's desire to reduce subjective eyesore. It really is that petty and selfish. Total psychopath perspective.
For reference: those were the specs of the 2015 iPhone 6S/iPhone 6S Plus
Read "rocket fuel" by Mark Winters.

It sounds like the CEO is a classic visionary - big picture people person, grand ideas, bad with details like operations and money.

It also sounds like you may be their complement - good with details and proper planning - a classic "integrator"

This is actually a great combination, but in order for the company to benefit from your complementary abilities you've got to get separate responsibility appropriately. At 30 employees you should have a fractional CFO or at least a situation where the COO/integrator can keep expenditures in check. CEO needs to let the team do what it does best.
They were implying Android is the underdog.
For a “weekend project”, “auto scale” will be well served by SQLite.

Always amazes me when people try to design Google-scale solutions to 0.3 QPS problems.
Yes! Here is an example showing how the crowns fit together https://youtube.com/shorts/mdhm2KvSkw4?feature=share
So basically.

As of now, Apple does nothing as they backed down from that plan.

And google reports you to authorities and never stopped and also never went public about letting you know they were doing it (at least apple published a freaking press release to announce it and ask for feedback!)

And somehow that makes Apple worse.
There are times in my career I was like Bob, lightening fast productivity, even relative to very smart people around me.

Much of my career, not as dramatic.

My view is the right person given the right work and low enough barriers can 10x their “normal” productivity level. Right work here means not just a technical, but a moral, aesthetic, curiosity, etc fit.

Bob seems to be intermittently getting those conditions.

ADDED: Management might want to strategically consider business opportunities for using Bob’s fast turnarounds. Higher rates for fast deliverables for instance.
I feel like you spend a lot of time getting angry at inanimate objects.
React is intentionally not two-way binding.
Families in the World by Income per Month
Yes that is a great resource and the lab that we came from actually!
That thread gives me the overall impression that it is true and he denies it.
It only sounds weird when you intentionally frame it euphemistically like that. The people we are mocking are the selfish people who put their own desire to reduce subjective eyesores ahead of the need to address the country's housing crisis.
Since you want to get technical, all aircraft systems are tested and must be approved by the FAA. Pretty much, a license... Try again.
No, that's what you expect. And you are weird. Which is fine.
Isn't it knowing kubernetes now? Which does kinda tend to require you to also know a fair bit of "single machine" admin tools along with a whole slew of new complexity.
> During this economy

It's not 2001 or 2009 (yet). Inflation is high, unemployment is very low, so it's hard to say where the economy is actually at.
I have an Android One phone and it behaves just as badly. This is a fundamental systemic problem with core Android development. I dread system updates because I know some of the key apps (maps in particular) are going to have a worse experience than before.
Mine was more extreme... I basically stopped learning to program after hello world and simple math because there was all of this OO stuff and it was like "ok I can follow these examples but have no idea what any of this would possibly be for" and that was that for years.
While your comment aligns with the 16th-century meanings of those two words, Merriam-Webster now [documents the meaning the reporter used](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt) for flaunt as a second meaning, and it's no longer widely seen as incorrect.

> Flaunt vs. Flout: Usage Guide

> Although the "treat contemptuously" sense of flaunt undoubtedly arose from confusion with flout, the contexts in which it appears cannot be called substandard.
and $300 used
My firm started to dabble with Concur shortly before the pandemic. I think they presented it in some way where it was through a travel agency they contracted with.

They had evidently selected one approved hotel to demonstrate the process and never bothered to go further.

The hotel was some four-star facility 40km from the office and twice the price of the economy tourist-tier hotels 5km away (which also featured free wi-fi and breakfast). So the remote workers continued to stay at those hotels and had to waste effort poking the system to do an override.

Fortunately, they still did it as "pay with your own account and we'll reimburse you" so you weren't stuck waiting for someone to approve a "can I pretty please spend less money and avoid an extra two hours of travel time per day?" request.

At my prior job, we were trying to do marketing for a SAP consultancy firm, and it was just surreal trying to get a grasp on it. How will potential customers know they're ready for SAP, or ready for your services in particular? Where do you reach out to potential buyers? What sort of messaging are you trying to target? I never got anything resembling an answer. I think they basically just wanted us to write the HTML for the terrible email blasts they sent to their existing lead pool.

After a thought, I suspect there's a particular corner of the C*O universe that treats Gartner reports as some sort of Death Note: a supernatural document where once someone's name appears in it, their entire destiny and fate is fully programmed out. I think they pretty much believed they could ride being in the Magic Quadrant for Nasal Hair Removal Advisory Services in 2006 into golden retirement.
That's called "good engineering". It's a lot better than "excessive pedantry".
It does if you select Google Backup, which is exactly the same situation with Apple.

It’s something of a tradeoff as encrypting backups on device runs into issues if you lose the device. However, if companies have unencrypted data the US government and possibly others will require them to check for specific things.
> One way to think of it is - you owe it to your audience to save them from worse educational experiences, and the only way to save them is to try to rank higher than these other more click-baity low-value videos.

This is clear self-deception and a way for a person to start the slide down the slippery slope to abandoning their standards. You don't owe it to your audience to 'save them' (a weird, evangelical way of putting it). You might like to put better content out there and hope that people find it and value it (and take reasonable steps to promote it, in a non-scammy way) but no, you don't need to rank higher than lower quality content. Because 9 times out of 10 the highest ranking content is junk and trying to rank higher will cause your own content to descend into being junk as well.
The last 3 companies I worked RSUs vested either quarterly or monthly and were then immediately liquid.
I suppose you are making fun of it. In case you need arguments to extend your joke: my friend and I were recommended pills made of colostrum of cow -- he took them.
I have been reading into it for some time now, since I do not want to dive into a big framework with a huge learning curve for a side project that I have.

I just feel afraid to run into a problem that has already been solved in a big framework and get stuck.
+1 for the sauna
You are incorrect. A quick google search will show you that the Apple CSAM detection was only going to be implemented to photos uploaded to iCloud.
All colleges are prestigious, or pay others to call them prestigious.
The Mexican government paid for the ears or scalps of Apache Native Americans. A gang of marauders called the Glanton Gang went around murdering anyone they encountered to take their ears/scalps.
I tested this against AdGuard MV3 on Edge, and while I will wait for 1.0 releases of both, so far, AdGuard MV3 is trouncing uBO Minus.

It's doing cosmetic filtering, uBO is not. Neither seem to be slowing down the browser in a noticeable way. Eager to see 1.0 benchmark results.

You also get some options to adjust in AdGuard. uBO Minus (hell of a name), nothing.

I would suggest to the author of uBlock Origin to change attitudes towards the MV3 extension as even Mozilla said MV2 was sticking around "for now".

This work is inevitable. Other options would be to partner with a browser like Brave to take over their adblocking development, or, create a system-wide blocking solution. Microsoft may be worth engaging with as they have no native adblocker, but given gorhill's clear purism about profits and Microsoft that doesn't seem likely. Someone else has to publish uBlock Origin for him on the Edge Add-ons store.

Still a bit exciting, as even Mozilla will turn off MV2 at a point. No reason to resist this. Once the uBlock Origin guys figure this out, we'll get a good race between it and AdGuard. So far, AdGuard is the clear winner.
Do you have a source for that? I somewhat recall their proposal was only to ever scan photos uploaded to iCloud.
You're being down voted, but I must say this is one of the things that has been most slowly driving me away from Mozilla. They are not only developing a browser, but they also have an economical and political agenda. That's okay if you agree with them, but it just feels so wrong that when I'm using their browser or donate to the Mozilla foundation I'm in some ways supporting this.

If you're reading this and you're not aware what we're talking about check out their blog post from last year [0].

Generally free software is already pretty political, just take a look at the FSF, but Mozilla takes this to the next level, and makes it even worse by having this confusing corporation/foundation setup where you are kind of deceived of donating for the foundation to help develop Firefox (their only important product) when that money can never (legally) be used for that purpose.

It just doesn't feel genuine. I am back to using Firefox though because Blink being the only browser engine is a monopolistic nightmare waiting to happen (in fact it already is, any web spec is just a suggestion, the true spec is what Google decides to do with their browser).

PS: I should also put a disclaimer that I'm not American, do not live in the USA, and do not care much about what happens there, and that's kind of what bothers me so much, not so much the political-alignment of Mozilla itself. Although I do think that de-platforming is enough, and I'm not really a fan of "factual voices", being someone that lives in a third world country which has already taken this path, where both extreme right and left claim to be the holders of the absolute truth.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/we-need-more-...
I am a little confused by that. AFAIK climate change wasn't even discussed in popular culture 30 or so years ago. I wonder if they are equating "concerned with the environment" with climate change. The concern back in the day was pollution, nuclear waste, the ozone layer, the rainforest, species going extinct, etc. Perhaps my memory is poor.
Hi! Nice to see you on here! Yes that is an interesting application for synthetic data generation that we plan to look into - I will contact you when we head down that path!
* During this economy, how wasting so much money on
beaches, midnight parties at pubs, and yacht tours can be
normal?
* How can I deal with this behavior of treating your
partner like any other employee?
* How can I fix this communication problem and prevent
future abuses?

It seems as if you haven't spoken with your business partner. You should do that. Explain your position. Be firm. Set boundaries. It doesn't need to be a long conversation, but it needs to happen. If this is your company, take charge.

-----

I've answered your three questions below, based upon my experiences. The answer to your first question is labled #1. The answer to your second question is #2. The third answer, labeled #3, attempts to answer your third question.

1. It doesn't matter whether this is normal. You should ask whether it is useful and acceptable for your company. Above and beyond that, you need to set boundaries regarding co-owned funds. A marriage won't last between two people who don't speak with each other. In many ways founders enter a marriage with each other, so they need to speak with each other and keep their lines of communication open. After all, you've entwined your financial and business lives together.

2. Stop acting like an employee next to your partner. The first step is to talk with them instead of reaching out to random people on the Internet. It's possible that your co-founder does not see a problem but would be willing to change if you spoke with them. It's also possible they do not see you as an equal. Either way, you need to find out what is going on.

3. You actually didn't state a communication problem in this post. That tells me you don't always speak up and in this case may not have spoken your mind with your partner. If you want them to treat you as a partner, you need to treat them as as a partner as well. Otherwise, they'll never know what you want them to know.
OTOH they do support hardware security tokens for 2FA, and even require them for some operations.
Isn’t this actually an EU wide regulation?
Plenty of negativity in this HN thread about him - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32639125
> Government debt printing is the most optimistic psychological game we have in the economy.

Print too much and the big money poker game (capital formation) moves elsewhere.
SpaceX appeals U.S. FCC rejection of rural broadband subsidies
I've dealt with a similar situation. Some people just don't consider money important until they don't have it. You won't be able to change his ways so don't try. It will just be unproductive confrontations.

An agreed upon budget might help. The budget should have a line item for these type of items. But I suspect you already have a budget and he's not following it.

You won't be able to change him so you need to look at the situation seriously and decide whether it's worth continuing. The reality is that startups without financial discipline will have a hard time surviving. Good luck.
Boring Is Beautiful in Software Development
I was under the impression that Apple only planned to scan photos that would be uploaded to the cloud. Is that incorrect?
Meh. 10% isn't a make or break move, and it may be worth the cost if it keeps employee retention up.

Real problem is to figure out if you guys got what you paid for.
In your comment, you linked to Pekar's paper. You said that after reading it, you found a natural cause more plausible. I've also read that paper, and I'm much less convinced. That's what I wanted to discuss, and I don't see how it's off-topic. If anything I wrote came across as a defense of Ebright's tone or any aspect of that Thacker piece, then I expressed myself unclearly; for the avoidance of doubt, I think they're bad too.

Have you looked at Pekar's full model, as set out mostly in the supplementary materials? This isn't any standard molecular clock approach. It's a byzantine stack of plausible but somewhat arbitrary assumptions, ending in a simulated phylogenetic tree. The shape of that tree with one introduction doesn't match the shape of the actual tree constructed from the earliest real samples in Wuhan, so Pekar concludes there were two introductions. But I'm not aware that such an approach has ever made a successful prediction, and there's no circumstance in any field where I can imagine trusting a model of such complexity without validation. Their sensitivity analysis is meaningless, varying some irrelevant parameters but keeping what seems intuitively like the main determinant of that shape (the connectivity of their contact network) fixed.

You are correct that Alina Chan's thread doesn't address that aspect of Pekar's argument. Others have though, per the Twitter threads I linked. What do you think?
I find the supposed iphone simplicity argument fascinating.

I had to help a family member open a PDF file of a ticket sent via email on an iphone.

It was opened via webmail in safari, it just downloaded the file, that was it. No way to open it. No way to find the downloads from Safari.

Eventually I figured out how to drag down from the home screen, search for downloads, scroll down a bit, then found the downloads folder with the file inside it to open it.

Contrast to android where it downloads the file, then offers to open it.

The whole "iphone is easier to use" seems like a bit of a myth.
I wonder if this is related to the SECs aggressive hiring of economists.
Spoiler: Bob will get burned out and/or bored and quit. There's nothing you can do about this. Your job is to minimize the damage Bob does on the way out. Bob may try to rewrite the codebase, or embark on wild experimental projects and somehow tie them into business needs. That's just the lifecycle of a burned-out 10x programmers. You need to enforce homogeneity and make sure the other employees (the ones you'll be left with when Bob goes leaves in a blaze of glory) are up to speed on his projects.
Alone, I am a person. But clearly I am not the only one here that perceives this, and therefore "people" works.

Uninteresting semantics intended to be clever from both of us aside, you also missed that, although it is a little lie repeated many times, the datapoint still offers no benefit to the user.