skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Private vs public all comes down to the interests of society, it's not religious dogma. Prior to the 60s it was perfectly legal to refuse to serve somebody because of their race or religion. The courts decided this was not in the public interest, and so that changed. Some time before that it was private companies used to also be able to fire anybody seeking to unionize. Then that changed. There is even precedent where private land used in a public way subjects the owner to the same standards as those of the government. [1]

The current situation is pretty goofy. We've hyper centralized speech into a tiny handful of outlets, with those outlets increasingly recklessly operating with exactly 0 accountability to anybody, in spite of the dramatic and undeniable consequences of their actions are having on both individuals and society at large. IMO the one and only reason this hasn't been dealt with is because we're going through a brief phase of dystopia. Governments seems more interested in trying to myopically exploit the centralization speech to their own benefit, instead of actually thinking of the longterm, to say nothing of making society a better place.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
Imagine thinking securities fraud is the profession of the superior man: instead, he is merely a slave to his desires, namely greed, debasing himself in order to vainly feed the insatiable beast inside. Truly pitiable and truly servile.
Haha this. And now someone put copilot in vim.
Current antitrust laws do not require harm to have already occurred to challenge a merger. Once an intent to merge has been filed, the FTC/DOJ has a certain amount of time to issue a 'second request'. [1] If the FTC/DOJ finds during their review of the materials turned over from the second request that the merger is likely to be anticompetitive, they will sue to block the merger. This merger in particular would likely be mostly scrutinized according to the horizontal merger guidelines, given the parties' overlap in a specific product/market. [2]

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
[2]: https://www.justice.gov/atr/horizontal-merger-guidelines-081...
They probably have a rich, well connected daddy. For normal people, $250k is probably as high as you can possibly go. I also have experience with distributed systems, worked 80 hours a week for 10 years straight and built several popular open source projects and I can't get past $80k... Almost feels like a conspiracy against me at this stage but I suspect it just comes down to not having a rich daddy who is connected to politicians and corporate execs.

If you look at any rich person these days with a high salary, there is always a rich daddy, rich mommy, rich sugarmomma, rich sugardaddy or rich buddies pulling strings behind the scenes. It's just the new spoiled brat reality. HR people probably run candidates through an opaque automated system which filters out anyone who doesn't have a rich sugardaddy.
I recently received a phone call from Dexcom, since they make a continuous glucose monitor that I wear. The call was to warn me not to upgrade to iOS 16 as their app would immediately crash and I wouldn’t be able to view my blood sugar. I was told a fix was being deployed and I would receive an email when it was safe to upgrade.

Sure enough, a week later I received an email saying it was safe to upgrade to iOS 16, provided I updated the app in the App Store first.

And as frustrated as I was that a company that large with a product so safety critical had waited literally months after the iOS betas before testing iOS16, I was more frustrated when I read the release notes for this incredibly important update:

“Bug fixes and performance optimizations”
> nobody prohibits you to pay bounties to maintainers to focus on your needs

company or individual, that's true. but there's still big opportunity costs and time factors. Pay someone $1000 now to perhaps get some polish/bugfixes in a release 2 months from now... and do what in the meantime? Deal with 15% more time spent in sub-par-for-my-needs software?

You can, but it's not a slam dunk decision, and just because you paid that money, you may still not get things as you want (or when you want).
Complaining about colour terminals for nethack? All we had were green screens. But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
You mean Freehand, right?
This extention clicks on accept on every cookie notice you encountered. I don't think you can just block all those notices and expect sites to keep working.
What are your interests?
I have no real problems being people wanting to work remotely now and forever but I do think this is going to require a new legal framework to support it.

For better or worse there are very real tax issues associated with employees working in states and countries different than what their employer and government believes. A lot of these folks are knowingly or unknowingly dodging taxes in a way that is going to have severe consequences for them and company.

Establishing a tax base in a new city or state can put a company on the hook for thousand if not millions of dollars worth of additional taxes. And for the worker if you’re company isn’t withholding the right amount of state federal and local taxes you can find yourself with a huge tax bill at the end of the year.
The page explicitly and repeatedly affirms the argument made upthread, is about "re-vaccination", and cites population-wide adherence to Denmark's first round of vaccinations as the reason why re-vaccination is required only for high risk groups. You aren't meant to "read between the lines" to generate a new title on Hacker News.
I can't even tell the difference between the color settings on my phone or TV. I am not colorblind, I pass those tests. I think maybe I have spent so much time staring at screens in my life that my brain has internalized rgb.

One of the most enlightening things for me long ago was trying to write a converter between wavelength and rgb value. It led to all the right questions.

Ultimately I still dont understand color perception. It is hideously complex. But also so fascinating. The mothers of colorblind men are often tetrachromatic. I really wonder what TV's look like to them, since they assume 3 normal frequency responses.
It was accessible, but also insecure, and buggy.

And aside from animations, it helped build the "landing page" nightmare - huge (for the download speeds of the time) pages, loading tons of assets, to do nothing.

Or the even worse "flash-only website" which just showed some text and images, and had nightmarish navigation, slow download times, didn't use regular html widgets, and you couldn't copy and paste or take a bookmark of your position in it...
You're right there is a gap. We'll find out what happens very soon!
it's just not the same. Every single good mind mapping tool, despite being "graphical", distinguishes itself by good keyboard handling so you can quickly navigate and move stuff around. This does that.
I would prefer the investors just get paid back plus ROI using the value and revenue the company generates, instead of the standard being just merging the company into a larger one.
I learned on Java and I really feel like it slowed me down in some fundamentals of programming logic. Books were raving about garbage collection, JVM, "everything is an object"; I had no idea what any of that meant or why it would make Java "superior". Boilerplate like `public static void main(String[] args)` got me into the habit of ignoring things I didn't understand. The netbeans IDE was doing a lot of great quality-of-life stuff like handling imports for me and as a consequence I had a very poor understanding of how any of that worked. When you don't know how to write a for-loop yet things like accessor methods, pointers, or encapsulation are going to go way over your head.
I never understood the appeal of Figma, or even it's use case. Can someone explain it to me?
Copilot have existed in vim since the public launch, or am I missing something?
If the internet is flooded with machine generated believable nonsense, how much human brain hours will be spent wondering if they don't quite get it, or if really make no sense.
If you can’t breach the glass ceiling, just try saving more- move outside of NY etc.
You can save plenty from 250k
Doesn't Monero use algorithms that don't work on the GPU?
Your core assumption isn't true - you don't need to have 1 token 1 vote, communities can create literally any voting procedure they like. Including NFT based voting, multiple governance houses like optimism, quadratic voting like Gitcoin.
Graduates in London should be starting on £80K now.

After putting some contributions away for retirement that "decent senior" on £80K might just about be able to buy a 1-2 bed flat in a soulless development in an "OK" part of London, but definitely not a family home.

A graduate? Min 10% in to a pension (if aged 20), student loan, and they're only taking home £3.8K/mo. £2K/mo for rent is easily spent on a 1 bed furnished flat now, plus cost of living... might be OK, but hardly living like Gordon Gekko.
I know of at least one patient for stage 4 metastatic melanoma who's been in complete remission for several months on a cocktail of two different immunotherapies. Neither "stage 4" nor "metastatic" suggest early stages.
good luck to any company that wants 1) a competitive remote workforce and 2) to monitor employee movements and locations at all times
Show HN: TetNet – Evolving Tetris bot using genetic algorithms
Have you looked into living in NJ? In honesty, I don't know that there'll be much sympathy for someone able to make $250k/yr with no degree. NYC is an expensive place to live period. Virtually everyone I know who lives in the city rents.
Specially the risk of becoming a much better alternative.
How many readers and posters on HN do you think work for a startup where they are hoping their equity in a private VC backed company will be worth something? How many posters work for one of those “evil monopolist” where a great percentage of their livelihood is based on their RSUs doing well? Even if you do work for a private profitable “lifestyle business” that is profitable and was bootstrapped, I bet your company’s owners would sell their company in a heartbeat if the right “monopolist” pulled up with a truck load of money.
One of the perks of technology that move very fast is that everyone is out of touch weekly due to frequent updates and major changes. So you can look at the state of things and you will not be that far behind the main group.
So a slow death, then.

I'm old enough to remember when Adobe acquired Macromedia. They slapped some new icons on Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash etc. then completely neglected them until people abandoned them. I pray Figma fares better.
Do they have crushing expectations placed on them and are expected to be connected 24/7?
Mask mandates don’t work for several reasons:

1. People don’t obey them

2. People use garbage cloth or surgical masks that have poor efficacy. Those masks at best are only effective in partially protecting others if you’re sick, but not vice versa.

3. For the reasons stated above, these studies don’t disprove the efficacy of n95 or higher rated masks

Unlike cloth masks, n95s and higher rated masks have much better efficacy and I have yet to see a study that either focuses on them or differentiates them from near useless masks. A better study would focus on hospitals and their workers’ use of different types of masks. The current studies just help prove my point. Hating masks is something people on both sides of the political spectrum can agree on in the West
Nah, it would be the end of politicians demanding ever increasing shitty automation affecting a huge percentage of valid use cases. We didn't have any regulations demanding automated enforcement before it was possible, certain media lobby industries just wouldn't be able to abuse the state to enforce their profits via spurious, entirely untried copyright claims.
Can someone ELI5* the major reasons a large employer would want to enforce return-to-office? Some other comments touch on tax laws for domestic/foreign work, but why by in the office at all?
(* sorry if wrong forum for this acronym)
Well this is a thing that exists after all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
First-of-its-kind 3D-printed home blends concrete, wood
Using Git-Flavored Markdown, it makes for nice checklists.
Agree, but the flip side of this is that occasionally Windows will prompt for admin access in the background, I won't notice, and a hour later wonder what happened to that app i tried to install.
Everyone always says this. They should ask the Instagram founders [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerber...
Is there any way you can work remotely? If you can get companies to pay you 250k, you can definitely write a nice resumé and probably get a remote job in this market.

I know people who have the kind of history you mention but didn't end up in tech and they don't make anywhere near 250k/y. So all is not lost ;)
I’ve given up on HN understating crypto before they mint some Giga unicorn and everyone understand where the future is. The hive mind here is dangerously anti crypto.

It’s the biggest wealth producing opportunity of the next decade or two and HN doesn’t get it at all.

It’s basically become a forum for your average developer. I’d bet a lot of folk who don’t understand crypto at all are web developers or something where innovation is a new JavaScript framework.

Not saying anything bad about that, but people here don’t seem to have innovation in mind. I mean r/Ethereum on Reddit is better than HN to discuss these topics. It’s just wrong. HN has become counter futurism.
Announcing an intent to acquire a company is not against any competition law. The merger has not been finalized or even officially announced by the parties it seems. The FTC or DOJ will review this merger and if they deem it anticompetitive, they will challenge it.
> I don't think it can.

A nominal payment for the purpose of verification could allow someone to "prove" ownership of a number/email/identity.
Let's add up the carbon footprint of the traditional financial ecosystem, in whole. I think once all the externalities are factored in (including things like minting and handling physical cash and coin), doing it all on a computer makes more sense even if POW is energy intensive.

Converting energy into economic value is the opposite of waste. That is what mining does.
I've only seen one contactless ATM in my life and it's at a wells fargo, which I refuse to do business with.
I think that's only true for the skilled trades and not the laborers or apprentices.
This is the same with PIN in Europe (at least for contactless): Below a certain amount you do not have to enter the PIN.
I think our disagreement is that I vehemently consider global warming to be against my long-term financial interest, making it perfectly rational to invest in anything that has a serious shot at limiting it, while you consider this to be « activism ».
1) North America has lots of this kind of energy. Gigawatts/hr being spewed into the atmosphere as an unprofitable waste byproduct as is.

2) Transporting this energy is a cost. Storing and then transporting the energy is a cost. And other kinds of computation on site requires much greater infrastructure, like internet and big box data centers, which these remote sites do not have. Bitcoin mining barely needs any internet bandwidth and doesn't need a low latency connection either. It creates an asset that can be easily sold to people willing to buy that asset at a price far greater than the costs to create it.

Its important to understand that these are partnerships between two companies.

The existing energy producer who is taking a risk on a dangerous operation, largely technophobic and takes far too long to understand how it benefits them. And a separate crypto mining company searching for cheap energy, driven purely by the market.

The mining company sees the energy. The energy producer needs to reduce their waste byproducts.

Its semantics and pure coincidence about whether “less hydrocarbons billowing directly into the atmosphere” meets your criteria for “carbon offset” or “green energy”, its also what happens
Should traffic lights be abolished?

No. Phased out over time in some places maybe, not abolished. Implemented in some new developments, absolutely.

While roundabouts can work more efficiently they require the roads and traffic usage patterns to accommodate them. Additionally existing intersections designed for lights and putting in roundabouts would require cities in many cases to use eminent domain to acquire the land around them or to buy out land/properties from people. The excessive use of eminent domain would lead to endless legal battles that would deplete city budgets.

Some existing large intersections could be retrofitted for a roundabout and some small cities are in fact doing this. I've also witnessed this occurring in rural areas that have intersecting highways where the state already owns the land around the highways. This reduces brake dust, engine brake noise and keeps freight moving.
Even self hosted milvus supports this.
What's upsetting about an employer and employee agreeing on a working arrangement? If you want to work from a beach town in Portugal, negotiate it.
>Feels very 1984.

More like "Brazil". In 1984 at least things wasn't also commercialized, and shit worked.
I unplugged my alexa yesterday. It bleeped about a notification which I wasnt expecting. It wasn't a notification, it was to tell me about a sale they have on. I tried to tell it to stop and it wouldnt stop. Hit each button on the thing and it wouldnt shut up. So now its unplugged, probably not getting plugged back in
I accepted that Monopoly money ten years ago for work rendered. Glad I did.
I have been wanting to build a POC of a vpn product where you buy a kit with two little boxes that are plug n play:

One you plug into the network in the location you are supposed to be, and the other you bring with you on your travels and plug your computer into over ethernet port. The one you bring with you can connect to any wifi or be hard wired. It has one job: tunnels all your data through vpn to the other box you left behind.

Does this exist? Seems like there could be a market for it now.
> If you want to engage me in a proper discussion

I did try to engage in the discussion. "I'd not be here wasting my time talking", "You go ahead and educate yourself", "we shall never talk again." are hardly a proper response.

> Why don't you explain more about how easily accessible those traditional financial instruments are for normies?

Define "normies" first. Or better still, drop this condescending pejorative.

> I'm interested in that information, can you provide links?

I have no links, as it's a service often provided directly by your bank. Right now I have some money invested in risky assets that in the past two months sank 10% due to the way the world is right now.

There are multiple lists of "best books about investment", so you could start there. You know why? The absolute vast majority of "innovation" and "knowledge" in crypto space falls roughly into:

- scams

- currency speculation which is indistinguishable from Forex trading except that it's running on "smart contracts". Forex trading was huge in some countries (Moldova and Turkey among those I know about) in early-to-mid 2000s. I had friends at university heavily invested in it. It probably still is quite popular (and it's very popular in "defi" which is rarely anything but currency speculation and unsecured loans).

- asset hoarding + speculation. "Buy cheap, hype, hope for the price to go up, sell". Indistinguishable from anything traditional (from stocks to bonds to Ponzi schemes): you buy an asset, wait for the price to go up, sell.

What crypto is busy discovering is why "traditional finance" has all these things in place: KYOC, fraud protection and prevention, reversibility of transactions, deposit insurance, functional courts and laws etc. And is just as busy re-inventing all those, poorly.
Thanks! There is some performance impact. How much depends on the workload. The impact comes from network, storage, and memory encryption. For most workloads the overhead should be rather small. We have a performance comparison with AKS and GKE: https://docs.edgeless.systems/constellation/overview/perform...
> because many QR decoders do not properly handle 8-bit data

We should fix that! Which QR decoders still lack support for binary data decoding?

I submitted patches to zbar to add a binary decoding mode, it's already available in new versions. ZXing and zxing-cpp also have support.

Maybe it's the camera apps that lack support for this.
I've tried Designer and I just hate how it handles groups. Illustrator seems to be the only vector software that does groups right these days.
Are you employed by a for profit company?
Opensquare is a no-code and no-design tool to create and deploy NFT collections. We just launched our no-design feature. It's based on Stable Diffusion and generates metadata and multiple images in batch, based on text input.
I acknowledge your feeling that the internet is real life, and I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree. I'll repost part of a comment I made 5 months ago because I think it's very relevant:

"Don't forget that everything you see online is a facade. 15+ years ago, I fell in love with the internet because it's somewhere I could go to be something that I'm not. I could be LOUD, or I could say things I would normally never say away from the keyboard, and I think everyone bonded together online with this fact in mind. The internet was an escape.

Soon, people began to view the internet as a reality due to the rapid homogenization into 3-4 major websites which are controlled mostly by advertisers. But what I've noticed is that most of the opinions you read online aren't very honest.

Commenters on reddit will grift in the comment section for upvotes. Some commenters on HN will purposely avoid certain topics because their account is tied to their reputation in certain very partisan circles in California. Both of these examples are often the loudest and MOST SEEN (or unseen...) replies due to the low effort alignment with the popular opinion at the time.

Although the internet seems more real everyday, I truly believe it's never been further from reality. No one is truly able to say what they want due to the (seemingly) dire consequences of saying "F*ck it" and stating your true opinion (which isn't all the time, but the option no longer exists). And this even applies in the short term. If you aren't banned, you're downvoted (HN, reddit, Lobste.rs, every website with a comment section...) or filtered by an algorithm tuned to keep corporate sponsors and advertisers happy (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)."