skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a 20× difference though. $5 barely buys the coffee that one probably had to drink to work the late hours/weekend or whatever, let alone would it make up for the time. (And, again, $100 might be enough, or it might not. Depends on the effort the person put up. If I had to spend all weekend on something … probably not, since my own employer pays me at a higher rate than that; i.e., I sacrificed a weekend for lower wage?)
They're a non-profit.
The UK economy is doing much worse than the US economy. The recovery looks like it'll take much longer too.
Sure, that's a fair point. Backups were initially not encrypted, but as you mentioned, this option is now available.

Without going into too much detail, I can tell you a huge challenge with encrypted backups is compliance - many people simply do not opt-in to using encrypted backups. It's a difficult line to walk because ultimately you don't want to pester users too much about using encrypted backups either. In case it's not clear, the reason it requires opt-in is because you (i.e., the user) control the encryption keys and therefore you must take some action to write down a key or passphrase. As you may imagine, the average messaging app user is not as tech savvy as the average Hacker News user and many simply don't want to go through this extra step. Even worse, if they opt-in to encrypted backups and lose their keys, they will end up blaming Meta for not giving them a way to restore their message history when their phone gets lost (it's not easy to explain that it's your responsibility as the user to keep your keys safely stored).
On various BIOS-based systems, the reserved partition would contain files necessary for booting windows from its system volume, bridging the gap between what could be accessed by simplistic MBR boot code, the NTFS boot code block, and the NTFS-understanding, ARC emulating (for NT5) or EFI-emulating (NT6) boot system that would load target system.

Details on whether reserved partition would be created and what would be on it depend on hardware you're installing on, and if separate boot partition is necessary windows installer would inform you about need to create an extra partition.
Are you saying it's impossible to say if something objectively false is false?
You get a REST API to to query to get your data.

Eg GET api.swarm.space/devices/$id/recent
Came here to say this, I feel like Mozilla is so out of touch with their (rapidly shrinking) remaining users
Ultimately what this means is that data transfer speeds will be faster, yes? (That's a question.) If most internet usage is direct to satellite and then satellite to endpoint this would mean that tier one hub networks would no longer be used. So laser replaces fiber for most of the distance, with a peer to peer satellite network that would make outages less common. Which would be both faster and more reliable. The only issue I see is for there to be an intentional or unintentional satellite debris event that would be self propagating, but that issue has been around for a while anyway.
Hello that's absolutely a fair question, I think that all the apps mentioned are working on similar problems and they are doing a great job!

A lot of our users have been using either Sunsama or Motion and I'm sure that some of our users moved to them after trying Akiflow. We have many differences in terms of features, UI and UX. For example, Motion puts a lot of focus on ai powered scheduling while we are more focused on making sure the users can plan their time "intentionally".

One thing I learned building Akiflow is that productivity is extremely personal and there's no right or wrong. I'd encourage to give a try to all and see what works
It would be cool if such forks were transparent on the original forum / subreddit, and if they also forked on specific rules. I.e. like a diff with rule 5 crossed out / changed / new rule added, etc.
Hey if you don’t pay top dollar for quality executive talent, you might end up with people who run the company into the ground slightly faster.
It seems like he's arguing that people claiming moderation is censoring them are wrong, because moderation of large platforms is dispassionate and focused on limiting behavior no one likes, rather than specific topics.

I have no problem believing this is true for the vast majority of moderation decisions. But I think the argument fails because it only takes a few exceptions or a little bit of bias in this process to have a large effect.

On a huge platform it can simultaneously be true that platform moderation is almost always focused on behavior instead of content, and a subset of people and topics are being censored.
Yes, but then IoT usually invokes a sense of (almost) real-time monitoring of things and lots of packets etc...

But I get your point, also you can always do a lot of things to save on bandwidth, like do not send info which is not interesting (i.e. no point in sending 100s of "no fire was detected" messages).

Btw, anyone here knows if there's compression schemes designed specifically for small data packets? Gzip and others would be overkill as headers vastly exceed payload size. Just using raw LZ77 may work but it's 2022 so there's probably a specific thing for that already.

Also, what about data that follows a specific format, like only integer numbers, it would be nice to have an algorithm that takes a "string" of 32-bit ints and gives you back a binary buffer with a smaller lossless representation of it.
Unfortunately, command and control for terrorist drone networks, sending coordinates to low-use credit-card gas pumps for night-time refills, and coordinates to targets. Give it ten years.
Technically the US has more people in prison than China, and QOL metrics have all been dropping for decades.

Crack epidemic. Prescription drug epidemic. RvW being gutted.

Let’s sit and fear becoming a nation state that collapsed 30 years ago while ignoring we’re already on the path.
All I'm saying is that you don't take into account all paths for each node. Just for ex 100 random walks starting at each node. And that results in an embedding that is 'good enough'.

Of course it is better to throw more hardware at the issue. But at a certain point the added value of being more precise or adding more hardware becomes moot, because you gain 0.1%

That is what I meant by 'it scales'. You can solve 'reasonably complex issues' with 'reasonably cheap hardware'
You're ignoring what the commenter is addressing: a corporation, and a particularly insidious one at that.

It's easy to feel powerless and frustrated in a world where corporations (in this case a blatant monopoly) make decisions that affect people's lives.

Without a second thought, because they arbitrarily deem it harmful to their profits or wasting their human resources. Good will... serving the public interest? Only if it's profitable or works towards the corporation's collective interests.

And it's not democratic: I can't propose or participate in a vote to overturn something that a corporation does or decides that affects my life. A Google employee couldn't even do that: Google is under no obligation to follow what their employees decide.

I can adapt, change my habits, even boycott Google; but ultimately my power as a citizen is limited because I lack the most important elements to affect change in this world: very big piles of money and influence.

It seems that Google's developers are merely cogs in the machine (see: the Stadia fiasco). So I'm sure the commenter was mainly directing their frustration to Google.

If Google's employees had a voice, surely Google would have a support department that handles Google's various services? How would you feel if countless people are despairing because the service you developed/worked on isn't serving them properly?

Locked out of your Gmail and recovery methods don't work? Google flagged your domain for so-called abuse? Take to Twitter if you're a celebrity or well-connected and beg for support, or if not: get fucked.

Google is not a good company, and desperately needs regulated.

This manner of speaking is common because not everybody is born with a silver spoon, or is able or willing to take on an enormous amount of debt to obtain a degree that may or may not pan out into a career that uplifts them out of poverty.
I think it was clear the person you're replying to is saying that the repercussions for being critical toward your employer is what makes it effectively 'not allowed'.
My interest was piqued, so I started going through the issues tagged with 'bug' from oldest to newest. I got 100 in and... well, Jiminy Cricket... I was still in 2017. Think I'll pass.
The big difference with Reddit is if posters get banned, or if the subreddit gets banned.

The "good" subreddits will get posters banned left and right, but accounts are cheap and they return.

The "bad" subreddits get banned.
It's also a class action,

> behalf of a pro­posed class of pos­si­bly mil­lions of GitHub users...

The appendix includes the 11 licenses that the plaintiffs say GitHub Copilot violates:
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/pdf/1-1-github_complaint...
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There's perhaps a third way that looks more like Mozilla itself (setting aside the problematics with Google), or Ghost, or Signal. Funding a trust/nonprofit that owns the companies and itself has accountability to the greater good. That bakes in transparency and pays people fair market wages but isn't built in a way where investors or even founders are driven to 'get rich.' Where business goals are around sustainability rather than hypergrowth. The current VC model simply doesn't align with human-need driven software products, at least in the consumer sector.
This makes me so angry to see. I feel like all the things I find important in technology are getting obliterated and the organizations I used to rely on turn out to be useless. If we ever lose Linus it's fucking over
The reason they're dumb is because Gen Xers (like us) censored and overprotected their childhoods, and made them dumb. We've doomed them to having to educate themselves on the internet, because we failed to give them accurate knowledge and reasoning skills. Unfortunately, the US government (who saved a few generations from their dumb parents) ceased to care about education after the Soviet Union fell, leading to privatization and homeschooling.

For being miseducated, propagandized, and impoverished, I think they turned out relatively well.
Interestingly, GRUB actually supports ZFS; it has the dubious distinction of being the only extant implementation of ZFS that's GPL licensed, but... probably because of that... it's separate from the main OpenZFS implementation is extremely feature-poor. This results in fun things like Ubuntu's root-on-ZFS layout creating 2 pools; a boot pool (bpool) that GRUB can read, and a root pool (rpool) with the OS. It's not that complicated, but it's not nice.
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A giant amount of social quandaries melt away when you realize:

"Good guys" and "Bad guys" is not a matter of identity, it's a matter of activity.

You aren't a "Good guy" because of who you are, but because of what you do.

There are vanishingly few people who as a matter of identity are reliably and permanently one way or another.
what is "unused PTO" - I thought every company was now on the unlimited/zero PTO model
That is risky, since without a partition table, some operating systems and disk management tools will treat the disk as empty, making it easy to accidentally overwrite data.

> 100% of the capacity, with no wasted sectors.

You will never have that. SSDs have a large amount of reserved space, and even on HDDs, there are some reserved tracks for defect management.
> or maybe they'll join one where they get paid mostly in equity.

Yup, most people who lost their jobs and are wondering how to feed their families will definitely pick to to not be paid for even longer...
This also used to be relatively popular in the early days of League of Legends, people requesting a "Lyte Smite". Players would make inflammatory posts on the forums saying they were banned wrongly, and Lyte would come in with the chatlogs, sometimes escalating to perma-ban. I did always admire this system and thought it could be improved.

There's also a lot of drama around Lyte in his personal life, should you choose to go looking into that.
Invest in tech worker cooperatives instead of for-profit corporations; it seems like more of the same Silicon Valley VC money pumping otherwise. :|
Is it possible that making money as a VC firm on the side is the solution to Mozilla's funding problem - being dependent on a deal with their main competitor - so that they can keep working on the browser?
At least one missing element is that of reputation. I don't think it should work exactly like it does in the real world, but the absence of it seems to always lead to major problems.

The cost of being a jerk online is too low - it's almost entirely free of any consequences.

Put another way, not everyone deserves a megaphone. Not everyone deserves to chime in on any conversation they want. The promise of online discussion is that everyone should have the potential to rise to that, but just granting them that privilege from the outset and hardly ever revoking it doesn't work.

Rather than having an overt moderation system, I'd much rather see where the reach/visibility/weight of your messages is driven by things like your time in the given community, your track record of insightful, levelheaded conversation, etc.
It’s hard for me to imagine what “scary actual censorship” is happening — that is, to identify topics or perspectives that cannot be represented in net forums. If such topics/perspectives exist, then the effectiveness must be near total to the point where I’m entirely unaware of them, which I guess would be scary if people could provide examples. But usually when I ask, I’m supplied with topics which I have indeed seen discussed on Twitter, Reddit, and often even HN, so…
Same here until my most recent job that I took just this year. The amount of brain waste is staggering.
It could be as well that it's an European thing. At least over here work is just work (9 to 5, or less if possible), so we prefer to spent life with friends and family. Yeah, we don't earn $500K/year, but that's alright.
Why can't I "hire" (join) a social network that preemptively mods according to my preferences?
Isn't focusing on what's proven false better than attempting to determine what is true? Are you saying it's impossible to determine if something proven objectively false is false?

Also it's worth point no arbitration of "true/false" occurred, the use cases were fraud spamming etc.
This is solid gold coming from a YouTube Legend. Thanks for the comment, love your content.
yes, guess what? A bike driver died in berlin because of their protests.. so now its fine to call it terrorism? https://twitter.com/AufstandLastGen/status/15881609762388172...
In response to a subpoena, Signal foundation provided law enforcement with the date of account creation and last date of access.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/

The subpoena asks for "all correspondence with [these] users". I am not a lawyer, so I don't know if that gave enough wiggle room for Signal to not provide metadata, or if they don't store it in the first place.
1457 EUR in Croatia (VAT 25%, import duty also seems to be 0% for smartphones).
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The only solution to this war is no commas!

To roughly translate the first example in the article (I shortened the value of `d`):

svg [
x=[0px]
y=[0px]
viewBox=[0 0 21 21]

path [
fill=[#FFF]
stroke=[#146AFF]
strokeWidth=[2]
d=[M11.1,1.4l2.4,...]
]
]

You can remove all whitespace and it's still unambiguous.

It's a perfectly viable lightweight syntax for SVG.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32995047
"I am sorry for destroying your life, so let's move on."
I'm sure Stipe would be happy to have them stay, but, since Stripe will be unable to continue paying them for their time, I would guess they will mostly choose to go.
Exactly. One of the central features of the dot-com bubble were that stupid (as in never-gonna-work / Silicon Valley-the-series) companies were getting massive amounts of funding.

Then, it was because {value} = {idea} + {Internet}.

Except nobody knew how much value the {Internet} part added, because the Internet wasn't done solidifying in terms of capability (e.g. "AJAX? What's that?") or connectivity (PocketPC!).

Now, the Internet is a pretty well-known quantity.

So while Uber and Lyft and Masayoshi Son's portfolio might be massively overvaluing things, the fundamental nature is well understood.

Some stupid companies will die, but there are lots of companies making actual money doing actually useful things.

And the primary casualties of the dot-com bust are all so consolidated that the tools-impact will likely be lesser too. Amazon/MS/Google aren't going to go bankrupt over softer cloud demand.
> a lot of content, however well presented and rationally argued, just cannot be digested.

Can you name the topic areas where even cautious presentation will not be sustained on twitter?
It wasn't against the license. It's AGPL v3, about as open as it gets.
Definitely me.

I don't take these events personally, it's strictly business after all, esp when the termination agreement is generous enough, and conduct is kept professional and decent between the employer and employees.

It's like a breakup but on very amicable terms, it sucks at first esp when it's abrupt but you get used to it, and there's always the chance of you getting back together.

No hard feelings!
Update: I'm back. nearly 8 hours later.... I finished/beat the game. sigh.... back to work.....(but it was fun while it lasted)
I think you agree with the parent.

They pointed out that everybody can be a bad actor and you will not find a way to get better users.
Looks like they have a SaaS product called Hive to poll/push data from devices to your application. I don't see any indication of point to point message passing capability but it may exist.
Good points. I'm curious what makes the communities good and keeps people engaged and communicating. How do you discover open source projects you want to work on?
> is pretty much taken as a given in Chomskyan linguistics

That he believes in it is irrelevant. His linguistics do not require the feature to be absent in animals, only that humans have it.

Chomsky is famous for having some extremely insightful ideas that are important in several areas; and also for holding a lot of extremely stupid ones that are ridiculed by several areas. We don't throw the first set away because of the second.
It depends on the phone. Some are constructed with glue as well as screws, or have plastic tabs that become brittle and can easily break when servicing the phone.
the motivation is also in the article, because the original research that suggested similarities in activity only achieved this by doing it under conditions that are implausible in biological systems, therefore that original research likely was misleading.
It just feels like such a small thing that is not even worth mentioning or taking into account.
"Because there are very few competent candidates available in the market"

Just because you're hired for one of those positions doesn't mean you're competent.
Yes, GEO Coop keeps a fact-sheet: https://geo.coop/story/fact-sheet

With most citations being from: https://geo.coop/story/benefits-and-impacts-cooperatives

For example:

> Since most cooperatives are owned and controlled by local residents, it is more likely to promote community growth than an investor-oriented firm. Since cooperative business objectives are needs oriented, cooperatives are more likely to stay in the community (Zeuli, Freshwater et al 2003).
I maybe check my mail monthly because I handle everything electronically. A week ago I did, and it was crammed to the gills with at least half a dozen of these stupid papers. To confirm the OP, I live in Illinois.

edit: oh, also confirming that they were extremely right-wing.
Even if you have a couple of years saved up, being out of work can put a damper on your plans quickly. It means your spouse's job is especially important for health insurance (in the states), and that is assuming they have a job already. If you were looking to buy a house soon, those plans just got cancelled, and if you just spent a lot of your cushion on a down payment (with the intention of rebuilding your cushion), things could be tight for awhile. This is true even for a FAANG or Stripe employee.

Also, being laid off usually means being in a down economy where not much hiring is going on, so recovery takes longer.
> when I was interviewing developers I would give specifically vague requirements

I did this for a while and realized that it typically panicked the people we were interviewing, especially if they were on the junior/mid side of things and as a result, gave lower-quality answers.

> I would also expect error handling to be addressed in any piece of software written for any purpose

I guess it depends on what people are hiring for but in the long list of things I need out of that person, this ends up lower on the list
>Most customers don't care

How much is "most"? What data do you have? Plus, even if ~20% of customers care and only half will boycott, that's still going to have an impact on the company's bottom line.
They still have bills to pay. Being a non-profit doesn't mean they don't need revenue.
Although I understand your sentiment, there was a big uproar (rightly so) when Mozilla cut a lot of stuff that wasn't directly related to Firefox, such as MDN web docs or the experimental Servo browser engine. Building a healthy and innovative ecosystem requires not developing tunnel vision. Having a future requires investing in the future as well as the present.

Some would no doubt consider incubating their own programming language, Rust, to be a distraction, but it's a clear benefit to programming / computer safety that they did, and presumably makes Firefox more fun to work on since programmers famously enjoy Rust.

Focus is good, but like most good things it's best in moderation, otherwise you reach diminishing returns while sacrificing everything else that matters.
Ehh this is all so vague, both Yglesias's original thread and my disagreement with it, and I"m not sure it's benefited from getting specific. Who cares if I find some random tweets supporting my point, I'm sure you can find counter tweets. This ironically is the problem with a lot of modern journalism in a nutshell, tweet hunting to support narratives.

In any case my opinion is that a lot of journalists (at least the active ones, not the ones with auto-tweets of their stories) really enjoy twitter and really enjoy being "a blue checkmark" and are annoyed that their club is no longer exclusive. This annoyance has been verbalized in a myriad of criticisms of musk, the new system, etc.

Edit: because I can’t completely punt I did remember seeing this tweet which amazingly has 85k likes
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1587508595553353729

Which blew my mind, oh course not completely representative of all journalists
The US shows it at 7% but in many areas it seem like way a higher percentage men of working age are not working . It's probably closer to 30%
'x is illegal' is a cop-out (albeit often unintentional) and I wish people would stop using it. anything can be made illegal, are you just going to roll over if expressing an unpopular idea becomes a crime? Conversely, illegality doesn't deter a lot of people and many are skilled at playing with the envelope of legality, so absent any moderation you'll get lots of technically/arguably legal content that is designed or degrade or disrupt the operation of a target forum.

It's unhealthy to just throw every difficult problem at courts; the legal system is clumsy, unresponsive, and often tends to go to unwanted extremes due to a combination of technical ignorance, social frustration, and useless theatrics.
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