skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked on a few thinking "huh what weird places" ... then I stumbled upon the "Shark Attack" one (the famous "shark through the roof" in oxford, headington).

I used to live close by, literally two streets down. Small world ...
Nothing like when someone brought a PC into the shop to work on and it was from a smokers house. Made the whole place small like an ashtray, and the parts were sticky with tar.
I remember when this article came out originally because I was surprised to see a random charger I owned as the winner. I still have this HP touchpad charger and a decade later it still works great.
My employer plan charges $500/yr
With many ISPs handing out /64s and others handing out /48s and /56s to households, it's difficult to tell a subnet from another IP.

Even still, this information is pretty useless. So what if you know my current subnet is 3a80? That won't help you get past the firewall.
Ask HN: Startups hiring new grads/people with little to no experience
Hello community! I graduated with a CS Bachelor's in June and still looking for a SWE or related job. Just wondering if it's common for startups (any stage) to take on people who don't have much experience. So far in my job search, I've applied to big tech and startups but my experience with these applications so far is that startups are not interested in new grads/no YOE, which makes sense, but curious to know if I've been looking in the wrong places or this is the norm. Thank you.
some of us do not like to deal with police.
My grandfather (who died because of his smoking addiction) had a number of ashtrays I distinctly remember. There was a push-down one that would spin, depositing the ashes and butts into a trap door compartment inside. There was one made of old coins bent and welded together. Of course simple glass ones around the house. The truck had an ash tray built in, with a lid mechanism so it could be removed and emptied without making a mess. Go to estate sales and you'll see them sometimes.

The statistics can be really surprising to people: "Only 40% of people smoked?" and "Wow, that many?" equally likely. Drinking alcohol is similar in that regard, people are amazed (for opposite reasons) to find out 60% of Americans drink.
Apple doesn’t charge merchants anything for using Apple Pay, they charge the banks for being able to have their cards in Apple wallet. Merchants still get charged by the banks but Apple doesn’t take anything from them.

The 30% fees is on App Store purchases
Good leadership taking a stand against bad management.
Haven't observed
The fan is in the enclosure and wasn't strong enough to collect everything but it blew it around and coated everything in the enclosure. It also sprayed it around a decent amount of it outside on the side of our house (vs just venting the gases when using the laser or 3d printer).

I've seen some people set up vacuums that attach to the head so that dust is actually collected (and you get a filter in the vacuum to collect the dust). That seems like a better approach. I don't use the CNC very often so I haven't bothered. For now I just keep the fan off and occasionally stop the job to vacuum up the dust that's been produced with my shop vac.
A hefty price to pay.
Haha, the funny thing is that the service isn’t even storing that piece of data – the user is! So GDPR, etc. should be covered.

Although, if the user finds out about the mechanism they can just delete the entry from their keychain.
https://archive.ph/snJJc
Generalization of Blub Paradox, more or less.
Blizzard completely lost their ability to operate in China today after they lost a corporate game of chicken with their Chinese partner NetEase

https://www.pcgamer.com/netease-smashes-up-world-of-warcraft...

it will likely be months (if not years) before they are permitted to operate again, likely killing the habit for a large percentage of their player base

I wonder how the droid that initiated that contract re-negotiation was ranked?
It's a different parable. Everyone can afford a shovel.

At one point in time, computers were limited to very wealthy folks, like Bill Gates. He learned to program by going to an exclusive private high school which had a computer, and later, in Harvard. He had a unique competitive advantage which allowed him to start Microsoft.

A better parable is GNU/Linux/BSD/etc. versus Unix/VAX/etc. Unix cost thousands of dollars. The free alternatives were free. This allowed a whole generation of kids to learn, who didn't have Gates' resources.

I wasn't in a private high school, and without Debian, I wouldn't have the life I have.
After working with LLMs for a while, I'm pretty sure we're close to a prompt like this, "In style of Kurt Vonnegut, write an essay about the career of US Grant, include his military accomplishments and his burial." The output would likely be an essay that would pass the test and be impossible for a professor to detect.

Perhaps education will have to value cognition and ability to apply knowledge over being able to organize and communicate facts and accepted opinions. One thing is sure, a lot is going to change over the next two decades.
Are they still doing “The Vault” over on Disney+?
not yet, still in progress
Gallium nitride has roughly 3x the bandgap of silicon. You can move the same amount of power through a much smaller charger or move much more power through a similarly sized charger.
>The book is way more complex and the characters engage in way more sophisticated double plays and schemes, than in reality, where they make quite trivial and dumb misstakes all the time.

I doubt that. I suspect that his writing is quite close to reality. For supporting evidence see The Red Sparrow trilogy by Matthews. The first novel opens with a 14 hour walk across Moscow to be sure that there is nobody on his tail. Just to have a short meeting with his source.

Or read "The Targeter" by Nada Bakos, an actual spy, who was targeting terrorists. The reality, in fact is more complex, long, and boring than any le Carré novel, let alone the (what I think of pulp) thrillers about James Bond.
"Hello, 911? I'd like to report a stalker. If you don't handle it in 30 minutes or less, I will attack. I woke up today and chose violence..."
Yes.

“Science says” is a statement of belief in a knowledge mafia.

“Scientists asked this question and here’s what they discovered and here is what they think” is how science news should be reported. More like entertainment tonight and less like a Sunday school sermon.
Yeah, smoking was everywhere. I remember flying when you could smoke.

But the main thing is the smell of stale cigarette smoke was just like this undercurrent of any public place you went. Everyone's car. Churches. Everywhere it was that smell.

Also at least where I was in KS, store clerks didn't give a crap. We could buy smokes in middle school if we wanted. Thankfully I never did more than a brief fascination with cloves (and believe me, smoking too many cloves one night because you're upset over a girl will cure you of that).
Oh how quickly the goalposts shift... If the test was done correctly and there was no data leakage, this absolutely does not compare to someone equipped with the answer key.
It is just recent, likely as a result of such articles as this one.
s/companies/worker cooperatives/

If one wants to escape a corporate hellhole no sense in starting another one.

Additionally no need to start from scratch. Just joining an existing worker cooperative would be a radical improvement over non-equity employment.
Honorable guy
I tried it around half a year ago and it looked promising, but severely lacking in content.

Has that been fixed since?
The issue is the waitstaff that prepare takeout at some restaurants are "tipped" service workers.

Which means they don't earn almost any wage.

So if they spend all their time prepping takeout orders for delivery workers they make NO money. So they get very pissed doing this work and intentionally slow it down.

my experience is from several years back, things may have changed.
Before we let people make choices about smoking, I'd rather let them do heroin or cocaine. At least that does not force me to inhale their smoke. But as a more general answer, we (as society) always make trade-offs with letting people make their own choices, and forbidding behavior for the better of society. The boundaries will always be somewhat arbitrary.

That said, the economic costs of smoking to society is significant and there are some corporations that essentially make a killing on it (don't get me started on the anti-science propaganda that they funded. If people want to smoke tobacco in their own home, sure let them grow their own, so at least there is not a corporation who tries to peddle smoking to children in order to improve their profits.
I was a little late to the game, but in the mid-80s my parents took us to a screening of 2001 a Space Odyssey at the local university, and although they weren't in use by then, all of the desks in the lecture hall had ashtrays build into their armrests.
I did that a few times and now just go to competitors instead. I don’t have time or desire to talk to a sales person and decline all their upsell options just to get the price.

Agree with you re enterprise pricing, but usually it’s differentiated quite clearly as an offering meant for high usage/scale.
Who starts a company thinking it won't be extremely hard?
Yea I've been on welfare myself and it wasn't enough but I wasn't trying to make a job out of it and applying for all the different extra plans and what not, I was just trying to find a new job.
Push for those laws. Patronize restaurants which pay well.

Until that’s universal, tip generously anywhere you aren’t certain pays their works great wages. Good intentions don’t help anyone make rent.
Smoking or non?

Looks like you're about 25 years younger than me. When I was a kid, there was no such thing as a nonsmoking section. Of course you could smoke, anywhere!

Us kids didn't get real tobacco cigarettes, but we always had candy cigarettes so we could "smoke" along with the grown-ups.

https://www.google.com/search?q=candy+cigarette&tbm=isch

One difference from today was that our candy cigarettes had brand names just like the grown-up cigarettes, or a close facsimile:

https://thedieline.com/blog/2019/10/28/the-history-of-the-ca...

"Hey dad, can I bum a smoke?"

I remember the first time I took an airline flight after they introduced a non-smoking section at the back of the plane. I got seated in the front row of non-smoking, right behind the last row of smoking.

As soon as the no smoking light went off, everyone in the row ahead of me lit up!
I came across Scott's Hut in Antarctica

Really Cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%27s_Hut
As a customer they're great, especially as someone who moved internationally and so needed to use a "foreign" credit card to pay for things for a while. Being able to pay everywhere with a consistent UI and have my payment history (and manage which card I'm using) in one place is really nice.
They were quick to refund my money after receiving seriously damaged goods.

That said, I would never trust them as a business owner. They are too happy to freeze funds and then never release them.
> What's required for Security Keys for Apple ID

> A modern web browser. If you can't use your security key to sign in on the web, update your browser to the latest version or try another browser.

It doesn't seem like Firefox 108 supports this. Does anyone know if Firefox beta or nightly work to sign into iCloud with hardware security keys for 2FA?

---

Just confirmed that Firefox beta (109) doesn't support iCloud's sign in, either.
> tipping is in general a system that shifts some of the employer's costs to customers explicitly

it's not explicit because no one knows what the total cost is that's being shifted to the consumer and how much of that is recouped by tipping.
Zero available sources corroborate that. It was purely the cost of the products that caused the blowback.
Not quite, but maybe, I don’t talk to my friends about how they interact with gps directions. I’m saying that when giving verbal directions knowledge of street names aren’t generally shared equally. I know my knowledge of street names when im giving directions for the city I’ve lived in for almost 2 years is not great. I also commute by bicycle and don’t rely on GPS, just navigating by special awareness mostly.
AT&T 1961 Thinking Machine
This is awesome news! My YubiKey keeps becoming more and more useful over time, it's excellent. Yubi Authenticator giving me TOTP has been lovely (I have two keys that I always add the codes to each, one kept safe the other used regularly), and now more and more support for FIDO/U2F etc. across all my important accounts. Apple ID was one of the last hold outs, this is so good
> Do you think it's somehow more altruistic to provide subjectively uglier individuals the same wage? Bias based on attractiveness is no worse than bias based on personality or any other trait. Your point is moot anyway, in a capitalistic society people can just choose to visit another business where the staff has the traits they desire.

Your point seems to be that there is no inherent moral good in distributing resources equally among people as opposed to allowing inequality to naturally emerge and/or optimizing for total value across all people. I don't necessarily disagree: it is hard to argue from first principles that each individual should be given the same weight, as opposed to any other arbitrary system like giving each family the same weight, or taking intelligence into account. However, it is also wrong to pretend that there isn't significant precedent in society for assigning each individual equal moral weight — for example, by allowing everyone an equal vote in elections, which has clearly been a useful practice. And I consider it obvious that "Bias based on attractiveness is no worse than bias based on personality or any other trait" isn't something that would be widely agreed upon.
That’s very sad to hear. I was hoping that it was at least somewhat better with the release of Docker for Apple Silicon in 2021. I have very minimal use of docker most of the time but sometimes I require more use of it and I can see myself getting frustrated when I need to perform multiple builds.
In this case, the employer incurs cost in every state they create a nexus, and so yes, there is a limitation. My company uses a PEO that is able to employ people in every state, so we don't have this limitation, but the cost to carry an employee varies a lot from state to state... and that is before considering difference in local pay rates.
Twitter sued by Crown Estate over alleged unpaid rent at UK HQ
I don't see how this is a failure at all. Amazon Pay and Stripe are not competitors. Amazon Pay is a customer-facing service that makes it easier for customers to enter their credit card information and use it across multiple websites. Stripe is the backend service that processes those payments for on financial networks.

This announcement is about these services coexisting, not about them competing.
There are a few “accepted” ways of asking this.

First, if you are truly the linchpin, you’re likely working over/above your position. So make the case that you are a rank N employee doing N+1 work.

Alternatively, try the market adjustment route: you are doing more than your role, and you’re already being underpaid for that role.

As a manager IDGAF about these typical asks for raises. It’s part of the job. What I do care about is the “pay me +X or I leave” games - those suck to deal with and are often a card you can play once.

But while we are all worried about job security, things are extra tight for employers right now: if I lose one of my employees, it’s very likely that I’d face an uphill fight to hire someone to replace them because my boss / her boss would claim that as a win for their budget. So you do have some room to maneuver here.
Stack ranking seems to misunderstand how statistics work. Sure, N% of the people in the company might be under performers, but that does not at all suggest that N% of each team are. The weakest member of a team may well ahead of the curve if you are on a strong team.

Further, stack ranking mostly ignores the existence of human psychology. As soon as metric is chosen to be a benchmark for the measurement of performance, it almost immediately because useless as a benchmark for performance, because people are people. People will find out how the game works, and they will play the game. Employees will sabotage other's work to make themselves look relatively better, managers will hire whipping boys for the specific purpose of giving a low rating so they can take the sword. Sure this happens with any performance rating system, but the worse behaviors are accentuated with fundamentally broken rating systems.

How should employee evaluation be done then? It's straight forward:

* Set clear expectations.

* Get peer feedback

* Manager decides how the employee performed in comparison to the expectations that were clearly communicated to the employee based on the manager's personal knowledge of their reports work, and from that of peer feedback.

No zero sum hunger game bullshit required.
The problem with the 2000s-era Microsoft method, as I understand it, was that the population sizes they used were too small. Stack ranking was done at the individual team level, and that did indeed lead to people sabotaging each other, because in a team of 10 only 2 people could get the highest pay raises and 1 person would be placed on a PIP (or whatever the ratios were).

But yes, all major companies still do something like this AFAIK, just with a larger population size now. Speaking from my experience at Amazon, the target was around 4%, but this was across entire departments. My department was 300 people. Is it possible that you can have a department of 300 people where you can't find 12 people who are below-average performers? Yes. Is it likely? No.

I don't know how many people the lead in the article managed. If it was a team of 15, he has a legitimate gripe. If it was a team of 200, not so much.
I also use PayPal a lot. It is more convenient since I don't have to find my credit card to enter the digits manually. It is also easier to change payment methods with PayPal.
I think there’s some nuance here. You can’t totally prohibit something people really want to do, but you can pretty effectively prohibit something almost no one wants to do or where there is a very good substitute.

Having a tiny landmass, and no land borders also helps. It’s possible to grown tobacco hydroponically but I’m not sure if anyone would bother unless there was an overnight hard ban.
Yes, but that's a separate issue from whether anyone should be allowed to buy a computer with 8GB in it.
I am guessing that when company reach a certain size, bean counter need to take over to manage the business
To answer your question, though -- yes.

There is a backup key also generated that you can either print or save elsewhere. You must retype the backup key to continue.
Yep, I think my buddy took inspiration. It uses goss underneath which is crazy fast.
When it comes to cycling maps, I’d recommend checking out cycle.travel[1], its routing (at least over here in EU land) has been awesome. I’ve done a couple of week long trips planned on it.

No affiliation, just a happy user.

[1] https://cycle.travel/map
Interesting. Reminds me when the battle.net client seemed to bug out after I switch OS from deb to win11 and somehow my clock is always messed up. I have to fix my time (sync it again in settings app) otherwise it seems games don’t load.

Maybe they’re checking my location against time and IP? This was a while ago when I was trying out wow classic.
Hubbel already makes this.
https://www.hubbell.com/wiringdevice-kellems/en/Products/Ele...
This may be true, but my calculus in this situation was limited to "Guy came through deep snow at 9:30pm to deliver peanut butter...he deserves some money, I have some money, I would like a simple and effective way to transfer it to him."

(Note: I was not home when the delivery was made...)
Note the “for the moment” part in the comment you’re replying to. Until we have successfully voted in fair wages and robust enforcement, those workers are depending on tips to get by.
The sell (though they seem to be avoiding this particular avenue) is that they have become the owners of a LOT of cultural cornerstones and can leverage that content to create something Netflix cannot:

A complete multi-generational back-catalog that is always available to stream.

Netflix’s irrevocable back-catalog can only go as far back as their first Netflix original. Everything else is licensed.
I went to Vegas a couple months ago, and one thing that absolutely blew me away was the fact that, just within the last ~5 odd years since I last visited even the casinos stopped reeking of tobacco. I figured it was a confluence of factors: people smoke less now, people are far more likely to vape than smoke (which, for its ills, definitely doesn't leave a lingering stench like cigarettes), and there was a lot of talk about improved ventilation in response to the pandemic.
> Everyone had hard-smoking relatives who looked like absolute hell by their late 30s, were coughing up a lung in their 40s, and by their 50s were being hoisted by pallbearers.

Smoking is a disgusting habit and I love working from home because I never have to step in an elevator with folks fresh from a smoke break, but it isn't nearly that fatal.

I grew up when smoking was literally everywhere and the "hard-smoking" folks overwhelmingly survived to their 60s and most to their 70s or later. A 55 year old smoking death was rare.

Exaggeration destroys trust.
Also 67, and no, not impressed
> and far easier to use than anything digital.

Paper maps are great for knowing where to go, but a little less great for knowing where you are. Off/deep trail hikers will have a stand-alone GPS, because climbing trees/hills to get your bearings ends up being a serious risk, with just a compass: https://gripped.com/gripped-outdoors/how-100-hikers-got-lost...
This sounds like straight up employee misclassification and wage theft that should be taken up with state regulators. Surely a fast food place like McDonalds can't just put a tip jar on the counter, play coy that their workers are tipped positions, and underpay their employees. So it's a matter of enforcement on the smaller outfits that are able to fly under the radar.

I don't want to completely wash my hands of it because it's certainly possible the state regulators could be corrupt and just ignoring the problem, but just giving in to the corruption doesn't seem right either.
I actually say this virtually snark free, but I've always thought of Chick-fil-A as a Christian religious group that happens to run a chicken sandwich restaurant. I've certainly had lots of experience eating their food and talking to the employees and a few owners. I suspect that's part of the atmosphere.
This has been a recurring pattern with other forms of media, e.g. vinyl records, typewriters, Atari cartridges. An uptick many years after the technology became obsolete, which generates intriguing headlines. More recently, it's been happening with digital cameras from the early 2000s.

Of course, it follows a long period of decline, so it's like a stock price that's dropped from $100 to $1. Should it suddenly increase 30%, it will attract attention, but it's still down 98.7%.

There's usually a gap of a decade or more because it can't be retro-chic until its replacement has saturated the market. The last of the laggards keep a baseline demand for the old thing, while the hipsters come in and increase its demand for a while. Then they get bored and the laggard market keeps declining, so the market falls back down again.
I sent an email a year or so ago about their unpaid pre-interview homework project (a non-starter to me). I got back an email from a real person, though I didn't pursue it because of the homework and an unrelated issue.