skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse, these cloud storage providers actively mislead users into thinking their files are safe and durable when stored on their services. Google Drive and Apple iCloud advertise themselves as a safe place to keep all of your data, and will nag users of Android and iOS devices respectively into enabling their storage services, setting them as the default storage provider for documents, and enabling automatic deletion of local copies to "free up space". They want users to rely on them for all of their photo/note/mosc documents storage and synchronization needs, it's good for their business if they do. But they also don't want to store anything questionable and be held legally responsible, so they automatically scan all of the "safely stored" documents, and purge users who get flagged. So their business incentives align such that they
- coerce as many users as possible to become maximally dependent on their services
- retract those service that users depend on for any slight or potential liability
and if business incentives say you do something, you do it, and no amount of techies informing the masses is going to outperform Google or Apple's messaging. So how do we fix this? We change the incentives; if you delete someone's data you should be punished. They trusted you with it, they may have even paid you to store it. If you break that agreement then you deserve some heavy fines at a minimum.
If you are a hype entrepreneur that doesn't build anything and crashes and burns, yeah it's bad for your career, those are negative signals. If you are a legit entrepreneur that builds something that sees some market uptake but it just never really reaches critical mass, that's a resume item.
I love wildlife and the natural world, and technology is utterly dependent on destroying it via mining. The directions we go in shouldn't be determined based on just whether they are interesting. They also need to be constrained based on whether they are sustainable. You obviously don't care much about the negative environmental effects of technological development.

By the way, I am not defeatist because:

1. I think we can make great progress, only progress towards rewilding nature

2. I only consider technology a dead-end, not humanity! I believe we can move past arbitrary technological development and discard our consumerist ways.
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There have been a lot of redundancies this past year, which means there are more people on the market and many companies are having a freeze/restraint.
Yes change jobs every few years to raise salary and gain breadth. But it is crucial, nay critical, that at some point you stay somewhere for 4 years or more.

Nothing teaches you software architecture like dealing with your own crap from 3+ years ago. You cannot call yourself an experienced engineer if you haven’t done this.
So when you say it’s mostly at the resume phase, does that mean if you see a lot of 1-2 year stints you move on?
apple watch first then confirmed with a proper study
It would be interesting to see what software was used.
They usually have them in order to not spook the advertisers who don't want to see their ad near anything remotely objectionable. Don't see why they care about somebody sharing a document from their Drive.
Companies don't exist for returning money to shareholders, but issuing stock exists to return money to shareholders.

1. Company issues stock in order raise capital

2. Company uses capital to grow business

3. Company returns money to stock purchases as risk-reward for purchasing stock

Buy-backs are what a company _should_ do once the capital it raised has had a positive ROI
>"are my parents young enough to be supplemental child care"

My first kid(late 20s) didn't get my parents watching the kid because they were working.

My next 3 kids (early 30s) got grandparents attention because they were retired.

Although I feel like the baby/kid thing has lost its magic on the grandparents. But on the flip side, the kids are basically old enough to take care of themselves(4+ yr old).
Errmmm... okay. The Biden administration actually has both talked extensively and taken several concrete steps against credentialism. Effective? I personally do not know. But it's blatantly false to say no one is talking about it or attempting to fix it.

> The Department of Labor (DOL) is announcing an Advanced Manufacturing Registered Apprenticeship Accelerator Series that will support hundreds of employers to speed the development and launch of Registered Apprenticeship programs in high-demand occupations, such as industrial manufacturing technicians, robotics technicians, and industrial maintenance mechanics. Since the beginning of this Administration, the number of apprentices in advanced manufacturing Registered Apprenticeship programs has increased by 10 percent—and this effort will build on that growth.

The administration has backed numerous apprenticeship programs like BioFabUSA that explicitly do not require college degrees.

The administration created "Investing in America Workforce Hubs" in several cities to attract private investment into programs that, again, prioritize high-quality jobs that do not require college degrees.

So it is simply untrue that no one is saying credentialism is a problem and trying to attack it. The current administration talks about this to no end and has attempted dozens and dozens of substantial attacks on it.

Again, if you have ideas other than grant funding and tax incentives, I'm truly curious to hear them.
Sweden doesn't have exactly the things that was mentioned, but it is far more supportive of parents than the United States: https://www.norden.org/en/info-norden/parental-benefit-swede...
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That sounds like a password management problem and not a problem with encryption.
Yes one down side of job hopping is people will be hesitant to hire you if they are looking for someone more stable
https://gocoderemote.com/

I built this to help developers find jobs. May be of use.
Some transit cards (such as the Bay Area Clipper card) do this. They are actually quite interesting in how they settle balances!
The problem is that the rules are Byzantine, and not every user has legal department.

It's not true that you cannot share sexual material.

What is true is that if you share sexual material, your whole account might be locked or disabled. That's a big difference.
Though, to be fair, the barnyard animals might disagree...
Wow, that seems like using Docker wrong. But I guess if you got used to abusing it like that then not being able to do so is gonna hurt a bit.
Even that's not a great signal. I have a strong preference for staying longer at a place, but that's not always possible.
Ahh yes, nothing treats heart hypo perfusion quite like forcing the heart into overdrive and massive vasoconstriction. Why is the US so far behind on this???

Edit: sorry I was getting technical. Yes it absolutely has a role in cardiac arrest and it's used for this the world over.

It would be very detrimental in a patient with a heart attack without arrest though due to increasing cardiac demand when cardiac supply is already highly limited
Sounds like you want to recruit and retain like a bank.
Most of it is bullshit.
Don't worry, I am equally dumbfounded by blind faith in technology.
Don’t forget .NET Standard.

Their naming for all of this is a disaster.
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> Typically, swipe fees cost merchants 2% of the total transaction a customer makes — but can be as much as 4% for some premium rewards cards, according to the National Retail Federation. The settlement would lower those fees by at least 0.04 percentage point for a minimum of three years.

Waait.... the merchants pay for the rewards?
Even if you don't care about all your data being published in the future, and even if you don't care about getting your data deleted (or door knocked in) because of a random content scanner false positive, you still need to encrypt them.

Many cloud storage services try to understand and then "clean up" file types they understand. If you don't believe me, upload and then download a TB or so of images, documents, music, videos, etc. Then, compare the checksums of the original and restored copies.

On top of that, there are services like Amazon Cloud Drive that have content-type restrictions.

The only reasonable litmus test I've seen in this space is "there is a cryptographic proof that some middle manager didn't screw up my backup".

Unfortunately, that means you need to manage the encryption keys somehow. Cloud storage kind of sucks.
‘More likely’ to be true doesn’t imply they are the only two options. But pulling out these kinds of assumptions (that you heard that limit when it wasn’t explicitly there) is exactly the kinds of things they were trying to discover, partly to make sure to ask better questions.
> I would be doing irreparable damage to my career.

This is a fear you've completely invented yourself, likely as a defense mechanism against the real fear, which is failure, to convince yourself that it's just "not the right time".
thats a good point - if you are over a certain age, getting back to a FT career is going to be hard - ageism is real in this industry.
Best talent that constantly rotates is useless when the projects you work on demand long term input from people with deep knowledge of existing systems. It's like hiring champion 100 meter sprinters to run marathons...
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Change, or revolt against them...
The main problem is that there are no browser extensions for mobile browsers.
May I ask: when you say you "tried everything and nothing worked"...was this before you knew about the existence of ADHD?

The tragedy I find is that people first discover ADHD and then go straight on meds. They don't use this new realization and understanding of their condition to try to solve it without medication. And once you begin medication, your brain starts to change, and you really can't isolate whether a behavioral change is actually working independent of your medicated state. So begins a long journey of decreasing efficacy of the meds to the point that you will end up worse than where you started.

Also curious what you did try? What was the longest time you disconnected from the internet and social media? How much did you exercise?
Independence is cool and all that, but I'd rather go with the teamwork of marriage and family.

Power over their own lives... well, I'd say both men and women give it up in marriage, at least in a functioning, idealistic one.

If you want absolute power over your own life, and your goal in life is financial independence, that's okay, but maybe marriage and family is not for you.
I wouldn't say 'crutch' but component.

Eventually LLMs will be plugged into Vision Systems, and Symbolic Systems, and Motion Systems, etc... etc...

The LLM wont be the main 'thing'. But the text interface.

Even human brain is bit segmented with different faculties being 'processed' in different areas with different architectures.
>The settlement, which only applies to US merchants, is the result of a lawsuit filed in 2005. However, nothing is considered finalized until it receives approval from the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Even then, the case can also be appealed in what could be a lengthy battle.

You're telling me it took 20 years to settle the lawsuit and even then there might be an appeal process? That seems like an extraordinarily long time.
Market dynamics. Since use of better AIs confers advantages, they will be improved. No set of players will be able to stop this because the incentives are so strong for others to continue using and developing them. The best we can hope for is AIs that are not misled.

Sometimes you have to work with the tide, because fighting it is futile and even self defeating.
Is Fortran "Memory Safe"?
I sound naive? Have you even read any Marx?
Rather than a ban, that would probably be "you're acting like a business, so you need to switch to this much more expensive plan".
(In Eddie Izzard voice): "Do you have a flag?"
I'm just capturing the code at a specific working version on external media. I'm not concerned about history and discussions since they are all small solo projects with low user bases (I suck).
The current situation is absolutely nowhere near a recession. That being said, recessions are measured in very aggregate terms. In aggregate, the US and world economists are in a boom by any broad measures. But during a boom, some sectors or regions can be doing much worse than everyone else. I'm honestly not even sure tech is in much of a downturn. We've just gotten used to extreme boom times and this is now just kinda mediocre.
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Because we all know that 99% of users aren't going to do that.
As stated elsethread, buybacks defer taxation. It allows the investor to control the timing of the taxable event.
NIMBYism is getting out of control
10 years might not be common though I see a few. I generally feel better seeing 3-5 years stints.
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Lots and lots of rejections over here. I've also had 3 rejections from final stage interviews in the last couple months.
Sure. If I look at a resume with 1-2 year stints, I ask myself if it's OK if this person leaves after a couple of years. There was one case where a hiring committee I was on basically said "Yeah, they're worth it" (and they actually ended up staying a lot longer). But, generally, the answer is no.
Yes, that's literally the expected behavior of insiders on any stock.
I agree. This can partly be caught by screening - serial job hoppers may not be a good fit - but it’s more commonly a reflection of lack of dedication to the employee. I’ve been at my current job going on 11 years, it’s not like I planned on that, it’s that it’s a great place to work with smart people, interesting work, good pay, and just the right balance of pressure and work/life balance. If people aren’t hanging around, you are probably missing one or more of these components. I have seen senior staff evaporate from places when they merge and some component vital to employee well-being goes away. Companies that provide all this are definitely the exception, not the norm.
Ding ding ding, this right here is a big part of it. Previously it was very rare for vc funded startups (which are the main source of decent tech jobs apart from big tech) to hire from abroad, but now it’s more the norm rather than the exception (just look at the HN postings, tons of latam)

The remote work movement chickens have come home to roost
So many commenters seem to be missing the point of this article. None of this is about "preserving the environment". Its about how to allocate the moon's scarce natural resources, such as sites with cold temperatures necessary for astronomy, areas with no radio interference for radio astronomy, and mining sites rich in natural resources such as helium-3. Some of these sites overlap with each other and would require coordination to ensure usage for one purpose doesn't interfere with other possible uses for the same site. These are valid concerns definitely worth thinking about now.
remain manageable != not a problem
It’s mathematically impossible for the set of things who have both properties X and Y, to be larger than the set of things that have property X.
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I think there's nuance here that gets lost in the retelling. From what I learned of it in a university course dedicated to many aspects of the topic of that bomb, there was a demand of /unconditional/ surrender but Japan wanted to keep their emperor. The emperor was really more of a cultural and spiritual persona than a political one, but regardless the US gov't. insisted on an unconditional surrender, including dethroning the emperor. I think there was an offer of surrender by the Japanese if they could keep their emperor. I don't have proof handy and I'm not inclined to dive down that particular rabbit hole right now so I hope someone can support or correct this.
Moreover, regardless of how large the sum is, when they took the policy they should have known if they could pay it? I'd have thought there's regulations on that.
Furthermore, up until at least a few years ago (i don't know how it is now) intel chips were more expensive than amd's, especially on server side, even accounting on performance/watt and intel adopted practices such as locking mobo to just one chipset and things like that. the situation might be different now tho
Purely from an economics point of view, yes job hopping tends to net you larger pay raises and promotions.

I think the flip side is that you won't build a reputation with 1 year stints at 10 companies. I currently work with a VP of product who's only stayed max 1 year at their last 6 companies, and I can feel the lack of engagement and ownership since the day they joined. So I definitely resonate with GP's point.

What makes everything worse is that at the end of the day, you'll never get straight feedback from someone on why they left so soon. Laying bare all the issues serves little purpose when you're leaving a company, so I end up thinking most companies have very skewed views of retention and hiring. It's not an open conversation since both parties have selfish interests.

Everyone needs to think for themselves what they're maximizing for. For me, I feel like my reputation is worth way more than any single job, so I try to avoid jumping around too much.
> right, but now you know even less about your setup when you some roadblock

This is the same with a binary though. And with homebrew, you can't follow patches or flags used or if they change.

- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad...
- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad...
- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad...

Not arguing for good or bad, just saying that the problem isn't limited to this.
What if they invested too much into greed and not nearly enough into self preservation?
This is what I've been warning people about since I was at a company acquired by private equity. They straight up told us that if a job can be done from home, then it can be done from India. I got my layoff not too long after that.
I would love if this were implemented. For one thing it would prevent insane App Store rejections like [this](https://mastodon.social/@vandal/112167322002780991) which actively requires using an in-app browser. I wish there were a setting to never use an in app web browser on iOS.
10LY is close enough that given a sufficiently motivating factor, like strong evidence of life, we could build machines to study them in more detail. There are concepts for telescopes which are technically feasible with current or near future technology, albeit very expensive and long travel times, that could take much more detailed images of the planet, eg a solar gravitational lensing telescope.

Hell, 10ly is close enough to feasibly do a probe flyby in a hundred years or so if we put more attention on refining relevant technologies like solar sails and nuclear propulsion.

Also, the detection of life that close would have important implications for things like the fermi paradox. If we find any life within 10ly, it becomes more likely that the universe is absolutely teeming with life.

But if that's the case, why isn't it absolutely teeming with intelligent life as well? Even at our relatively basic space travel capabilities, we can see that traveling between stars, or even just communicating between stars is not technically infeasible, especially for machines.
Intel's Lunar Lake MX mobile processor pictured, with LPDDR5X memory on board
I doubt most users care enough (even if this is a real issue). So it seems like the only way this practice could be mitigated is if it somehow is unaligned with OS vendors' (apple, android) interests.

Like, maybe it harms Apple's reputation as privacy champions, or creates security vulnerabilities or something
Our populace isn't homogeneous though. The areas that police target far more frequently (urban, non-white, lesser educated) are the areas that are least armed. Rural, white men with college degrees are significantly more likely to have guns, yet far less likely to be targeted by police. In most cases, they are the police.

One interpretation of this data is that police are systemically targeting lesser-armed areas where they have a fire-power advantage. Policing "their own people" is taboo and dangerous - they are outgunned. They post-hoc rationalize this racist bullying by pointing to all the crime they found, despite only looking in one place.
Yeah that was a surprise to me as well, and just sounds like one of the biggest grifts I've ever seen.

e.g. As Visa/MC, I market a product that literally discounts everything you buy, and make my business partners (the merchants) pay for it. That keeps my margins the same, limits my downside risk, and raises the upside ceiling...all on someone else's dime.
Yes. And that is why some places like food trucks charge 3% transaction fees instead of 1 or 2%
> My assumption is after the review I'll either get everything back or lose it

There's a third outcome: the appeal is never finalized, all you get is "your account is suspended while under review" and it leaves you with absolutely no recourse.

Maybe if you know someone at the company internally, or have a way to effectively threaten someone with decision-making power there -- otherwise, it's permanent limbo.
Police and prosecutor misuse of junk science has been a problem since the victorian era. They STILL use polygraphs. I can't believe how low the bar for Probable Cause has been set by judges.

https://innocenceproject.org/artificial-intelligence-is-putt....

This is why I donate to the innocence project. We need to fight back against this nonsense.
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Advertising start-up The Brandtech Group has been valued at $4bn after raising new funds that will be used to disrupt the traditional advertising industry using artificial intelligence to create marketing campaigns.

Founded by former Havas chief executive David Jones, the group has raised $115mn from new investors including Fimalac, the French company that used to own Fitch, and NendoLabs, a venture capital firm, valuing the group at $4bn. Existing investors including Mousse Partners and Bansk Group also backed the new fundraising.
Well, until we drop some nukes on there.
Ok but New Jersey charges people to leave, and leaving Jersey is a hot commodity!

I have to admit that's an expensive trip to leave and return to the city now. Might be nice if there were a discount for verified residents of Manhattan, but given existing issues with placard abuse throughout the NYPD I bet any exceptions would get abused to hell and back.
No candidate is interviewing for a job already having made up their mind about whether they are going to stay for 6 months or 10 years. If you are trying to somehow filter on that you are just wasting your own time.

People stay or quit based on factors during the job. Is the salary good? Is the company growing? Are their career goals being met? Is the management competent? Are they feeling burnt out? Focus on all of these and retention will automatically go up.