skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which "regulations mandating Swiss level salaries for foreign workers" are you talking about?
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>I’m curious as to whether you’ve ever had a job like this?

Several. I edited my original comment to reflect this.

>I used to have 8 hour shifts at a standing only checkout - it took about a month before my back started hurting continuously. This was just a standing on concrete job, not even lifting all day.

Not imagine it being hotter, louder higher humidity, and having to bend over slightly to reach things all the time. Welcome to a dishroom.
Yep, that one was an interesting surprise.
The previous office I worked in had a bunch of Capisco chairs. I hated them, personally, but a lot of people loved them.

The only "ergonomic" chair I've ever like is another chair by Capisco's designer, Peter Opsvik, called Balans, now made by Varier [1]. It's a kneeling chair that rocks and supposedly forces you to exercise your core and maintain a good posture. It's fairly expensive ($400) for such a simple piece of wood, but you can find cheaper used ones on eBay.

Opsvik designed some crazy chairs. My favourite crazy chair of all time is his Globe chair [2]. The Gravity Balans is also weird, but probably great.

[1] https://varierchairs.com/product/variable-balans/

[2] https://www.ignant.com/2015/08/27/globe-furniture-by-peter-o...

[3] https://hiconsumption.com/2013/03/reclining-gravity-balans-c...
One that I "like" the most is the "We'd welcome your feedback" popup that appears the moment I open a website...like how am I suppose to give you any positive feedback if you are preventing me from using your damn website in the first place!
It seems like you're leading to an opposite conclusion to whatever conclusion you've applied to the comment. Did you want to be specific about what your conclusion is?
Anyone have any idea why this can't be used in New York?
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My God, it's full of stars!
All legal repercussions? Definitely not. You're generally personally responsible for torts and crimes you personally commit, even if the company may be too. And personal guarantees around contracts or statutory liability provisions around wages and taxes can increase personal liability further.

But yes, when the proper formalities and separations are maintained, there are many situations where registering and operating through an LLC will limit personal liability.

Example: company signs a contract with no personal guarantee but with a commitment to make 12 monthly payments. The LLC later lacks the funds (contract was signed in good faith). No personal liability.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, just a law geek layman and former law student. I agree that retaining counsel is the right advice for anything important.
This implies that off by one is more common in zero based counting. Evidence? Your link didn't seem tob support that changing convention of indexing mattered. Rather, no longer indexing at all is what helped. (E.g., iterators.)

This fits my understanding. I've seen people do off by one just in the wild when counting how many posts/nails/etc are needed.
I would if transcendent music and K-pop stimulate a different neurological response.
It's charming in a way. I nicely alludes to Sci-Fi and confuses newbies.
> The Quebecois will disagree with me on this, but I don't think you even need to speak French if you're working in tech - you might just have a smaller friend circle of Anglos.

Native anglophone; non-native fluent speaker of French.

You can totally make it work in Montreal with your small circle of anglo friends. But almost anyone I've known over the years who tried to make it work like that is either quite bitter, or has left once raising a family comes into the question.

For good reason, just as in Germany or Poland, unless you learn French, you will be excluded from public culture, especially as you get older, and that largely means a lot of the great things of Montreal get watered down.
I’m assuming you’re trying to claim this is not related to global warming (“ it has happened before”).

Global warming is a large scale and long term problem, and the first thing you would expect is an increase in frequency of previously uncommon events - take warm weather: historically there may have been a few year where the temp got to X degrees, from an average of Y degrees. But now the average Temperature has increased by a small amount. That shifts the entire normal curve of temperatures up. So now instead of X degrees being the 99th percentile (say) it becomes the 90th. The wonders of normal curves and statistics ensures that as small changes accrue the current extremes will rapidly become more common - a 1% increase in average temperature (random
Number here) results in a frequency shift of more than 1% for the extremes.

Then we get to the localized vs global issue. Global warming in an average increase in temperature across the world. The world is big, and so there will always be area that are substantially higher or lower temperature than other places, but by virtue of the above statistics over time the high temperature pockets will become larger and more common. The high temperature pockets and the increased energy in the atmosphere increase movement of the atmosphere around the globe - so yes you may also get occasional pockets of uncommon low temperature. that is likely cause by uncommonly “high” temperatures in the cold parts of the world pushing the higher than average cold air into new locations. Over time the average temperature of the cold areas will become “warm”.

Finally, many biological and physical behaviors are purely a function of very specific temperatures. A lot of the biological behaviors (in plants especially) are direct products of physical laws - gas and fluid expansion being most common. Plenty of amphibians have gender determined entirely by temperature - something like 23.4c being the exact cutoff. Water freezes/thaws at exactly 0c - it doesn’t matter how small the difference is.
There is an apple official repair video for the replacement of a battery on the iPhoneX (IIRC) -- and its comically complex process to replace the battery - and requires this specally constructed aluminum scaffold-like rig structure to apply the appropriate adhesion pressure. The device is custom made for apple by some machine shop in the south bay, and obviously unlikely available to plebs-like-us... (I can't find the video any longer - apple likely had it removed)

My point being; if apple has such stellar HW designers, 1. the fact that they needed a ~30 minute official training video on the proper replacement which required 2. a custom rig to install the new battery which was 3. only made by some small-ish machine shop in san jose is mildyinfuriating....

I think that a measure of HW design prowess should be service/repairability as a base KPI for considered being 'good design'.
Related reddit thread from 2 days ago, on the video that inspired it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9q22c2/every_website...
The article title is misleading. Wasm will not support multithreading, rather it'll be multiprocess via web workers and shared arrays for communication. It's not a single address space - code or data.
It's a single bridge, going over water and underground, into an area that requires blue water presence. Choke points work both ways, easy to choke but also easy to secure. The permanent garrison of PLA in Hong Kong would be able to secure the HK side of the bridge long enough for reinforcements to get through.

China's biggest worry in this area is civil unrest, not hostile foreign powers and most of the bridge is inaccessible to potential rioters or dissidents. It's a huge game changer for the region, allowing China to move initial response troops into the area much faster. (30 min vs 4 hours)
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Nope. When you own your solar panels, they produce electricity at about the same cost per therm as gas. (After Federal tax incentives)

Meaning, running an electric oven / stove (edit: with appropriately-matched grid-tied solar panels) costs about the same as running a natural gas oven / stove.

The difference is that my loan never increases in cost, but the cost of natural gas is probably going to go up.

Anyway, I pay about $9-11 a month for natural gas to run my stove and grill. That's much less than the monthly premium to eat organic.
That shit could still happen. They aren't preventing the chargers from working, just not working as well.
People get self-aware of the dangers related to their profession. We get pretty crazy about data leak, when nobody else really cares. I'm pretty sure the psychotherapist you just talked to at a dinner party has one or two diagnostics on your mental health and has an opinion on your relation with your parents, and lawyers always think about what can get you sued. So they get really careful when there's a legal risk for them.
Would that be a good idea? Do you want your money to be in a state where it can very easily become unrecoverable?
Sansar User Growth Slowed by Massive Experience Downloads Up to TWENTY-FOUR Gigs
I still watch it, but it's more like comfort food now.

I couldn't honestly say whether I think the show itself has declined though. When I first started watching, a member of the family had got cable TV (a rarity in those days), and taped episodes for us. We'd get a VHS full of episodes on grainy long-play once it was full, and we'd binge on them. I'm still not sure if I've ever seen the end of the episode where Bart goes to france on an exchange trip, and Springfield gets an Albian spy in return.

But it felt so new, so American, and so different to anything else we had on terrestrial TV. It was like TV was misbehaving!

If it had never happened, and started today fresh, it'd have nowhere near the same impact. There's a higher level of quality, and a higher level of access to it, than any sane person knows what to do with.

It was a diamond in the rough. I don't think it is anymore. But the rough has changed so drastically, that it's difficult to draw an isolated comparison.
> Because nothing requires them to explain what happened.

Actually that's the point of discovery in a lawsuit, and discovery absolutely compels both New York and Ancestry to provide explanations via evidence.

So you managed to be wrong on multiple accounts in a single sentence. You keep talking about "evidence". The point of discovery in a lawsuit is to discover evidence of wrong-doing.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, at the time Snowden left, it was not clear how long protection would be nessasary. He might of thought that he would only need to wait out an election cycle or two, and public perception would have shifted enough for him to come back (I think it is still in the realm of reason that the winner of the 2020 presidential election will pardon; but the odds seem more remote now than at the time of the leek)

The other thing he has going is that I suspect a US president may not want him back as much as you may think. Neither side will be angry at the President for not getting him back (absent something blatant, like turning down a no strings attached offer from Putin); but prosecuting him would piss of a sizable chunk of voters.
"we know of"
They simply write Cordless Stick Vacuums on the Dyson site. Great product.

Model S delivered, Model X delivered, Model 3 delivered, etc.

Dyson is moving away from solid state batteries. No one has been able to make them work at scale. https://electrek.co/2018/02/15/dyson-all-electric-vehicles-s... (FT article behind paywall)
As a child raised on 80s 8-bit computers, and a fan of emulation, I love what WASM does for in-browser emulators. You can run an enormous amount of Apple II, Commodore 64, etc. software on archive.org, all compiled using emscripten.
Sad, but true. Time to change.
This is purely speculation but: since it's on the Ethereum chain anyone can see the history of tokens on any account, and as long as the tokens only move between accounts that are known then that should be good enough. They could very well make it so that if you transfer tokens outside of accounts controlled by or known to the exchanges then those tokens will become tainted and no longer redeemable.
Form your LLC in another state. California is absurd.

Form it where it makes legal sense, not where you reside. You can also get a forwarding address there as well.

It also would be in your benefit to follow the laws of that area as well.
1. How to arrange for air flow through office bathrooms

2. That interior light reflected on the inside of a window ruins the view of the sunset
presumably, source-to-source "AD" could do some symbolic reasoning (whether any systems do, and whether it still counts as AD, I don't actually know). Specifically, I have in mind a source-to-source system that could look at `sqrt(x^2)` and produce a valid sub-gradient at x=0. With AD (whether forward-mode or reverse), you get NaN=Inf*0, because the gradient of x^2 is 0 and the gradient of `sqrt` is Inf.
PBS Eons is a great youtube channel on Earth's biological history. It's very well done stuff. Their 'Purple Earth' video is a good layman's intro to some of the per-oxygenation earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIA-k_bBcL0

The early biological history of Earth has a few 'Colored Earth' phases: Red-Purple-Green-White-Blue(hypothetically).
I don't believe many Cryptocurrency advocates understand Cryptography
It takes a lot of detritus to fertilize the growth of good things
You know it isn't, it never is.
To the extend that carriers curate the hardware they sell in their store (and for some carriers, support on their network), they could provide some sort of indication of how likely it is to be fixable. T-Mobile has a reputation of caring slightly more about their users than other carriers in the US, so they might be a good target.

Fixing phones could be a reasonable side business for their phones, so it could work out as a win-win for them -- if you buy a fixable phone, they would probably be able to fix it for you it's broken.
Assuming you can stay fully employed throughout your 50s.
Interesting line of thinking.. I'm not sure the system needs to be perfect but almost-perfect. The importance is to track and manage the bigger systems and revenue systems. Sure, you're missing potential smaller transfers that that fund people to do abuse, however then you can have other mechanisms in place to manage that abuse.
> Earth would be more "hospitable" to life than any other planet in our solar system because

That's a false statement. A large enough meteor could cause a sterilization event.
How did you come to that conclusion, did Apple admit they did improper testing?
To me, that reads like stream-of-consciousness comment by a non-native speaker, not a bot. It's civil, so it would fall in the top half of YouTube comments, but it doesn't make a substantive point so it would get flagged on HN.

A large number of people can't write a comment with a clear thesis and supporting arguments. Most college grads can, but most of the world hasn't gone to college.

There is lots of crap in the comments section of blogs of famous people, because lots of people want to think "I spent the morning schooling Bill Gates!" A wiser person might prefer to be schooled by Bill Gates.
It's actually more conservative to leave Oracle on your own schedule of no more than 5 years.
Square Cash

Confirm your country
United States
United Kingdom

Venmo

There are two main requirements for using Venmo:
You must be physically located in the United States
You must have a U.S. cell phone that can send/receive text messages from short codes (please note that this phone number can not be on file with another Venmo account)

Your definition of the term exactly doesn't seems exact at all.

I can use USDC as much as I want yet I'm Canadian and that's true for any country in the world, whoever you are, whenever you are, however you do it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547151

https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/14/napster-fm-is-an-open-sour...

https://www.law360.com/cases/52953cd03fdd847f5200a5c8
FYI, Containers in Firefox make life much better for having multiple Google accounts signed in at the same time.
So true. Art majors too. And psych. And anyone with a sense of craftsmanship. And children and cats.
Also,

Completely true and good: There is no price to be placed on something that core to cultural heritage i.e. language, that can be decided upon by someone who doesn't or hasn't historically participated in it.
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Ask HN: Legacy Documentation Cleanup/Audit Procedures
Hey folks. Our IT department has a decade worth of documentation with a host of problems; multiple storage locations, lack of documentation standards, differing formats, too vague or too verbose, etc. As someone who has long complained about this situation, I've decided I should probably stop complaining unless I'm willing to at least offer a solution. We all know it's a problem, but no one - myself included - has done anything to try and fix it. I'm looking for any white papers, blog posts, discussions, and so forth about best practices to handle this situation, both the backlog and new documentation going forward. Any suggestions? Thanks.
How tall do you think that tabular one was in your photo?
A money market account is also not considered an illegal USD surrogate.
If it's any consolation, most other lines of work have it even worse.
I'm saving this comment to use later as a succinct description of all the factors that go into what truely entails global warming. Thank you.
I have lived in the Northeast for a total of 19 years and can not remember a year as bright and spectacular as 2018.
You say that Venmo and Square are inferior to USDC, because the first two cannot communicate with each other.

Then, you say that USDC is superior, because it cannot communicate with the other two.
Five eye-lids?
Since it's an Ethereum token, you can write smart contracts that use dollars instead of smart contracts that use ETH.
A handheld engine-diagnostics module is not hard to use. Take it out of the box and drive in a nail with it.

Saying that there is something you can do with a device without an explanation doesn't automatically imply that it's easy to use. Ease of use is a metric for how much of the full potential of something you can utilize with as little instructions as possible. The article has a point that this ease of use is quite reduced when you are disabled or don't have prior knowledge of devices.

I'm not saying that the title couldn't be less sensational but simply saying that iPhones aren't difficult to use is wrong aswell.
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You forgot God's forsaken feature of the internet - Captchas.
Why would the Secret Service start help laundering money?
Yeah, thinking about MD school. It doesn't seem like tech is a long-term sustainable career.
Some HSMs allow you to run custom code (usually a co-processor within the HSM’s security boundary but distinct from where the keys are loaded / raw crypto primitives happen).

Other HSMs don’t have this ability.

Finally some vendors will tell you that their hardware is extensible by them implementing custom logic/algorithms.

If you want to play around with HSMs (or any enterprise-grade hardware) I would recommend looking for used stuff on eBay or talking nicely to sales rep who might lend you a demo/eval unit.
That's not how standards work. If a cable or charging block is out-of-spec it can easily pose HW damage risks or fire hazards. It's impossible to consider every possible way this stuff can be broken.

Take for example https://gizmodo.com/a-google-engineer-is-publicly-shaming-cr...

OnePlus USB-C cables work fine with OnePlus devices but can damage any other USB-C device.

Another example where a USB-C cable destroyed his USB PD analyzer & his chromebook ports: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XDBFUD9CTN2R

This was because the cable was completely miswired.

There's also numerous reports out there of how crappy charging blocks are fire hazards if driven at the full level they advertise.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3365247/electronic-charging-devic...

It's not totally unreasonable for a responsible manufacturer to either outright ban charging from unknown blocks/cables or to fallback to a trickle charge that disabled the highest-speed charging.

Since there's so many the only way to do this is to maintain a whitelist of good chargers at the expense of fast charge not working with an arbitrary number of chargers. You could think "well, just warn the user & give them a choice." However, the majority of users would just learn that most of the time it's OK & just hit "OK" blindly even when connecting to new chargers they don't know about. Also the news reporting would still be the same & wouldn't capture the nuance of using a third-party charger since news cycles are more instant & don't allow the necessary amount of time for engineers to receive the unit & perform diagnostics to figure out what happened.
Eyeballing it with a spreadsheet, simulator offers $1440 in monthly income, but at least $2000 in expenses. You've got a car to pay off and insure, a kid, a pet, a heap of CC debt, and a cell phone bill triple what I pay. You're renting an apartment, but you have monthly gas and electric bills of 125 and 150. Internet fees are higher than I'm paying now. And zero access to credit to make any investments you'd need to make, or tax credits for dependent children, retirement savings, Earned Income Tax Credit, etc.

Even if you _could_ fix all that, you're still not going to make ends meet. The player is effectively bankrupt.
Envoy raises $43M Series B to build the “smart office”
Earlier post from 6mo ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891647
I live in Indiana, it's cold here (but yes, it is).
MongoDB inc itself published bullshit benchmarks claiming they were faster than the competition, omitting the fact that DB writes could fail without returning an error to the client. It seriously damaged their reputation. It also advertised as a replacement for RDBMS which it never was. You'll notice that no other NoSQL store has these reputation issues, no matter how bad they are, it's solely the fault of MongoDB inc and their questionable marketing.
Bill is the man.
They chose models with dark hair because the huge and thick arms would be less visible.
Juul hiring aggressively amid FDA probe, but troubled image a turnoff for some
Back in 2003, I successfully used the qmailrocks website.

Not sure how relevant it is now but might be worth a look

https://qmailrocks.thibs.com/
>As a user, wouldn’t that be my call?

Sure. But it's the manufacturer's prerogative to build a device they want to build. Also this design decision is not to enforce copyright protection or is based on some other anti-consumer design, but rather is done for quality reasons - and that's a fair choice for them to make.

>Shouldn’t providing a safe charging be a charger manufacturer’s responsibility?

'safe' is ambiguous in this context. The charger may be 'safe' in that it won't catch fire and kill anybody, but may still prematurely cut your batteries life.
Totally unrealistic. It loaded way too fast. It should have: weighed 12MB, taken 10 seconds to render properly on 4G, text jumping wildly around the page while it did, and have slowed my pocket supercomputer to a stuttering mess everytime I scrolled.
I guess he could pad the JS file with some random nonsense...
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> As a user, wouldn’t that be my call?

Maybe they're trying to keep their warranty repair costs in check. Maybe they would have allow it after your warranty expires and you're on the hook for the new battery instead of them.
This video parody of those kinds of productions both pokes fun at them and raises some of the same kinds of questions about them that you do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys4Nx0rNlAM
Dataset on How People Interact with Places (Points of Interest)