skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"voluntary separation" might as well be lay-offs, because if they didn't get enough volunteers they would have laid people off without giving them a package.
> Of course they are.

Why? Because you say so? We should ignore the literal words of the press release in favor of something you think may happen?

In fact, the structure of the the offer is one that offer's a far greater incentive to those with a lot of seniority vs those who are newer. If we assume that many of these might be technician jobs under a union contract where more years of service equals higher pay, they could have more senior workers take the package, immediately hire new employees and save a decent amount of money.

Granted, I've only seen that strategy in practice with municipal workers, but it makes no more assumptions than you do.
Have you considered that nothing really changed with how much attention people give to movies? You are only looking at your friend's behavior, and assuming that the story would change if you lived in another decade. You can't rule out that even in the days where movies were only shown in a theater, that maybe 10% of the audience was paying enough attention to truly appreciate the film and not distracted with other thoughts. Being an active and engaged watcher is difficult work, and it can be as hard as analytical reading for many people. Cell phones and the internet also didn't invent trite, low effort, distracting content; that stuff is as old as writing.
Putting the tax cuts to work, I see...

Edit: I must have already triggered some right-wing snowflakes
That's slightly wrong. When you substitute the definition of anySatisfy, you need to note that it uses the argument p twice, so you need to substitute both uses, not just the second one.
Passive immunization might indeed be a feasible option, but of course requires timely detection.
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> And what's wrong with that argument?

It is like saying "I can lift at most 100 pounds; Bob can lift at most 50 pounds: therefore, there's nothing we can do to lift that 104-pound rock".
Good power adapter options for the Pi is definitely one of my bigger complaints. Even determining a good one to get from Amazon is painful, considering how many cheap/knockoff options are out there.

If a company could get the kit price under $40-50, I would definitely use them for more one-off projects. Aside, I really wish that Docker for (Windows|Mac) ran as a service without requiring login so I could run background linux software with a little less friction. The linux on windows stuff is coming along, but similarly lacking initd/systemd startup. And while I know that a desktop os isn't a server, I've got a plenty powerful desktop that I have always on, and would just assume not have another computer running.
You don't need knowledge of colors to create a nice UI/UX.

See: https://ping.apex.sh (black and white)
He has been broke for a long time. He spent all his money really fast and never really recovered. He has been caught numerous times flaunting "Motion Picture" money as if it's real.
> Try not to eat animal or human brains

Now all I can think about is the dinner scene at the end of Hannibal.
I don't really think it's doublespeak.

Laid off means an employer doesn't want/need your position anymore.

Fired means an employer doesn't want you anymore.
Unless you use a keyboard shortcut in your GUI, in which case all bets are off. I remember being constantly frustrated back in the Adobe Illustrator 10 / Photoshop 7 days that the standard shortcuts (like cmd-H and cmd-M) did something completely different than I expected.

I think this is one of the big problems with both CLIs and (most) GUIs. We're stuck in a particular mode of thinking. For CLIs, it's that pressing a letter key must append that letter (and only that letter) on the screen, like a typewriter. Traditional GUIs have their own problems, which I'm sure half the crowd here can recite in their sleep.

When developing my app Strukt, I discovered I really needed to decouple "how you type it on the keyboard" from "what it looks like on screen". You get autocomplete on all operations and flags, so you can type just the first letter of a flag, but still see the whole thing on screen. It appears that some other modern editors (like Atom) have adopted a similar system, which is great. Emacs, of course, has had this forever (but has its own UI issues). :-)
4dB is the default setting for the built in audio set to 100%. And yes it sounds quite horrible, but the internal audio does in general.

When you add a DAC that is fixed and it changes to the correct setting of 0dB.
>> They aren't laying off people, it was a voluntary separation

> It's just another layer of corporate double-speak.

No, it's really not.
Sorry, what's two way sync in your meaning?

I use nextcloud in my home with a mix of clients, all working on the same files. Changes propagate up and down to/from all clients. Maybe you mean something different?
The difference is that scooters cost a few hundred to buy, so they get paid off easily. A self-driving car is not cheap, usage costs would be far too expensive. I'm confident that your estimates will be far off.
Thanks for these graphs!

Your Voyager 1 graph [footnote 0, in the parent comment] shows two periods of particles-per-second drops to around 10 particles per second followed by a rebound and then a dramatic drop to 2 to 3 particles per second.

The Voyager 2 graph [footnote 2, in the parent comment] shows a single drop to around 17 to 18 particles per second and what looks like the beginning of a rebound. Wouldn't interstellar space be characterized by the drop to below 3 particles per second?

Is this the same issue we had with Voyager 1 where Voyager 2 is beginning the process of entering interstellar space but has not yet actually entered it? If not, why are the particle counts about an order-of-magnitude higher for Voyager 2 then they were for Voyager 1 in interstellar space?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18641684
An extension to this principle would be to focus all of that energy into consuming news that, for you, ISN'T a closed circuit, and that potential could have a direct impact in your life.

I'm not in any position now or in the near future to do a darn thing about the soldiers in Iraq, but topics covered by my trade association publication, or news items about work that is going on around me, etc., might. Likelihood of that reading having an impact on my life (and equally of my life impacting the thing reported) is far, far higher, so it would seem the returns to that reading heavily outweigh the returns to reading the NYT.
It's definetely being looked at, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18215090/ (paywalled).
can someone find a key Aaron's family member and pay for 10 years of hosting and domain renewals? That's nothing to thousands of his fans
Absolutely. Though as someone who has eaten squirrel (WV native. Yes it tastes like chicken.), I am amazed that someone took the time to get the brains out and eat them. It takes several squirrels to make a decent meal. I can't imagine how many it would take to have a substantial amount of what must be very small brains.
> We should ignore the literal words of the press release

As a general rule, this is a good idea.
After purchase is signed off, go to a random store from 3 ascribed by independent a via dice roll observed by parties a b and c, travel there, where independent b will choose from 3 equivalent items at random and purchase them for the original requester.
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Are you talking about Iraq? I’m pretty sure the problem there was war, not democracy.
You have to pay 10 quid a year to put a boolean (presumably 1 if high risk/freeze, 0 if not) on your account?

That seems... exploitative.
Yeah, but Johnson survived not because anyone supported him or his policies, rather he survived because politicians wanted to protect norms. Times have changed considerably since then. I'm pretty sure politicians are far more interested in destroying norms. So I wouldn't count on the Johnson Conundrum happening again. People are out to break those norms nowadays.
>>not every single thread on HN has to be politicized.

All this kvetching about politics on HN needs to stop. This court decision undeniably has a political component, and therefore must be discussed.

Technology rarely exists in a vacuum.
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It's always profit first, in any given public company.
I'm nervous about the effect that losing this will have on people.
How many people have you heard stories about where they "dropped out" for a couple of months/years and came back with a completely different view on life? What are the people who otherwise would have dropped out to recollect going to do in a world where you literally cannot escape "real life"?
Have researchers been wrong about Alzheimer's?
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Or cash, don't forget cash.
I'm liking your no-nonsense interface but unfortunately email is still king imo.

Giving out phone numbers feels icky - a violation of privacy.

There needs to be an opt-in component which is very easy via email.

A nice to have would be the ability to recompute matches with minimal disruption when someone drops out.

Just something to consider.
> The same way "fired" became "laid off."

Fired and laid-off are not synonyms. Fired and terminated are synonymous. However, laid off generally means the position is not continuing.

That being said, "voluntary separation" just means they are anticipating a large layoff and are attempting to reduce the overhead of determining who to let go.
I enjoyed this as an option and would love to see more companies doing things like this: https://wistia.com/learn/culture/taking-on-debt-to-grow-our-...
I use one-letter flags when working interactively, to save time, but my shell scripts always use the --verbose form. It makes them much easier to read.
Wow, I'd love to see a write-up of that.
It's still honestly confusing, the first thing I did after reading the title is look at the url to see who's shutting down...
Does anyone know if there is a software license that bans software patents? So for example if a large majority of open source projects adopted it on sites like GitHub, especially at the OS level, it would begin to squeeze out patented software. Maybe a clause for the ban could be added to the next version of the most commonly used software licenses.

My personal feeling on software patents is that nearly all algorithms have an optimal solution and that nearly everyone will arrive at those solutions with a little elbow grease. So software patents stifle innovation rather than encourage it. The worst part is that anyone, anywhere, can be put out of business or tied up in court indefinitely by software patents (so they represent an infinite risk to any business). The same is true for all information technologies like genetics and pharmaceuticals. In fact I would go as far as to say that the number one danger facing machine learning and artificial intelligence (and work towards a general solution to the problems facing humanity) is software patents.

I don't expect large corporations to make much progress in banning software patents, even when their failure to do so hurts their bottom lines like in this case with Apple and Qualcomm. The most we could hope for is a giant like Google to get such a large patent arsenal that they could act like a shield for member developers (via the threat of mutually assured destruction), or to reduce patent durations to something reasonable like 2-5 years.

I don't want to start a flame war, but what are the holes in my logic above? Is this something that can be hacked or will it require years of political and legal battles? Do globalization and multinational issues make the situation hopeless?
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I use it for free audio books: for example, HP Lovecraft is great for medium car trips.

Joe Pieczynski, mrpete222, clickspring: machine shop skills. I finally bought a lathe due to these videos.

Shango066: revive old TVs and radios in Los Angeles

Mustie1: revive old engines in New Hampshire

ADVChina/Laowhy86/Serpentza: x-pats in China. If you really want to know about life in China, watch these.

Mine Explorers: shango066 underground

Scott Manley: rocket science

w2aew: RF electronics

Applied Science: for the garage science lab

Isaac Arthur: futurology

Kombi Life: living as a VW bus nomad

Curators Corner: some shorts from the British Museum

Machine Thinking: history of technology

CuriousMarc: old computers

Practical Engineering: civil engineering

bigcliveotcom: for his soothing voice

glasslinger: DIY vacuum tubes

Lots and lots of food channels: recently I enjoyed the "Modern History TV" ones on medieval food.

Also I watched the YouTube original "Origin" recently- not bad, but not quite at the Netflix level.
Yes, and I'm an old fan of AppleScript as well. The difference, as far as I know, is that you couldn't hide core application functionality behind that API, could you?

If you could, I think most developers didn't, since AppleScript isn't a default means of using the computer the way Unix shells are.
>the question is not if, but when the us will be under single person rule and what shape will it take.

The question will remain if as long as the right to bear arms remains a right. No tyranny can survive an armed and angry population.

The problem that follows that, though, is something the French faced during their revolutionary years. We could be in for a bloodbath if we don't move correctly.
If they can replicate imperfectly, they're subject that evolutionary processes.
What happens with all the interleaving stack frames when that callback gets invoked?
It's up again
Wow, the fact that this is baffling to someone is, in turn, baffling to me! I don't mean this to be insulting, it's just one of those generational things. It hadn't occurred to me that someone (someone who cares about CLIs, at least) wouldn't know this.

It might be informative to step back and point out that this is why so many of "us" originally disliked Macs; before the "walled garden" of iOS, before even the walled garden of needing iTunes to load music onto your iPod, there was the GUI-only MacOS. Now, those in the know could dramatically alter Mac OS with Resedit, but I wasn't a "Mac guy", so I never really knew anything about it; I hated a locked down OS that only let you do things you could click on.

It was such a step forward to many of us hobbyists that OS X was based on Unix, and suddenly we had the best of both worlds -- a good GUI and a good CLI. Suddenly Windows was no longer the commercial OS that let you "do whatever you wanted" with it (relatively speaking).

In fact, (to personalize this for a paragraph), as a Linux desktop person buying his first laptop in 2002, I decided "well, I guess I might as well buy a Windows laptop instead of trying to hassle with running Linux on it." It felt like "giving in" to buy the commercial OS just to have easy access to Office and DVD players and the like. It slowly dawned on me "wait, if I'm going to buy a commercial OS, maybe I could buy a Mac?" I had never considered a Mac in my life, but I realized, wait, I can have Office on it (which not everyone realized, even then), AND easily play DVDs, AND this new OS X thing (which had come out a year before). It was a huge leap of faith, though.

The reputation of Apple building things that are just "pretty and shiny", I think, still stems from this sense that it's a consumer device that only does what Apple lets you do with it. And yes, some of these criticisms are still valid, but for those who weren't aware of the no-CLI Mac OS, I think it's very useful context that many of us take for granted.
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Wouldn't it be a compliment of sorts to be determined too valuable to be let go?
> even to the extent of Kanye where he actually designs his own fashion line/shoes.

There is no way he does that himself, just like all the other wannabe fashion/perfume/merchandising brands. They just use their fame to tack on another revenue stream.
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The process of evolution doesn't reward long-term "satisfaction" and essentially makes animals "greedy". Sure, after a good meal or romance one may feel temporarily satisfied, but in a day or two you are back for more. Generally digestion is more efficient if the body is not moving fast or bumpy, so a feeling of satisfaction will tend to make animals rest after a big meal.
What is Linux 3.0 OS?
Excellent.
Couldn’t sky just check what subscription a venue had?
If all you do is read voter guides then you have delegated your critical thinking to the organization that produces the guide. I would not call you a informed voter if all you do is read a voter guide every election.
Are you familiar with the concept of PR?
Delhi Metro vs. New York City Subway
Pretty much. The big dish on the voyagers is the comms antenna, not a science instrument.
Largest ever study of psychological sex differences and autistic traits
Apache 2.0 is pretty good. If the licensee sues for any patent infringement they loose all Apache 2.0 licenses in that product. But it is hard to defend against trolls that are not shipping any code themselves.
The dreaded "zombie". Profitable enough that the investors can't pull the plug by force. Not growing enough that anyone will make any money out of it. It is my observation that because of "natural attrition" often both the management and employees tend to get replaced with B-players over time. The investors lose interest, their money is gone, their incentive to care a whit is gone, so they apply their attention where it has the chance to make a difference.
Sounds to me like the rejection is a tacit admission by the company that you're too valuable to lose.
What does that screenshot look like without edge detection?
were you offered compensation for breaking your NDA? because i always assumed that's the reason people leak -- to get one last payday before being blackballed.
For this reason I specifically said "while having a positive society". Not that I don't agree (or disagree) but I don't want to argue about this at all. The point is that we have democracy instead of absolutism to have freedom, not to have democracy.
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> If there were a respiratory prion disease that could be much different.

Not really. The point your parent is making is that prions themselves don't reproduce like viruses and bacteria. Its basically impossible for a large scale breakout to occur and spread.
"Shutting Down Your Startup"
> Lift code from GitHub to restrict delta computation so that an object that exists in one fork is not made into a delta against another object that does not appear in the same forked repository.

Must be pretty great to be a Github engineer that contributed this to the product to see it upstreamed.
I think this underestimates the complexity of proteins.
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I love that Google Photos is able to add location information to my old photos and pictures I take on my actual camera without manually mapping everything. It's surprisingly accurate and really enjoy seeing where all I've been over time.
There is no such thing as unbiased... fact-based is often as close as you will get, which is increasingly rare.
> Slavery, violence, and murder are not features of free markets

I beg to differ. Slavery, violence and murder are inherent properties of an unjust relationships which follow from unequal distribution of wealth.

If you can show me a society which used property but did not have those effects, feel free to correct this point.

But on other hand, I can show you societies which did not have concepts of property, of trade, and did not have slavery and other forms of oppression.
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They don't replicate. Prions can't themselves make more prions like viruses do.
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I'm sensitive to this flickering as well. Cars in motion, traffic lights, destination/passenger information displays, POS, sometimes ATMs. Though the "car-thing" mostly faded away over the last few years. They seem to got that right now. Anyways, i tried some of them over the last decade and they were all trash, made bad light, needed time to warm up, had coil whine or buzzing and broke after a few months. Then in May this year i tried some again and they were absolutely OK. It's called "LED-Retrofit" which means it fits in old sockets, based on this technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_filament
No dimming, no "smarts", no color/ambilight etc. Just works as it should. Mine are from Osram, for something like 6 to 12 Euros a piece, directly plugged into E27/E14 sockets at 230V@50Hz. And most importantly no ugly interactions with my screens running at 60Hz. This reminds me of scissors, for a long time they needed to be resharpened. Then, since maybe two, or at least one decade ago you could get good and f......g dangerous scissors which cut through almost anything whitout getting blunt/dull for next to nothing.
Now seems to be the point in time where this happened for LED-lighting. At least when it's based on this "LED-Filament"-thing. HTH.

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I don't really see it as sugarcoating, this is way better than the alternative. They're giving their employees a generous heads up, offering an incentive to anyone who finds other employment, and people who really don't want to leave likely won't have to.
This guy goes into great depth at an EE and signals level on how the Deep Space Network does this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRP1qdwPKw
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I love a good excuse to buy more RPis and have thought about doing something like this.

However, I already have a cheap bluetooth dongle that I plugged my stereo to via P2.
Is there some advantage to this setup (beyond range)?

What I'm really considering is a web interface, with search, playlist etc and a huge SDcard with all my music connected to a RPi. Currently all my music is on my Mac and Apple Music Home Share is a bit flaky/slow at times.
Yeah, that sounds more or less like what the XK veterans told me: You can certainly try, but you probably don't want to.
This response sounds like "there has never been communism under real communism ideal sense", lel.
Are you saying that I couldn't empty your alt-coin account if I got access to your private key?
And we have giant antennas that listen.
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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
Or they increase the incentive until they get enough volunteers. Actual lay-offs can be a last resort.
Iirc there was a bounty for reporting an improperly licenced bar.
That would be a fantastic way to ask for a raise.
Wren and I'm guessing Lua have fibers that work similarly.
Enough with the “Learning Styles” Already
ALL of #2 are very liberal leaning if not fully. You might consider rounding that out a bit?

Check out Al Jazeera feeds, they have some good tidbits on there.
They said why they want to switch away from Nextcloud, not why they want to switch to Seafile specifically.
That GitHub engineer already has more than 3000 patches in git.git :)
It didn't have a Unix shell, but you likely had some way to type commands and get the computer to run them. Depending on context, you might have had HyperTalk, or AppleScript, or the MPW Shell.

In some ways these could be even more powerful than a Unix shell. What's the Unix way to say "Select a menu item", if the developer of your favorite app didn't think to also include a command-line interface to it?

(Yeah, I know: accessibility APIs. Do all your apps include a complete set of those, too?)
This is like a FREE BEER ad.
that's not sociopathy, that's human nature. it's a well studied phenomenon that prior prefer being big fish in a little pond almost always.