skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got into the habit of keeping a daily work log, and continue to do so even though I no longer work for a company that requires it. Very simple: Date, number of hours (0.5 granularity), planned work, actual work done, links to work output or meeting notes (if any). That’s it. It helps me to get back up to speed after a weekend. It allows me to tell you what happened on that day X months ago when we were in the middle of project Y without searching my email for clues. It is very helpful for yearly performance reviews, allowing me to provide a detailed accounting of everything, big and small, that I did since last year. The self-assessment pretty much writes itself.
I live in a midwest college town. Unemployment here is extremely low, has been for decades. Housing costs are relatively low as well. I live in a house that in the Seattle area would be over $1M. I paid 20% of that. There are multiple startups for tech here, as well as government jobs, college related jobs, and other industries. So there's no dearth of employment options. If something were to happen, I can commute an hour to a city with a population of 1M.
There's also the "do work on the day off because it's a week day and people still expect a quick reply" habit people in customer facing roles (which sounds like quite a lot of Perpetual's staff) will be tied to. I took a four day week for six month in a regular corporate sales job because it was the most practical way of using my holiday entitlement without losing sales and contact with customers in a tough market, and sure, it didn't really affect my weekly productivity, but that's because I never made many important outbound calls on a Friday and still dealt with all the customer email on my Blackberry anyway, so all I was really missing out on were internal meetings...
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I am about to lunch an online web store selling tshirts. I have no social media connection or followers. How can i promote my site and products?

need serious advice.
It's not. You can make your own DNS server and sell records to anyone you want. You just have to convince users to type in your address instead of 8.8.8.8.
> Look at the language used "return" - people still think HK was leased. It wasn't - the New Territories were.

And most of Kowloon. As opposed to HK Island, which was obtained by legitimate conquest, I suppose?

> Of all the colonies from which British rule was removed, only HK got handed over to the thugs, thieves and torturers its population had previously escaped.

What realistic alternative would you have suggested to Thatcher at the time?
Most rating systems I have discovered rarely apply to my specific tastes or needs. More and more I follow specific reviewers or, more interestingly, individual review comments. I find one or two short reviews (without spoilers) to show what the reviewers deem important to them, giving their rating more qualitative weight, and therefore I can compare it better to my specific tastes. If I went off the average/median rating alone, I'd never find fresh, unique content.
Still, there shouldn't be any hints of conflicts of interests. And there should be no chance on giving bad advice + shorting. Or it's not ethical /legal if company A hires them to see if buying company B is good or not and they trad on it.

You are an adviser? Good. Here's your consulting fee and that should do it.
Do you know what is being done to the data between coming off the sensor and being saved to a RAW file? My impression is that other than dead/hot pixel mapping and some degree of noise reduction, not much else is done (at least in Canon-land).

Even if the camera can do more post-processing, I am not sure I want it to. I would rather the camera do less after exposure is complete, so I can get more control over it while editing.
Yes, and bookkeeping and randomness both cost something.
Maybe I should’ve made it clear that the 10x is an example. In most cases it would be 2x to 4x, the cost for implementing two apps instead of one.

Of course the cheaper option (monolith app + turbolinks and js sprinkles) could be framed as a discount.

And I can imagine how many agencies would not mention the expense of maintenance, because they’d actually want to lock in the client first.
Netflix won't work with Chrome(ium) on Linux.
The Zephyr is using Lithium-Sulfur batteries, which have a better energy-to-weight ratio ("Currently the best Li–S batteries offer specific energies on the order of 500 W·h/kg" according to Wikipedia [1]).

These aren't commercially available though. Twice the performance of currently available automotive batteries is a major advantage for aircraft applications.

Pretty cool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery
It is all of that and while after 20+ years developing professionally and developing as a hobbyist since middle school, I’ve never felt burnt out from continuously learning. But,I was burned out by big company politics and bureaucracy after only three when I was worked at a large Fortune 10 (non tech) company.
Love to fantasize about even more war toys which will of course only be used to “spread democracy” etc etc and obviously will never make their way into the hands of racist domestic police forces to use on activists once they’re on sale as military surplus. Very legal and very cool.
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We don't always actually know that a crime happened to the minute nor do we know the position of a cell phone to the meter indoors or near buildings.

Your potential criminal pool is potentially anyone who passed within a few hundred meters within a period of hours. Potentially hundreds of people in some cases.

Absent real evidence of note the black man with a record who walked 200 feet away 4 hours before the crime looks like winner.

This makes me want to purchase a librem with a switch to turn off the baseband.
>> I certainly got zero cash from family when I bought a home.

For a lot of wealthy friends, this was the case, they were self made (first order) and paid their own way (first order). The really valuable thing they received was the safety net and contacts such that they werent exposed to the spikes of unfortunate things that can happen. For me, if I cant make mortgage for 6mo, i'd be in trouble and there is no family member to help out. There is no uncle at a hedge fund who can suddenly get me a job. I'm in the general pool of candidates and only have those opportunities and the ones I create myself.

That makes be reach less, it made me take more conservative jobs earlier on in my career, etc. My risk tolerance and hence potential rewards go down
This looks like a fascinating read. Thank you for bringing it to our attention!
If that's not an explicit commitment in their terms and conditions though, yeah, it'll be a pretty hard sell. (At least for me anyway. I take my gaming seriously.)

Google has an uncomfortable tendency to cancel projects.
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they cannot without expending large amount of energy and even then it will look extremely shady to both old and new nodes. in pos you can generate an entire new blockchain from genesis and new nodes won't have a clue which chain is "real" while old nodes will be very much confused having to make a decision on the split and reorg.

point is - pos is based on trust, pow is based on laws of physics.
Improvement to mental healthcare would be removing the restrictions of medical assistance in dying and making it similar to a person who is going to die from suicide when they’re being honest about how the illness is forcing it upon them.

The part you quoted from me is what research show in regarding gender dysphoria that goes untreated past puberty. There isn’t much positivity for the latter and drugging a person so their perception changes isn’t necessarily what I think is much different than suicide of the person. Similar to how in the past conversion therapy was used to destroy the person and create a new person.

Anyway I don’t believe I’m being nihilistic and I can righteously think it’s people putting their own ideology first in refusing my friend the ability to have her wishes granted.
> If you don't want it on the front page, flag it

To clarify: As far as I'm aware flags are not for personal preferences but for flagging stuff that definitely don't belong here: pure clickbait, spam, flat earth advocacy (if not in a context where it is interesting) etc.

If people belive flagging is the right thing to do for anything they
personally don't want on the front page that could explain why some very interesting posts went off the front page despite multiple upvotes and healthy discussion :-/

Edit: based on my experience here (this is not my first HN account) it seems flags weighs a whole lot more than upvotes, so if people use flags on articles like they'd use a downvote then a few user can easily push away a story that many of us found really interesting.

Also, I might have misunderstood your intention, in which case I apologize for that and leave the comment here as it wouldn't surprise me at all if a number of others misunderstood as well.
All of Google's errors do this. It's wonderful.
watch Ten years (2015) anthology scifi (?) movie about Hong Kong, in one of the stories (Dialect) it's quite realistically foreshadowing what's gonna happen with languages in HK
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What a surprise.

Why would anyone think that a billionaire would act against the interest of billionaires. Politics are basically a reality show for people that want to look educated.

Sadly I‘m too young to know if it always was like that.
As a wish list and an idea-sparking exploration,
this is quite interesting. I would add some sort
of return-path and side-passage marking system,
perhaps with paint or ink that is only visible in
some combinations of illumination and goggles,
that is more resistant to being cut or redirected
than IR cord or rope.

Batteries and LED bulbs have come a long way in the last
30 years, and the community of civilian cavers would
be a good source for suggestions about durable equipment.
Ask people in Huntsville, AL - the home of an Army base,
rocket scientists, karst topography, and the NSS <https://caves.org>.
I was in the project stream beta and the latency was never noticeable for me. I have seen noticeable latency on TVs not set to game mode when playing on xbox, but did not see any streaming latency for the beta.

I was on a cable internet connection and the display occasionally pixelated during network slowdowns, but there was still no latency noticeable.

I assume that Google has enough data center locations that they can render you at the nearest one.
It's not "deterring" domainers, it's asserting an unfair monopoly over the practice itself.
does that work with international, non US markets? non english Netflix versions?
This is surprisingly civil for an internet discussion forum. Kudos on having good manners.
This lines up with my anecdotal experience of watermelons.

Watermelons used to be quite large, and packed with large, dark seeds. From these, I learned what watermelons taste like. At some point, I think in the late 1980s or early 1990s, growers started selling seedless watermelons in increasing numbers. We never bought these, because they were generally inferior in taste and texture. But they were easy to cut up, and to put into a fruit salad without getting any watermelon seeds in it. As time went on, the seeded shelf space decreased, and seedless increased. Then they started getting smaller in the 2000s.

Now, you cannot find a full-sized, genuinely watermelon-flavored watermelon in the supermarket. They are all these tiny, muskmelon-sized seedless orbs, with pale pink flesh that is vaguely reminiscent of a watermelon--like a sweeter, pinker cucumber. And these disappointing little 5# sterile triploid things cost the same as a full-blown 20# "real" watermelon.

The small strawberries are still available--sometimes. It is readily apparent that growers are still experimenting with different cultivars. I really only want two things from strawberries. I want them to taste like strawberry, and I want them to not be covered with mold the day after I buy them. The big ones seem to last longer, but the small ones generally taste better. So I don't see a clear winner there yet. If I had the choice, I'd probably buy the smaller ones and save the longer-lasting species for table fruit later in the week. But this puts the strawberry in direct competition with other fruits that tend to go moldy faster. The produce manager probably wants fruit that can stay on display long enough to get sold rather than go moldy before someone can pay for them. So my preference doesn't matter.

It isn't really that "people" prefer to buy them, but that supermarket produce managers prefer to sell them. People generally don't get two different varieties to choose from. If they want "strawberries", they buy what the store stocked, or they don't. And the store wants to stock fruits that bruise less easily, grow redder, hold more water, and rot more slowly. Just like with the tomatoes.

The "pick your own" places could cater to consumer preferences, but those will be shaped by what has been available to them previously. The "self pick" farms are only open during the local growing season, while the grocery stores are importing the varieties they prefer all year. The stores train them to seek out firm, shiny red, gigantic strawberries.
If he or she dies while in the office, none of the goals would be achieved. I am not even talking about the mainstream media, which would tear the old man apart, because of his age. It is not like I am discoaraging you to vote for Bernie, but it is that he is not gonna win, period. So you need to chose the closest to Bernie and vote.
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There's no voltage. Maybe your meter could register drop in resistance (from ~∞ to ~0). Think of it as simple push button. Or, to put it differently, you need to supply your own voltage and it will flow for a moment when the camera triggers the flash (closes the circuit), and you can register the spike.

Edit: the circuit is insulated from the camera electronics since some flash lights can send 250V or even more trough the PC socket - it acts as the pathway for the charge from capacitors to the bulb (in some, esp. older strobes).
My 7+ had a Qualcomm one and it was pretty seamless. XS Max is pretty much my first exposure to Intel ones and it's practically unusable in NYC subway.
> I do sometimes wonder how households can make ends meet on less than $100k a year, and have no idea how a household can get by on the average $60k a year.

I know many families who make under 100k, have 7+ children and do just fine. There are lots of hand-me-downs and thrift store shopping. This is all fine.

> Between the cost of daycare...
Most tend to Homeschool so no daycare is needed.

>not to mention saving something for retirement, forget the 10x your salary by the time you retire or whatever

One of the benefits of having many well raised children, they take care of you during this time.

> and once every 2-3 years go on a vacation at least to the next state over

This is non-necessary.

> Not to mention get married (wedding costs are insane, going through that right now) or other life events.

My wife and I got married (not including the honeymoon) for about $5k with 200 guests. Cheap weddings are doable.
Full streaming right from Chrome. No plugin or downloads needed. Loaded the game in a few seconds. It was cool.
I mean, how much time are we really talking about here?
Or, many people with Gates' background (computer classes in high school in the 70s), did start tech companies, but failed. As the vast majority of new businesses do. The only way we'd ever hear those stories is if they made it rich later, at which point their failures become noteworthy as part of the narrative arc of their career.
The rich get first pick. How very capitalist.
I remember the first time I saw "Scottish Salmon" on a menu. It was the only salmon dish on the menu, so I'm not exactly sure why they were trying to differentiate it. Was it just to justify a higher price for it? What other adjective command a price premium?

What I did know is that more important than where a salmon is from (whether it be from Alaska or Norway) is if it is wild or farm raised. The fact that it was called out as "Scottish" but not "wild" made me think this wasn't going to be a particularly good dish.

Finally, I thought, did any 3rd party actually verify that this salmon was, in fact, from Scotland? Would the restaurant get into any trouble if I happened to be a super salmon taster and determined that this salmon was in fact from somewhere else and alerted the authorities?

All in all I was surprisingly disconcerted by this one little adjective on the menu, and I don't think that was the restaurateur's intent.

Anyway, if menus are of interest to you, the New York Public Library has a digital collection of menus going back to the 1800s: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-buttolph...
As someone who has come from poverty, it still blows my mind that folks who make more than $70k struggle at all. A few of the things you mentioned are strictly luxuries. College, pets, new cars, vacations are all put on the back burner until it's financially reasonable to do so. I've met many folks making more than $100k who are in more debt than someone making $40k. Just ignorant of finances.
That's because the US (by this point) indisputably claimed one third of the world (The Monroe doctrine), whereas the UK was at the time more focused on being on the winning side of the European alliance system, then on making claims on American colonies. (Because it was afraid of an ascendant Germany. Fear of Germany was also the biggest driver for entering into an alliance with France.)

In the inter-war years, the UK was no longer concerned with Germany, but, due to the Great Depression, was also too damn broke to go on international adventures. The same situation played out in the US.

The only reason the two powers are now aligned, is because the United States started seeing communism, as opposed to European colonialism[1] as its biggest threat.

The moral of this story is that superpowers can have friendly relationships when they have a common enemy, or no conflicting goals.

An obvious question, here is - what are the conflicting goals of China, and the United States? The answer is - influence among China's neighbours. If the US was not interested in maintaining it, there would be no conflict.

[1] In the 19th century, European colonialism was a threat to American colonialism. In the 20th century, the American empire has resisted de-colonization a lot better then European powers did.
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My comments seem to strike a chord with a lot of HN users, I've had more than one person go through my comment history and reply to days or weeks old comments of mine.
Which is exactly why I won't check on any domains I want until I'm ready to buy them: I don't need a "domain taster" locking them up for profit.
> Or BTC hodlers who've seen an 80% crash, perhaps

zoom out, you're embarrassing yourself.

> Your 'fix' doesn't actually fix anything and it makes a lot of things worse. That's why you get called on it.

that's just like your opinion man. no reason to continue, time will prove who's right.
This will be your experience 99% of the time using cheap wire cutters on strings. They’re meant for soft copper wire, and strings have steel cores!

The $5 guitar string tool will work every time, though.
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Another interesting idea in this domain is to use wind power rather than solar power. Wind gradients can be harnessed through dynamic soaring although this can be a bit limiting. One way we might get around this is by flying two airplanes connected by a long tether.[0][1] One airplane flying at a different altitude where the wind is significantly different can be used like a kite sail to pull the other airplane. Although it has been shown to be a pretty nasty control problem at least for a human[2].

[0]https://www.nasa.gov/feature/flight-demonstration-of-novel-a...
[1]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/14-2015...
[2]https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2018-1492
> An unintended consequence is typically something that is not foreseeable

I'm using the definition of "an unintended consequence is a consequence that was not intended". Whether it was foreseeable is a different matter.

Put another way, I believe that the intention of most people advocating a $15/h minimum wage is to increase the welfare of those currently earning sub-$15/h wages, not to eradicate their jobs. Therefore if job eradication is the consequence of the policy under discussion, then it is an unintended consequence for those advocates.
If I was born poor, and then someone gives me a bunch of money, by this argument I am self-made.
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Tell that to spell-checker companies, or at least the Google Chrome team. And UK English is considered "old school" by some, similar to the "old world" versus "new world" labels. But arguing over words and words about words is probably off topic.
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Actually they've had youtube gaming for some time now. Pretty sure Twitch is far far ahead but still, they have their version already
It was in the browser, although it only worked with Chrome so I assume they're doing some stuff that goes beyond/outside of web standards
I'm a big fan of what Sarah & Andrew have done at Canny and how they have done it.

This article (humbly) omits the role that having a really great product plays in recruiting. Canny is well designed and built and delivers instant ROI. To a degree, job applicants can sense what working at a place will be like, based on the care the existing team puts into what they are building.
Sorry for being blunt, but coming from a dirt poor background I've been there and done that. You sound like a really pampered person who cannot imagine living anywhere but in a two bedroom apartment with a maid and on-premises gym.

No, it's not that bad and you can read books equally well in your own apartment or in a public library.

You have a couple of valid points about medical debt, which is a crazy American thing and working while studying, which is tough. The rest though shows a complete lack of understanding how being poor works.

It is the difference between going to the amazing state school and the local community college.

HN is full of anecdotes that professors in the community college are not that much worse. And for the price they are actually AMAZING. Yes, being an Ivy league graduate generally helps. But we're not talking about crazy rich folks here, right?

It is the difference between living in a studio apartment, 45 minutes from school in the bad part of town and living in the beautiful two-bedroom top-floor loft in Logan Square.

Sorry, I'm not getting this one. Yes, living in a two bedroom loft is somewhat nicer, but what does it have to do with studying or working?

It is the difference between a data entry job, and an unpaid research internship with your professors.

Data entry job hands down. A month of real job on resume is worth a year of sitting in the lab and adjusting the thermostat.

It is the difference between taking the first job you can get, and holding out until you find a better one.

Just take the first job you can and keep looking for a better one?
They already have a competing product: YouTube. It could still be in that arena though.
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Note that running the transform in-browser on anything more than a "hello world" is going to be relatively slow. It's only useful for cases like a "single HTML file React example, with JSX syntax capability", and is _not_ recommended for any kind of production use.