skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's essentially what's going on with high TV channels right now. They're getting repacked into lower frequency bands so the high frequency channels can be used for cell phone service. You may have seen your local channel telling you to recant, that's why.

The FM/AM radio spectrum is too low frequency to be practical for cell phone use. The antennas would be outrageous.
Doesn't matter. There are many cities where it is legal or not legally enforced if illegal-- plenty of options. Look at Portland, Seattle, for example.

I lived in some woods in Portland for 3 weeks, applying for jobs daily from cafes, and visiting community centers for food & showers. Landed a corporate office job. Anyone who isn't disabled can do it. Claiming otherwise is a cop out.

The question is: How much do they want to succeed? How much are they willing to sacrifice comfort for success?

People take for granted their mental and physical fortitude. They give up far too easily.
> Apple forces iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 owners to buy a new model even if they work fine after 6 years. Why couldn't a mobile phone work for 15years?

I'm pretty sure Apple does no such thing. They stop updating product lines after a certain point, but they don't brick them or anything. In fact, you can find examples of people using original iPhones just to compare them to the modern phone amenities.

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-techn...

Really -- our expectations of what our mobile devices should be able to do have increased so much in the past 10 years that it's simply unrealistic to expect them to last 15 years or longer. _Maybe_ we're coming closer to a point where we can expect tech to be usable for longer due to our phones having processors that are nearly as capable as modern laptop processors.
Training for and playing the game is their labor, which generates enormous revenue for the institution they belong to. In any other setting - including professional sports - we would call them workers. And it's brutal, punishing work that they will live with for the rest of their lives.
If you can't do anything about something, why worry? If you can, then do, and why worry?
You can even host your own package registry, but I didn't think it would be worth mentioning in the context of that question.
My FBI guy: a moderated chat app.

Instead of just a 2-way chat program, there is a 3rd participant "the FBI guy" who also joins the chat. Every message sent must get approved by the FBI guy before it goes through to the recipient.

It should also be possible to send messages to the FBI guy directly. e.g. "Does she/he like me?"
For those reading along I took a look at their hiring page:

https://careers.hotjar.com/o/customer-support-americas - this role is $45,000 to $62,000 (looking for EST, would be hired as a contractor)

https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/dotcom-sup...

For intermediate (of which you can go to senior) and you'd be an employee of GitLab in the US, so no dealing with self-employment tax etc)

- Florida $46,740 - $57,126
- Raleigh $54,940 - $67,148
- NYC $63,140 - $77,172

Very comparable except in NYC which is a higher cost of living. I'd love more data. I know Basecamp is doing the "everyone indexed to Chicago" which means that most regions are getting a little bit more purchasing power.
App that suggests you when to sleep based on sunrise
According to his closest colleagues, there was no witch hunt, but a high-profile incident that drew attention to literally decades of problems: https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...
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Ah yes, democratic representation and sovereignty. Entirely unthinkable.
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This kind of discussion seems to constantly confuse "good" as in "moral", or at least "morally justified" and "good" as in "effective to achieve one's goal".

I believe that while protester's violence may very well be morally justified (I don't have enough data to judge, but I can easily imagine this case), I don't think that it can be effective to achieve protester's political goals. Violent protest is only effective when the violence reaches it's logical conclusion and opposing force simply withdraws or surrenders. As was the case in Ukraine in 2014, or in USSR in 1991, it doesn't even need to be a LOT of violence - just enough for the opposite side to get completely demoralized. But China's police and military are not only numerous, well-trained and well-funded - they're also very highly motivated and believe (I think, mistakenly, but truth of their belief is irrelevant) in their cause.

So, the only way for protesters to succeed is to make China look bad: and generally, peaceful protesters are much more effective at creating positive sentiment than armed ones.
I didn't mean to make a personal offense, just that this shouldn't be the normal.
But it doesn't solve the pollution problem. Why should a person be allowed to pollute more just because they have more money? Why is their convenience more important than everyone else's well being?
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If you still have issues with it, Cargo (Rust's package manager) has the option to use alternative package repositories, so you can host your own repository of packages[1] if you so choose. I haven't looked too far into it, so I don't know how painless it is to replace the default one or set up a mirror for packages you trust, but someone on Reddit claims to do just that at their company [2].

I wish Rust made it easier to know who the author of a package is (i.e. namespace packages so it's clear in the Cargo.toml), but I do think they've done a better job at designing crates.io than some other package repositories (i.e. npm).

[1] https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2017-10-28-alternative-reg...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9gl8p3/host_local_rep...
The reason is clear: it's saving money by paying you less than what you're worth.
When a coworker chooses to negatively gossip to the media about somebody, and the media finds it click-worthy, do you think this is going to be a characteristic and unsampled bias of that person or other's perception of them?
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Sure, there are solutions for this. Luxury taxes, tiered use (first 4L of water per day free!), properly priced externalities (e.g. a Corvette is taxed more than a Peugeot because there's more CO2 exhaust, cow meat is taxed more than chicken because of CH4... companies will adjust, new tech will be developed), ... but yeah, unless you straight hate the rich, then the rich will be able to do more things than the poor - that's kind of the point of being rich (and unless you ban all "undesirable" behaviour, that also means the rich will be able to do more of that than the poor).

I'm mainly just against the idea that shorter wash cycles are less desirable than airplane rides.
I purposely didn't put that in - I was trying to convey the righteous outrage that would be felt.

The point is you think about this up front.

The reason you would require the functioning facility to be closed is to make it clear to the business and all others there are consequences for this incompetence and lack of care.
French plan to scan social media for tax fraud causes alarm
> 12064. Manage leasing of facility space.

Sounds profitable.
15728 would be an organised crime startup
The thing is in this case, Boris has been caught red-handed doing very similar sorts of "cunning disguised as idiocy" ploys before. For example, feigning forgetting speeches. It seems plausible that it was intentional.

Both sides of the political aisle are certainly highly susceptible to conspiracy theories about the opposition, but this case seems pretty interesting. It may be a wolf-crying situation, too: since Boris has likely done it before (I disagree with you and think the bus thing was SEO gaming, though this one may not be since the chance of coincidence is likely due to it being common word usage), people are going to start seeing it even when it isn't happening.
> Bosch had plastic welded shut the drum,

> the flange in question had the bolt holes and locating features for the gasket still present.

That sounds like classic cost-savings methodology. They found a cheaper way to attach two parts while keeping the same tooling and reducing parts-count.

What would have been suspicious is if they had kept the expensive features and welded it shut.

Cheap is often not maintainable as a side-effect. That doesn't mean it was the primary goal.
I was very surprised by Google becoming aware of some hiking paths, but I sure would have been pissed if I was sent there in a suit and dress shoes... Walk-able covers a lot of different realities.
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Imagine people build super weapons and super defenses. With the push of a button you can kill 1000 people. With another you can defend the lives of 1000 people. As the arms race progresses the impact of the offense and defense tech grows. One day the weapons are strong enough to kill a billion people and defend a billion people.

One side runs out of defensive drones. How good is their negotiation position? They would have zero power.
Seconded. When I used to cut weight for HS and college wrestling it was considerably easier to plan around fast food and pre-packaged options. Those aren't always awesome choices, but they're highly consistent and I can get accurate counts as to how much calories/protein/fiber/fat/carbs I've had.

Doesn't mean I was eating it 3 meals a day, mind you; still mostly brown rice, broc, and chicken breasts. But I could plan around a lunch at Wendy's, while the local steak house was a crapshoot.
Spot on. That the publication didn't find it worthwhile to accurately proofread the FIRST sentence of the article signals (to me) they are not worried about the reader's time and prevents me from taking their article seriously.
Amazon releases public data set to aid research on speech separation
Idea 20100, make a filtering and full text search service for all of these ideas for better reading experience.
So, essentially, even though you're "remote", you are tied to your current location and you're their bitch. Reject companies like GitLab, don't work there, don't support that.
Plan for facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns
How much do users pay for the privilege to use this app?
I love this type of long, interactive deep-dive into a particular topic. The site is loading veeeery slowly but it is worth waiting a minute for it to appear. So much content to ingest.
>"These fairly square rules will surely cause other uproars as it invites back the alt-right with their tongue-in-cheek fascism."

And what about the extreme left and their own brand of totalitarianism?

Those on the Right get almost all the focus in mainstream media because almost all mainstream media is on the Left, but the rise of urgency and activism among those on the Right is simply a response to the growing extremism of the Left that many well meaning people fail to recognize because those extremists are on their "side"
Ask HN: Remote employees, how are you paid (contract, US-payroll, etc.)?
Hi everybody,

I am getting a job at a US-based startup but will be working from The Netherlands as a remote worker. We are trying to figure out how to properly organize this but there is so much conflicting information out there on what you should do, and what you can't do.

I'd love to hear from somebody who is currently working remotely for a US-based company to get some insight in how to organize this.

A massive thanks for you help and all the best,

Valentijn
i didn't mention a "great intelligence", only "smarter than he looks", aka smarter than he leads us to believe.
What? Your kids barging in a meeting might be the "best distraction in the world" an arbitrary number of times, and then after that it no longer is?

AFAICT this comment is indistinguishable from saying nothing at all
Except that we 'invented' the empathy. Or the concept of it.

I'm all for acting ethically. And mostly because we are the creature to compose the concept of ethics.

Nature is an idea; a human idea... or a bucket of ideas. One that different people or cultures put different things into. One needs to be highly suspicious of anybody who appeals to nature for some value in itself, or as a source of natural laws. People tend to see in 'nature' what they already believe.

And I think a similar principle holds for how we apply ethics in relation to the not-human, natural world. Careful.
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I actually do want companies to honor their warranty even if I open up the device but generally I do not need to do that if it is under warranty. I was more thinking after that period when it breaks and you can't have the manufacture repair it. These companies still don't want someone doing unauthorised repairs and starting house fires then saying these machines cause fires when really it is was a bad repair. But on the other hand there are countless people that are capable or out of necessity will repair a machine. With my suggestion of registered one time screws it was not to stop the customer from doing work but just to indicate they did work if there was some negative effect afterwards.

On a side note my son accidentally sat on his ereader, a popular model, but there is no place to buy a screen. There were a couple on eBay but they wanted 20$ less then a new ereader. It is frustrating.
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> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator that just decided they were going to take all property rights and freedoms like that

Do you know anything about China and Hong Kong? What exactly do you think China has done in Hong Kong?

EDIT: Down-voters, can you answer the question? Or are you just going to try to bury it with down-votes?
It's the socializing part that's not everyone's cup o' tea.

Socializing exists on a continuum. I hate with a passion any sort of company wide or overly organized 'fun' events, but I would still love to have a few colleagues to drink coffee with while casually chatting about what they think about the new features in tensorflow2.
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In addition to what others have said, it could also be where your're evaluated on non-work factors. Nepotism is the classic case, but it's still very frustrating when your status at work is decided on factors that aren't disclosed to you.

Or worse, when working to create value reduces your status, because you "should" be able to keep employed on your social status alone. Having to create value to keep that paycheck coming signals social weakness.
No idea, I'm a programmer not a businessman. I don't think OP actually minds about income: "there doesn't need to be a way to eventually monetize it"

I guess some money could be made by using the chat logs to train AI chat bots, and selling those bots. I have no idea how that would work in practice though.
As someone who spends significant amounts of time on the road, a setup like this can be a godsend.

You mention more CPU, more SSD, more memory, just keeps getting cheaper and you’re right. You can get a pretty amazing laptop for not much more than an iPad Pro and it will handle nearly any workload. The problem is now you have to carry that and all of the batteries and accessories around. It’s so much easier for me to bring my iPad Pro 11” with a keyboard case and remote into a desktop environment for those workflows that either require a high end machine or Windows. I imagine a Surface would be even better.

Personally, I just don’t want to carry a massive laptop to get compute if I can access it remotely just fine. So that’s what I do. I have multiple VMs running Windows or Ubuntu on a high end Ryzen machine with multiple Nvidia GPUs. That’s significant more power than I could ever hope to bring with me on the road. For me the only major setback is screen real estate. Hoping one day some of these HMDs can fix that.
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is Ecole de Petrole translated as School of Petroleum by any chance? 'cause that would be hilarious in our day and age.
One good answer to why Chinese and Japanese-Americans specifically, but generalizing to all Asians "got less fucked in today's society" is the excellent book _Color of Success: Asian-Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority_, tracing the way that white Americans viewed Asians from the Yellow Peril era to the current model minority one. Strong recommend, even if it is about as dry as a Perl book.
Any given Instagram reader may not have read a real book in their life - or maybe they are avid readers who read constantly. All the same, there will always be readers and non-readers.

Literary snobs today imagine a past world where everybody was constantly discussing the finer points of the classic masterpieces every day of their lives. In reality only about 12% of the global population in 1820 was literate. And that's just baseline, not to speak of people who actually spent time reading difficult, thoughtful, full-length books.

Thoreau has a great passage in Walden (published in the 1850s) where he complains about people knowing how to read, yet spending their time reading garbage romance novels instead of classics like the Iliad. I think the complaint of people "reading books" on Instagram comes from the exact same place. It's a timeless problem, which is not really a problem.

Even when global literacy reaches 100%, there will still be a very small percentage of people who are hardcore readers. There is a certain kind of person who will sit down with a big heavy paper book and read it cover to cover, and they are not a common species among humans. It's something you are born with, or something that you gain in very early childhood anyway, and nothing Instagram does will ever change that.

So there's really no use in complaining about it one way or the other. Instagrammers will instagram. Some of them will read real books too, and others will not.
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Complex issue. With this innovation they can rethink the whole axel/brakes/rims/hub motor system and perhaps come up with more novel solutions. E.g. Brakes/hubmotor integration to remove the unsprung weight penalty? Rim/hubmotor integration? It's an exciting time.
When asked about Stu making that insane call with like 10-high, Doyle Brunson (I think) said something like, "When Stuey has the second best hand, he's gonna go broke."

There are so many stories about his successful aggression that people really overlook his unsuccessful aggression.
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I agree. The concept of a fact checker seems extremely flawed to me. Beyond just reporting the news the media is suppose to also fact check it. And to be fair they claim to do just that, but it turns out they have biases... So the solution to that problem is add another layer? What do we do when it turns out they also have biases? Add another layer? A fact fact checker?

I rather have no fact checkers at all personally. I'd prefer to live in a world where everyone distrusts the media than a world in which everyone trusts a few bias reports claim to be the arbiters of reality.
Populism is growing because more people than you think want chaos
I've been in trouble for calling my food mushy in front of my German friends.
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Animals studies is where the findings are easiest to see but of course there is human studies that investigate the same aspects, and yes those align with the finding of the animal studies.

The most common method is with some form of economical game where in an experimental setting you either reward either aggression or cooperation, and then inject half the participants with testosterone and the other with a placebo. The finding of that is just as I mentioned above, ie that regardless if cooperation or aggression is rewarded, what correlate with testosterone is how much effort is spent on defending a position. If it is cooperation, then cooperation goes up after injecting testosterone. The real life example that a professor in neuroendocrinologist gave is that if you inject a buddhist monk with testosterone the expected results, considering their culture, would be increased zen-like behavior.

The reason testosterone get associated with aggression is that zen-like behavior is not the common cultural appropriate response to being challenged. Lets imagine the case of a man disrespecting an other man (a different word for challenging someone socially) by cutting a waiting line in front of an other man. Testosterone would in that case amplify what ever the cultural appropriate behavior is for defending their social status, which in many places of the world would be a violent response. From the outside that would look very much like aggression.

The common difference between animal studies and human is not that animals and humans has fundamental different biology or behavior in regard to impulses, but rather that humans tend to use it more novel and complex way. Loosing your job can easily be converted to a feeling of loosing social status, especially if someone or a group can be made to be the perceived as taking that social status.

In a rather fascinating study researcher looked at sport fans and found that their biology mimicked the social status effect of their teams. Fans testosterone went up if their team won, or down when it lost. A similar effect has been found in primary elections, where men on the winning side gain testosterone after the election results was announced.
When I worked in an office with people on my team, and my company, it was great.

The atmosphere was great, lots of chatting and collaboration with colleagues. I really liked it. It felt like going to work and hanging out with mates.

Now I work in a shared office space 4 days a week. I would rather be at home, it's depressing as shit when you are in a busy office and have no one really to talk to. So the days when no one else is there from my company, I just don't go and work from home. It's a bit tougher to motivate myself to work but I have a nice work space / home office setup and the work computer is a seperate computer to my personal one. So when it gets turned off, I'm done.
I'd remind you that this subthread is all under my response to a comment which said "there is a benefit to radical thinking and nonconformity, but "do it without hurting others" is a reasonable line to draw. ... I still believe ... that it's possible to maintain not-normal opinions without causing pain to the people around you.".
When was the last time you took an Uber?
I think the problems are unrelated to gun ownership. If you were to plot the percent of gun ownership vs the crime rate among various states or even countries, you wouldn't find much of a correlation.
I wonder if these remote working tools come from people who worked in an open office space. I have an office, and before that I always had a cube. If somebody wants to start a conversation it starts by knocking on the door, or the entry area to my cube.

I'm not used to the idea that somebody on my team can just start talking and assume the team will hear them. So I don't feel the need for that kind of communication with remote employees.