skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on this for the last 3 months.

Can you send me your audio file? I'll send you back the midi I can generate; it won't be perfect but it might be usable. See comment elsewhere in this thread.
Dollars are just a mechanism for transferring wealth. Wealth is stuff, both in the here and now - land and assets - and in the future - wealth-generating machines like people and corporations.

There is no lack of food in the world; there might be a lack of beef, but not everyone needs to get to eat beef. There is no lack of land; there is more than enough land for everyone; it's just scarce in places that have high demand. The problem is distribution.
The sky is falling is a tale as old as time.

Stop spinning your wheels on this. Count your blessings and be thankful what you currently have, learn to live in the moment, turn off the news and social media (important step), and go on with your life and do the best you can.

Things can be hard enough as it is frankly, putting the weight of the world and it’s future possibilities on your shoulders like you are Atlas typically just leads to insane anxiety, depression, and burnout.
I gave up two times but I wanted to learn game development and I'm planning to spend the next 10 years into it. I thought Godot is my correct choice but the docs are hard to read I agree but lot of youtube tutorials out there and at this point YouTubers covered pretty much everything to create AAA or platformer game.
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I would also like to add that whilst this may (or may not) work for companies such as Microsoft, rolling out something like this nationwide is still a bad idea. There are many roles where this will have little effect on productivity, likely less office-based roles. Another reason not to roll this out nationwide is simply that lower paid roles may also see even lower pay.

That said, given the opportunity, I believe I would much prefer to work four days a week if the pay was adequate to support myself comfortably. I much prefer the idea of having a job to support my lifestyle and hobbies, rather than my life being by job. I've always liked the idea of having a day-ff mid-week, we used to do this as school children and it made the week a less of a drag (you were always looking forward to the "weekend" being at most one more day away).
You know what else no one here has done? Built something cheaper and posted a link.
All of our insights about "older people" have to be kept in the context of "this generation of older people."
> good enough data to predict what kind of stuff you buy.

Then why are the ads that _do_ sneak through my adblockers or onto Instagram, etc., such hot, moist garbage? Is it just a lack of people wanting to advertise at my demographic?
> So Jonathan Coulton is now the new Suzanne Vega?

Bravo. For people who didn't get the sublime reference, Suzanne Vega's song Tom's Diner was a benchmark test during development of the MP3.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%27s_Diner#The_"Mother_of_t...
If people didn't want to work at all this might be true (at least if Friday off was widely implemented). But generally that doesn't seem to be the case. Unemployment seems to stress people, and most people seem to prefer vacations that are 2-3 weeks at a time, even if they could take more. So if you offered people to come in whenever they want they might be there more often than you expect.
Not significantly. I did high school in a farming town in rural South Jersey and a Phoenix suburb and didn't notice that big of a difference other than that the building was newer and nobody wanted to spend time outside.
I think it would be really great if you slice these criticism into items and fill in issues!

https://github.com/dilshan/usb2-power-hub/issues

That's exactly why such a project benefits from being open source: someone with enough motivation and knowledge to hack something together do it, then other people with more specialized knowledge make suggestions for improvement.
The 5-day workweek was implemented what, 100 years ago?

Are we to believe that a 100 year old bizops practice is the optimal solution?

I honestly think that the main reason it's (nearly) impossible to implement something new, is because the old practice and mentality is so ingrained and etched in management, they'll feel cheated if the need to pay the same for less days (even though hours may be the same).

They'd rather have people around for as long as possible, doing 70%, than having them less but delivering 90%. The same type of management that values facetime and butts in seats over nearly anything else.
Ctrl-shift-R solves that?
Assuming its about the SaaS offer: you get an amount of free minutes according to the plan you are in, you can by extra minutes. You also can host the runner yourself, and even do that with the autoscalling (it's the same we use to run the included runners). So you can opt for convenience (paying by minute) or can run your own infrastructure to optimize on cost, if you wish.

The runners are very low maintenance, and theres even a kunernetes helm chart available.
The thing missing from all of this is any actual evidence of government pressure.

From [0]: "YouTube is facing criticism after a new artificial intelligence program monitoring "extremist" content began flagging and removing masses of videos and blocking channels that document war crimes in the Middle East."

From [1]: "Facebook said it has to restrict nudity for cultural reasons."

I'm not saying this isn't important. I'm not even ruling out some sort of indirect and informal government role. (Government policy and culture are intertwined!) But they fall far far short of supporting the false equivalency drawn in this thread ans elsewhere between western companies removing content due to TOS violations, etc. on the one hand, and content being removed literally, and undisputedly (as far as I've seen) in response to direct commands by the Chinese government.
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You can stagger the weekend so that everybody gets the extra day but not always the same day.
I see. Thanks for your reply! Yes, to open a WARC file you would need something like https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorder-player or another viewer[0] but the benefit is that you can now contribute to the webs archiving efforts and just upload the result directly to Internet Archive!

With that said, I do understand your motivation.

- [0] https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosyst...
Could be nice to open an issue on their repo to discuss that:

https://github.com/dilshan/usb2-power-hub/issues
It's still not stable. I see lot of lagging when I click the online Godot asset library and the Editor itself goes to Not Working state when I tried to close it.
Excellent reading for anyone interested the subject from a technical and business/enterprise point of view. This gets rid of the FUD 'browser fingerprinting' and uses actual industry terms.

https://blogs.gartner.com/martin-kihn/how-cross-device-ident...

https://blogs.gartner.com/martin-kihn/how-cross-device-ident...
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The Future of the Open Internet
From Google Chrome design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U5zqfaJCFj_URrAmSxJ0C7z0...

> "early experimental results in canary/dev channels show the cache hit rate drops by about 4% but changes to first contentful paint aren’t statistically significant and the overall fraction of bytes loaded from the cache only drops from 39.1% to 37.8%."

What about exceptions for loading common JS libraries from a shared CDN? I'm looking at the Google Chrome design doc and don't see how one gets around this. Maybe I'm just missing something, but if not it seems like they need to dig more into perf from the perspective of the slower end of the distribution, it could make a big difference.
The NIH, CDC, DoE, NOAA, the various DoD labs (ONR, ARL, AFRL, etc)--and more too. The NSF doesn't have a ton of intramural research, but they have very smart people on staff evaluating recent research and figuring out what to fund next; ditto for DARPA and several other agencies.

It's not just technical stuff either. The FAA has made being shot through the air in a metal tube (i.e., flying) almost absurdly safe, so much so that driving to the airport is more dangerous than the flight itself. I feel comfortable eating food from the supermarket, thanks to the USDA and FDA. The Library of Congress's work is used in libraries around the world; their collections (and the Smithsonian's) are also useful for researchers and fun for the public.

But sure, the real problem is that renewing your driver's license sometimes sucks.
> So we both agree that could be some legitimate reasons to send police to stop a region for demanding independence. It depends on how is demanded.

No. I agree that there are actions that are legitimate to stop by force. Demanding independence is not one of them. Using violence while demanding independence if you have other means of obtaining independence would be; using violence against people who are not representing the government denying your claim, would be.

Notably Spanish police were deployed to stop the independence vote itself. To me that means the Spanish government inherently lost legitimacy. They are oppressors, and by extension Spain is denying democracy to a substantial portion of its population. I'd hesitate to call Spain democratic at all as a result.

The supporters of independence are dealing with an oppressive government that are denying them rule by consent, and which by extension they have every reason to see as illegitimate, and they have no reason to respect that governments right to a monopoly on the use of force.

Subsequent actions are largely secondary effects; you can not expect people to remain peaceful in the face of an oppressor.

But that does not mean that violence or destructive actions targeting people who have nothing to do with the oppression they face is acceptable.

> And if you are trying to suggest that the police is sent to stop the region each time the people demands peacefully independence because, duh, "Spain, evil people", let me inform you that this only happens in your imagination.

Again, I've never suggested this. You seem incredibly intent in reading things into what I wrote that is simply not there.
This year I was forced to change to a 3 day work schedule (4 day weekend), by some recent boneheaded changes in Italian tax law for self-employed workers: if I were to make more before tax, I would make less after tax. That means that the average tax rate has a discontinuity and the marginal tax rate diverges at one point.

Even if this change was to be reversed by the new government I don't think I would go back to working full time: not only I'm less stressed and more productive (per hour worked), but a more interesting change is that you stop defining yourself by your profession. You are not a programmer, you code to pay the rent and are all the other things you do in the four days you have left.

(I'm using a throwaway, because it doesn't take long to figure out what the limit income is and derive roughly how much I make per hour)
A 100% inheritance tax would be a nightmare in practice. Grandma died? Cool, go sell her house now.
They are consuming, but nowhere near enough to spread the wealth around. And the wealthy vote themselves laws that let them keep more of their unearned wealth.

Look at what’s happened to California under prop 13 [1]. What was supposed to protect little old ladies from losing their homes due to rising property taxes has turned into a commercial real estate bonanza. People are making money hand over fist renting rooms at exorbitant prices to young people, and paying next to nothing in property taxes for the privilege. Meanwhile, a young person needs a large six to seven figure income just to afford a home in the Bay Area, and then their property taxes are insanely high, forcing them to subsidize their commercial real estate neighbours. It’s ridiculously unfair.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-14/californ...
But let's use more insecticides. What can possibly go wrong?
The problem that I see is that in many situations the pie cannot grow or its growth rate is limited. The most obvious example to me is property in major, metropolitan cities in the US.
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You don't need to go that far back before you could have replaced EU with USA and the statement would have sounded equally plausible. Then it stopped being plausible. The EU is more tightly integrated in many ways than the US was during the period of the Articles of Confederation.
> There is no lack of food in the world; there might be a lack of beef, but not everyone needs to get to eat beef. There is no lack of land; there is more than enough land for everyone; it's just scarce in places that have high demand. The problem is distribution.

Legitimately baffled to see so many people in this thread asserting that this is not the case.
Add the 2FA to your password manager! At least 1Password supports this.

Although, you might not want to do this, depending on your threat model. Take care if you do (now both password + 2FA can be obtained by having your password manager compromised, but at least your protected if only your password leaks from some dump)
The most common non-cookie based tracking are cross-device graphs that are registration based (reg based) and run by facebook/google/linkedin/pinterest/etc. If you've ever logged in to facebook (or haven't logged in) and a site has a fb pixel or share button, its much easier for them to track you.

These all have cookie/nonreg-based components, and there are plenty that don't rely on reg based data at all.
Joyce fans mourn loss of Dublin’s soul as developers buy House of the Dead
Sure, but if you give them a four day work week, next thing you know they'll be asking for three days! /s
Did anyone else look at the About page and notice the "Awarded Top 50 Programming Blog" image with apparently no attribution of who gave that award or what it is? What's the deal with that? It gives the impression of a made up award he gave to himself...
Selling the house of a deceased relative seems to be a common existing ritual, no? This objection might be stronger if it were more fleshed out.
> Your (approximate) location, browsing habits and patterns are good enough data to predict what kind of stuff you buy.

Missing component here is "when compared against massive existing data sets". That info alone isn't very powerful.
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Ad re-targeting (showing products you browsed) is generally cookie based I would think and adblockers block that. Anything other than re-targeting is anyway too broad and generally crap for me - even on Facebook which knows a lot I would think. Other data vendors are totally crap.

You can check your BlueKai profile here
https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com/registry/
In any support organization I've worked in (including software teams with support responsibilities, software teams with escalation responsibilities, etc.), a given customer question doesn't necessarily get a good answer on the same day. The SME might be out sick, there might be an incident distracting everyone, the problem might be genuinely hard and require research/experimentation, etc. Even if you have a 24h SLA it's usually 24h to a response saying "We're looking into it but check out the FAQ", not to a resolution. And this gets more likely the smaller your team is.

So invest in better FAQs and diagnosis tools and in procedures to reduce incidents, instead of trying to throw more bodies at the problem, because you don't have more bodies. Customers will be happier about getting actual answers sooner than they otherwise would.

This isn't a perk, any more than weekends or healthcare or market compensation is a "perk." It's an investment in getting better results for your business and for your customers, through making sure you have healthy and productive employees.
What a waste of money. The code is hosted on GitHub and it takes 1 minute to move the site to GitHub Pages.

$0/year, forever.
Guess this kills SXG? Or will they consider it "same site"? https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...
So how much do you make per hour? Since you’re using a throwaway why not just tell everyone to spread the love?
We can do that, but pesticides are in the air, in the rain.
This comment reminds of some of the hospitals in India where up-skilling is becoming commonplace to remain efficient and cost-effective. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-26/the-world...
It took me a little bit of searching but in 2016 25% of USA farm income was subsidies.
https://modernfarmer.com/2019/01/congress-finally-passed-a-n...
I imagine with trade war subsidies this percentage has gone up in recent years.
> customers need support at least during the office

No, they don't. You are bootstrapping. Your customer doesn't even rely their business on your solution.

Even large companies doesn't do support. Who do you call if your Windows is crashing? What if there is a power outage, do you call your provider asap? Exactly. Customers are used to what you let them to use to. They need to be sure you are aware of the outage before they notice it. You know you are doing a good job if they don't have to contact you.
Lots of big companies let their engineers submit patent to their IP office for almost whatever they like in the hopes that some of it might be useful. The inventors are usually paid a small bonus if the idea gets filed. It’s the kind of thing we used to do to make a little extra cash when wages weren’t growing. Ideas are easy.

This seems like the kind of idea dreamed up over a coffee break.
A single month trial says nothing. A rational employee would surely work a lot during this trial period, because if the experiment is successful, they get a lot more free time in the future.

Nobody works at 100% productivity all the time, but if it only about a month with a big incentive, they can tap into their reserves and improve productivity for the prospect of more free time.

Social experiments are very difficult because the observed subjects know about the experiment.
Posts like this remind me why I really enjoy working for myself.

You have the option of being able to decouple your hours worked from your accomplishments. You get to choose whether or not you take the day off because you crushed it yesterday, or you can continue grinding it out hardcore for months just so you can take a few extended breaks in the near future.

You are in control of the dial that dictates when you work.
Really? I find that hard to believe seeing as not one in fifty beekeepers blame pesticides for their losses. Would you prefer the reintroduction of pesticides that actually do for certain kill bees? It's the mites and the diseases they carry.
Yes. It's more like a blog post.
> Wealthy people control resources.

Yes, it turns out that resources are actually the thing we need to sustain older people.

> Someone will need to physically do the work that needs to be done around old people.

Someone literally is already doing the work that needs to be done for old people. It's just that most of the wealth produced from that work goes to already wealthy people.
A network of ‘camgirl’ sites exposed millions of users and sex workers
The media hated Trump

They still covered him and he won because of $2B of free coverage
> " I believe that it is pointless to increase the human lifespan unless the quality of life for the elderly is also increased."

The relevant industry term used more frequently lately is "healthspan".
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Really?

Could you go in to detail on how you did this?

I thought JS was an absolute requirement for them.
USB-C iirc is USB3 under the hood and can be converted passively from the "old" to the type-c connectors.
Yes.

The academics behind the study are not idiots, and understanding measurement and the relevant measuring instruments is a foundation of pretty much every field of science.
> I'm sad about this change from a general web performance perspective and from the perspective of someone who really likes small independent sites, but I don't see a way to get the performance benefits without the [privacy] leaks

Maybe I'm missing something, but the obvious solution to me would be more cache-control headers.

The only notable case where shared cache is useful are resources on public CDNs hosting libraries and other common resources. These could just send a "cache-control: shared" header, or "cache-sharing: true" if adding new values to existing headers breaks too many existing implementations. This puts them in a shared cache, everything else gets a segmented cache.
Just because people can live longer, doesn't mean the quality of life they live in old age is any better. Which also means they aren't exactly interested in being treated for cancer or going through major surgery in their 60s and 70s. Ofcourse there are Sanders and Trump type energizer bunnies, but they are extreme outliers compared to everyone at the retirement community.

The metrics don't reflect that reality. Most old people (who have dealt with the healthcare system while caring for their parents in old age) know quite well "about the staggering 52% in the last 2 months, and 40% in the last month". Why is anyone paying that cost? For what?

I have a Cardiologist buddy who likes to say performing surgery and treating old people is like keeping a Windows 95 system alive and kicking just because its possible. And most of his patients know it and want easy ways to checkout, but either the Doc is obligated by family/incentivized by the hospital to perform some kind of elaborate treatment. Obviously yhis will change for the simple reason a majority of the Docs and the Patients want the change to happen. On top of that there is the ongoing shift of focus from treatment to prevention.

My larger point is there are always countervailing forces to any trend that is building up. A good case study is the Population Bomb predictions in the 70s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

It's good to know why it didnt play out.
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Don't think so. We know that there are some allegedly national-security-related takedowns where the government has sought gag orders. We know about them because the companies sometimes object, and the request becomes public. Then there the other types of content being discussed in this thread such as LGBTQ content, adult material, etc. where I don't think there is any reason at all to believe that gag orders would be involved.
Or an index fund
Drive around the Deep South/Gulf Coast region when the lovebugs are out...It seems like you kill thousands per hour.
>I know dislike Google results UI

I use DDG as a default search engine for a while, but fell back to google search often, because I felt that Google results are better. At some point i enabled a stylesheet which made DDG results look like google's. And the search results improved significantly. I stopped using Google search for anything other than Google maps.
A 2% wealth tax above a few hundred of millions of dollars doesn't destroy the incentive structure for economic activity, it is disingenuous to suggest it would.
Using dumb cables avoids one of the issues (configuration channel pins shorted together), but not the other one (sourcing power even when the configuration channel says it shouldn't source power).

That is, the workaround is both "use only dumb cables (which use only one of the CC pins)" and "never connect to a USB-C device which might source power while the rpi is being powered by something other than the USB-C".
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