skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Human or Animal blood is not donated plasma."

Plasma is a sub-category of blood. None of this discussion has been about just plasma.

"Are you arguing that Ireland has more blood plasma donations then the US?"

a) I'm not "arguing" anything, b) Ireland...what? What are you even talking about now c) even if this was remotely a part of this discussion, exports and domestic production are two dramatically different numbers. Some countries produce for export, some export barely any. Trying to misrepresent one for the other is not a reasonable tactic.
Is the cloth in the shape of a delicate snowflake? If not, they missed a marketing opportunity.
To bring 'round to programming, will "Fortran programmer" be on that list? C, Java, Python, LISP programmer? "Programmer?"
Me too but received about $90. Would definitely do it again. My experience it took about 2 hours but during this period I used the time to study or rest.

If they didn’t pay I’d probably donate maybe once a year. I never felt “exploited”, and I’m sure somebody needed that plasma.
How could they avoid mentioning ActivityPub? This already exists! This goal is full of double-think.
You ever think about how much we subsidize businesses by paying for college ourselves? The older I get the more I think the university to corporation pipeline is a fucking racket. It also sucks for employees because here comes these kids who were allowed to learn about all the new technologies you wish you knew with zero distractions and other obligations, now comin' in hot on your heels to take yer jobs en masse, and because of the larger labor pool they all undercut one another's bargaining ability, lowering wages. If I owned a company and I was lookin to hire I'd be callin that a twofer: free employee training and hiring discounts!
Everything's a "double tax", but people only care sometimes, for whatever reason.
Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
What's the authority at the top of Mastadon? You can have private instances that don't federate with anyone, and there's no coordinated authority that controls any other instance.

For that matter, what is the authority at the top of email? You and I can set up an email server and start talking to each other right now without anyone's permission. We don't have to be connected to anyone else, and we don't have any authority that can control our implementations or even that keeps track of what servers exist.

I don't get the comparison between Email or Mastadon to ICANN.
No, it's relatively common and applied on the outside - it just protects the paints from dirt, literally makes everything slide off for few months after application.
Buybacks are to increase mgmt comp because they hold options. It’s a scam.
here is it's discussion thread, maybe worth joining the threads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762510

how do you ping admin here?
So here are some super rough pre-tax annual numbers for a STEM path in the US (looking at my peers who did physics and some of whom went into ML, which is what I did)

Grad student ~30k

Postdoc ~50k

Assistance professor ~ 100-150k

Distinguished full professor ~ 250k-350k

Industry after masters ~ 100-150k

Industry after PhD ~ 150-300k

Distinguish engineering fellow in industry (physics) >500k
I use microfiber clothes on camera lenses and computer screens (dry basically). It usually works very well.
If that doesn't work a little water.
This is a great idea! Thank you for your feedback. Using native docker flags as-is will definitely reduce friction and simplify the use. Do you mind creating a Github issue if you have a specific list of flags you'd like to see supported first?
Though note that LLD isn't supported on Mac, so no luck there.
Yes, I didn't understand why TFA considered the signing cert issue significant. AFAIK, Apple would not refuse issuing multiple certs for forks of the same code base.
I have worked in and known of environments where it became appropriate to yell. You would be right not to work there, but not for the reasons you are implying here.
Thanks for the assurance! My grandfather was a lifelong ham (KJ6NK) and I have many fond memories of sitting with him in his radio room while he participated in various nets or picked up QSOs.
The companies are in many cases doing things like this:
1) their revenue they classify is centered in a different country like Ireland
2) they setup a massive line of credit with an international bank
3) they take out massive loans against the money they have “overseas” that is not taxed
4) they then pay the buybacks and other things to their investors with that loaned money in US
5) they then pay back the bank at their international site
6) the bank then borrows more money from federal reserve at nearly zero interest rate

Rinse and repeat.. tons of companies have done this. So sure some investors will eventually cash out but companies should also be taxed if they derive some benefit from the country they are from or selling products. I would argue those taxes should be low but allowing companies to totally dodge them seems like a bad setup long term.
Is this really relevant for HN? It seems like it's written for the general public who are not as tech savvy.
A movement is much larger than just the ideals or principles that have been written down. I was talking about it as it is, not as it claims to be.
But the people who voted for those officials and were the beneficiaries of the money are still there. So people learn by paying a price and sometimes hard lessons are the best kind.

Kinda hard for anyone to argue that racking up a credit card bill makes you a massive victim. Or perhaps in this case, your best buddy racks up a credit card bill while you hang out with him partying. Maybe you should help him pay back some of the spending you pushed him to take on.
Does anyone on HN have an interest in building a decentralized social network together? I've been thinking about doing this for a while now. Feel free to shoot me an email laksman [at] stanford [dot] edu
Well, I just showed that apparently it is not a reasonably small debt load for many! Even if you halved the amount - as I said, if people struggle to get $400 for one-off emergency expense would they be able to afford $200 each month? Also we have more than doubled the time to pay off the principle, I hope everyone's got a nice low interest rate!

I get what you're trying to say - you see that people have the latest iPhones, buying expensive sneakers and sharing pics of their exotic holidays. It's easy to then look at the student loan crisis, connect the dots and think "Ah, it's all these people with their iPhones, sneakers and holidays! I however have lived frugally, more people should live like me". Everyone's circumstances are different, but I think I can guarantee that student loan debt is a problem not because graduates go on to eat avocado toast every day (or whatever people are upset about this week) but simply because to attend higher education the costs in the USA are astronomically high and generally require either incurring huge quantities of debt or the enormous good fortune of coming from wealth.
I agree that the previous role of education was not intended to be strictly vocational, but that role changed with the industrial revolution following policies like the Morrill Land-Grant Act calling for institutions that focus on more vocationally-minded tracks, like agriculture and engineering, to support the economy. We can debate if this was in the better interest of society, but I think the role of education is allowed to change.
The understanding of wealth that leads to conclusions like these is based on a misapprehension.

You don't "have," wealth, you are responsible for it, and in particular, for growing it by investment in productive assets. If you don't, it literally evaporates.

The wealth tax argument is like seeing a transport truck and saying, "look at all the metal, rubber, and fuel that person has, surely they would not be harmed if we made them contribute some of it to give to our supporters!" without thought to what it carries, the purpose it serves, or whether it's still useful after being hobbled.

There are some people who seem to think being rich is like Scrooge McDuck swimming in a pool full of coins and treasure.

If you want to know what wealth taxes look like in practice, we have wealth taxes today, cities impose them, and they are called property taxes, and they have a huge impact on the viability of businesses and the lives of seniors, families, and renters. They are complex dynamics.

If progressives want to recapture money from wealthy people they could capture it indirectly on a greater scale through reducing the impact of globalization by enforcing tariffs in national economic zones, favouring domestic industry, and facilitating regional growth instead of scavenging it. Modest luxury taxes that are not distorting or prohibitive, or designed to engineer culture captures the most via a progressive federal sales tax (VAT).

People who say this won't sufficiently deprive billionaires of their privilege would be tipping their hand, as if that's the true goal, why bother to use the legalisms of a wealth tax as a pretext at all?
i would actually prefer to be cut open.
I switched to tower and told them I was holding and they said, in an annoyed voice, to taxi to parking.

I was with my CFI so we called the tower from the classroom and filed a NASA report.

Lucky for me this was in Asheville (KAVL) and they train controllers there too and it's all, basically, in one room so everyone knew we were coming in and there was only one other A/C sitting at the departure end holding short waiting on us. Super lucky. It sucks when you are so used to being told everything to do and having to argue with ATC about bogus turn instructions at 300' AGL that then when they forget it's still your fault.

We went back and listened to the ATC recordings and the regional carrier that landed before we took off asked the tower if they were cleared to land so I think we weren't the only pilots missing some calls.
Donated blood in the US is rigorously tested. Even if you don't pay people, it's entirely possible that someone doesn't realize that they have HIV or some other disease.

CDC page on blood testing: https://www.cdc.gov/bloodsafety/basics.html
It's different because it's Apple, and HN tends to want to find any reason to hate on them regardless of sensibilities. There's a lot of equipment that can be damaged if cleaned in an improper way, and it's definitely not far fetched to ask cleaning companies to not clean specific things..
Sorry for my ignorance but I don't understand how that's the case? As you've stated masterdon doesn't follow activitypub 100%, would would be stopping twitter from keeping their private chat between twitter users (or even adopting another open protocol such as matrix) whilst moving their public facing stuff to activitypub?
> From the union discussion the other day, one thing that always struck me was how weird it was that more conservatives don't encourage labor unions in the private sector.

At least in the US, I attribute this to "big business" interests being a major faction in the Republican coalition, more due to contributions of money than votes. Their ideology is ultimately self-interest, they benefit from weak unions/worker disorganization, and have the resources to promote their self-interested view as that of the party/ideology. They've been successful, because most people have more of a political tribal identity which dictates their positions than a well-thought-out ideology.
I have to admit that I am surprised that neither the article nor any of the HN posters have mentioned Rube Goldberg, whose humorous cartoons involving improbable contraptions to solve everyday problems seems to me an obvious predecessor to Simone Giertz.
my only concern, I am not in the target market for such a display nor am I interested in one even if I could justify the expense, is that if this display is so sensitive to the cleaning method then how is it not sensitive to the environment it is in. surely any cleaning cloth will cause abrasion just from what freely floated and adhered the screen. the cleaning instructions for the cloth pretty much put me in the camp of this isn't all that special of a cloth if I can use dish soap on it; those are certainly all not created equal let alone with the same additives.
I’ve always learned on the job and have never asked permission. I guess I’m lucky that I haven’t worked in the type of places where somebody’s looking over my shoulder every minute of the day. Somewhere around an hour a day every day and I’ve been doing it for years and nobody has ever said anything about it.

I subscribe to those weekly emails for the programming languages we use at work and I read them when they come in. I sometimes watch a conference talk about implementing something similar to whatever I’m scheduled to do next.

If I were running a company I’d expect this of all high level employees. It’s your responsibility to be on top of whatever’s going on in your field.
I hope someone from the cloud team at Microsoft reads this, as doing a static Jekyll blog shouldn't be something that is difficult...
No QtQuick3d [1] was from the beginning GPLv3 only (It is not even released yet, but Qt 5.14 release is tommorow). It is a bit awkward because now there are competing 3d engines inside one toolkit.

[1] https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-5.14/qtquick3d-index.html
This sounds more like Scuttlebutt[1] than Mastodon.

[1] https://scuttlebutt.nz/
Motive is only one third of the crime triangle. Method and opportunity are usually denied by even the least effort at security. As ancestor posts have mentioned, real people would no more leave a roll of copper wire lying around unsecured than they would leave a $100 bill under a paperweight on a city sidewalk.

The morality encoded into the justice system is not built for the benefit of the people typically getting sent to prisons. Those people may have some ethically defensible justification for having motive to commit crimes. It would not be an arguments the courts would care to entertain, of course. But the argument still remains for all those of us who are not judges. Property laws protect those who already own property, at the expense of those who do not. The enforcement of property law typically tells those who have suffered "petty" property crime to fill out a report and sod off, while those who suffered "grand" property crime get the benefit of police investigation. Ever had a bike stolen? Ever had a car stolen? If the bicycle is one's only means of transportation, and the police refuse to help, so they can investigate the theft of a car from someone that owns two, that person now has a reasonable motive to steal bicycles: society owes them one, and apparently does not consider it a crime worth investigating.

If the law does not equally benefit everyone, those who benefit least are not ethically bound to obey it. If the rules of the game stipulate that a given player cannot ever win, or even advance to second place, that player is justified in not playing the game, or in cheating. In such a situation, would it be better to be vigilant at all times, to stop everyone from cheating (including the winners), or to help the losers to cheat a little, then immediately report their cheating to the other players (eliding over the help that was given), so they can be further penalized? The latter is a dick move, and the former more desirable.

This is why you lock your bicycle to an immovable object during the day, and bring it inside at night. And this is why you secure the spool of copper wire before leaving the jobsite. And this is why you lock your car and don't store Bluetooth-broadcasting valuables in it. It is not necessary to understand why the motive exists, but only to realize that some people will have it, and are not necessarily evil because of it. Deny them the opportunity, and they will not commit that particular crime.

Bait vehicles reduce the crime to merely having the motive.
I agree making time to learn at work for a job you've had for a while is important, but we should probably make a distinction for newhires. Software has a low barrier to entry and I'm sure many of us have been victim to people who earnestly, but mistakenly, believe they are capable programmers. As a result, they're constantly "learning", in effect turning the job into a classroom, and leaving embittered peers who have to pick up the slack indefinitely. This type of "learning" can be toxic. (Of course, good hiring practices should be able to filter those sorts of people, but hiring practices can be its own can of worms.)
The integrity of my rubik's cube analogy isn't critical to my argument, but...

Even allowing for equivalent rotations as you mention, the method humans use to unscramble a rubik's cube is far far from optimal because we can't grok a scrambled rubik's cube then just execute the optimal solution.

Also this is just pedantry because WLOG you could just name those equivalent 180 rotations as a single operation anyway.
I agree with this entirely. If you tried to tax buybacks, you'd likely be inadvertently taxing a ton of the corporate infrastructure used for administrative purposes. In this case, the buyback is clearly like a tax-advantaged dividend, but with a key difference: it's not liquid. Dividends cross that critical threshold of spendable cash that triggers taxation.
Create more national labs, research institutes etc. that widen out the end of the funnel without widening the start.

/fellow physicist who went into DS
I pay taxes on my income, on my purchases, on my property and again on my property’s appreciation when I sell.
The largest beneficiary of buybacks isn't the ultra-wealthy. It's retirees. It's grandma:

"Of the $22.8 trillion in stock outstanding... retirement accounts owned roughly 37%, the most of any type of holder." [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/who-actually-owns-the-stock-...
Validation would be an expected Error and handled by returning an Err() rather than using unwrap() or expect().

.expect(format!("{} is a directory - file expected")) gives exactly the behaviour you've described for a CLI tool.

Graceful shutdown means releasing locks, deleting PID files etc when encountering an unrecoverable error. Not just any error.
I don't have the time and these days don't really have the expertise to take you on a tour of the ALSA codebase.

All audio interfaces that I'm familiar with work on basically the same principles (except for a couple that I think should be thrown on the junk pile for design reasons). They have a memory buffer which they treat as a ringbuffer, and periodically as they traverse the ringbuffer they raise an IRQ with the CPU. The CPU reads/writes from/to the buffer, and assuming that it does so on time, things continue on smoothly. These days most devices can function as DMA bus masters, meaning that the CPU does not need to explicitly move data to/from the device - the device is given an address in system memory and uses that.

Very few devices have a register that can be read to determine the read/write pointer position within the buffer. Therefore a design predicated on this idea (which you'd think would be a no brainer) is going to fail for the majority of devices.

So the "pcm" zone of an ALSA driver is the part that takes care of handling interrupts and data transfer. ALSA represents each direction as a separate device, a decision I was never in love with, but CoreAudio and most Windows driver APIs do the same so what can you do ...

Then there's an entirely separate aspect to many audio interfaces which is far more complex and difficult. In ALSA it is represented by the "control" API, in which ALSA tries to present as many of the controls present in the device and allow them to be manipulated. Since there is a massive variation in the number, nature and interdependence of these controls, this is very challenging to present to the user. This is partly why there are often dedicated control applications for high end cards on Windows and macOS.

There's no particular connection between the PCM and the control aspects of an ALSA driver, although obviously they are related and implemented together.

Sample clock is not visible to the CPU. Sample clock exists only at the device hardware level. Deciding which clock source to use is an option on a few pro-level cards, and ALSA "exports" this functionality via the control API.

USB audio device support is particularly problematic because the USB bus is uniquely unsuited to this purpose, and also because despite the standard, many/most devices have "quirks" that need to be accomodated in order to function fully. As a result, although there is really just a single driver per USB class, there is quite a bit of code associated with dealing with quirks of specific devices. This is decreasing for reasons I alluded to early: if you want to sell a device to iPad users, you cannot tell them to install a driver, and so manufacturers have been getting steadily more and more conformant.
Ah, what you're looking for is "polynomial but specifically 'N to the 2nd'" :)
You know that blood products are screened for a number of sexually transmitted diseases and other infectious products before transfusions, right? Off the top of my head, HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, and CJD among others. I'd imagine this list is similar in every country.

There's always a theoretical risk of getting an infection from blood transfusions. In the US there is a reported risk of < 1:1,000,000 for HIV post transfusion, but that is because we did not test for it in the past. We have been for at least a decade if not more.
I wish I could do that on KDE plasma
Corporations are paying taxes. US corporate tax receipts as a percentage of GDP are a tick higher than the OECD average. Also, it’s not the “ultra wealthy” primarily benefitting from these buybacks. Most corporate equity is owned by the bottom 99% and pension funds.[1] (Someone with a $5 million retirement account may be very comfortable, but they’re not hiding their money in offshore accounts.)

[1] Most corporate equities are held by retirement plans or foreigners. Just 25% are held in taxable account. Of those, the bulk is owned by people outside the top 0.1%.
The law protects that property, but isn't that the justification for the progressive tax scheme that we already have? If someone has ownership in a business that is earning them millions in income, then they are paying a much higher effective tax rate.
I think what ZeroTier is doing is totally reasonable, and more companies who aspire to make money from open source should do it. One thing I especially like about ZeroTier's approach is that you publish a standard price list for your commercial license.
JMeter and Jenkins – JMeter Basics Part 4 of 4 – That’s a Bug
It's baffling to me that we're still running DNS servers written in C. DNS is not that hard to provide!
> but a less congested road free of peasants

That's exactly what paid prioritization is though? A less congested bandwidth link free of peasants?
Unfortunately, HR is in charge of 'professional development'. Noone wants to fight HR and would rather keep their cushy job, get paid and let this thing crater.
University is a total racket. We pay these institutions to be treated like their low level employees to provide job training for companies. Corporations have successfully offloaded their training responsibilities onto a process that used to be much broader than vocational training.
How did you make that transition? I've been interested in making a similar one but have been frequently advised to stay in engineering and work my way into management instead.
>corn increased 32.62%, from $8.39 billion to $11.13 billion. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2019/01/14/corn-is-o...
Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values [pdf]
That last sentence just made me do a triple take...