skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... but it may be the fault of the law, since the penalties are significant if small sites don't play the issue conservatively.
http://www.belarus-tractor.com/en/
There are gentrifying city streets that I, a white male, will not walk down because the entire street is new construction with builder included Ring systems. I don't want to walk down a street and have literally 30 people get notifications on their phones that I'm there.

I can't imagine how the local PoC that are getting pushed back feel about that. Existing neighborhood watch networks already have people crying wolf at the smallest things. This is how the culture of the area dies.
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It's a great question, and a very difficult one to answer/convey in words, as I find these types of moments are very personal and based so much on individual circumstances.

The most valuable realizations I have made at various times in my life tend to revolve around recognizing precious small windows of time and opportunity that deserve more attention, such as getting the most out of relationships, education, careers, etc.

Again, it is hard to quantify and often I find that they come at the expense of having neglected to fully recognize an opportunity that has passed. But learning from these "mistakes" can be as equally valuable.

Most recently, this understanding has helped me to emphasize experiences with my young children before the opportunity passes. While I may have some anxiety around neglecting some shorter-term responsibilities, I know that I will never look back and wish I had spent less time with my kids. But it is surprisingly easy to let everyday life creep in and distract me from that realization. So I continue to draw from both times where I know I could have been more present and great memories and accomplishments from successfully doing so in advance.
If you email the Contact link in the footer, they'll fix it. @dang said previously that '@dang' doesn't have any effect (there's no notification or tracking of it).
> Ad experts and entertainment companies have known this for decades, but I get the sense the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.

I feel like I've just experienced an extreme microcosm of this: I recently treated myself to an expensive power amplifier... and reluctantly embarked on the painful process of choosing appropriate audio cables. Through the other side I am still in disbelief over how entrenched the market and consumers are in their pseudo scientific BS - so much craziness - and almost every successful cable manufacturer and professional reviewer is in on the game (of which there are countless).

I'm usually of the opinion that within healthy competitive markets, capitalism tends to provides a kind of democracy, hopefully with emerging attributes such as honesty which naturally push the consumer towards making good decisions without being deeply informed - but clearly that is not always the case.

It's relatively simple to become informed about the basics of audio cables such as speaker wire [0], but that's not enough, you need a strong disposition of skepticism to wade through the sea of nonsense claims based on (real) electrical properties plucked from the science of general EE and sprinkled irrelevantly all over audio cable marketing and reviews and then echoed by it's users... that's the easy bit, next you will have another sea of anecdotal ABX reviewers that start to persuade you that the science could be missing something, now you enter the world of improper ABX tests, and the psychology of greater_cost+any_change = perceived as improved (e.g improving sound through simply disturbing wire connections, causing destabilisation of older amps by increasing the wire capacitance and hearing the added artificial oscillations as "detail").

TL;DR

It's possible to wade through all this, just like it is with political BS by looking up or testing every single claim - but it's exhausting! especially when there are so few people doing it.

I think we need to somehow fundamentally change people's attitude towards new information: with a high degree of scepticism... at some point it will become easier when the balance between BS generated and people debunking BS makes it undesirable and risky to bother generating BS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_wire
It's not the safest way to travel if you look at per trip or per hour spent death ratio [0]. To have even more correct numbers you'd have to add death ratio for transport to/from the airport as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...
I'll go first; are you okay with Central Standard rules?

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> Hard to say what's 'rational' when voting

First step you examine all the available options objectively, like any other decision.

Do you think the majority of voters do that?

> I'd say its entirely irrational to vote for the program as outlined by the candidate speeches. Because they rarely happen.

Right, but this another problem altogether.

I'm getting some cynic vibes from your comment. Are you against voting?
As a German, I'm a bit curious why is this being downvoted. I had the exact same thought (two anecdotes don't make anecdata, I know, but), let me tell you why:

I just don't think there's a market for this here. No one in my age range (mid thirties) or income level (SWE, comfy living in large German tech focused city) would think of buying a Mercedes Benz, let alone an electric one.

For one, these things are expensive especially new, which the electric one would be. If you're looking at it from the young-environmentally-conscious angle, I don't think there's any trust towards Mercedes Benz to be doing this for the right 'reasons,' i.e. not actually caring about the environment, or going about it in a bad way.

They are scramblin' to keep up after sleeping through the electrical car revolution and have nothing new to offer. Their approach and entire business model is deeply entrenched in traditional gas cars.

Even if someone like me could afford the car (due to good job and income matched to levels in expensive city), by living in said city, they wouldn't need a car to go anywhere!

I just don't see people who could afford an electric Mercedes buying one because
people like that think global warming is a hoax, hate Greta, and buy diesel cars out of protest.

I'm almost surprised they sold that many cars, actually.
How many times must it be demonstrated that "market forces" is not a silver bullet to every problem before people take the hint?
A higher hiring bar than google? Damn, I really am behind the curve.

Did you think about just chilling, getting a hobby, and treating your job as a means to an end?
Psychographic segmentation is an evolution of psychoanalysis; in particular Jaques Lacan, whose work in the 50s took the general ideas of Freudian psychoanalysis and applied them to larger phenomenon -- namely how language and symbolism can be used to pluck emotional strings and influence the minds of groups of like-minded people. An ad man in the 1950s would certainly have been aware of his work. The folks from CA have gone on record about the influence of Lacan, so it's not remotely a stretch.

Edit: For a reference, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/75bb/e8a5de1fef2b9da44ca1ed... (dense as heck, but imagine you're an ad man from the 50s when reading it)
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I understand that it is difficult to change opinion, and targeted ads do not do this; they seek to either mobilize or suppress voters to attend or not attend the ballot box.
The solution can be an arrangement with multiple tier products with different quality control and assurance.
Yup. I also put large household appliances in this category. They've been getting more expensive and more fragile for decades, without much real progress other than energy efficiency which is unrelated to the fragility afaik.
That's not how it works. The law cannot legislate perfection. There is the substance of the law itself then there is the spirit of the law. For example, highway signs have a speed limit, e.g. "60 MPH". The purpose of the law is safety, but the signs don't say "drive safely". Same applies here, a person can technically not violate any of the rules of the Sabbath and still not be in line with the "spirit" of it. From the standpoint of what you call the "afterlife", there's no difference. This same idea applies to all the laws, as Nachmanides (1194–1270) explains, there is an idea of "someone who is digusting/perverse within the framework of the laws" (hard to translate from the Hebrew) - the idea being that it's possible to not violate any of the laws from a technical standpoint, but still be a terrible person. It's not a game in the way you describe it, it's simply the feature of legal systems, namely that perfection cannot itself be legislated even if it is the purpose of the law.
Why was this downvoted? I just made the same comment before noticing this one already done. Competition is what solves these kind of things.
nice, how did you solve the risk of getting on blacklists in case of too many bounces?
This experiment was more practical in an earlier era. If we look back to Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address (which is worth reading in full), he commented: By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.

In Lincoln's day, rail travel and the telegraph were the cutting edge of technology; news was beginning to commonly travel faster than it could be carried by couriers on horseback. (Of course, long-distance signaling systems existed for centuries before that, but had very low bandwidth and were at the mercy of weather conditions). Now we are in an era of ubiquitous instantaneous communications in developed countries (which I'll define here as any country with functioning electrical/cellphone infrastructure). One ramification of this is the use of mass networking services like Telegram, Whatsapp etc. as the organizing medium for political demonstrations/uprisings in numerous countries around the world.

18th-century social/political technology is no longer responsive to the tempo of a 21st century world. And while it would be a mistake to situate the mechanisms of the government in the fastest conceivable context (as evidenced by volatility in financial markets), being locked in to various years-long political cycles (particularly the 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 year cycles of the American political calendar) clearly comes with a cost of reduced flexibility as well as a benefit of increased stability. Like a tank falling into a ditch, once it passes a tipping point of instability there's no bringing it back.
It's already here. The only reason I can do my own work on my N20 engine BMW is because they implemented really bad and vulnerable car DRM that can be trivially defeated, but they have improved on that in latter models.
OK then. I'd imagine some rabbis are okay with that and others aren't. I think that is somewhat unusual.

You can read about typical sabbath mode's on ovens, as well as other appliances, on wikipedia, which also has some info about how much consensus there is about the legality of various approaches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode#Oven

For ovens, it does indeed say "With some Shabbat mode ovens that are controlled using a keypad to set the temperature, there is a random delay triggered after a button is pressed before the temperature change takes place", but after going over other more common "sabbath modes" on ovens.
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> Notice that the working approaches have something important in common: a strong system that, given certain assumptions, guarantees the lack of memory safety problems.

That's a very good point and I'm not arguing against it. It's just that even if it's true -- and I'm more than willing to concede that it is -- it still doesn't answer the question, which is: what is the best approach to achieving a required level of correctness?

The "soundness" approach says, let's guarantee, with some caveats, certain technical correctness properties that we can guarantee at some reasonable cost. The problem is that that cost is still not zero, and my hypothesis is that it's not negligible. My personal perspective is that Rust might be sacrificing too much for that, but that's not even what has disappointed me with Rust the most. I think -- and I could be wrong -- that Rust sacrifices more than it has to just to achieve that soundness, by also paying for "zero-cost abstractions," which, for my taste, is repeating C++'s biggest mistake, namely sacrificing complexity for the appearance of high-level abstraction that may look convincing when you read the finished code (perhaps more convincing in Rust than in C++), but falls apart when you try to change it. Once you try to change the code you're faced with the reality that low-level languages have low abstraction; i.e. they expose their technical details, whether it's through code -- as in C and Zig -- or through the type system, as in Rust. Zig says, since the abstraction in low-level languages is low anyway (i.e. we cannot really hide technical details) there is little reason to pay in complexity for so-called zero-cost abstractions.

Language simplicity goes a long way, even as far as sound formal verification is concerned. For example, there are existing sound static analysis tools that can guarantee no UB for C -- but not the complete C++, AFAIK -- with relatively little effort. It's not yet clear to me whether Zig, with its comptime, is simple enough for that, though.

It is my great interest in software correctness, together with my personal aesthetic preferences, that has made me dislike language complexity so much and made me a believer in "when in doubt -- leave it out."
Yes, or rather it's the inverse.

You appear to be using the author's relative inexperience to then conclude the author's statements or claims are false, irrespective of the content of those claims.

This is the inverse of an appeal to authority where you use the author's experience or credentials to then conclude the author's statements or claims are true, irrespective of the content of those claims.
I hate getting gift cards. If someone feels the need to give me a gift but doesn't want to put thought into it, cash would be a much better choice.

When I do get a gift card, what I end up doing is giving it to someone else who would appreciate it more. Or, if I can't find such a person (it tends to be 50-50), then I sell it through a local classified ad site for 50% of the value it contains.
And yet somehow people keep moving there, and the NIMBY crowd keeps doing its best to keep folks out.
==Not mentioning that some of the things I receive may be "priceless" (understand: much more valuable than the price tag the insurance will use as a reference).==

These are the types of deliveries that should require a signature for drop-off.

==Furthermore, insurance companies don't like to lose money, and they are likely the ones to encourage you to install a surveillance network.==

Profitability depends on the pricing strategy. If police departments don't act on these videos anyway (as stated prior), more of them would likely just act as a visual deterrent. No different than taping an old cell-phone to your front door.

==If anything, to make sure that you aren't stealing your own packages. ==

Fraud exists in every industry insurance companies serve.
Wow. I was wrong. Being quite familiar with the Jewish laws and an ordained rabbi, I am quite confused by this https://products.geappliances.com/MarketingObjectRetrieval/D....

I suppose there may be some rabbi who permitted this, but I would love to hear the reasoning. This is definitely NOT what Sabbath mode usually is.

Edit: here is the rabbinic authority that worked with GE to develop the Sabbath mode. They explicitly state that adjusting temperature on the Sabbath is not allowed. Again, I don't know why that feature exists as it does not provide any benefit from a Jewish perspective.
https://www.star-k.org/articles/articles/kosher-appliances/a...
There's a distinction between loneliness and solitude. I've been looking at this from a perspective that is more relatable to psychonauts.

I think the "social connection" is just the superficial aspect of loneliness. I think more fundamentally, this is about alienation, of which loneliness is one of ways it comes out.

I have met people who created the appearance of social connections -- idealized lives on Facebook, instagram, etc. and they feel very much isolated and alone. They feel that way because they still feel alienated, that they cannot be who they truly feel.
Do you intentionally work to 10% of your capacity, or do you try to work better but can't?

If it's intentional then I don't understand why you'd do that, it seems to me like it'd be horrible to wake up knowing you'll be slacking all day...

If it's not, I'd suggest first of all changing teams while you learn other technologies for a different job.

edit: there are so many things broken with Google products, there has to be something you're interested in fixing...
I'm not a farmer and I am a software engineer, but I'm with the famers here. I want as little software in my products as possible.

I've been shopping for some audio equipment, and noticed that the latest version of an audio interface I'm interested in has replaced hardware switches on the device with software controls run from an attached computer.

I was immediately turned off by the new version and will likely buy a used one or one from a different manufacturer.

The hardware switches are old reliable technology and do not add much weight or size to the unit. And while the device is meant to be connected to a computer, it just needs to do so as a signal passing device, not as a device that is dependent upon software on the computer.

I'm sure the marketing department could explain why the new software controlled version is super awesome, but all it looks like to me is extra setup headaches and creating a dependency on software that I have no guarantee of being able to install on a future computer/OS combo.

Plus, there is always a chance the manufacturer will do something stupid/evil and brick old versions some day.
Yeh also "capitalism is working" is a very biased expressions. I am pretty sure you would be singing a different tune, if "market forces" were directly effecting you ( example: if u had family on a crashed 737 Max). Or you lost your job coz it is cheaper elsewhere.
Such a system could be designed in a privacy-preserving fashion which might be a customer-valued property. Even better if it could avoid the toxic crap fed by Nextdoor.

For example: I considered writing an app that verified that a caller did indeed work for the company they claimed (have a facial recognition digest, send to company, get a thumb up/down, then discard the local data on thumb up).

There’s nothing to stop me from remembering the faces of people I’ve met; what’s creepy is that the machines know essentially everybody’s face. But the opposite can be true to: we could make machines that discard everything inessential. There’s just no customer demand for that yet.
Imagine every car has a FMCW LIDAR. The chance of interference is very high. Additionally if those receivers are using SE PDs, then these sensors will also be “blinded” (TIAs and or PDs will saturate) when a nearby Lidar system shines its laser into the detector.
It's definitely intentional. You pop the hood of a new car and you see a plastic cover, not the engine. The plastic cover doesn't do anything for the car, it adds cost to the car, and mechanics have to remove and reinstall it if they do any work at all.

However, it does have a function: to obscure you from the workings of your car, and push you to take the car to a dealership or someone buying genuine parts at least.
You can go with non-John-Deere equipment and get a relatively cheap and simple tractor. I'm not sure about the minimum you can get in terms of electronics.

A big challengefarm equipment manufacturing companies are facing are related to emissions controls. A 40 year old tractor doesn't give a rip about CO2 emissions, but new equipment has to meet the strict standards. This means you've probably added a computer to fine tune performance, or perhaps you're simply operating moderately less efficiently than optimal.

A number of years ago, some dust control laws were passed. If farmers were to follow the letter of the law, their harvester would have needed to spray water to prevent dust from the gravel road, and needed to do similar out in the field (harvesting corn is very dusty). It would be hopelessly uneconomical, and would have absolutely killed efficiency in harvesting. It was talked about on the farm radio programs pretty extensively in the context of "the politicians don't get what it takes to farm. These sorts of controls sound great for factories, but they're not adding nuance to the bill for farmers, and it's unrealistic they we could follow the law if we wanted to."
Generally I think you are right. I was hired for a job and told that my github account heavily contributed to their decision, even though it's mostly random personal projects that aren't very interesting.
And this is how you might "convince me why your becoming a skilled woodworker is good for my bakery business".

Well done! :)
> A gross salary of $150k is going to be more like $175k including those taxes and costs.
So, I checked and indeed there is a small fraction of gross/super-gross difference in US salaries. But that should just be 6% total medical/medicare. Far from the 45% you often find in Europe.

It’s 7.65% social security + Medicare, plus health insurance, plus parental leave. On average, employers contribute $14,000 for health insurance for a family: https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/benchmark-emp.... For someone making $150k thats 9.3%. For the average worker with employer provided health insurance, that might be close to 20%.

> I don't think accounting for employee/employer triggered retirement contributions should enter the comparison here... Because it exists in pretty much every country, and it depends on what the employee wants to spend.

Defined contribution accounts are one of the pillars of the UN model for pensions. Many European countries (U.K., Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway) rely on them as an essential part of the overall retirement system. (Basically, they impose a lower retirement insurance tax and let you invest the money yourself.) So it should definitely be included.

> France has exactly the same as US 401k, since 1970, it's called a PEE. It's tax free and company contribution can go up to 3:1, it's limited to 25% of your total income though. There's also the more recent PERCO which is pretty much the same thing but can be cumulated, so you can go over 25% if you want.

My point is that the base Social Security payment, which is mandatory, will already provide you the same pension as you would receive in France. So you don’t have to decrease the 150k for 401k contributions to make the comparison even. But if you do account for 401k contributions, you’re going to get more retirement money than in France.
It doesn't have to be sellable and it doesn't have to be shoddy security. Those don't come inherently with the product.

Nothing inherently wrong with mass data collection and analysis and nothing inherently wrong with an election being heavily influenced by that. If there were falsehoods advertised then the problem is the falsehoods.
I added per-ip rate-limiting, which weeds out bad actors reasonably well, although if someone wants to DDoS you, they can.
Does anyone here have experience with Codefellows? Considering taking one of their courses.
I would imagine they travel around the perimeter just making sure it is intact!