skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if there’s one thing I’ve learned from writing software, it’s to blog about error messages.

I hope I'm not the only one who just realized that "A Sad Day for Rust" is also an example of "[blogging] about error messages" and appreciated that statement even more.
Dulong–Petit Law
1. Pure, typical Businessinsider clickbait.
2. Always wanted to ask this: What work does Sam Altman do?
> Gray market = not using official supply chain.

That is the traditional meaning of grey market, but I don't think that's what Amazon meant here. Amazon isn't threatening to import Tile and Sonos devices from other countries, they are threatening to use cheaper no-name knock-offs. The meaning of "gray market" has expanded over time.
Two days off for the whole year?!

Let's remove the Japanese cultural aspect for the sake of argument. Its relevant but lets keep it general.

You'd be amazed how much you can glean from even something as apparently simple as staff leave entitlements.

Based on my experience in a previous type of role interacting with "less than stellar" businesses, here's how I'd review that guys manager and company performance:

That guy's manager is either incompetent or in a high stress environment themselves from on-high. They don't know how to manage people. Likely running all staff at overload. They are therefore underperforming with fatigue an issue. Likely error rate is excessive, or worse, minor mistakes are being covered up and are already on slow burn to becoming larger ones. Fear is a factor in all decisions involving responsibility. CYA is overused.

Leadership is probably running the business poorly across multiple measures. Untested or non-existent disaster contingency plans. Every person is either a critical link or near one. Too much in each persons head because they are too scared to share information. Proliferation of business silos. Entire groups are isolated from each other. Pointless duplication of work or systems. Managers increase headcount for power but then purge when expenses get flagged.

Embezzlement or some other fraud is likely because no one is second guessing the day-in-day-out work. The corrupt group are left to run continuously and uninterrupted because no one honest takes the reins at regular intervals. No rotation of staff at any particular point needed because no one really goes on leave. Financial mismanagement at minimum is likely even if fraud is not present.

Poor social inclusion/cohesion. Staff are isolated from their communities and those links are shaky or broken. This is not good for anyone and the damage will flow back in other ways. Low cohesive people later turn into messes of their own and in turn result in increasing turnover overall or worse they stay and lower performance of themselves or others. Bullying/mobbing are likely present.

Since corporations are legal individuals, this one is a workaholic jerk that doesn't play well with others and at extreme is headed for prison / bankruptcy / or both. Even if the corporation succeeds its still a failure since it had to sacrifice so much to get there it barely got there at all. Dying at the summit is not success when the real success is returning to what matters. Plenty of companies are run this close to failure. Next financial hiccup will cause this company to trip or fall over.

And that's how much you can link from staff leave entitlements. Its a lazy way of identifying red flags for sure. Some of these are only related because a company with bad leave arrangements is of a certain design or style. But the financial aspects have served me well as a rule of thumb. Culture matters. Be very suspicious of short leave entitlements and actual usage as they hide a multitude of sins and dysfunctions.
And that’s why both chambers of the state legislature are ~20% Republican?
Exactly, a broke nihilist and a wealthy nihilist are still with their recognition of a lack of meaning.

One person can use it as an excuse to turn to woe, another person can use it as an excuse to treat the world as their oyster.

Nihilism on its own is merely the recognition of the random and arbitrary nature of reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws

Excerpt:

"Dulong–Petit law states the classical expression for the specific heat capacity of a crystal due to its lattice vibrations."

This is an interesting idea, that the lattice structure/vibrations of a crystal -- are related to its heat capacity (and vice-versa)...
Yep, I seen people in a RV group talk about these. Some Walmart stores are using them on truck drivers and RVers who stay over the night. I believe it's a contractor Walmart hires though, not actual Walmart employees. I think it's insane a private company is even allowed to do this stuff, and some people said they'd yank it off and if their windshield cracked put a claim in with the companies insurance company.

However I don't think private booting or these devices is legal in every state or even varies by city in some states. Someone was sleeping inside, woken up after they put on the device and they wanted 500 dollars to remove the device. I'm surprised some truck driver in the South like Texas that's more gun friendly doesn't get woken up thinking he's being robbed and ends up shooting one of these contractors by mistake. There's stories where people have mistakenly woke up and even shot their own family who came home too late thinking someone was breaking in, so surprised this hasn't happened yet if someone is really tired and startled not realizing what's happening yet. Probably would be a big highly profiled national case if something like that happen though, and people who aren't a fan of all this parking stuff probably would side with the trucker, so doubt they'd be impartial enough. I don't think parking enforcement would be a job I'd enjoy, probably so many angry people daily, and not sure if I'd want to work alone at night in a dark parking lot waking up people, especially with the trucking shortage.

Found an article about this: https://www.truckingtruth.com/news/Article-94/barnacle-boot-...
Some do claim that it's a cult. But that's not my experience. Course leaders are generally highly charismatic, but are not typically authoritarian.

There is a heavy emphasis on participants sharing experience with the group, and being coached to see their machinery. But it's a stretch to call that "public shaming and gaslighting".

However, people are sometimes very attached to their interpretations, and it can get very intense. But you can leave, at any time. And if you leave early enough, they'll refund your payment.

Edit: This is representative, based on my experience: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/a-skeptic-goes-to-the-landmark-f...
Titans of Mathematics Clash over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture (2018)
good thing the license file cover implicit guarantees then, because this is just bullies making up bullshit for justify their pressuring people into complying with their wishes.
When Not to Sell Benefits. and Why Doing This Maybe More Effective
html minifer mostly just remove the whitespaces. Compression (gzip or brotli) preserves the source, i.e. decompressed file is exactly the same as the original's; whereas minifier alters the source.
So in '64, it certainly wasn't showing the "GPS" position...

The US GPS constellation wasn't "complete" till '95, and GLONASS till '96.

The '96-02 vintage of this digital clock means it's _possible_ the Soyez were listening GPS satellites - but given it's '64 heritage I doubt it...
AR-15's?

They don't look like your grand father's deer rifle or duck hunting shot gun and instead look like a military weapon, e.g., the Russian AK-47.

With the usual technical and US legal description, the AR-15 is just a "semi-automatic rifle". But due to looks, they get called "assault weapons" like the fully automatic AK-47.

Sooo, some people get headlines talking about "assault rifles".
Sorry if I'm just missing it, but isn't that exactly what they're recommending there, if not more?
*70k per year
I'm not sure what the author is trying to achieve by defining words that already have perfectly acceptable definitions.
“Implicit promises” is going into my Orwellian dictionary. What a farce, do people really believe such a thing?
"State and local governments had outlawed alcohol since the founding."

That's because the scope of state power is very wide in the Constitution. The federal government is much more constrained (or was intended to be), and outlawing alcohol with an act of Congress would be a violation of the 10th Amendment.

Interestingly, even the 1st Amendment did not originally prevent states from infringing on the freedom of speech. It begins "Congress shall make no law...". Later the 14th Amendment changed that through "incorporation", which is a process I don't fully understand.
I like the way you designed your website!
> Rights, in the US, are not GRANTED by government, they are RECOGNIZED by the US Constitution to exist OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT (upper case is for emphasis only). In other words, these rights don't require government in order to exist. We are recognized to have them and government can't do a thing about it other than to respect and protect them.

Imagine a bakery puts out a sign that says "the bread you can buy here was not baked by a bakery, it was only recognized to be bread". Does that mean that the bread that comes out of their oven that they earlier stuck dough into was indeed not baked by them?

How does the fact that a piece of paper says something make what it says a fact? It is obviously nonsense that rights could exist without a structure to enforce them. Whether you call it "recognized" or "granted" is completely irrelevant, the fact of the matter is: If the government decides to act as if the right did not exist, then the right does not exist, and governments in general are very well capable of acting as if rights did not exist, and the fact that some piece of paper says "recognize" does not inherently change that, governments in general are also very well capable of ignoring pieces of paper.

The only thing that protects rights is sufficiently many people acting to protect them.
That would be _so_ cool!

BTW, do you have any measurements of that clock you could share? I'm seriously considering mocking one up just for the cool factor... It'd be nice to get it at least approximately the right size. (I'm also considering building a working model Globus indicator too. Maybe I'll just size everything based on the most suitable globe I can find...)
> the bottom 50% accounted for a measly 3% of all tax.

Of course they do, that is a symptom of the problem. Take an absolute extreme of society: one person has all the wealth, and everyone else has nothing. Obviously, that one person will pay 100% of the taxes, and everyone else will pay 0%.

Today, we see a similar but less extreme situation. It's not intuitive at first glance, but think about it for a few seconds and it makes sense: if you want a more balanced distribution of tax burden across society, you need a more balanced distribution of wealth across society.

Accordingly, if you want the bottom 50% to pay more, you actually have to tax the rich more to reach a more equal distribution of wealth.
Stock Pickup: Lite+ on iOS Mobile (Fast,Accurate,Reliable) #2020
A “new” Amazon waffle maker came with an old crusty-looking waffle already in it
I was in a similar position not too long ago. I had nothing but a liberal arts degree, a miserable first career and a yawning resume gap. I just stumbled into coding and I was completely addicted. After many months cobbling together a frankenstinean tangle of Kubernetes clusters, db instances and even an AI that could write bad limericks, I got a job as a backend engineer. You have to work your tail off in this job but its a life changing opportunity in a field where you get to make things for a living and there's always something new to learn.

Thank you thank you thank you cloud providers for making compute power so cheap. I realize you do it because you know you will eventually make the money back 10000x over when we persuade our bosses to lock in to your ecosystem, but I don't care. (Capitalism is not perfect, but hey, sometimes it can be okay)

DO tutorials are amazing, by the way. I learned so many things from your docs, it shows a lot of hard work by some very talented people.
You want to limit professional athlete salaries? Cool, the teams will save a whole lot of money, their owners will be real happy.
The 2nd Amendment specifically refers to "the people", therefore the power to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms is "prohibited by it [the Constitution] to the States", and therefore the right to keep and bear arms is reserved to the people.
Lenovo chargers, multiple

Apple chargers, multiple

Lenovo/Thinkpad batteries, 2

Flash drive - Sandisk

SD card - Sandisk

MicroSD card - Sandisk

MicroSD card - Kingston

Flash drive - Kingston

I've also received expired food and drink numerous times.
And yet all it takes is a terrorist attack to change all that.

I think OP didn’t mean to discuss the philosophical difference between grant and recognize though. Just that for each individual right, recognized or granted, we take a step away from totalitarianism on the spectrum of political freedom.
Solution: compulsory paternity leave for male academics.
I sure love when people compare lethal force to encryption because it's definitely a great analogy for free speech that isn't disingenuous in the slightest.
It certainly hurt their credibility with me–I cancelled Prime and stopped buying on Amazon a year ago because of this nonsense, after being a subscriber for nearly a decade and having an Amazon rewards credit card since 2008.

What’s the point of paying a membership fee for the privilege of sorting through garbage, scams and counterfeits yourself?
CA Proposition 47 made petty theft to be a misdemeanor and not a felony anymore. And in result police will spend fewer resources on something that can end up as just a citation.
How much does it cost to move your family from California to Texas? How many days are you not getting payed? How many weeks is your SO unemployed? How long are you paying for two rents or mortgages? It just doesn't seem like $3k is a net gain to me.
Licecap and ShareX are both free (windows) options to make screencap gifs.
Browser benchmark battle January 2020: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Chromium vs. Chromium
I get the error when I search using right-click menu or through an embedded search box. Regular search works fine.

The ones not working have Origin request header.
And yet, just last year over 100 Mexican politicians were murdered by cartels. The Mexican army itself has lost battles to the cartels as their influence steadily grows. Many municipalities in Mexico defer to the cartels in which true power and influence resides.

So while you speculate on some made up authoritarian movement subverting democracy in America, I look on in horror as democracy in Mexico is being subverted in real time by organized crime and the creeping social decay and corruption that comes with it. 100 politicians assassinated in a single year!

This is happening right across our border and if not for our robust law enforcement both at the border and throughout the country, it would be much worse here too. That is what I fear, and it is why I don't want criminals to be able to hide behind encryption.

Everything good in our society comes from law and order. Without it, there is only chaos and destruction.
Wouldn't these concerns apply just as well to minimum wage laws, OSHA regulations, environmental protections, etc?
Ask HN: Would you pay to read summary of good quality handpicked patents?
Patent literature is hard to find and read. I am building a service which summarizes good quality patents from various domains.

Would you like to be an early customer of such a service?

If yes, what topics would like to read? Robotics/Blockchain/Spacecrafts/Genetics etc. and how much would you like to pay.

If not, say 1 line about why is it not valuable.
I think that probably depends on the nature of the words exchanged before the fork. Many forks happen after nasty comments have been thrown around.
But if you are a Boltzmann brain (Bb), it would be a very big coincidence if all of your memories were internally consistent. Since they presumably mostly are, you are likely not a Bb.
Guitar Made of 106 iPhones
I felt the same way about the weather in SoCal. Lived there for 6 years. When I look back and imagine the weather: I walk out of my apartment at 9am and bam, the sun is beaming down on me. Walk out of the office for lunch, same thing. Every single day. Every season. Same thing. So predictable. The monotonousness was indeed depressing.

I missed weather and seasons. I eventually moved to the Pacific Northwest.
> I was in a similar position not too long ago. I had nothing but a liberal arts degree, a miserable first career and a yawning resume gap. I just stumbled into coding and I was completely addicted. ... its a life changing opportunity in a field where you get to make things for a living and there's always something new to learn. Thank you thank you thank you cloud providers

Programming in the 2010s and 2020s is kind of like union labor work back in the 1950 and 1960s: not instantaneous riches, but meaningful work that leads to a decent middle to upper class life.

Unfortunately, this won't last forever. Other countries are catching up to the U.S. quickly. Eventually, development will move to cheaper labor countries like so many other industries. What is frustrating though is that if the U.S. actually focused on developing its talent, we could maintain the lead for another decade or two longer than if we just sit on our hands. With that extra lead time, we could come up with the next major industry (AI-training? quantum computer programming?), but as it stands now, many other countries will be equally poised to jump on the next opportunity and we'll squander our lead forever.
Outcome: childfree academics (of all genders) win.
> That's another common misconception. You can say whatever you want. And you can enjoy the full consequences of what you said.

if the government can make these rules and bring these consequences, then what exactly is free about this "free" speech?

north koreans are free to say whatever they want, too, and enjoy the full consequences of what they say.

the only difference is what kind of speech can bring what severity of consequences.
If you're ever anywhere near The Bay Area, go do the tour of the Nike Base in the Marin Headlands. They've got a _super_ cool mechanical targeting computer there...

https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm
None of Felini’s mid-career or late work really does anything for me, but “La Strada” is a film I think about at least once a month, years after seeing it. The characters are so archetypal and tragic, it feels like an adaptation of some lost piece of ancient theater.
I don't know anything about this particular case, but superficially what you're describing is not atypical of well-established cults, rather it is typical.

The authoritarianism increases as one moves up levels and more "secrets" are revealed. At the ground floor, it's welcoming and communal, but as you are further inculcated the number of "secrets" or "mysteries" revealed, the amount of potential personal exposure (read: blackmail and/or punishment for treachery) and the amount of authoritarianism rises steeply.
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>Family is the most important thing in life. Material things don't matter.

Aye, but there's the rub.

Do you want your kids to live in a safe and healthy town with good schools and a decent home? Do you want them to have nice things and great life experiences? Do you want to be sure they can go to a college that matches their abilities?

Even if you're personally a minimalist without the need for status and luxury, it still costs a lot to give your kids the stuff that makes them flourish.

Your time is probably the most important thing you can give them however, so now you're faced with an optimization problem. How much time with family vs how much money will make for the ideal family life? It's not easy to know.

Since many of us can't find a job we love that pays enough to optimize family well being, there's a need to sacrifice one value for another. You can't always "have it all".
I like how she "catches readers up" on women's biology. Since she went out of her way to do that I think this would be further supported by why women want to bear children. Or thoughts and perspectives from the women that do not have children.

The article does a good job of identifying the funnel. It reiterates what we already know about society: women are aware of their biological clock and people desire to make children. But it does make an assumption that the women that stay in the funnel are childless victims, or at least portrays them that way. "Meanwhile in the Netherlands, woe!" This is hyperbole, but barely. It is okay to assume an even distribution of wants and desires as the non-STEM women, but what if there isn't? Let's get some perspectives.

Additionally, freezing eggs, surrogacy, and adoption are options followed by additional help with nannies and au pair, costly options which could be supported and subsidized by the very arguments that this article is making.

I think the case would be even stronger if we added the perspective from the child free women, along with a perspective about cultural tweaks that women could also consider. Distinct from only pointing out what organizations do not do to address the maternal wall.
Why? Because evolution has made us fear for our children. Rational self-interest is not evolutionary useful after reproducing. Expendind all your resourses ensuring your offspring grow and spread is.

Irrational overprotection such as feel good tough on crime is popular. Were as, more abstract measures which would actual ell but aren't directly relatable to threatening your child are not.
What is the 'Broadcasting Equipment' which is China's largest export category and one of US's largest import category.

Also the site would benefit from having some interesting curated content on the landing page. Hiding all interesting content behind a search box, does not give any indication of what sort of content is available.
I’m impressed by how well OneDev works on my phone. The mobile UI has clearly received attention and thoughtful design.

For starters, the README is actually displayed on mobile unlike certain other Git UIs (ahem GitHub).
The missing piece here:

Applications also don't need to be (and third party apps on most single-user systems arguably shouldn't be) in /Applications. Users can put apps wherever the heck they like (I keep mine in ~/Applications which even gets the same icon automatically if you create it).

Apple could really streamline this because all apps that can be drag-drop installed really belong in one's own home directory, where they'll be seamlessly migrated when you move to a new computer, or brought with you if you have a roaming profile. As it is right now, I just keep both Applications folders in my Finder Sidebar and remember that the bottom one is "mine."

In an ideal scenario, users could still drag apps to the "one" Applications folder and if they are not an Admin the app itself would actually be stored in a default-invisible ~/Applications. Then when you opened "/Applications" the system would show you the superset of both locations.

This is of course nearly exactly how the Windows Start Menu works except that it always had "installers" do the work of putting those program shortcuts in the respective directories, and only well-behaved apps ever asked which place you wanted apps installed.
> Take an absolute extreme of society: one person has all the wealth, and everyone else has nothing.

Then you don't have a society. You have one person who claims they have "money" while everyone else moves on with their lives.