skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. This has been true throughout my entire career literally everywhere I worked, on-site and remote alike.

What makes my experience a little more representative (or so my ego says) is the fact that I am from Eastern Europe. Ever since several years now (3-4) we are no longer that attractive IT outsourcing location because a lot of people around here learned their price and value and charge normal (if still below USA's) rates. And thus many businesses started trying to outsource cheaper to Africa and parts of Asia.

The results have been catastrophic and hilarious at the same time. I've been called to "fix the mess" 6-12 months later by five businesses now, and I outright told one of the business owners that he'll have to pay me $20k a month to fix something as non-salvageable as the dumpster fire I was given. He refused which was a win for me because I still value my time and sanity.

So many businesses look at this outsourcing to cheaper staff thing very superficially, as you said. Sure you save money the first 2-3 months. Absolutely, you do. But then all the unfinished and badly done work starts peeking from the edge of the window.

And finally, you are also very correct when saying that hiring the managers that govern these people efficiently effectively destroys the cost savings.

In conclusion: I have definitely observed the same as you.

(Several edits: apparently I had a stroke and wrote some really broken English here and there.)
When I was between jobs I had about a 2 week period where I was technically without coverage, but the new company reimbursed me once I was on their plan. I went to fill a prescription for a very common generic drug that has been around for decades at the chain pharmacy I always use.

I was expecting to pay the same price I generally did, about $3.00. I was shocked when they charged me $150.00. I can understand the pharmacy needing to charge a bit more to cover costs, but this seemed like highway robbery.
Police behaviour and processes are systemic. They're supposed to use right strategies and target the "bad apples". They're also dependent on leadership.
Uhm. I upvoted it just fine?
Yeah so it works, but from a developer perspective it's about 10x more complicated than iOS. It's also a source of bugs and crashes because of how Android manages the state change.
The Simpsons Did It? [1]

1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4
I see no such evidence.
Doesn’t seem that way to me.
Your browser is broken, I upvoted it just fine.
To be clear I'm Italian, I don't think life in Italy is worse than in many other western countries, I would say it's generally better, especially for the medium-low income segment of the population

PCI (the Italian communist party) obtadined regularly a third of the votes until it was disbanded in 1992

I don't think it ended up in horror or that it made Italy a place in ruins

Corruption was very popular here in those years, but the government have been anti communists for 50 years straight from the end of WW2 until 1998, when the first former communist, Massimo D'Alema, became prime minister.

He has also been a popular meme

https://pietrodn.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dalema-meme.jpg
Do you have any idea if this works with the older GoPro models?

Plan to give it a go later tonight but wondering if anyone has any success stories.
Let's not make Mr. Esper out to be doing this for any other reason than because of the strong and immediate backlash from the violent street-clearing that occurred in DC. This is the same guy who said to state governors, "I think the sooner that you mass and dominate the battlespace, the quicker this dissipates and we can get back to the right normal." He is no champion of individual rights.
Some of these methods are surprisingly affordable. But I think it's reasonable for the time to keep them as a last ditch option. Even if we can reflect back enough sunlight, it doesn't solve pollution or ocean acidification. And I think the last thing that needs to be broadcast in Western countries is that we have a very effective way of passing the buck.
Rivian Cuts 2% of Workforce
I don't think disbanding a police force means what you think it means. Take a look at https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-c...

The goal is to wipe the slate clean and rebuild from the foundation.
Self destructing cookies need to be the default on browsers that are serious about privacy. Nobody needs to keep thousands of cookies around.

We also need a UI that allows inspection of active cookies. Firefox took this away for no good reason.
As far as I can tell I could up vote it.

Of course, I've flagged it instead since it's going to lead to a very low quality discussion.
It looks like the site is struggling under the load, so below is a screenshot of the homepage showing an overview. Certainly some outliers but they'd require significant research to understand.

https://i.imgur.com/W4WgxX0.png
This reminds me of some discussion about the evolution of games (can't find it right now, it was probably about ID Software).

Computers today are literally 1000x better than PCs 30 years ago. 1000x (even more) faster, 1000x more ram, not to mention storage and other capabilities
Boss, I counted up my utils for the month, and it looks like I'm enjoying this new project. I have handily computed for you an appropriate rate at which to cut my pay. Basic economics demands it be so.
Not legally, sticks and stones.
Haha, it's like Maclane said: "I did not invent category theory to talk about functors. I invented it to talk about natural transformations."

You gotta go at least to the third level of abstraction to get the real meat.
I just checked and my actual words were "basically changed nothing", which to me means "made some changes, but they were inadequate".
Yes, it's usually three months in Germany. It's a bit on the long side but I don't mind that much. I guess I've been lucky to have only nice working environments so I've never been in any particular hurry to leave.
Photos: In folders named "YYYY/MM.N Descriptive event title" like "2019/05.1 Birdwalk with Stephanie". This really helps me find things later.

Technical library: Academic Topic/subtopic/ then pdf title

Music: I use beets now, which imports and organizes everything

Household: Accounts folder, Mortgage folder, Appliances folder with subfolders for each appliance containing manuals, photos, and maintenance info.

Systems folder: subfolders for various IT systems and lots of related data in them

Projects folder: topic/project name mostly, sometimes with subtopics

Documents: YYYY/topic for things that I can find by year later, like taxes, licenses. Also used as longterm archive for projects.

Software/repo for various repos that don't fit in other categories (not too happy with this)

/opt/venvs for lots of python virtual environments.

Pretty much everything is in a mirrored ZFS pool with auto-snapshots (for rewinding in the event of accidental deletions) and occasionally dumped to external drives put in fireproof/floodproof safe (and taken offsite).
Try a different browser perhaps?
Seems to be the original issue (2018) - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/76022479
I think I saw a movie about this. They built a fast train that could survive the deep freeze by staying in motion.

But more seriously. Sunlight that hits the planet(and isn't reflected back out) is a different variable than solar heat that stays in the atmosphere. Our carbon levels are increasing the second variable. Trying to counteract that by lowering the first seems like it would have tons of unintended consequences.
A disclaimer that a technical vulnerability exists isn't some kind of implicit invitation for a company like Google to use that vulnerability for their benefit. It's true that it's technically possible to track users using a private browsing mode, but it is not ethical.

If you have a car with a broken lock, that's not some kind of open invitation to burglars to steal whatever they want from your car.
I'm sure the good mods have considered it. I think what causes a lot of editorializing even when OP wants to put the original headline is is the character limit on submission titles.
Cynically? The best way to show the government is useless, and thus to justify cuts, is to make the government be useless.
I agree. The bad apples have to go. My concern is that we want to "hurt" the police rather than fix the systemic issues.

It seems that the Minneapolis police department has had excessive force issues for years. That feels like a leadership failure to me. In that case you'd look at the Chief, the union rep, the Mayor and any other folks who can change the culture but don't.
I wonder whether it would be a bad idea to have a "dev" mode where exceptions are thrown and a "production" mode of compilation where every single statement is wrapped in a try-catch block with a default behavior. For example:

histogram = getHistogram();

should be wrapped automatically in:

try { histogram = getHistogram(); }
catch(Exception e) { console.log(e.toString()); histogram = DEFAULT_HISTOGRAM; }

Something like:

y = a / b;

should be wrapped in:

try { y = a/b; }
catch(Exception e) { console.log(e.toString()); y = 1e999; }

Wrap every function call like this, and just don't let Java exceptions bring down an entire system in production especially when a lot of the time it's just a petty UI issue.

Obviously never do it in development though. But odd UI behavior instead of crashes might make a bunch more users happy which is ultimately what matters.
And the amount of light that enters the sensor through the lens is insanely different. A couple of years ago I moved from a Canon G16 with a f/1.8-2.8 6.1-30.5mm (28-140mm FF eq) lens to a Olympus OM-D EM-10 with its pancake f/3.5-5.6 14-42mm (28-84mm FF eq) lens.

Long story short, the pancake gets almost 3 times as much light as the canon integrated lens, despite the higher f number, because of the areas and sizes involved on both. And if I had gone for an APS-C for FF camera, we'd be talking in the order of 5 to 10x more light (hence, better low light images, or the ability to use shorter exposures for the same results).

Phones f/1.8 cameras are great -- comparing to other phones. If you compare them to a camera (almost any camera), they're in trouble.
The real question here isn't how much you generally pay, but how much insurance generally pays. It was almost certainly less than $150, but it isn't at all unusual for even generic drugs to cost insurance hundreds of dollars, even when you have only a small copay.
Studio photography is a pretty different beast as you always have ideal conditions. I had a wedding outside last year on a cloudy night with only string lights lighting up the reception. I have flashes galore but just getting focus was difficult - I eventually had to turn on the modelling light on a strobe to be able to do my job at all. The ability to use flashes at all is a pretty big advantage of dedicated cameras. Video lighting equipment is great but it kills the ambiance in a lot of situations.

But yeah, absolutely. If you're viewing images on a phone (and most people are), phone cameras are just fine for most people most of the time and they have some distinct advantages, especially for the casual user. If you're going bigger than that the difference is pretty clear to me.
This is how cooperative supermarkets work - they're consumer co-ops.
It would be interesting to hand pick one or two senators who seem to outperform anyone else and mirror their trades too.
It's good that you have the S&P as a benchmark. It shows that the median performance of a senator (4%-6%) is lower than expected (10%). Can you add the S&P to the histogram so it's always there? That would make the difference more obvious.
I make a guess a lot of Nextdoor users are okay with this.
It's more like subscribing to a $467/month plan were you can request several designs per month. It's not unlimited, it's limited by time, the longer a request takes, the less requests you can make per month.
I don't understand how anybody could use such an app and not think that police are also using it.
In one of the more fucked up COVID19-related layoffs, Rivian has blamed "performance" as the reason for its most recent mass layoff.

These layoffs come several weeks after automotive partners including Lincoln dropped plans to use Rivian technology.
Pretty sure he's talking about the NDI Virtual Input (which acts as a virtual camera on Windows)
My core issue is the unfulfilled promise of the panopticon.

I'm still waiting for the recommenders, personalizers which help me.

Not boost engagement. Not amplify tiny differences. Not catalysts for virality.

I was on the recommender, personalization team for a high end fashion retailer. Joining, I thought "Woohoo! Teach the computer tell me which dress shirt to buy! Pick the right t-shirts! Find tasteful but understated socks! Finally!"

It took me a while to peel back all the layers to reveal the team's secret sauce. Turns out there isn't any. The most performant algorithm was "stuff you've looked at before" (~70%), followed by "what's hot" and "what's new".

While most of our effort was put into all the Big Data Machine Learning Booyah stuff, I'd characterize the attributable "lift" as little better than noise. Terrible ROI. We would have been MUCH BETTER off improving the data quality, search features, and browsing experience.

(I had some other more radical ideas. A whole thesis built around authenticity and actual engagement. Way past StitchFix. Alas, too weird for the brick & mortar types. Imagine explaining TikTok influencers to your great aunt. But I'd be happy to have someone pay me for a brain dump.)

In conclusion, nothing this last decade has shaken my hunch that digital ads are a giant con job. At least outside of political advertising. (My bro has worked in ad tech for 15+ (?) years. Our spirited debate has never stopped.)
This could be a disaster. Knowledge of the law and training in policing would be necessary to avoid chaos and deviation (further than we are already) from rule of law.

In theory the community already does this, but in a safer way - by electing mayors and sheriffs that share their beliefs. These leaders should be able to institute changes or appointment people within the rule of law.
Is this possible in MacOS at all? I have an RX100 V and an Elgato Camlink HD, but would love to use that capture card w another cam, and use the RX100 over USB simultaneously.
There's legal recourse for this (see Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, among the many other SCOTUS rulings curbing free speech in special cases). Social media companies are not the arbiter, the courts are.
Interesting point, but then is a search engine a publisher? Should it be liable for everything it shows, because it decides what to show or hide?
Unless we can come up with carbon neutral energy sources that are cheaper than (untaxed) fossil fuels, we are going to wind up needing something like this.
Yes and no. The Kernel ABI is stable. Userspace is somewhat of a mess, ABI-wise. But most source code is available, so in most cases, you just need to recompile software to have it run, since APIs are more stable than ABIs.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if, given proprietary (no source) software A, you couldn't recompile every open-source dependency of A from their sources around A's release time, and get it running. Sticking to open source software as much as you can tends to be a winning strategy in the long term.

The other day I linked the sdl12-compat project, that allows programs such as UT2004 to make use of modern Linux desktop features. Sure, the original sdl 1.2 might not feel at home on a modern Linux desktop (icculus'demonstration[1] showed it was not much better on mac). But as long as the foundations are open, they can be improved upon.

Windows tend to fare better with binary compatibility. But old software feels more and more alien on recent windows versions, and sometimes just stops working, and there's very little you can do about it then, in most cases :/

[1]https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-sdl12-25321792
From your article:

"The Camden County Police Department rehired most of the laid-off cops, along with nearly 100 other officers, but at much lower salaries and with fewer benefits than they had received from the city."

So the solution was to keep most of the cops (which I agree with) and then pay them less (which I, umm... I mean... that doesn't seem like a recipe for success but eh).

From that article it sounds like it's too early to tell if it worked. Is the new police force doing better than the old one?
TSLA had positive EBIDTA in 2016, 2018 and 2019 (and Q1 2020).

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/financials
I realize you were trying to explore a legal technicality but the inadvertent equivalence of law enforcement with sexual vulnerability doesn't read well at all.
I don't think it's that dissimilar to Mozilla's usage here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/as...

The 1st `<p>` talks about the movie and the `<aside>` talks about a feature/statistic related to the movie.

In mine, the main content talks about the what the library is and how to use it and `<aside>` is used to call out specific features related to the library.

In either, the "feature" content could be part of the main content or called out separately and both would seem reasonable to me.

Sure, if there was a `<card>` element, that would be a better fit, but the definition of an `<aside>` is broad enough IMO ("indirectly related content") that feature callouts don't seem totally counter to the spirit of the tag.
Calling for violence is illegal in The Netherlands if I recall correctly.
Looks like both gphoto2 and ffmepg are available on homebrew, worth giving it a shot for sure. FWIW - I did end up building my own ffmpeg because debian default didn't have NVIDIA support. Want me to give it a try?
Once you become a front man for the intelligence agencies (yes, multiple) blackmail operations all normal accounting goes out the window. Part of it is probably from the blackmail, part of it probably from the agencies, he probably had a lot less control over it than it seemed I would venture to guess. Add in the normal organized crime angle and it's almost impossible to say.
I've seen videos of looting (as opposed to protesting) which say out loud that they are being coordinated on social media. In particular, one looter's sister was murdered by another looter. She was crying on camera, "This ain't some Facebook shit" indicating she had been coordinated to show up on FB.

Once the general population of old people figures out that roving groups of young people are using "The Facebook" to coordinate their plans to set the cities on fire, social media is dead via regulation. So far that knowledge has escaped mainstream understanding. But it's only a matter of time.
The problem is that the "good" police are incentivised to protect the "bad" police, and do so. You're not going to find the "good" police investigating and charging their colleagues - when it does happen, they're inevitably harassed and removed from the force - and nobody else is in a position to do so, so what you get is the "bad" police operating with impunity.

And there's effects on the wider system - courts will believe a police officer's account of what happened pretty much no matter the opposing evidence. There's no accountability when a police officer goes against the reasons they were hired, and destroys people's lives.

There's the possibility of alternative systems of protection and justice, which don't create organisations which are incentivised to protect murderers, abusers, and rapists.
If it’s only a few bad apples why are we seeing lines of cops firing tear gas at peaceful protests, running their motor vehicles in to people and hiding their badge numbers and names?
Indeed, but that is the problem that preprints can solve. (As in, they don't solve the problem of telling what is correct, because that's just inherently hard, but they solve the problem of giving access so people can learn to tell.)
One example: you might miss the fact that your company will be torn apart by your dominant business partner.
They should stop anyone who fails the Brandenburg test for incitement, but that's already illegal.
Werder Bremen 0-3 Eintracht Frankfurt – BundesLiga – FootballGH – Video Highligh
People are getting caught up in legal arguments and pointless minutiae, when this is just cut throat geopolitics.

Broadly, Meng was extradited/arrested because US DoJ decided to start taking Chinese hostages after their Huawei campaign failed (new DoJ initiative month before her arrest specifically targets Chinese nationals for extradition for economic crimes). In terms of norms, individuals especially foreign billionaires don't get arrested for sanction busting, their companies get fined or some lackeys fall at the sword. Everyone moves on. Her arrest was an escalation of Sino-US techwar. Bonus for extraditing via Canada to further cripple Sino-Canadian relations and increase Canadian dependency on US; Canada scheduled talks with China a week after her arrest expectantly blew up. Of course her arrest is "legal" in the sense that "enhanced interrogation" is legal. The main take away is that her move was norm breaking in terms of contemporary international relations. US makes Canada take political hostage - China retaliates by arresting Canadian (alleged) spies and drug dealers to dissuade further hostage taking by US extradition partners, slaps Canada around for being a lackey. Canada gets caught between rock and hard place, plays the rule of law card.

On UK and Canadian Telcos, a year later, until COVID19, only 3.5/195 (US, AU, JP, UK) countries have officially firm banned Huawei. Basically increased US pressure and new entities list had no effect. Still couldn't even get majority of FVEY on board or countries with significant US military basing. So US revised entity list to completely cut Huawei out of critical US semi components, signaled commitment to do whatever it takes to undermine Huawei. This is sufficiently crippling to Huawei that FVEY vendors can now rule out Huawei due to prospective supply issue - effectively soft banning Huawei. Only AU firm banned Huawei before US pressure and entity list. UK / CAN / NZ still has NO official position on banning Huawei. I think FVEY parties are looking to see if this is an agreeable solution that will appease US security interests or if US insists on hard ban for optics. China doesn't want the latter, they're fine with Huawei being lowkey ruled out. China can still hack FVEY with relative impunity regardless of vendor, and Huawei will get patent fees regardless. Would have been cheaper and less of a shit show if US just bought Sony Ericcson, which William Barr mulled over.
Proportionally? Say, if you reduce solar energy influx by 1%, that's how much less biosphere receives?
I used to talk to my wife about moving to the US. It would be good for my career I'm sure.

Then there was a school shooting. And my wife said "We are not moving to the US". And I didn't really have anything to say in response. And then there was another shooting, and another one. And each time she said the same thing, and each time I couldn't really manage a response.

Eventually, I stopped talking about moving to the US. And now, when there is a mass shooting in the US, my wife doesn't say "We are not moving to the US" any more.
This article doesn't address what impact this would have on crop yields if less light is reaching the surface. It also does nothing to address ocean acidification, which is realy the unaddressed elephant in the room in many climate discussions.

Olivine weathering addresses both: https://projectvesta.org/
Different concerns. Ungoogled Chromium removes Google-specific features from Chrome. That is unrelated to non-Google-specific browsing features such as providing cookies back to hosts on repeat requests in the same profile.
They've been covered up, and the few reporters doing a deep dive are ignored and relegated to small corners of the internet. Whitney Webb being one of those.