skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the very least work email can be done on a phone.

The question was whether respondents needed to use the internet at home, not whether they need a physical wire going to their home. Needing LTE/3G at home to do work email = needing a home internet connection.

> Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, ...

For all of these, a lot of shift scheduling is done online these days.

Truck Drivers: Many are independent contractors. So, "one-man business owner and also sole employee" might be a better model and makes it abundantly clear that an internet connection is required.

Cashiers: there are vanishingly few people who are full-time cashiers and don't have a second or third job. Possible their other job requires a home internet connection.

Factory work: Most folks I know who work in factories tend to hop from job to job every year or two. In other words, they're constantly in job search mode. Job searches happen online.

Healthcare: Most healthcare professions require CEUs, which can often be done at least partially online and always require a home internet connection if taken seriously.
In America we have: "The man who has feet in the freezer, and his head in the oven, on average feels fine!"
It is a threat if the lack of talent stalls development of further nodes.
That seems a bit ironic of an accusation given all of the people who don't do even back of the envelope math about what their demands for scaling would cost to try to do manually. Isn't that like saying plumbers are arrogantly obsessed with imprisoning water using pipes instead of free flowing streams of water while not considering the evaporation and contamination of said approach?

Scalability of algorithims is how they became a behemoth in the first place. I would call it being ruthlessly un-ideological in a sense. While there are implicit goals the approach is more "whatever works" for the system as a whole. While annoying it isn't a breaking point that gets people to exodus.

It is ultimatelty "democratic" in being what is wanted instead of what makes sense. Like the yotube advertiser exoduses where they stupidly think they need "advertiser friendly" content or it will harm their brand when nobody gives a fuck that they advertise on content where people swear or talk about sex.
They are not, but they are perhaps the most consumer visible (because web is eating everything). For less "sexy" non-porfits, there's Apache Software Foundation ("where software goes to die"), and of course Free Software Foundation (gcc, nano, etc.).
Its not twice always, its just twice once. Its like getting ahead of the usage schedule.

When you start, buy one. You assume its good for 20 days. Buy next one on Day 10. Voila, you have the backup now. Now buy next ones, one at a time on 30th, 50th, 70th day. You are 10 days ahead of usage, you always have at least 10 days of runway ahead of you.

Yes, I do it for Grocery, Ice cream, Watet, Olive, Garbage Bags, Dryer Sheets & anything I use regularly.

The ones in use are required in their place. The spare ones can be stuffed at upper shelves, under the sink, under bed or such.

I have seen second toilet roll in many offices & homes, almost every car has a spare tyre, & many other things.
Definitely short term horizons are the focus. You can’t even own property long term.
I agree with the sibling comments about technical superiority, however, I see a flaw in your logic. If people are buying apple for signalling, then it would make sense for them to similarly ditch it in favor of another signal which better fits their identity.
> There is no evidence of a revealed or stated preference for SFHs among American homebuyers

Are you really arguing that if you asked people many wouldn't state that they would prefer to live in a detached home?
The dependent contractor can stop working without facing reprocussions, the restaurant worker has to work the shifts that they are scheduled or they will get fired.

Also the restaurant worker is guaranteed minimum wage, while the dependent contractor is not, since they are not paid hourly.
Curious about your axe to grind with SCTP. Is it just that you feel the features of SCTP would be better implemented a la carte by applications? Are there other issues?

I haven't really used the protocol, the extent of my knowledge was reading about it back in 2011 and thinking "cool".
Thanks to strong unions and labor laws Sweden is the worker's paradise and everybody has a great job. If Amazon wants to entice people to work for them then they must make a better offer than all* existing employers. What is there for the unions to negotiate? Please don't bash me for the cynicism. I am trying to figure out the logic behind all of this.

* edit: What meant say is that Amazon must offer a job that's better than the jobs that people currently have for them to switch.
Yeah resource management is really not that difficult for this kinda stuff.

1. Do dishes

2. Oh there’s fewer than 7 tabs left

3. Buy new pack on your next weekly trip to get groceries

You can eyeball the number 7 and you even get a daily reminder.
I've heard the correlation of bug splatters on windshields a lot. Apparently used to happen all the time, now more rare.

Looks like it has a wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon
From the paper's abstract, "The apparent robustness of US arthropod populations [...]"
where only the rich can have homes that give true ownership and everyone else is stuck in multi-family homes

This is the world right now, except that many are "stuck" not in multi-family, but instead are precariously housed, or not housed at all: https://www.evictedbook.com/

The big missing factor in your analysis is cost. Someone who might be able to afford a $200K home might not be able to at $400K. The goal is to give people a diversity of options. https://jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/how-tokyo-bui...
Interesting, I only learned about Freelancer a year after release and never knew about the promises made during development.

My general rule for Kickstarter is don’t back software, I am just not good at estimating the likelihood of delivery with software. It’s a rule that I have only broken twice (font awesome and star citizen). In total I have backed 24 projects and Star Citizen is the only one not delivered.
> Public infrastructure like roads and power seem like they have plenty of examples of what works to get this built out.

I guess you are not from Northern California where week long power outages are new normal.
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but... they need help on data structures/relations and up front thinking about those issues, not where curly braces should go, or tabs-v-spaces.
They don't because the Swedish and European union organization is not as confrontational in company level as US style enterprise bargaining is.

Sweden has mostly sectoral bargaining. Many/most things are negotiated between the unions and trade associations, not between union and individual enterprise. When Amazon sits to talk with unions (70% of workers belong to union), they discover that many things have been settled in a bigger table.
How do you verify malicious GPS coordinates at the server side if you don't mind me asking?
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For a detailed and in places dramatic book on the primitive technology of WW2 surface naval warfare, I can recommend "Neptune's Inferno": https://erenow.net/ww/neptunes-inferno-the-u-s-navy-at-guada...

While radar existed, it had similar problems of manual plot, was only on a few ships, and the commanders had not updated their training and doctrine to match.

Several of the key engagements around Guadalcanal were fought at night. Without radar, and without any reliable means of telling friend from foe other than eyeballing the shape. Total chaos.
I did grow up in poverty and indeed garbage bags were one of the luxuries I "treated" myself to when I started living on my own as a teen.
FHA is 3.5% down payment. I paid a grand total of $16500 down payment (5% down because of the builder).

It doesn’t matter how fast your Internet is when your WiFi is unusable because all of your neighbors have the same service. We had to run three 100 foot Ethernet cables from my office where the cable modem was to three bedrooms - along the floor. It’s not like we could wire the rooms with Ethernet. I made sure to wire every room in our house. We do have gig e now.
I have a dishwasher that I use regularly. I never do step a. I usually just take a napkin and dump anything left on the plate into the trash before putting it in the dishwasher. My manual says no pre-wash is necessary and I have never had a problem with this.

Using a rinse agent takes care of c (at least for me).
Almost certainly yes. You may well need to pay for it but you can get most things delivered from, certainly, major chains.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/services/deliver...

https://www.homedepot.com/c/About_Your_Online_Order
> And if they don't have better alternatives?

Then it would seem applying more pressure to their already unprofitable employer is an unwise move...
There's the $800 California LLC annual fee, which is the highest in the country, and applies before you make a dollar in revenue.
There's no specific mention of Go or Backgammon which should both have been (perhaps not well) known at the time. Backgammon is a sort of 'race' game likes ones mentioned so may be thought to be on this 'no play' list.

Go is tricky to classify. It may have been designed or used to develop strategic war skills. Another view is sharing an economic market where trying to take too much will result in loss.
I never read a review on a site that sells anything. I just google "productname review" and find something in depth and trustworthy.
What ikeas are you going to? Having lived in several Canadian and US cities, home depot and Ikea both have delivery available (for a reasonable fee). Home depot also has truck rental, which is convenient enough for driving things home yourself.
But every major US tech company is banned or blocked from competing in China, isn’t it? and has been for a decade or more. Apple is the one exception. In which direction do they think the current situation is unfair?

(to be clear, I’m not sure whether I agree with it or not, but it seems like a strange thing to focus on exclusively)
They’re actually adding interests now as part of their matching algorithm, but the top picks are unique to each person, based on a number of different data points.
why not just set `git config fetch.prune true`?
This sounds like a great way to solve the “vaccines don’t give recurring income” problem.
> but that relies on you knowing what those uncertainties are.

And it also relies on those uncertainties not changing. "Elephants start spending more time in the forests and not open areas to avoid poachers" would reduce counts from airplanes without changing the number of elephants, for example.
Google's true customers are the people buying ads in the first place. They could care less about publishers.

Banning one publisher (unless it's truly massive), isn't going to have much effect to Google's bottom line, so they err on the side of protecting the 'quality' of places ads can be served, at all costs. This also comes through when you see 'invalid traffic' deductions on your AdSense income reports, as i'm sure almost every account running AdSense does, along with the seemingly random crawler errors mentioned in the article. They don't feel the need to explain themselves, and can withhold the revenue at the excuse of 'protecting' the advertiser's side of things.
In what American city will you get dragged out of your car and beaten? Somewhere cartel controlled in south America, maybe, but that would be a pricey uber coming all the way from the U.S.
Whether Uber's business is providing taxi service or just providing a platform for independent drivers to connect with clients, intuitively it seems like the work drivers do is clearly within the usual course of Uber's business. What would Uber's counterargument look like here? Am I just reading it too literally?
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I live in the Midwest, in a heavily car-dependent city, and even here Home Depot and Lowes deliver. There's a fee but unless you're doing it like every week it's gonna be cheaper than owning a truck (this tends to be true of a lot of, though not quite all of, the tasks my fellow suburbanites cite as the reasons they own a truck).

Most or all major furniture stores deliver here. I see delivery trucks from a very large one about 35 minutes away all the time, maybe as much as once a week. Not sure about IKEA, as they're super-weird about that kind of thing (see also: online ordering & shipping). They might, though.
You don't add a second ad network to widen your revenue stream just like you don't have a backup ISP to double your bandwidth. You do it so that when you have a (temporary) outage with one you can quickly switch to the other and not lose operations. There are some classes of outages that might affect both ad-streams, but there are other classes (like account status issues) that are completely independent.
Some random source on the internet tells me Alphabet made around 7 billion profit in a quarter last year. That's 28 billion per year. At 100k/year per person you get 280 000 people doing moderation for you to breakeven. According to another random source Alphabet has about 120k employees.

The scale is not the problem, the profiteering is.
One design issue would be keeping the reservoir and chute dry enough that the detergent supply doesn't cake up. Another is that dishwashers are designed to fit into a very specific space in a typical kitchen, and any extra gadget takes away from the capacity of the tub.
If people prefer them, they will continue to be built even after laws requiring them to be built, or forbidding anything else to be built, are changed.

I think you might be surprised.
Literally addressed in the article...
For drivers or riders?
Many would, but not the 99.5% that our current zoning laws suggest.
Also, I'd love to see ad serving go back to direct sold simple images and links, with no tracking or programmatic targeting involved at all. Obviously for 99% of websites this is impossible, but it'd be more equitable long term.

I often wonder how the web would have evolved differently if early in the HTML spec an <ad> html tag was added that just had a SRC and href attribute.
The problem is the gap between 2 and 3 -- unless you keep a list (and follow it when you're at the store), you may still run out.

Online shopping has helped me with this -- I usually add it to my online cart as soon as I'm running low.

I think this is the problem the Amazon Dash buttons were supposed to solve -- keep a Dash button in the cabinet with the dish detergent, and when you see that you're running low, hit the button to order a new one.
That only really works if it can hide harrassment from you automatically
I used to have this problem, and found it to be caused by a combination of two factors:

1) Growing up in a house with low water pressure. If the machine doesn't have much pressure to work with, it seems to do a bad job more or less regardless of what you try to do

2) Given you have sufficient water pressure, using cheap detergent. After switching to a "top of the line" dishwasher detergent packet, a dishwasher went from "borderline useless" to "more clean than I can get them by hand".

Number 2 was by _far_ the most impactful thing I've done; I can essentially now scrape dishes of large food chunks then put them straight in the dishwasher, and have a >= 98% confidence they'll come out completely clean.
Probably not worth it, since your hardness doesn't change, and is a number that you can get from the water utility.
Yeah that seems like a decent outcome. And for those shouting now "oh we're going back to the taxi monopolies, it's horrible" I say: Yes. It's horrible. Obviously so.

But at least now there's some actual room for improvement without the air already being sucked out of the market by one big player. Forcing market players to actually abide by the laws means someone (and this might well be Uber, but it's fine if it's someone else) can now come up with a solution that is both usable and follows local legislation, without being killed right out of the gates by an overfunded competitor that draws much of its market power from disregarding said legislation.

Uber was a local optimum. They have a choice to keep searching, but it seems they were too comfortable with things as they were.
Did he split his fortune among his heirs or what? Very surprised to see he was worth "only" $3 Billion. https://www.forbes.com/profile/sumner-redstone/#7cfbf60d4dcb

Reading about his family feud, leaving it to charity is probably a great idea ;)
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This is the case in Canada as well. I rent a basement suite in Vancouver, and as far as I know, the owners can do whatever they want. Noise issues are noise issues, but we haven't had them so far.
You are mistaking home internet being a _necessity_, with home internet being _sufficient_.
The fact that they need home internet does not mean they can work from home.
Here [1] is a reference of a citizen experiment to test the sanitize cycles. There are also experiments regarding clothes and apples that are quite interesting on this website.

[1]: http://www.dranniesexperiments.com/dishwasher-testing
What has happened to this forum lately? Election year, I guess.
I mean, in the US in 2017 after condensed matter Physics PhD where I did nanofab I could go work for intel/asml/lam and get like 110-140k starting. Or I could do data science/more SWE related and get 140-250k. The choice wasn't very hard. The lowest software job paid as much as the highest hardware job despite me being a specialist in the nanofab/hardware. Also, the opportunities for growth/future earnings/work life balance/etc are all better with software related jobs.
> It's not ideal, but it can work.

It "can" work, yes.

But we don't ride horses any more; automobiles are here to stay. Suggesting that transportation isn't necessary for employment disenfranchises millions of people from reaching employment. I believe there's laws (or, at least, certainly ethics) that employers must compensate employees when they use their personal transportation for their employer's purposes. And, good employers offer public or private transportation to their own employees -- in the form of a "company car" or paid public transportation.

Likewise, the internet is here to stay. Suggesting that the internet isn't necessary for employment disenfranchises millions of people from reaching employment. Many lucky ones do have their own personal devices and services they can use. But I am of the opinion that this is unethical and should be more closely related to the "company car" or paid public transportation or compensating employees when they use their personal devices.

Kids do still write notes to each other. Thinking that a text message isn't a valid form of writing notes is ignoring the advancing methods of communication and burying your head in the sand. Kids' notes now include animated pictures, "memes", with whole websites dedicated to finding and creating them. Are you suggesting that these aren't valid forms of communication?

Bosses change schedules often. I've seen schedules be posted on Sunday, changed on Monday, and changed again Tuesday afternoon. And even if that weren't the case, your coworkers aren't friends: in a cutthroat environment your coworker will lie to you, state that you're not scheduled when you are, and your boss will fire you for not showing up. That happens when jobs are scarce. Fortunately, the internet helps to solve that problem by allowing employees to look at the schedule online.

Times change. Having access to the internet wasn't required forty years ago. It is required today.
Wonder if it's similar to eg https://www.molecularpartners.com/molecular-partners-announc...
I re-learned to touchtype .. i had typing in middle school.. it was a per-requisite to computer classes (ah the late 80s). But my touch typing deteriorated quite rapidly as I was mostly using computers to play games and the like. Lots of wizardry and bards tale mean's lots of hunt and peck.

When I got the itch to start programming more, I simply took a box, cut the bottom and front off of it and laid it over my, still amazing to this day, Apple ADB (apple //gs) keyboard and started typing. I could always lift my hands and the box to see where some troublesome symbol was. Something you can't do with blank caps.

The one thing that threw me off when I finally switched to terminals and pc's in my college days was that apple had been putting homing bumps on d and k instead of f and j.. On my first PC keyboard I actually swapped the d/f and j/k keycaps just so i could stay sane. Eventually I got used to the f/j homing. Now I use a board where all the homerow keys are homing and it doesn't much bother me anymore.
An additional function of the powdered detergent is that it's an abrasive, so it helps scour the dishes.
And it is usually quoted out of its context.

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."
Internet Archive now lets you search through radio transcripts
Spaced Repetition (For Learning Programming and Other Skills)
we have all that in germany but we also have minimum wage, which uber can't pay, that's why they're basically a "normal" taxi company here.
Give me a 'donate to Firefox' button instead.
For anyone not aware, Ben Eater on YouTube does a really good job explaining a lot of these topics
You could interpret that in a positive way, that they're not just papering over problems in their filter by privileging their own messages.

Not super positive but still.
No, because Adorama is a company, and companies can't be employees...

Nothing prevents drivers from registering LLCs to drive for uber, and that is in fact what the CA DOL website says is a bare minimum for satisfying another part of AB5.
What I want is to encrypt my Dropbox files with my own key. I’m constantly looking for alternatives because I find the lack of encryption problematic. I would seriously hope stored logins aren’t encrypted under a single Dropbox key.
> We need to build more houses.

The problem is when we do:

- the quality is absolutely atrocious

- they're so extremely small that they hardly seem livable when you look around

- they have terrible gardens with hardly any soil

- frankly, they're really ugly - simple cubes, no shape or space or nooks and crannies

- they're in terrible areas and have no walkable shops or pubs

I don't think I'd ever consider buying a house built after 1950. I worry we're building disposable, treeless, joyless, community-less slums.
I figure I'm buying my time back with very little upfront cost. That also leaves more energy to do things like... earn more money/manage my space better.
The quote starts with "In a sane world" and from the rest of the quote we can see that we're not living in such world. Isn't that enough to conclude that the (most of the) world is not sane, ie insane?
> And yet, I see a whole swath of the industry hyper-focused on various linters/styling/rules.

It seems to me that what you're actually seeing is an entire industry trying to eliminate all code-related issues, specially bike-shedding ones.

This is patently obvious to anyone who was forced to waste their time in code review iterations discussing, say, where a brace should go and how many spaces someone should have added.