skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before hnreplies, I was manually scanning my history for replies. It got fairly time consuming, and I didn't like the relationship I was forming with my comment scores, which I had to look at all the time. I've found that replies coming to my inbox is very different from reply notifications on the site. I'm not already in "browsing mode" and the email contains the full comment; at least half the time I don't bother clicking the link in the email. YMMV.
> why not reach out in a friendly way before unleashing the lawyers?

This is a letter from the foundation. I don't see any lawyers listed anywhere, and no indication that they have taken legal action.
I took a year off ended about a month back. I was tired and burnt out. This is the second time I've taken time off. I didn't plan as much I had some high level goals, spend some time traveling, volunteering, work on open source projects.

The first month I felt guilty leaving a paycheck.
I really didn't travel much due to the pandemic.
I did contribute to OSS and volunteer teaching high school students CS.
It definitely got lonely, I think due to the pandemic, but I would say my break time was fair.
a personal car is a big expense. If you can live comfortably in a region with a personal car then it is a significantly different metric than you can live comfortably without a personal car.

Also the way the U.S is structured living comfortably without a personal car means you must be living somewhere where you can work without that personal car, which is a rare job to have, meaning that you can be locked into your employer. Or is that the funny part you're referring to?

on edit: I see lots of people made my second point as well.
You can't forget the HN demographic of upper middle class white men who pay for their children's education. I'd say most young adults entering college have a loan in their name.

Cursory research [0] says

>Today, roughly 70% of American students end up taking out loans to go to college. The average graduate leaves school with around $30,000 in debt and all told, some 45 million Americans owe $1.6 trillion in student loans — and counting.

[0] https://www.marketplace.org/2019/09/30/70-of-college-student...
Another Victim of Zoom Calls
Why? If this is the worst thing that people are posting in your chat you should consider yourself lucky.
Probably using (something like) https://opentype.js.org/.
I think the definition of unemployment has been contentious for as long as it exists.
Axios is choosing to go with the definition of 'People looking for work or working while earning less than 20,000 USD per year'.
The employment numbers are naturally going to be higher than when the definition is just 'People earning nothing and looking for work'.

If one takes the living wage as a measure of unemployment, it should also include place of residence IMO. I heard living wage in the bay area is > 100K USD.

I'm not advocating for anything and have no stake. But all these statistics are proxies for how citizens are doing. In general, hardships increase as unemployment goes up, whatever way you measure it. It's usually better to look at all of them jointly, and focus on differences instead of the absolute rates of a statistic.
They were tax credits with requirements they did not meet. If they were planning on taking advantage of those credits, it seems like they would have put in the minimum effort to at least appear to meet them. Something a little stranger happened here. I think related to global politics, not just something with Trump or Scott Walker.
I don’t know if participation rate is fair either. Largely because (a) the population is aging and is likely to retire (with wealth amassed and (b) this is really only possible because the government has started subsidizing pretty much everything (food, healthcare, housing, etc) either generally or for those “too poor”.

I personally know a significant number (at least 10-15) that exclusively live from government handouts (this is beyond simple social security). They have little incentive to try and find a job, frankly and many actively live with food stamps, housing subsidies, free healthcare, and just kinda bum around.
Turing machines in the game of life have the same problem of being unprotected and extremely sensitive to perturbations. It drastically lowers the chance of generating a working one (even when running for extremely long times on extremely large boards). Contrast with our world, where it seems like just starting with a whole lot of randomly distributed hydrogen could be enough.
I don't understand why doctors work for them. My wife made 60k/yr at a hospital as a doctor of Physical Therapy. She runs her own clinic now and will make between 150-250k revenue per year.

When she worked at the hospital she made them 500k revenue per year as she treated multiple patients at a time. Her clinic is 1 on 1.
Use of adenovirus type-5 vectored vaccines: a cautionary tale
Given it's been 20 years I'm sure it's not anything obvious, but the main reason I get headaches is dehydration or blocked sinuses.

Other likely reasons would be caffiene/sugar spikes.

What is your general state of health and diet like, and stress levels?
I was using that as an example of manufacturing capabilities that are not worthless as soon as something better comes along. It's a clearer example than more vague references to electronics that aren't as complex or cutting edge as the latest smart phones. That comparison is true as well, but I thought something more concrete would make the point more clearly.
I think the shortage and performance war is happening only at the top and the market is more volatile at the mid-bottom. Besides AMD and Nvidia have been trading places if we look beyond the last few years. Not enough to base a monopoly lawsuit on.

If Nvidia actually gets to buy ARM, that's another matter. But again they can't sue based on a purchase that hasn't even gone through yet.
GMC Hummer EV the World’s First All-Electric Supertruck
Actually taking and distributing pictures of the earth from space requires a license (issued by NOAA of all agencies) which requires certain protections for the national security of the US and some allied nations. I presume the other nations capable of launching satellites have similar laws in place. SpaceX had to modify their launch broadcasts to stop showing images taken from space as they do not (or at least didn't at the time) have such a license.

[0] https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/files/15%20CFR%20Part%2096...
Is there an example of a nice Pitch presentation for a technical topic?
World Wide Cost of Living
World wide cost of living, pollution, health care , and crime.
"just as it might be in more rural parts of Europe."

Even europeans often have this urban blindspot. In some places (eg netherlands), you may be able to live conveniently without a car. For a lot of places (eg >50% of ireland), not having a car is a major lifestyle inhibitor. Transport (or lack thereof) dictates a lot of your life... from work opportunities to whether or not you can access a supermarket.
I've been enjoying D as "C done right". I find it a pleasure to use.
Exactly - in Poland there are some regions which are very poor by any definition, and yet every home will have 2-3 cars simply because it's impossible to get anywhere without one. Yeah there is some public transport, but it's often very infrequent or not going where people need to be.
Be way richer than you are and have the necessary relationships.
> Nobody forces beginners to write macros. Beginners are only macros _users_. With time and experience, the need for macros emerges by itself, then learning them is a natural part of the process. But even then, nobody is forced to write any.

I think one of the problems with this mindset is, you are only assuming the case with you have full control on the code-base e.g. writing thing from scratch so that you can only use those features in rust that you feel comfortable with, in other cases, you have little control on what others use.
> What's surprising to me is how un-monopolistic Google's share of the Cloud + AI market is under its control, considering how many of the techniques were invented there. I'd put it at under 25%.

That's why the suit is aimed at search and search advertising
Because basically every enterprise storage provider on the planet has contracts that require a minimum of dual-sourcing. Beyond that I'm not sure where you've seen Samsung be cheaper - they're more expensive across the board. Obviously storage vendors aren't paying retail:

https://www.newegg.com/intel-d3-s4510-1-92tb/p/0D9-002V-003V...

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PM863a-Enterprise-Internal-MZ...
>Somehow, the patient kitchen staff figured out how to produce this out of thin air, and a tantrum was narrowly averted.

As a side note, the somehow and the patience is exactly what makes the difference between professional cooks/restaurant managers and the "hey, let us open a (fancy) restaurant, how difficult can it be" crowd.
Why is it that this is only attacking google search? I'm not that well versed in antitrust legal matters but why isn't there attempts to break up the broader Alpbabet into sensible smaller companies that each do their own thing? In my head that seems like it should be simpler.
Is there an outbound proxy for HTTP/3?
Spreading Jam
There's a good perpetual market for people peddling secret shocking truths that the powers don't want you to know, and everything is secretly much worse than you thought, about pretty much everything, AKA conspiracy theories.

Economic conspiracy stories tend to be somewhat less outrageous than those about vaccines or Bill Gates, so the same people who point and laugh at people who believe the later could easily believe stuff from shadowstats, conspiracies around the Private Ownership of the Federal Reserve, or the perpetual unemployment-is-actually-super-high.

The mundane Truth About Unemployment is that the current measures are relatively easy to measure in standard way without too much subjectivity (they just ask a bunch of people if they're available for work and looking for work, but couldn't find any). The official docs are pretty clear about what they measure, but they're pretty dry and don't make for good clickbait/blog/youtube stories https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cps/pdf/cps.pdf. There's no grand conspiracy to suppress the truth at the BLS, it's just a bunch of boring civil servant jobs.
Cool. Pricing looks looks great. Low enough to justify a few hours of fun. High enough to only get people who really want to be there. Hopefully its enough to keep DMs engaged. Looks like me and my boys are going to dive into a star wars story.
Many of those systems are configured in a way that they connect you to a human if they can't figure out what you're saying.

The audio from those calls is fed to a team of people who are responsible for teaching the system, so that the next model can be more accurate in directing calls.

I once met someone who had been working that gig while in university. Apparently the vast majority of the recordings are boring and easy enough for a human to classify, but some are just people rattling off swear words, screaming, etc.
Microsoft was having some antitrust problems when Google was founded, so Google said "don't be evil." Now Google got big enough and lived long enough to become a villain.
True but the project templates is a solved problem. I haven't chosen one I liked yet but here are some options:

https://www.notion.so/nikitavoloboev/Project-generator-3cd74...
Humans naturally think linearly. This is because our lizard brains have evolved over millions of years in environment where linear processes were the most important to understand for survival. When we see a lion that is 1 mile away we know that we have 2x the time to run away than when the lion is .5 miles away.

So when we see a crappy project that took a few months to create, we naturally assume that it will be slightly less crappy in a few more months. We can't even imagine what it would look like if it was 100x more useful in 9 months. Even PG and other great early investors only have a slight notion of what that would look like.
This sounds worrying. I don't agree with using predictive policing. Funnily enough, after a quick Google search, I haven't found any Dutch articles about this topic.
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This essay is available elsewhere as On Violence. It touches on topics like student protest movements, left-wing violence (and what Marx would have thought about it), race relations in the US, racism more generally and whether all political power ultimately comes down to violence or coercion.

I found it fascinating when I read it years ago and, since then, I've been slowly reading through everything else Hannah Arendt wrote. It's astonishing to me that something like this was published in print. These days I think you're better off scouring the internet for blogs if you want to read something interesting and provocative.
It’s natural for large tech companies to enter the harvesting business when they can’t innovate anymore. Look at IBM. They just can’t innovate, so they do all kinds of financial engineering on the back of a robust customer audit program.

Eventually that money gets recycled into funding earlier stage companies. (If a company buys back stock, the old investors have to put the money somewhere)
Leatherman multi-tool.
>How can we go back to a world where the normal flu causes so much damage now that we know how easy those deaths are to prevent?

Simple. Stop hyping it up in the media.

Do you now how many people die in the world every day? Wouldn't it be wise to mention that to keep everything in context? Here is a graphic to help you (you will notice that covid doesn't seem that big of a deal, and that is from the height of the pandemic):

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-many-people-die-each-da...

Or say we go down your route, lock down everything for flu. Then what about cars, plenty of people die in road accidents? The logical conclusion would be that we all end up living like caged chickens, in sterile bubbles with no interaction where we can do no harm.

Personally I choose quality of life over quantity.
Around the peak of chatbot hype, someone described them as "an obfuscated command line".

In my experience that's exactly what they are; you end up second-guessing the machine and thinking "what do I need to type to get where I need to be". It's like playing one of those old text based adventure games.

I can't remember a single encounter with a chatbot where a good search interface wouldn't have got me there faster.
Rust is trying to replace C++. If you were not in the market for C++ to begin with it's unlikely that Rust is going to excite you.
different age structure of infected cases over the summer.
"On January 15th, 2021 the Azure Notebooks public preview site will be retired and replaced with integrated services from Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub. Learn about your options and Microsoft's other notebook experiences at https://notebooks.azure.com/Content/alternatives.html."
I think it is important to note that this isn't just a problem related geography or sprawl. I live in Fairfax County just outside of DC. It's pretty populous (1.15 million) but getting anywhere is still a challenge if you don't live within walking distance of an Orange Line metro stop. This assumes that the metro hasn't caught on fire recently or that the line hasn't been shut down for multiple months for repairs. Bus timetables are so spread out that a 20 minute drive is a 2-3 hour bus ride in a lot of cases.

Sprawl certainly plays a part but lack of investment in public transport is big reason why cars are so essential.
This article does make me wonder about the practicality of Medicare for All. From this example, it seems like a great way to line hospital executives’ pockets with taxpayer money. Is the goal to institute a Medicare for All system alongside requirements for everyone to move to a not-for-profit model?
>Absolutely no one says this anymore. In 2014, when the article was written, almost no one would say it.

The sentiment is echoed multiple times in this thread, maybe shifted a bit to account for the clear examples of success available today.
this is my feeling on the matter as well, in comparing him with other children I've known at his age he seems smarter in lots of little ways, but also problematic in some ways.

Basically his problematic character traits came out when his mother took him to the kindergarten and he threw a fit at the wrong time, and from there on in it seems to me like they've been on a campaign to make sure he goes somewhere else.

Since I am generally able to get him to behave the feeling is if I had just taken him the first two days we wouldn't be going through this.
>They don't consider that most unemployed 58 year olds are not counted because they "retired," stopped seeking work or receive a disability benefit.

Why should any of these people be considered "unemployed"?

Every time there's a discussion of unemployment, or inflation, people bring up the measurements as "misleading". The BLS tracks this stuff because people in the real world need to use it, not because there's some disingenuous political purpose. There are a ton of different metrics to get a broad picture of the labour market, as defined, and they put them out there, free to use. The idea that the army of economists at the BLS don't understand things like people being retired is just wrong.

We spend a lot of time criticizing journalists and politicians, but how many people bother to look at the data themselves if interested?
> The entire purpose of emotions is that they are they only place where human motivation comes from.

I agree that this is literally true, but only so long as you include intellectual curiosity as an "emotion". In fact I would count it as an emotion, exactly for the reason that you said - ultimately all human motivation can only be explained by emotion - combined with the fact that clearly most people and even some animals do some things solely out of curiosity. Just like all emotions, curiosity exists because its presence increases your chances of survival (having hunger at the right time decreases your chances of dying due to lack of food, having curiousity at the right time decreases your chances of dying due to lack of knowledge of the environment). Of course it's a lot weaker than other emotions (e.g. if a furious lion is running towards you but has a very strange spot on its nose, you're probably going to run away rather than investigate).

All that sounds like supreme pedantry, but it's important due to this other thing you said:

> everyone argues from an emotional perspective

I think most people reading this sentence would interpret the word "emotional" here in a subtly different way: to exclude intellectual curiousity. The implication is therefore "no one ever really argues because they're just curious about the truth". I agree with the literal meaning of this sentence, but not with that interpretation of "emotion", and not with that conclusion.

I'm sure I see this sort of mix up a lot: two statements that both sound completely reasonable on their own, but use the same word with a subtly but critically different meaning, forcing you to draw a conclusion (because you can't disagree with either part individually) that isn't really true.
Darn. I literally just tried these out and liked it okay. Some random UX issues but nothing deal breaking.
Ask HN: What are the handles of the best marketers on HN?
Plato called it dialectic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic
.NET Fiddle promises to kill Sully last, but lies
Over 16 years old, a lot of people are at school / university..

This is especially important to note given that unemployment skews towards younger people.
hmm maybe this https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9ed4cfb1-f080-... from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it_wBCYBf8?
Thanks for reply. I will try to build on NetBSD and let you know. nim build on NetBSD so it shouldn't be problem with that.
Isn't that video talking about resolution? '4K' is a resolution, not a frame rate.

We're talking about frame rate.
The stats cited in this article are headline-worthy but they don't make much sense.

If you think about what employment means in the context of labor and wage earning, until the early 1900s, most in America would now be counted as unemployed, since they were rather "employed" in agriculture and domestic work, neither of which would be counted as a living wage today. In addition, most women, a large part of today's workforce, did not actively participate in the labor pool (looking for full-time employment as the BLS cites for employment), however that drastically changed in the 1960s and onwards.

As such, the current definition of employment is rooted in the realities of where employment was in the early 1900s. Today's definition might not jive with what the Axios article is stating, but what the Axios article is stating is not really about Employment, but rather about Income generation.

The notion of generating income must be separated from the idea of full-time employment. In the gig economy, side hustle world, most gig workers would not be counted in the employment rolls. As such, do the employment numbers matter and do we need something distinct to measure what Axios is stating here, which has more to do with income earning than full time employment?
Q2 Time: how to work without a looming deadline
Well the tone was well off - and as another reply points out they seem to have realised this and have tweeted a firm apology.

https://twitter.com/Raspberry_Pi/status/1318494942478635009
Well, in most places in the US you literally can't go without a vehicle if you want employment and food. Even if you're physically proximate to food and other activities of daily living, there are often no sidewalks or paths to safely walk or bike there. There's also a social stigma of walking (the person must be poor or lost their license for drunk driving).
Henri Poincare and Relativity Theory (Book)
It is shown that the special theory of relativity has been created not by A. Einstein only but even to a greater extent by H. Poincare.
Don't forget to listen carefully, as their menu options have changed.
Additionally in some European countries (e.g. Finland, probably other Nordic countries as well) there isn't family taxation so 2 people earning 3000 a month is better than single person earning 6000.
And what about Facebook? Or do they get a pass since they allies of the Republican Party.
I've expanded on my objections a bit in a sibling comment, but to address "/s": it doesn't have many of the emoji drawbacks.

It is literal shorthand for a well-defined word whose definition can be found. It is visually distinct, and follows the centuries of typographical design we use to acquire written symbols. And it refers to a well-known concept.

So I have no objection to it.

Of course there are some symbols which are easier to visually acquire, and seem to refer to well-defined concepts. But even the various smileys are unintelligible as to their meaning when taken as a group.

So once one gets off the basic "smiling face/thumbs up/thumbs down" subset I'd say it is a disaster for communication in a professional setting, and is exclusionary in a way that its proponents actually want it to be - as an in-group indicator that makes them feel a part of something that "others" are not.