skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just about everything. For Confluence, it's a complete mess. I can't find anything. When I log in, it shows me a page of irrelevant crap. It's something like "everything anyone in your group of hundreds of employees has written in the last 24 hours." So there's literally never been a single useful thing on the page after login. When I want to see the list of everything I've ever written, it only shows me the last month's worth. That important document that I need to update once a year? If I didn't "favorite" it, I have to use the search box and search the entire set of documents in my very large group. The text editing steals important keys for OS-wide functions. If you use Cmd-F to find something, instead of the browser's find feature coming up, Confluence steals it and puts up a much less useful find feature that doesn't actually find everything I need it to. I could go on for days about how awful Confluence is.

I don't use Jira as much, but as far as I can tell, everything that comes out of Jira is incomprehensible. I get lots of emails from its CI system, and they never have any useful information. It might indicate that a build failed or some warning was present, but it doesn't say what in the email, and there's no link I can click on to take me right to the logs. I mean there's a link, and it shows me something that looks like a log, but I can't find the actual parts where it built our product or what the errors or warnings were. It's basically just a web page of terminal output. No formatting to make it more readable, etc. Why not just send me the log if you're not even going to format it? It's so bizarre.
Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier now in preview
Winter in SF can be pretty rough, but if they throw in some heat lamps or something, I may be okay with it post-pandemic.
Besides what the sibling comment said my brainstorming is:
- Culture
- Cost (sedans are cheaper), but income has gone up, especially in suburbs.
- More people living in urban areas with more money, but our urban areas still need cars. People who would buy a truck if they were rural, buy a SUV when suburban.
- Smaller family sizes so minivan isn't needed.
- Gas prices have plummeted so worse MPG doesn't matter as much compared to sedans.
I am generally skeptical about the “market-ness” of the labor market. There are many situations in which people are not as free to switch jobs as a free-market proponent might want them to be. There is the obvious example of slavery, historical and modern, but many other groups are not able to experience any real free market for labor. One that comes to mind is miners, who often develop highly-specialized skills and live in areas with few other opportunities (I can highly recommend Night Comes to the Cumberlands by Henry Caudill if you’re interested in the details). I’m not sure if gig economy workers are in exactly the same boat, but be skeptical of free market claims when it comes to labor.
So they're lending money to the government, who spends it.

All BigCorp Ireland LTD has is a brokerage account full of ISIN codes.
>...Businesses want to avoid paying taxes when possible, but it's generally not worth their effort to play tax games. A business doesn't pay taxes unless it's making profits, and it would have to be making sufficient profits that the millions they'd spend on consultants and maintaining tax avoidance strategies every year exceeds the actual tax liability by a material amount. For most businesses, that's not worth it.

Your original claim was "Actually, history bears out that higher tax rates result in corporations re-investing more of their profits in the company and less in tax-avoidance accounting."

To claim that as tax rates go up, companies are less concerned about the amount of tax they pay is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.

>...Tax rates don't drive business decisions.

I agree. If there are investment opportunities companies will make them.

>...I was comparing corporate tax evasion now to corporate tax evasion in other times. Measured against itself it's at historically high rates.

Where are the numbers for recent years? Your source says the tax gap and compliance has stayed pretty much the same since they started trying to estimate it:

>...The latest estimates for tax years 2011, 2012 and 2013 show the nation's tax compliance rate is substantially unchanged from prior years.
I back it all up from google takeout every now and then.

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
Yes, but it’s impossible to know how much of that is due to a change in policing. There’s a much less significant drop in the number of alcohol-involved car accident injuries.
I actually think it's not a great time to be in grad school in the sciences. With everything remote and on Zoom, you miss out on much of the networking that is so important if you want to stay in academia.
Probably the same way you fight any addiction - you either starve it out or replace it with something that doesn't hurt your performance.

Do you listen to music with lyrics? Replacing it with ambient music with no words and no distinctive melody could be one solution.

Or, in my opinion, a better solution would be to dig deeper and to find out why silence causes you anxiety and discomfort. For hundreds of thousands of years people have worked in complete silence. Are you mentally avoiding something?
That "Rust Evangelism Strike-Force" logo is fantastic. Tucking it away for future use.
Your website specifically says that Gemini intentionally isn't extensible and that any such attempts are shunned by the mailing list. This sounds like the same fragmentation disaster that we had with the web.. An Internet Explorer comes a long, has a certain killer feature, everyone starts using that new client, other clients need to adapt the feature if they want to stay relevant..

So as somebody who also works on very minimalistic, static sites, I don't see your philosophy working out, based on history.

Your aversion to even typography is also not user friendly. You claim it is, but in the end it's just all about you. You do not consider what most people consider a "document".
Your alternative scenario isn't entirely correct either. Yes, the workers you see will be paid more and they will appreciate the labor protections. However, there will be a number of people whom you will not see, because they will no longer be employed at all.
Let's put things in perspective: tenure positions are seen as a kin of retirement: you do what you love and at your own pace, and are paid generously for the privilege.

The only impact of retirement is that you cease to be paid generously, and also you lose status.
I switched to Affinity completely, and I also slowly see some people in the industry change. And for video, DaVinci Resolve. There might be cases were you’re tied to CS, but the bulk of the work can be done in these apps.
The article is light on reasons for increased productivity, but according to anecdotes I've heard, it's due partly to even longer working hours at home.

Concretely, when salary employees WFH, all hours have become working hours for them. I've read accounts where people are having mental issues due to the dystopic new reality where they are always at work. They end up working around the clock, because they are constantly distracted by family and domestic issues intruding during the work day. To add to their demoralization, no more office perks either. Free coffee, snacks, lunches, after work get togethers, a chance to chat with a cute co-worker, etc are all gone.

Decreasing wage is also considered a productivity increase, because same now work for less pay. As people WFH more permanently, there are many receiving salary cuts as they migrate to areas with lower cost of living.

The "new normal" seems pretty hellish for some.
We really need new satellite ISPs (Starlink/Amazon Kuiper) or local WISP (Monkeybrain). I honestly think municipal ISP are the way to go. Unfortunately, it outlawed in over 20 states (which blows my mind).
Lessons I Learned from Nathan Latka
So far. Pandoc’s Markdown has been sufficient to the job.
If you want GCL back, here you have it: https://jsonnet.org/
A bit cleaned up (withour "up" and without weird scoping rules)
Looks like some google play related app. Doesn't look like mail, that for sure.
>70% of ride-share drivers don't want to be employees

Firstly, is that backed up by data? Secondly, what is their reason for not wanting to be employees? Is it something about immigration law, exploitative employers or truly something about freedom?
Chiming in with others who responded, I haven’t experienced decreased heat sensitivity or increased sweating either. On a physiological level, what the cold training (cold showers, winter walks, ice baths which I’ve yet to get into) seems to do is exercise the small muscles which control blood flow in the skin, training them to respond more efficiently to changes in temperature. As for the breathing exercises, the effects seem to come from a combination of co2 tolerance training (co2 levels being the primary trigger of air hunger and the breathing reflex), hypoxia training (cells having to adapt to regularly operating with lower levels of oxygen), diaphragmatic training (in-breaths are strong and forced), and the rapid shifting between sympathetic (forced inbreaths) and parasympathetic (relaxed outbreaths and empty(ish) lung breath holds) activation. Both the breathing and the cold exposure are basically hormetic stressors, like weight training. Another aspect of the cold training is psychological. Regularly committing to doing something that is inherently aversive, sticking to it, and training oneself to breathe calmly while doing it. I’ve definitely noticed a reduction of general and social anxiety levels. This is super apparent if I have a cold shower before a social gathering or a job meeting. Massively improved confidence. The immediate effect of a few minutes cold shower is an adrenaline rush, likely followed by endogenous endorphine release. It’s an ecstatic feeling and a huge energy and mood booster
FFmpeg has almost never worked for me on simple conversion jobs, now adding such advanced features.
Hybrid clown setups are the best. All your data floats down here
You're definitely right about it being structured to assume you followed the traditional path. That said, top schools will pay grad students about the US median salary ($35k/yr). Other schools potentially much less. Whether the US median salary is itself a starvation wage is, I suppose, another question.
That's exactly what's going to happen, though. Uber and Lyft are not very profitable so they can't actually afford to increase wages or benefits out of their own pockets. If they increase prices, the market will shrink, so drivers won't have work.
Azure Policy for AKS
> Deaths Per Million By State

That is cumulative not current status; unsurprisingly, the states that were hit the hardest often instituted the strongest controls.

But in current cases, those aren't the top any more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...
Understand Azure Policy for Kubernetes Clusters
I like to choose. Since I browse on my phone mostly I use the preview to see if I even want to Open the link, then go to new tab. So then I guess it does
What are you using it for? I have the opposite experience - where almost anything or everything else fails, ffmpeg is able to handle it.
I have tried to use GIMP, but in my experience the UI is just so unintuitive and hard to use.
But Uber/Lyft/Doordash etc can give them autonomy, they can make them true contractors.

I also doubt that the law forces companies to have a work schedule for their employees. From what I understand it just says that benefits are provided if employee works for more than certain amount of hours.

So to me it seems like it's all about exploiting their drivers (treating drivers like employees without providing advantages that employees have)
I'd be happy with just no autoplaying videos and no messing with my scrollbars. Oh, and no popups or popunders.
> The demand is there.

I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be true. Ridesharing is competing with public transit, personal vehicles, walking, etc. If prices significantly increase, the market size will go back to what it was before Uber.
For a PDF? No way! For a whole set of PDFs sharing the same template, some containing auto-generated data and with builds triggered by external events? Oh yeah!

Also, read the second half of my other reply for the other reasons it was adopted.
Most of the models announced in papers can't be deployed in production because they are not optimised for inference efficiency. For example Google Translate the public service is not as good as the SOTA papers.
Lucia: 3 KB Vue-ish JavaScript Library
What would they be?
Another Affinity vote here. Basically everything I did in PS, can do in Photo. It’s ridiculously good for a version 1. Also they made 8 updates without paying anything extra.
Exactly. It helps to realize a lot of content you publish is for the stumblers, people who by random chance will come upon your content and it may be the first of its kind that they have seen. New people are always being created.
Line https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/master/jit/gadgets-aarch... and the subsequent lines sum it up nicely:

# also hell {{{
.ifin(\op, bt)
read_bullshit \size, \op\size\()_mem
.endifin
.ifin(\op, btc,bts,btr)
write_bullshit \size, \op\size\()_mem
.endifin
# }}}
I tried to use gimp and I really wanted to like it, but I can’t. It’s clumsy and looks like death. I’d rather pay for something more polished.
> My only gripe (and its relatively small) is I don't like its compiler directive syntax using the `{.directive.}` style, its a little ugly and noisy to me, I'd prefer something like rust's `#[]` (I think this is actually how you use a Rust macro, but its a nice syntax regardless)

Me too. I think the `{.directive.}` style comes from pascal[1], but put it at the end of the procedure definition line. Lines that are too long are not easy to read. It would be better if each directive syntax had its own line.

[1] https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/prog/progse5.ht...
> or maybe not, you'd have to study the whole cycle from lithium mining to end of life disposal

It also depends on the electric mix, but an electric car will almost always be a net positive over its lifetime, due to its much better power-to-wheels efficiency (70-80% instead of 20-40% for ICE). That's 2 to 4 times energy saved! (depending on model)

But overall efficiency needs to take into account the weight too. A Tesla Model X is 2.5t. If your car is 2 times the weight of your old car, say good bye to your efficiency gains.

That's where a Citroën AMI has potential, IMO. A really light-weight, really efficient electric car that does the job. Hope they start advertising it like that.
I really don't get the supposed problem with this.

Steaming XML is a mature thing, libraries in most every language for decades. Oh! you had to add a "UTF-16LE", the suffering is real...

How is this hell? Did you want streaming json? it would end up being essentially the same code. YAML has to be it! (Is there a streaming parser?)

This totally feels like conjured drama.
> The number of special cased carve-outs is ridiculous - it's not a normal law.

I looked up AB5 [1] and read about the "carve outs" last time the topic came up, among several other. It's far shorter than other nontrivial bills and I couldn't find a single one that didn't specifically mention a superseding precedent or specialized State or Federal law that had supremacy regardless.

For example, the primary exceptions are driven by the Borello test from Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Dept. of Industrial Relations which is a California supreme court decision [2], the interaction between California and Federal fishing regulations [3], and a vast array of past state and federal regulations written for licensed professionals like lawyers, doctors, and even commercial truck drivers [4].

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[2] (c) (1) Subdivision (a) and the holding in Dynamex do not apply to a contract for “professional services” as defined below, and instead the determination of whether the individual is an employee or independent contractor shall be governed by Borello if the hiring entity demonstrates that all of the following factors are satisfied: ...

[3] (ii) “Commercial fisherman” means a person who has a valid, unrevoked commercial fishing license issued pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 7850) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 6 of the Fish and Game Code.
...

(C) On or before March 1, 2021, and each March 1 thereafter, the Employment Development Department shall issue an annual report to the Legislature on the use of unemployment insurance in the commercial fishing industry. This report shall include, but not be limited to, reporting the number of commercial fishermen who apply for unemployment insurance benefits, the number of commercial fishermen who have their claims disputed, the number of commercial fishermen who have their claims denied, and the number of commercial fishermen who receive unemployment insurance benefits. The report required by this subparagraph shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

[4] (8) (A) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to a subcontractor providing construction trucking services for which a contractor’s license is not required by Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, provided that all of the following criteria are satisfied ...
What's the fuss over UCS-2? Isn't a fair amount of data processing still done on Windows systems on the user end and in Java in the corporate space? Has either of them ever converted away from 16 bit characters?

(Sorry the naive but honest question. Haven't used Java since around 2005 (remember J2ME?) and Windows since 2010.)
Sure I'll pay for your software. I'll even print out the receipt. Download link? Nah, thanks, i'll just torrent it, because when you retire your ridiculous DRM that is phoning home, I still want to use the software I paid for. Thanks!
> This is another in a long line of examples where I am coming around to the conclusion that "computer" is not what we should call these application delivery vehicles.

How about "toaster"? :)
That is correct, though the ban will not come into force before the end of winter as restaurants have been hard hit by Covid-19.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53552526
yeah, the source ftp site has a DB schema description right at the top level. You could set up a table to import data into. Then export it out in whatever format you want, or query it however.

If the schema changes from one month to another it would be far easier to just update the DB table schema for the next import than change parsing code.

Everything can be solved with code, but not everything should be.

Interesting as a coding exercise and perhaps that's the point of the article.

Not the way I'd do it if I wanted a stable process for consuming the data regularly.
A brief history of 'creative suites', ie commercial design studios
pre computers: cowgum, rotring pens, scalpels, line board for camera ready art, process cameras
The first macs: Cracked expensive Aldus and Adobe software
Internet era: Macromedia, Adobe software, usually several versions old, sometimes cracked
Turn of century: Adobe DVD installed software
Adobe creative suite post 4 era: end of DVD installers, rental per month software, diminishing userbase
Now: Macs running operating systems from 10 years ago running Adobe Creative Suite 3 & 4, + rented by the month current Adobe creative suite, steep learning curve, useful for file sending, learning new features when not busy
I do not fully understand this, but isn’t this the story at the federal level as well?
Worth noting that, in a large part, this is because Michigan has been dealing with Covid-19 for an extra 2 months compared to Florida. Since August, Michigan's per capita death rate has been less than half of Florida's. Yesterday, more than 100 people died of Covid-19 in Florida. That's more than died in New York State over the last 10 days, despite approximately similar populations.
Absolutely. Check out our efforts in Plaid Exchange: plaid.com/plaid-exchange/ It’s an open finance solution that helps financial institutions build secure and structured APIs. Some of the most innovative institutions are building onto it and finding value in offering a better experience to end customers, even if it’s outside their application.
It's actually super powerful and useful for simple one-off encodes or complex batch processes. I have worked for clients who required an end-to-end transcoding pipeline (ABR) with packaging, subtitles, multiple-audio, etc. and it took a 100 line shell script to get everything done.
And that's why we won't see this deployed in production anywhere.
Personally I feel the push for the right to work from home without being treated as a second class citizen is more important and will do more for society than policies such as raising the minimum wage.
> There is a model that has shown to have a service people want and are willing to pay for, the market will find the right price with a different company

If the right price is more than outright owning a car I don't see how. Today I don't drive because I can uber. If ubers end up costing me more than $300 a month I'll just get a car.
_Please_ don't feed the company website into GPT-3 and spit out a summary!

Elevator pitch workshopping would be a useful service, although it could take a while to build up a good reputation and generate a lot of interest.
So do you celebrate bicycle day?
Agreed. If you do any intensive training for endurance sport, the math just does not add up. Even with a very efficient fat-burning metabolism (that I don’t have), there’s only so much fat on your body and muscle mass will be affected. Yes, I do do metabolism-focused sessions of long uniform low-intensity effort without prior eating to get my body used to burning fat. But it takes a lot of time for it to learn it
I'll never consider machine translation a solved problem until there is good Finnish<->English. Living in Finland as a native English speaker with terrible Finnish skills this is a daily source of frustration and sometimes amusement.
Choosing the right networking hub in Azure
Maybe to handle things like suspend/resume, ...
I'd like to see this as a setting, so both camps can be appeased. I'm like OP, I keep forgetting to manually open in a new tab, then wonder where HN has gone after I close the tab again.
I'm mildly amused. When I was an undergrad TA, there was no shortage of disdain for undergrad 'vermin'.

Seems like those above the base of the pyramid often forget what they're standing on.
Thanks! I’m curious. How is your suggestion different from fanning out messages from the SNS topic, then polling the SQS queues subscribed to the topic?
Understanding the difference between point reads and queries in Azure Cosmos DB
I would interpret these values with care. My experience leads me to suspect that these numbers might be a textbook example of correlation does not imply causality. Just because you are employed it doesn't mean you are not underemployed or working in an entirely different field due to circumstances that have barely or no relation at all with your academic work. I mean, it's already a widespread stereotype of old graduate/PhDs in unrelated STEM fields pivoting to data analysis/ machine learning positions even when they did no work in the area.

And then there's the "just learn to code" cliche.

And I mean a PhD working at a McDonalds still counts as employed, right?